Store focusing screen

[Whomever]

Focus screens don't come with any type of cover. What is the best way to store them when they aren't in a camera? Best thing I csme up with is wrap it in a microfiber cloth and put in a drawer.

 

[AgX]

Focus screens don't come with any type of cover.

Canon screens came in a plastic box where they only are held by their edges, together with a proprietary tool to hold them and a second location to place the exchanged screen intermediately during exchange. Except for being bulky, these are ideal storing and transport devices.

In your case you have to differ whether you want the cover just for storing the screens at home as reserve or the rare case of exchanging them, or whether you take the screens with you in your camera bag or often exchange them.

A selfmade cover must neither scratch the screen nor introduce static. At least the latter a PE ziplock bag might do. It would have to be made not much bigger than the screen so that during handling it does not glide a lot.

 

[film_man]

Wrap it in a microfibre cloth, put a rubber band around it and put it in a little box or something. The cloth is for protection inside the box, the box for protection from anything else, these things scratch super easy and you can easily scratch with something pointy even when wrapped in a cloth.

Generally focus screens come in a plastic box where they are kept in place with padding so they don't slide around and also the tool for changing them is included. At least all the Canon and Nikon ones I bought came like that.

 

[AgX]

It should not be too difficult to make a proprietary casing from some cosmetics case or similar by glueing in some bevelled strips of wood or plastic.

 

[Whomever]

Wrap it in a microfibre cloth, put a rubber band around it and put it in a little box or something. The cloth is for protection inside the box, the box for protection from anything else, these things scratch super easy and you can easily scratch with something pointy even when wrapped in a cloth.

Generally focus screens come in a plastic box where they are kept in place with padding so they don't slide around and also the tool for changing them is included. At least all the Canon and Nikon ones I bought came like that.

Thank you, , don't have the screen zi orderd yet. It seems to me that Nikon uses a thick card stock for their box with padding inside and the screen in a sealed bag.
Can someone recommend a replacement box(not that I intend to be rough, zI just want a plan "B"
as a side question in the event denied it sticking to the screen is there a good way to get it off it a rocket blaster dient work? Or toss it because they Strachan even if you look at them funny.
As another side note I completely forgo/ about the plastic case in the box
So zi guess I'll have to wait to get the screen to comment without speculating.

 

[film_man]

If any hair/dust sticks to the screen just use a rocket blaster or one of those soft cleaning brushes. Scratched focus screens are still ok, they can just be a bit annoying to look at.

 

[Whomever]

If any hair/dust sticks to the screen just use a rocket blaster or one of those soft cleaning brushes. Scratched focus screens are still ok, they can just be a bit annoying to look at.

thank you

 

[CMoore]

Focus screens don't come with any type of cover. What is the best way to store them when they aren't in a camera? Best thing I csme up with is wrap it in a microfiber cloth and put in a drawer.

I am sure they all came in a protective box.
No doubt many got lost over the years.
It would be easy to repurpose 101 different little containers to store them in.
As others have said, maybe wrap them in a soft material and then plastic if you need to "Bulk Up" to make them fit a container.
Good Luck

 

[abruzzi]

The new Nikon screens I bought last year for my FA came in a little plastic box, so my removed screen got stored there.*

* this is actually an issue because I don’t know how many times I’ve seen an eBay listing for a F2 P screen (my favorite) but it was the standard screen that had been placed in the P case, and the seller didn’t know enough to realize it wasn’t a P screen.

 

[Vincent Peri]

Whenever I bought a replacement screen for my F3HPs, they always came in a small plastic case along with a data sheet showing all the screens available plus which lenses work best with each screen.

 

[Whomever]

Whenever I bought a replacement screen for my F3HPs, they always came in a small plastic case along with a data sheet showing all the screens available plus which lenses work best with each screen.

Thank you, on a side note zi csme across Beattie Technology, and they make focusing screens, and they are two to three times more than.OEM.

 

[Whomever]

I found, https://www.clearbags.com/2-3-4-x-5...Jv81O9V6MdPZPcAglJhoCZv8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds .
Would pick apart foam be to hard , should zi stick with foam rubber?

 

[Whomever]

Whenever I bought a replacement screen for my F3HPs, they always came in a small plastic case along with a data sheet showing all the screens available plus which lenses work best with each screen.

True. Buying thrm.now, second hand the padtic box gets damaged or goes missing.

 

[Kodachromeguy]

* this is actually an issue because I don’t know how many times I’ve seen an eBay listing for a F2 P screen (my favorite) but it was the standard screen that had been placed in the P case, and the seller didn’t know enough to realize it wasn’t a P screen.

You see the same problem with Hasselblad screens. Someone says he's selling an acute matte screen, but really it's the ordinary one that came out of some camera originally.