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I wear glasses for everyday seeing but cannot focus near enough with them to be able to focus on the GG under a Darkcloth
So I had the Opticians make up a stronger pair of glasses (so I can focus on the GG at about 10inches/25cm) which I use to compose the picture
I then have a Schneider 6X Loupe (very nice but expensive) which I use to focus the Camera with.
So I end up with two pairs of glasses (fitted with "granny strings") and a Loupe hung round my neck
Well... it works for me :rolleyes:
Martin
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I use a Toyo 4x loupe, one of the long, tubular ones. Together with my eyeglasses, it works just fine.
Another solution is to get a bigger camera, but seeing that you just arrived on the LF scene, that may be a bit much to ask!
Peter Gomena
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I wear progressive lens trifocals, which have a relatively small area for close up focusing near the bottom of the lens. Unfortunately, when the camera is lower than my head, and I have to bend down to look at the GG, I'm looking through the top of my glasses - quite frustrating. I could, and do on occasion, have a second set of single focus glasses with me, but I have come up with another solution, one which does not risk my changing (dropping, losing, stepping on) my glasses. I cut a thin-walled tube of plastic (in this case from an empty, dried up tube of caulking material) to the focal length of a large diameter 4X close-up lens, the kind that screw on the front of a lens. By placing the open end of the tube flat on the glass, I can now view the enlarged section of the image with my face further back from the camera, allowing me to rest my neck muscles a bit in the process. The tube was free, the close up attachment lens part of a cheap set that I did not need or want to use for its intended purpose - sort of a 4" long loupe with a much larger image area.
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