Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>The cameras are all more than 25 years old now. One popit to look for when >buying one is that the viewfinder is clean and clear. On many, there appears >to be a brownish "dirty water" stain in the viewfinder. This is a sign that >the prism is begining to separate and may need to be replaced -- an expensive >job. Probably this is just a coincidence. But this is a pretty good discription of how it looks when I look through the horizontal Viewfinder down through the ground glass into my recently purchased Visoflex II. I tried scrubbing the ground glass with soap and a toothbrush(after removing the ground glass via the 4 screws from the top of the Visoflex) and flushing it with clean water and then wiping it(I am talking about the ground glass in the top of the Visoflex) clean. All of this makes a difference but it is not good enough. What I want to know is the ground glass in the top of the Visoflex really glass or is it a layered material that might "seperate" or whatever? What are ground glasses for SLR cameras made out of? What is the "ground glass" in my old Visoflex made out of? Thanks for the help, Dale - --- $ dale-reed@worldnet.att.net Seattle, Washington U.S.A. $