Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I shot an add for the Varilux Progressive Lens company once (I think they invented it) when I was first starting out. Very high tech with a huge optical machine in the gals face. In a very small room I had to use my widest lens. Which was a 24mm 2.8 Nikkor AI. Which I still have. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com > From: "J. Newell" <john.o.newell at comcast.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 18:15:26 +0000 (UTC) > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica X1: now glasses > > ...and the effect increases with the degree of correction(s). > Nevertheless, I > prefer "progressives" (or would we say "varifocal" on this list?), but > this is > a real YMMV issue. Personally, I don't like using glasses at all with > cameras > because you get one or more of (1) incomplete FOV, (2) scratched lenses > and/or > (3) dirty lenses. I am still using dioptric correction on the cameras and > living without correction for astignatism but, again, YMMV. The only really > good solution is perfect vision, which for some implies getting younger and > for others never existed anyway. <sigh> > > John