Centon DF-300

I just got this camera earlier this week and ran a roll of black and white film through it yesterday. It takes the Minolta MD mount lenses, and you can see I've got one on in the picture. The reason it takes the Minolta mount lenses is because it is an officially licensed camera by Minolta, made in the Chinese Seagull factory and is actually a rebadged Minolta X-300. When Minolta moved their production to China in 1990, they had the Seagull factory take over building their manual-focus cameras. This was one such camera and Seagull used many different names for this camera. I have found at least 14 different names their Minolta X-300 copies went under.

Names such as:
Centon DF-300
Soligor SR-300 MD
Kalimar KX 5000
Vivitar V50
Seagull DF-300
Seagull DF-300A
Seagull DF-300X
Carena DF-300
Carena SX-300
Phoenix P-3000
Argus DF-300
Revue DF-300
Safari DF-300
Samyang DF-400x
Texer EX-3
Zenit DF-300
Zenit DF-300x
Kinon X-380