Larry Cloetta
Veteran
https://petapixel.com/2019/05/25/how-to-clean-and-mod-the-beam-splitter-in-a-rangefinder-camera/
Anyone with the courage, please try this and let us know how it comes out.
Then the rest of us can do it if it works, or send thanks and condolences if it didn’t.
Anyone with the courage, please try this and let us know how it comes out.
Then the rest of us can do it if it works, or send thanks and condolences if it didn’t.
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Thanks, but i'd rather do a DYI root canal than than do home repairs on my old M4.
Steve M.
Veteran
Cleaning the mirror is a piece of cake. It's like you would w/ any camera mirror (which are nearly always mirrored on the front surfaces). The devil is in the details, like getting the top plate off your camera. That can entail buying or making a tool(s) to get the topside bits untethered from the top, along with paying attention and taking photos as you go of how things come apart.
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
Every RF is different. Here is no such simple access with Leica to toss not fitting in size, overpriced (and useless liquid for cleaning) swabs kits.
Instructions how to replace Leica half-mirror are available and half-mirror as well sold on eBay.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Beam-split...ica-3f-3c-3G-3a-3b-repair-parts-/301949825871
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxptan_sfuY