Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Best of good fortune with this new surgery Peter. *If you want to take more interesting pictures, stand in front of more interesting stuff* -- Joe McNally Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 31 March 2013 07:51, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > LUG: Caution, unabashed play for sympathy ahead. > > It's been two years after the first eye was "fixed." The other eye has > done the same thing--gotten progressively cloudier and more nearsighted. > So it's time to replace my original lens with a new, artificial one. The > surgery happens this coming Tuesday. Even though I've been through it once > before, I'm a little nervous. I'm also looking forward to getting it over > with. It's going to be interesting, after being nearsighted all my life, > to have "normal" vision and need to use reading glasses to see close, > rather than just take off my glasses. > > I may not be free of glasses, though. After the first operation, I saw > double when looking to the right, and they had to put prism correction into > my glasses. It remains to be seen whether equalizing the focal lengths of > the two eyes will make this better or worse. I had a wall-eye when I was a > kid, which was corrected with surgery in the mid-1950s. This issue may be > fallout from that. I guess I'll adapt, regardless. > > How will all this play out in terms of using a camera and being able to > see the menus and controls? Stay tuned. > > --Peter > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information >