eyes. > For those of you with mature eyes, how do you manage looking through your > camera lens with your glasses on? I asked my optometrist about contacts, > but was told that since I now use bifocals that contacts would be next to > useless. My problem is that I'm loosing my long distance focal ability > and find it difficult, to say the least, to focus my camera while wearing > my glasses. you're not actually seeing long distance per se when you look through your cameras finder as you do when looking through binoculars because in your camera your eyes are simply focussing on the image projected onto the ground glass screen. let me put it another way - if you look through binoculars and they are slightly out of focus by wrestling with your eyes you can bring the image into focus.. impossible with a camera because you are seeing only a projected image made by the lens (no more possible than trying to see a sharp image in a cinema when the focus is out!). >What do all of you do to get around this problem? Or do you > simply deal and hope for the best? many pro cameras have dioptre adjustment on the viewfinder - usually a slider or somesuch to correct for your own vision, failing this dioptres are available as ad-ons for various camera makes. what camera do you have? k
