Re: [OM] [OT] Unknown PEN F?

[Skip Williams]

Perhaps John H. can shed some light on this?  I remember a post a while back 
where he talked about the hassles of this conversion or some similar topic.  
He mentioned that the screen was cemented to the prism.  But I don't 
remember anything about changing out the prism.
Skip


> From: Mark Dapoz <md@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Unknown PEN F?
> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:23:55 -0500 (EST)
>
> On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Skip Williams wrote:
>
> > Yep, C.H. is exactly correct.  They're pretty useless for normal picture
> > taking unless some wizard uncements the clear screen from the prism and 
> puts
> > in a ground glass for focusing.
>
> I was told by a former Olympus service tech that used to work on these 
> bodies
> that they can't easily be converted to a normal Pen.  Apparantly not only 
> is
> the screen different, but so is the prism.  You can't just replace the 
> screen
> with a normal one and expect it to work.
>                                         -mark
>
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