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[OM] P***ax right-angle finder - a small hack

Subject: [OM] P***ax right-angle finder - a small hack
From: Thomas Bryhn <thomas.bryhn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:52:14 +0100
I've got a P***ax RA finder. I've got no idea if it's M or K, but the previous owner had adapted it for some other camera system (and done it very ugly!). Hence it was cheap and gave an upright image so I took a shoot at it. I first tried with parts from a damaged Eye cup 1 but couldn't get it to hold together properly, it actually broke off once. The second time I did it right: I took off all the mounting hardware and replaced it with a spacer and a sheet of plastic cut out to fit the OM finder frame. I used both glue and all the original screwholes to hold the plastic sheet in place and the Pentax now slides in place just like the Varimagni - and sits there. There wasn't much to it when I found the right thickness of plastic. It works like a charm, gives me an upright image and shows the whole finder. The only thing one could wish for is higher mag at times, but how much can we expect from a simple P***ax? Oh, one more thing: There isn't much room for additional spacers if you want the screen in focus. I guess this finder was made for a system with another diopter in the viewfinder.

Thomas Bryhn


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