eyesight going bad

[Curt]

Go get an eye exam, it's the proper way, and you will have your eye health checked too.

[greybeard]

I routinely use a loupe (okay, it's not really a loupe---it's a no-name 35mm camera lens used backwards, because it is optically better than the best loupe that I have) but find that for indoor work a pair of the flip-up binocular magnifiers is much better. I have them in both 2 and 7 diopter, and the 7's are like using a stereomicroscope. They are around $30 from MSC Supply, but can probably be had for less elsewhere.

[mark]

I had an eye exam he said the close up thing was going but not too bad. Guess I found the first thing affected by it.

[Sirius Glass]

Go get an eye exam, it's the proper way, and you will have your eye health checked too.

Damn it! Don't ruin a thread by being practical!

[semi-ambivalent]

Go get an eye exam, it's the proper way, and you will have your eye health checked too.

I'm 57 and getting old on schedule so I use cheaters. But an eye exam lets me be exact on which cheaters to buy and the attendant, painless, test for glaucoma (I'm paranoid about getting glaucoma) is the icing.

[R gould]

I have been having to lift my eye glasses for many years for close focusing with my MF cameras, never had focusing problems yet,
Richard

[Steve Smith]

I have been having to lift my eye glasses for many years for close focusing with my MF cameras, never had focusing problems yet,
Richard

It's the ideal way for those of us with short sight (negative diotre corrective lenses) as taking away a negative dioptre is the same effect as adding a positive dioptre. Instant close up vision without a loupe.


Steve.