Replacing focusing screen Flexaret VI

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Luke - 15 Nov 2003 13:28 GMT

I would like to replace focusing screen in my flexaret for something
brighter, does anybody has any ideas what can fit in to this camera???

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stacey - 15 Nov 2003 23:34 GMT

> I would like to replace focusing screen in my flexaret for something
> brighter, does anybody has any ideas what can fit in to this camera???

Measure the old one and get Bill Maxwell to make one for it? Might be the
same size as a rollei TLR?

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Winfried Buechsenschuetz - 22 Nov 2003 19:33 GMT

> Measure the old one and get Bill Maxwell to make one for it? Might be the
> same size as a rollei TLR?

Very probably not, since most of the older TLRs just look similar to a
Rolleiflex, but the internals are different. The only camera I have
heard of which have exactly the same focus screen mount as the
Rolleiflex are the Yashica TLRs.

Winfried

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stacey - 23 Nov 2003 02:43 GMT

>> Measure the old one and get Bill Maxwell to make one for it? Might be the
>> same size as a rollei TLR?
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> heard of which have exactly the same focus screen mount as the
> Rolleiflex are the Yashica TLRs.

My tower TLR was the exact same size as my rolleicord and so is a
minoltacord..

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Winfried Buechsenschuetz - 23 Nov 2003 15:09 GMT

> My tower TLR was the exact same size as my rolleicord and so is a
> minoltacord..

Obviously the japanese manufacturers kept quite close to the original.
I have an east german ReflektaII and two french Semflex, they all have
different focussing screen sizes and mounts. The Flexaret is a
czechoslovakian design, somewhat similar to the Reflekta TLRs.

Winfried

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davidl - 25 Nov 2003 20:07 GMT

> I would like to replace focusing screen in my flexaret for something
> brighter, does anybody has any ideas what can fit in to this camera???

Luke,

You may want try to ask the manufacturer; off course, the camera has been
out of production for decades, but the support forum is alive; I noticed
that Meopta techs do reply in English occasionally.

The forum link:
http://www.meopta.cz/forum/

(I own Flexaret V for many years - it's a nice camera, and the Belar lens is
OK when stopped down sufficiently; but I wouldn't bother myself with the
screen replacement though; would get a whole different camera if I'd want a
brighter screen - you may want to try clean it up instead, from the
inside/bottom as well, could help to bring out some lost brightness back).

Good luck!

Dave

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Luke - 28 Nov 2003 13:10 GMT

> OK when stopped down sufficiently; but I wouldn't bother myself with the
> screen replacement though; would get a whole different camera if I'd want a
> brighter screen - you may want to try clean it up instead, from the
> inside/bottom as well, could help to bring out some lost brightness back).

Yes, I think I'll try to clean it, new screen would cost me propably more
than yashica mat, I think it's not worth of changing it.

Thanks

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stacey - 28 Nov 2003 17:48 GMT

>> OK when stopped down sufficiently; but I wouldn't bother myself with the
>> screen replacement though; would get a whole different camera if I'd want
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> Yes, I think I'll try to clean it, new screen would cost me propably more
> than yashica mat, I think it's not worth of changing it.

But the yashica's screen isn't anything to write home about either..

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