Question about bright line finders, barracks and eyeglasses

[weasel]

About a year ago, a bought an m2 locally, and after having used it quite a bit, I'm not sure I don't prefer my IIIc. As I have advanced to old geezer status, I find that with 35mm 90% of my shooting is with a 50mm lens. The finder in the IIIC is well known squinty. So here is my question; with eyeglasses, if I get a bright line finder will I be able to see the whole frame without removing my glasses?

 

[JerseyDoug]

I don’t know about other 50mm viewfinders but with my Leica SBOOI I have no trouble seeing the entire frame outline while wearing glasses.

 

[Besk]

Same here with my Leica 50 finder. No problem seeing the whole frame while wearing glasses.

 

[George Collier]

Whenever I have time, if composing carefully, I always determine the distance, focus (or set the distance by estimate), then take my glasses off, and view the image with my bare eye, which I can put closer to the camera (much of my walking around work is with a monopod). In addition to ease of seeing the whole frame (no matter which lens, but especially shorter ones), this kind of view allows my to concentrate on the compositional nature of the image, not the details. I like this for much of my work. Obviously not helpful when street shooting of moving things.
And yes, I'm in my 70's.

 

[guangong]

Try contact lenses. If so, get hard lenses for best results.

 

[Inomoxo]

As an eyeglass wearer enjoy my lllF Baranak as well as M2. I appreciate the diminuative size of the lllF so don't use a separate viewfinder for either 50mm or 35mm. I suspect my framing with the 35mm on lllF could be better but attribute the issue to not accounting for parallax. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I am under the impression that a separate viewfinder would not address the parallax. What works for me with the lllF is to focus and frame with eyeglasses on, then remove glasses to look around the frame to see what I may be missing with the 35mm and adjust framing as needed. It's a slow, conplemtative process but works for me.

 

[Mark Crabtree]

I love the 50mm brightline finder, but can just barely/almost see it all with my glasses. It is a touch worse than the similar frameline in my M3 because it is easier to move your eye around and find the edges in the M3. I get too many crooked pictures with the 50 brightline. I've used both a Leitz and the Voigtlander knock off; the Leitz is very slightly better for me.

I've switched to the Imarect adjustable finder. The Imarect has less curb appeal or wow factor, but has very accurate framing and has manual parallax correction. I was always dismissive of these old fashioned finders, but my pictures are better with it and I've come to like the isolation of the black mask around the frame. The framelines in M4 and earlier cameras are still my favorite, but for 50 and longer the Imarect is very nice.