Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi LUGnuts: First, my thanks to Ted for recommending that I contact Nils Thorsen at Leica USA. Thank you Ted! Mr. Thorsen and Bill Maxwell of Maxwell Precision Optics have been in contact and are now exploring the feasablity of using an R4 screen as a 'donor' screen to convert into an R8 screen. It will not be until Feb. before this investigation gets underway, but it is in the works. Again, for those of you that have not caught my previous posts, we are trying to find a brighter and less gritty focusing screen for the R8 - but one that still has focusing aides. While Popular Photography may not be the greatest resource in the photographic world, I did note with interest an aritcle in the Feb. 98 issues discussing their perception of the degradation of view finders and focusing screens in more current cameras. It did give me a bit of hope that by b----ing about the R8 screens is not a total act of lunacy, but rather may have some merit. I'll keep you posted as we make progress. Pete Myers