Noob question : I now wear glasses to help with close sight. The far sight isn't so bad although not as good as before. My pictures from MF camera still come out OK focuswise but I notice the viewfinder numbers are blurry. If I wear my reading glasses would that mess up my distant focusing? Should I put '+' diopter correction on my camera? But how that will work with distant focusing?
wearing your prescription glasses is all you'd need to do. If that doesn't work, back to the optometrist!
So you're saying I should bring the camera to optometrist?
I wear contacts for distance and add reading glasses for real close up work. I specifically have the prescription in my right lens set to give the sharpest vision at approx 1 meter distance (which is the "effective distance" of many eye-level viewfinders) - this means that I can use my eye-level cameras without adding viewfinder corrective lenses or using my reading glasses.
two pairs of contact lenses piggybacked
I guess I'm really noob in this glasses issue. I couldn't understand how the lens for close sight will help me looking at numbers in VF without messing up lens focusing on distant object. Then I just tested wearing my reading glasses while looking into VF and all the numbers became clear and I can still focus into the distant without problem.
I may just get diopter piece in the future since I don't wear contacts.
Sooner or later you will need glasses for slightly further distances, and eventually for distance too. My recommendation is to go for good quality (eg Zeiss) varifocals sooner rather than later. Wearing glasses all the time is a bore, but taking them on and off is worse.
Do you wear Zeiss varifocals? In the US we call them progressives. I tried progressives decades ago, hated them and went back to trifocals.
Progressives' power varies across the field. Variable magnification changes the shape, as seen, of objects. Circles become ovals. I found this intolerable.
So, if you have the Zeiss eyeglass lenses, do you see, say, circular coffeecups as ovals?
Do you wear Zeiss varifocals? In the US we call them progressives. I tried progressives decades ago, hated them and went back to trifocals.
Progressives' power varies across the field. Variable magnification changes the shape, as seen, of objects. Circles become ovals. I found this intolerable.
So, if you have the Zeiss eyeglass lenses, do you see, say, circular coffeecups as ovals?
SLR at the moment. Sadly the camera costs less than accessory diopter.when you look through a pentaprism, your eye is not focusing on the distant object, but rather the image on the ground glass, which is optically at approximately the same distance from your eye as the numbers and other indicators are. or are you using a rangefinder?
I also don't like progressive. I tried once didn't like it and the opticians can't make one with my preferred distribution. So I use bifocals or just reading glass now.Do you wear Zeiss varifocals? In the US we call them progressives. I tried progressives decades ago, hated them and went back to trifocals.
Progressives' power varies across the field. Variable magnification changes the shape, as seen, of objects. Circles become ovals. I found this intolerable.
So, if you have the Zeiss eyeglass lenses, do you see, say, circular coffeecups as ovals?
Not really photography related, but how does that work? One prescription in one eye, and another in the other, or one set of lenses over the other?
Much more is involved than buying a pair of glasses.
One set of soft lenses smooths out irregularities of cornea; one set of hard lenses corrects vision.
What Is remarkable is that a thorough eye examination by a competent optometrist is the ability to detect other health problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes, etc., as well as condition of the retina, etc. What is interesting to a photographer is how many of the examination instruments are made by Nikon and Zeiss. Much more is involved than buying a pair of glasses.
Yes! Contact lenses are the way to go. Eye can get close to finder window. The importance of picking a very skilled optometrist should be emphasized. As in all other professions, not all are equal. A qualified optometrist should also examine the eyes’ overall health. I wear two pairs of contact lenses piggybacked and have perfect vision with no need for spectacles. ( except for the microscopic texts on prescription containers).
cataracts removed, then the implants gave me 20/20 vision unaided for the first time since I was 12 years old.
I agree. I used contact lenses until I needed cataracts removed, then the implants gave me 20/20 vision unaided for the first time since I was 12 years old.
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