More Diopters?

[ColColt]

I just spent over $200 in the past 3-4 months on two diopter eyepieces for different cameras, the F2 and a Leica rf. Both have worked out well with the Nikon taking a +.5 and the Leica a +1 diopter. All was well until this past week. I got so I couldn't see well out of the right eye and after several days of thinking it was just a floater I went to the doc. Now I have to have a new prescription according to the tests.

So, what happens with those new diopters I just bought? I was told not to get anymore diopters until I got the glasses(about 10 days) to see how things worked out with what I currently have. What a PITA to have bought those not knowing if the new glasses will cause a change. the right eye changed a good bit-up to +.75 diopters. Maybe that will bring that eye back so I can see clearly again through the viewfinders...hopefully.

 

[rbultman]

Good luck. I wanted to use diopters so I could focus, etc, without glasses but I have not had much luck. I'm far sight but really suffer from astigmatism. I bought one for a Bessa R3M based on optometrist recommendations but it didn't work. I'm unwilling to keep buying them until I find something that works. We need a diopter exchange.

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[ColColt]

I have the astigmatism issue as well but could see well with the diopters mentioned with my glasses on. I'm nearsighted and take the glasses off to see the monitor but have to put them on to drive, etc.

 

[CMoore]

If you do not mind me butting in.....I have a hard time seeing close up. I need "Reading Glasses". Would I be looking at diopters with a (+) in front of the number.?
Thank You

 

[ColColt]

No butting in around here! I'm not an optometrist but I can tell you this. I'm near sighted and need glasses to drive, or just simply to see at a distance. I can read without the glasses but still have bifocals for things like getting out splinters. I can't focus that close anymore without bifocals. I have trifocals for intermediate distances like reading goods at the grocery store. I do sit at the computer and see the monitor fine without my glasses on at all.

I know that's not telling you much but I would look for a minus(-) for reading glasses since you have the opposite problem from me.

 

[HiHoSilver]

Colonel, 'Sorry for he heartburn. As one having older eyes, I'd say this whole mortality gig is way over-rated. I was blaming focus errors on a new (to me) 'blad on my aging eyes. 'Bout drove myself nuts - and spent a bloody fortune getting to the bottom of the problem. FWIW & in all seriousness, your eye - espec. for portraits is worth putting up with alot of heartburn for.

 

[ColColt]

You're a real treat Silver!! Some of those were when my eyes were better than recently. I can see pretty good but this past week I've noticed real changes to that right eye-my master eye and of course you baby that one especially. I'll be getting a new prescription soon and hopefully that rangefinder will snap in and out of focus much better. The split image on the Nikons are more forgiving.

I've found that in most cases of being down in the mouth about a photo that was not as sharp as I thought, I had not used a faster shutter speed of I swayed back a little at the moment of exposure. It's seldom the camera I've blamed unless something was obvious.

 

[Russ - SVP]

I use those cheater reading glasses (+1.50) for reading. But when I bought a +1.50 diopter for my Nikon N90s body, it was way off. I don't know which one to get. The adjustable diopter on my F100 body works quite well.

 

[ColColt]

Nikons without any diopter adjustment have a diopter built in of -1. Maybe the chart in the link will help you a little. An example is for myself needing a +.5 diopter and it worked out great. Forget the reading glasses part as how I figured mine was to take the distance part of my glasses (+1.25) and deduct the -1 in the Nikon finder. Since Nikon doesn't make a +.25 diopter I went with the closest one, the +.5 and could see to focus(with glasses) 100% better.

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