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X-700 no focusing screen

Started Apr 11, 2018 | Discussions thread
sybersitizen Forum Pro • Posts: 24,269
Re: X-700 no focusing screen

This thread has been forgotten for two years, but that recent post made me just curious enough to actually try it myself (on a camera that I don't care about keeping) ... and it's true: a visible image can be formed by a lens even if the focusing screen is removed. Not only is it a badly vignetted circle, but it's also essentially impossible to really obtain focus that way because the image barely changes when the lens is racked between infinity and minimum focus distance.

In any case, I was wrong, and it's not impossible to see an image if the focusing screen is gone. My apologies to the OP, wherever you may be.

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