Author Topic: changing viewfinders on polaroid land cameras  (Read 3081 times)

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changing viewfinders on polaroid land cameras
« on: April 27, 2012, 06:08:28 PM »
Hi everyone,

I'd like to think I'm a little more technically astute but it appears not.  can anyone step through how to swap out viewfinders on a standard type 100 land camera?  I have a standard two window model I want to replace with a zeiss finder...

thanks,

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Re: changing viewfinders on polaroid land cameras
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2012, 04:55:52 PM »
gregor, I've moved this to the main forum as it is more likely to be seen here, and it's not really an article (yet).

If a response becomes an article of sorts, I'll move it back.

hope you don't mind.
« Last Edit: April 28, 2012, 06:31:37 PM by Leon »
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Re: changing viewfinders on polaroid land cameras
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2012, 05:01:05 PM »
Hi Leon:  thanks. please feel free to move the post around as you see appropriate ;-)

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Re: changing viewfinders on polaroid land cameras
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2012, 05:08:38 PM »
i thought for sure i had this on my blog somewhere but i can't find it. it's pretty simple, you can read about it here:
http://www. blank.com/faqs/faqmisc.finderswap.php
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Re: changing viewfinders on polaroid land cameras
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2012, 06:31:58 PM »
thanks Sean - I"m getting a 404 error from the link:

http://www.blank.com/faqs/faqmisc.finderswap.php

From what I've seen it's just pulling the pin on the left side of the bottom of the finder. Is that correct?

The pins on all my Polaroids are all in pretty solid and won't budge. 
« Last Edit: April 28, 2012, 06:53:05 PM by gregor »

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Re: changing viewfinders on polaroid land cameras
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2012, 07:27:18 PM »
http://www. blank.com/faqs/

to the left is the link

yeah you have to use needle nose pliers and a hammer.
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