If this is the same one that's regularly available on the 'bay its a good
substitute, a new-production replacement part that looks and fits like the
original. I bought one for ~$12 and thought that was well worth it.
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
on 6/2/04 11:01 AM, Skip Williams at om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Wow, I didn't know that part existed. Thanks Steve.
>
> Skip
>
>
> ----- Original Message ---------------
>
> Subject: [OM] Re: Pen FT eyepiece
> From: Stephen Troy <sctroy@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:15:48 -0400
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>> At 08:47 AM 06/02/2004 -0400, Skip wrote:
>>
>>> I'll wager that the Pen F/FT's design was mostly a concession to style.
>> The top plate's cosmetic lines are really ruined by a bolt-on shoe. It's
>> just a shame that the eyepiece surround wasn't made of something more
>> durable than plastic; perhaps metal would have been better? OTOH, I doubt
>> whether they cared that much; also 40 yr-old plastic is much more brittle
>> than it was new.
>>>
>>> Skip
>>
>> At least the FT eyepiece frame is still available (and not terribly
>> expensive):
>>
>> http://www.micro-tools.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=MT&;
>> Product_Code=PENF-EP
>>
>> Steve Troy
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