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Topic author: mermoz37
Posted on: 20081001071821
for information...
I found it in old (1958 ?) Sovietskoe photo magazine.
may be Vlad can translate kindly here ?
Reply author: mermoz37
Replied on: 20081001072107
Reply author: Vlad
Replied on: 20081001084531
Alain,
it says that in Chuntzin (?) China a mass production of a first Chinese camera started. "Camera Yantzi is analogous to Russian Smena." Then there is a technical specification and then it says that the factory is also preparing for a production of another camera of "Leica" type and a twin-reflect camera.
Cheers,
Vlad.
Reply author: mermoz37
Replied on: 20081001090839
oh, thanks again Vlad..
may be interest for Juani information ,??...
Reply author: cedricfan
Replied on: 20081001130827
The "Yangtze" River or Chang Jiang is the name in English and Chinese. Russsian is written like it is spoken, so foreign words may look very different. I always laugh to John Wayne written in Russian...
It was made by Yangtze Government Electrical Factory in Chingqing, Sichuan. As far as I know the factory did not produce other cameras, but in Sichuan there was other factories making TLR called Hua Ying and SLR called Pedarl River.
The other Smena-clone "Hua Shan" was however made at Xibei Optical Technical Factory in Xian, which also produced a Lubitel-clone called Changle.So sounds like they referred to that TLR?
Leica-type cameras were several.
Yangtze River (1958) in Nanjing, FED-2 clone. Maybe the name mislead the USSR press, like Zenit made in Belarus and in Russia?
Nanjing (59-61?) also in Nanjing, another clone of FED-2
Shanghai 58 (58-63?) in Shanghai, a copy of Leica-IIIb
Hopefully not too much OT as this does include links to FSU-cameras? Always glad to give my small information about Chinese cameras, which are indeed even much more a challenge than FSU-cameras!
Reply author: Luiz Paracampo
Replied on: 20081001142955
Great Juhani!
A perfect explanation! The name may correctly be spelled as "YANTZI" the real chinese sound of Yang-tze.
This could pehaps be applied to the Zenit sound if we would write as the russians pronunciate - "ZINIT".
Regards LP
On time: Really funny and interesting the names of people at WWII like Wiston Churchill etc. written in Russian. We discover new persons!
