I'm very close sighted, the distance from top of a Hasselblad 500 cm waist level viewer (lightly pressing the WLF top), to the ground glass, which I can focus.
With the magnifier, no way without bifocals and dont even bring up 35mm camera viewfinders, though the Canon F-1 sports finder should be useful enough to do the job, without glasses.
I'm still waiting for my cataract surgery, and will choose good distance vision for the implants, and use close up glasses for those needs.
The fact that I have an very bright focusing screen in the 'Blad helps with the cataracts, but it's only cross hair white etched for focusing and a split ring would be so much better, just from Fifty plus years of experience with other cameras with that focus aid.
By the way, in my first ever practical use of the Hasselblad 500 mirror lockup, I was in North Myrtle Beach, SC. right after getting my first system, and the first night the wind blew out my also new to me, contact lens.
Lucky, the wind blew it onto my jacket, an easy find and I ducked into the pharmacy that was right beside me on that sidewalk, walked to the front counter, and removing viewfinder, popped the mirror in, to assist me rewetting and putting that delicate lens back in place.
The store pharmacist seemed to run the whole place and watched me do this, fascinated with the use of the camera's pop-up mirror and the task I'd used it for.
Just one more fond memory of my Hasselblad history and vision issues.
With the magnifier, no way without bifocals and dont even bring up 35mm camera viewfinders, though the Canon F-1 sports finder should be useful enough to do the job, without glasses.
I'm still waiting for my cataract surgery, and will choose good distance vision for the implants, and use close up glasses for those needs.
The fact that I have an very bright focusing screen in the 'Blad helps with the cataracts, but it's only cross hair white etched for focusing and a split ring would be so much better, just from Fifty plus years of experience with other cameras with that focus aid.
By the way, in my first ever practical use of the Hasselblad 500 mirror lockup, I was in North Myrtle Beach, SC. right after getting my first system, and the first night the wind blew out my also new to me, contact lens.
Lucky, the wind blew it onto my jacket, an easy find and I ducked into the pharmacy that was right beside me on that sidewalk, walked to the front counter, and removing viewfinder, popped the mirror in, to assist me rewetting and putting that delicate lens back in place.
The store pharmacist seemed to run the whole place and watched me do this, fascinated with the use of the camera's pop-up mirror and the task I'd used it for.
Just one more fond memory of my Hasselblad history and vision issues.
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