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Rob Skeoch

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For those using the GX, have you found a better screen?
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The GX has the same screen as the FX. I found the stock FX screen pretty bad for precise focusing. I got a Maxwell screen and it is much better. I think you can get it directly from Bill Maxwell and it goes in very easily.

I have the FX and a 2.8F, both came with the original screen. I find the older screen to be easier to use but in both cases I put in Maxwell screens to great improvement.
 

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This is the phone number I used to contact Bill Maxwell directly in 2004

404-244-0095
 

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I am on the fence about installing a Maxwell. I have one in my 500CM and like it. My Rollei tech, Krikor at Krimar, warns that the Maxwell is much more delicate than the Rollei screen, and susceptible to damage when cleaning. I don't worry about this in the 500CM as the prism never comes off the camera. With the Rollei I am a little concerned that dust or fingerprints might necessitate cleaning, and that the screen would be damaged. Any experience with the Maxwell being damaged by cleaning?
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That is the first that I have heard of it but it might be true. I always keep prisms on my Rolleis so they don't get much cleaning. I wonder, if it is true, if you could put clear covering over it like the plastic used with sheet film sleaving. I don't know how to test the durability of the Maxwell screen without possibly damaging it. You might ask Bill about that. He would know the answer. I do know that my old standard Rollei screen is pretty scratched up from my putting a loupe on it. Doesn't really affect the function or view.

I have cleaned a few screens by holding them under running warm water and then drying them with a low temp hair dryer. Not much scratching that way.
 

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I have a GX (had, actually, sold it yesterday) with its standard screen and a Rolleicord V whose (very dim) screen I replaced with a Maxwell. The Maxwell is definitely brighter and more pleasurable to use, but it never occurred to me to replace the GX's original screen because I found it perfectly usable. YMMV.
 

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With my FX screen it wasn't that it was dim. The problem I had was out of the center split image area in the off axis areas I could not focus precisely. The Maxwell screen is better.
 
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