Digital Photography Tips from the Top Floor

drbusch · Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject:

I'll second the earlier comment about keeping a separate cleaning cloth for glasses and your lenses- the oils from your skin could be a problem.

Canoeclicker · Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 1:24 am Post subject:

I starteds wearing glasses about 10 years ago. At first they were pretty annoying when using the camera. Now, I don't even notice them. Unless I've been doing some woodworking. It's tough to see through a good layer of sawdust! Just keep shooting. You will get used to it>

tmsc · Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: wearing glasses

I am farsighted and I need my glasses for reading and anthing close. To see the camera setting I have my reading glasses on but when I want to look through the view finder on the camera I have to take then off. I get so frustrated taking them off and on until I have everthing set right . Somedays I feel like dumping the camera hobby and stick with retoring photos

drbusch · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:26 am Post subject:

It's quite possible you can get a diopter adj. eye piece such that you can see through the viewfinder with your reading glasses on. It will depend on the perscription, but I recall +/-3D eyepieces available.
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afpalmer · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject:

Can't say I have had problems with dirt rubbing on to the glasses - how dirty are your cameras?!

I sometimes take them off because I can get away with using the diopter adjustment thingy so I guess I am lucky...
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icyjumbo · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject:

I am so short-sighted that I couldn't possibly find a dioptre adjustment to suit me, so I have to wear my glasses while shooting. In fact, I didn't even think about not doing so, and didn't realize that others had any problems.

My problem is that I'm getting long sighted as well as short sighted now that I'm approaching my mid-forties. (OK it's not really long-sighted, I know, it's just a failure to accommodate.) But whatever it is, it means that I have to take my glasses off to get a close look at the camera's monitor. So I either peer over the top like an annoyed school teacher (sorry Rolf) or push them up onto my forehead, where they get smudged, or take them off entirely and hold them by the earpiece in my mouth. No really good solutions there, and I'm not ready for bifocals just yet.

Orthokeratology, anyone?
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drbusch · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject:

Bifocals might be the answer.

What I probably didn't explain well enough in my earlier post is that I think you can set up an eyepiece which corrects your vision with your glasses on to a point where you can focus through the lens and still pull your head back to read menues with your reading glasses. See, for example,
http://www.adorama.com/NKDP1N.html

It looks like the nikon eyepieces may be stackable, letting you make a -6D if you want.

http://www.nikonmall.com/product.asp?sku=2535099

regards,
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tmsc · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject: far sited

I spoke about earlier about taking off my glasses back and forth. I do have bifocals but that is even worse for me . I cannot even them daily. I bang myself everywhere and i was told that I have stigmatizim? Thats why I have a problem.

drbusch · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:19 pm Post subject:

Astigmatism refers to an asymetry in the eyeball; you're right that you need glasses or contacts designed for your eyes to correct this.

What about using diopters to counteract the reading glasses' magnification? You then can read the menus AND see through the viewfinder.
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tmsc · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:31 pm Post subject: glasses

I was told I have a curve eye ball and that i cannot be fitted with contacts. I will check on the item you noted earlier . i will check at a dealer in yarmouth the next time I get a ride . I cannot drive due to meds for back injury. Thanks so much for your replys