06/05/2026
I've had mixed results with Chinese cameras; I tend to avoid the older ones in favour of the newer ones. But Mike seems to have a winner with the Pear River S-201.
This is a Pearl River S-201 (珠江, Zhu Jiang S-201), a 35mm SLR camera produced by the Yongguang Instrument Factory in the Chinese province of Sichuan starting in 1974. The Pearl River S-201 was based on the earlier Seagull DF SLR, but replacing the fixed pentaprism with an interchangeable unit…