Cameras & Glasses

[tjaded]

Just curious about those shooters out there that wear glasses--do you prefer to leave your glasses on or opt for a diopter? I've got so many cameras that getting a diopter for all of them is impractical to say the least...but I was dabbling with the idea of getting one for my Nikon F. If I did my homework correctly, it seems that I have to choose either a -2.0 or a -3.0 since they only did them in whole numbers--which way would you go? My "shooting eye" is right in the middle at -2.5!

[Ian David]

My shooting eye is currently about -3.0. I just wear my glasses with all my cameras. Slightly annoying at times, but cheaper than keeping my various cameras in sync with changing eyesight!

Ian

[Christopher Walrath]

The only time I sherk the specs is when I am using either a spot meter or a grain focuser. My eye has to be right on top of them. Aside from that, old four eyes it is.

[pinhole_dreamer]

I just went out and got contacts. I can actually ACCURATELY focus now. *sigh*

[Mark_S]

I have a bad astigmatism (4 diopters of astigmatism), so glasses are my only option. Rubber eye cups are a big help...

[Klainmeister]

The first time I shot a manual SLR camera I took my glasses off because they were bugging me. Needless to say, my trip to Mexico was blurry in more than one respect.

I just throw in contacts if I know I'll be out shooting, if not, then glasses it is. Can't justify the cost otherwise. I feel nerdy wearing my gators I must admit, though....

[Poisson Du Jour]

My camera (EOS 1N with right-angle finder) is 'tuned' to correct my eyesight — I cannot quote the deficiency of my head but it is significant and I need reading glasses full time. All my focusing is accurate and sharp. Plenty of photographers do where glasses with a rubberised eyepiece to protect from damage. I'm happy with my set up. I use my spot meter unaided (it has satisfactory dioptric correction of the eyepiece). Glasses are off for eyeballing trannies with loupé on lightbox; to compensate the loupé is lifted to that point where clear vision of detail is available. No problems.

[Vaughn]

I am near-sighted -- about -6.26 or so. Since I use LF, I just take off my glasses and I can focus as well as most normal vision people who use a loupe.

Any other kind of camera/grain focuser I keep my glasses on.

[Wade D]

I'm near sighted and need my glasses on to focus correctly with all but LF where I use a loupe. On 35mm I can't see the entire frame but over the years have become very good at judging framing by scanning the corners.

[DanT]

I wear glasses as well but so far haven't had too much trouble. Might be a reason to try contacts, but as long as I'm careful when composing a shot I don't really run into any problems.