david_gardner6 Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Last week I asked a question about Shen Hao lens boards. I didn't get any responses...probably because my question was predicated on a faulty assumption. Here's round 2. About 20 or so years ago I bough a 4x5 field camera on eBay. It was listed as a Shen Hao, but it turns out that that is apparently incorrect. It has no manufacturer's information, except for what may be on a sticker written in Chinese (I think). I'm perfectly happy with the camera; it was cheap, it holds my lens and my film holders, and it focuses. But I am curious about what it is. Does anyone here recognize it? Or, read Chinese? :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin McAmera Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Yes, that's Chinese. Using a character dictionary, I get the top two characters as (hope this displays correctly!) 冠龙 Guan long: it translates as Crown Dragon. Any googling you do will be complicated by the fact that they named a new dinosaur Guanlong. The second line is 照相器材公司材料厂 which Google says is 'Photographic Equipment Company Material Factory', which sounds right. I got a search result at Google Books, which lets you see an index page with an entry for Guan Long Photographic Supply Company: the book is 'Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China' by Wu Hung, Reaktion Books, 2016. Good luck! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_gardner6 Posted February 13, 2020 Author Share Posted February 13, 2020 Thanks, Dustin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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