Mamiya 6: Cutting Replacement Viewfinder Glass
Originally posted on Instagram. Notes from the repair bench, kept here as a searchable archive. View the original on Instagram
Servicing a Mamiya 6 with a broken viewfinder glass.
While replacing broken viewfinder glass is a regular repair for me on the Mamiya 6/7 models, for some reason out of ten repairs probably seven are for the Mamiya 6 although both models use the same thickness of glass.
I have a supply of Mamiya replacement glass for some of the windows on these cameras (each camera has three glass windows: viewfinder, frame finder and rangefinder). But for some models like this Mamiya 6, I cut new windows from 1mm thick glass as seen in photo two. The frame finder windows need an extra procedure to make them frosted.
Photo three shows the camera with a new window installed (also needed rangefinder calibration as many do that have impact damage) and ready to go.
