The Seagull 205a is a fixed lens 35mm rangefinder produced in the mid to late 1970′s in the Peoples Republic of China at the original Seagull factory in Shanghai. It is a fully manual camera with no automation at all, and doesn’t have a light meter built in, meaning that for accurate exposure one needs skill at judging lighting conditions and appropriate settings, or an external lightmeter.

The lens is a Haiou-45, which has a focal length 38mm with a maximum aperture of f2.8, it produces very sharp and contrasty images, it also produces highly saturated colour in images taken with the camera.