Brightest Viewfinder on a Nikon SLR and I wear glasses

Xmas · Sep 10, 2013

SafetyBob said:
I for one am glad you brought this thread back. I am finding rather recently as my eyesight IS getting worse and I have gotten a pair of glassed which are only needed for reading closeup stuff, I am wondering if they will make a difference on using my cameras.

For now, I don't use my glasses when using the cameras, but I imagine that day is close by. There is enough adjustments on the F4 and F5 that I use the most and honestly, I don't hardly use the MF cameras much anymore, which I know is a real shame.

What do most of you glass toting photographers do then when using your camera.......glassed or no glasses? Special diopter? I started having trouble focusing about 3 years ago with dark viewing and did a search then for new or available screens for all my Nikons but never went any further.

Appreciate any comments on what you are using.

Bob E.

if you are not too astigmatic a dioptre is all you need.

otherwise contacts but you may then have trouble in poor light with e.g. exposure counter which ever of these you opt for

a rfdr or OM4/3 is another option

Nikon Collector · Sep 10, 2013

I got my 1st AF camera due to failing eyesight but they were slow so on my F4 I use the little ball focus assist and manual lenses. My F60, though a light weigt compared to my other cameras focuses very fast and I use AF lenses on it. For my old F3 I use Diopters

Chan Tran · Sep 10, 2013

SafetyBob said:
I for one am glad you brought this thread back. I am finding rather recently as my eyesight IS getting worse and I have gotten a pair of glassed which are only needed for reading closeup stuff, I am wondering if they will make a difference on using my cameras.

For now, I don't use my glasses when using the cameras, but I imagine that day is close by. There is enough adjustments on the F4 and F5 that I use the most and honestly, I don't hardly use the MF cameras much anymore, which I know is a real shame.

What do most of you glass toting photographers do then when using your camera.......glassed or no glasses? Special diopter? I started having trouble focusing about 3 years ago with dark viewing and did a search then for new or available screens for all my Nikons but never went any further.

Appreciate any comments on what you are using.

Bob E.

Initially I use the diopter lens or the built in diopter adjustment but then my eyes getting worse so they are not sufficient any more. Reading glasses are not good for cameras. I have to have a special pair of glasses that designed for me to see well at the distance of 1 meter. Then the camera can be standard without any correction.

damonff · Sep 10, 2013

htimsdj said:
I'm not sure if you would care for auto-focus, but I really enjoy using my Nikon F6s. I wear glasses, and can see the entire viewfinder and the display while wearing my glasses. I'm nearsighted, so I also got the -3 diopter. Further, I have installed the focus screen with the microprisms in the center (no split image, only microprisms).

My F6 screen is extremely easy to focus with regardless of the lens I put on it. I only use manual focus lenses on it. It's great.

John_Nikon_F · Oct 17, 2015

Chan Tran said:
Initially I use the diopter lens or the built in diopter adjustment but then my eyes getting worse so they are not sufficient any more. Reading glasses are not good for cameras. I have to have a special pair of glasses that designed for me to see well at the distance of 1 meter. Then the camera can be standard without any correction.

You can stack a diopter on top of the built-in adjustment. I'm around -5, correction-wise. Back when I owned an F4 or an F5, I'd stack a -2 F3HP diopter on top of the built-in -3 correction to get what I needed.

-J

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