



Update on Canon P damaged viewfinder
I’m posting this for anyone who might have the same issue at some point, it is very easily repairable.
Last week I made a post here looking for advice on repairing my Canon P’s viewfinder. At first I was very nervous that the actual beam splitter had been irreparably damaged, but thankfully I learned that early serial Canon P variations have a separate, glued on piece of glass protecting the beam splitter. Later variations do not, unfortunately.
To replace the broken glass, I used picture frame glass, cut to size with a tungsten carbide glass cutter. Sanded the edges, and glued it in place with UV resin. This worked quite well and I’m beyond impressed with the results. The viewfinder is brighter/clearer than I think it’s ever been.
Thanks to everyone who gave their input, the videos on YouTube left out a lot of details on the beam splitter assembly, and some of you helped me understand it better. I also got the picture frame glass idea from someone on another post.