Seagull 203 camera manual

Anything about this camera you can read here, there are many streetphotographers in Cuba and China and asia still using this camera for professional shots My camera was new old stock when I bought it so its perfectly adjusted and has never seen any kind of rough treatment Last edited by a moderator: Jan 20, Jan 20, 6.

By the way, best thing the bellows of the seagull are rubberized and superior to the very old cardbord stuff used on the German, Russian and Japanese machines I never heard f a Seagull with a lightleak. Jan 20, 7. Messages: 4, Very nice.

Hope your luck holds and that the shutter is different than the ones they used in the TLRs. I lived in China from to and bought Seagull TLRs while there, all older ones from 70's and thereabouts. Quite a bit of sample variance on lens performance but a couple had wonderfully sharp lenses, others too soft likely due to misalignment. Unfortunately, of the two good ones, one the shutter simple seized up and never worked again. The other the shutter exploded with parts flying everywhere. Jan 20, 8.

Messages: 6, Great pictures! Jan 21, 9. Yeah the is such a compact folder, you wont find a compacter one with rangefinder. Its even coated on my early one! If you dont change the aperture when shutter is cocked it will last 4ever, I have no problems since the 90s. They are good, try to get a new old stock one or one with CLA!!

The last edition for consumers , lens still good but not at the same level as the older ones Sometimes equiped with Japanese licenced lenses but made in China, so there you can find excellent sharp ones and others that make softer prictures Seagull - I Watch the black plastik lever!

So you can often read the Seagull cameras have defective shutters or aperture controls Last edited by a moderator: Jan 21, Jan 21, I have a seagul tlr the 4a I think is the model number.

It has the better teaser type lens and is basically a very close copy of a number of other tlrs like the Rollie's or yashicas. I like it, simple things like auto cocking with advance, and auto film counter reset and a hotshoe make it easy to use. The images are good from it but not as sharp as my older yashicaflex. Yeah there was a tessar type of Seagull 4a, I never tested one, they are quite rare When was your camera built?

I never saw one. Is it even called "Tessar" if yes its defintly a Zeiss split off I guess I can't see how changing the aperture when the shutter is cocked will cause any problems. Do you mean do not change the shutter speed once the shutter is cocked? Messages: 27, Blame on me!!! Yes, it has and I totally forgot about that feature. Actually I own a Seagull myself Look through the center of the viewfinder and you will see a little yellow square with a partial image in the middle of a larger, clear image.

Place the yellow square on the subject you want in focus. Turning this ring will focus the lens closer or farther away. Watch the image in the yellow window and when it merges together with the surrounding image, your photo will be in focus. Cool, huh? The lens is a 3. It tends to be sharpest at f or f Leather cases also may be written in Chinese.

This camera is certainly one of the simplest coupled rangefinder ever designed, very easy to fix. From Camera-wiki. Jump to: navigation , search. Aperture: Categories : Flickr image 6x6 rangefinder folding China Seagull S. Navigation menu Personal tools Log in.