Where can I find a replacement focusing screen for a Pentax K1000 SE?
I landed a Pentax K1000 SE for almost nothing! Everything, including the light meter, works perfectly; however the focusing screen looks like it died and went to hell! It appears as though someone tried to clean it with some sort of solvent, which practically ate through the surface; as a result, I need to find a replacement focusing screen, preferably for next to nothing. It doesn’t have to be the SE version, with a split image, or even originally made for the K1000, so long as it fits. The K1000 was an almost all metal, mechanically (springs, gears, levers) controlled, manual-focus SLR with manual exposure control. It was completely operable without batteries. It only needed batteries (one A76 or S76, or LR44 or SR44) for the light metering information system. This consisted of a center-the-needle exposure control system using a galvanometer needle pointer moving between vertically arranged +/– over/underexposure markers at the right side of the viewfinder to indicate the readings of
