Replacing focusing screen Flexaret VI

stacey <fotocord DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<bp6ctt$1ksfb7$1@ID-52908.news.uni-berlin.de>...

 > 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.

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Winfried Buechsenschuetz wrote:

 > stacey <fotocord.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
 > news:<bp6ctt$1ksfb7$1@ID-52908.news.uni-berlin.de>...
 >
  >> 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.
 >

My tower TLR was the exact same size as my rolleicord and so is a
minoltacord..
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stacey <fotocord DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<bpp6jt$1qhi7o$1@ID-52908.news.uni-berlin.de>...

 > 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.

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"Luke" <skraburski.RemoveThis@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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 > 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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 >

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:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.meopta.cz/forum/" target="_blank">http://www.meopta.cz/forum/</a>

(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!

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 > 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.

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Luke wrote:

 >
  >> 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.
 >
 >

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