Where to buy a beamsplitter in Europe ?

[gergasp]

Hello,

I just bought a canonet QL19 for 8€ on ebay. Very cheap but the camera needs some repairs. I think I have to replace the beamsplitter mirror. I know I can buy it at Edmund scientifics, but they do net ship any item to Europe. The company they promote for european buyers don't sell beamsplitters. I didn't find any company that sells cheap beamsplitters and ship them to europe.

Does anyone have a solution to buy a beamsplitter for people living in Europe ?

I really want to do some repair work on this camera.

G.

PS : English is not my language but I hope everybody can understand this message.

 

[jmc56]

Try anchor optics. They say they ship worldwide. It's a part of Edmund, so I don't understand why Edmund doesn't.

http://anchoroptics.com/pages/international_orders.cfm

The commercial grade beamsplitters can get a bit pricey and you're going to have to cut it - which isn't a big deal. You just have to be reasonably precise and clean. You'll have eough beam splitter material to do others. You could probably rob one from a junker RF.

My guess is that the experimental beamsplitters would work fine, they just vary + or - 5 percent and it's not a big investment. You probably want the 50/50 - don't know the size, but the one in Leica IIIs is something like 8x8mm. Not sure about the thickness for that camera, but for the LTM it's thin.

Check Rick Oleson on doing this .. and you can probably find some instructions on how to do it. You obviously have to adjust the RF.

 

[payasam]

A couple of years ago my Leica IIIc needed one. Size 8 x 10 mm, 1 mm thick. I got a piece from Oleg K. He'd cut it out of a sheet from Edmund. Had to be rubbed down to the correct size.

 

[normclarke]

Hi George,
Obtain any model Canonet and extract the mirror from that. I have done this several times with great success. Plenty of these around usually a fiver or even less. Although I cannot claim these parts are the same size I would be surprised if they were far out.

Cheers,

normclarke

 

[dazedgonebye]

I had a friend in the UK that needed a beam splitter.

I bought it for him from Edmunds Scientific (I think) and sent it to him.

You have friends in the US?