Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi John, I am heavily astigmatic but could get away with hard contact lenses from my 20s until about 6 years ago, when I needed reading glasses too. I reasoned that if I had to wear specs anyway it may as well be all the time. I use varifocals now and agree with all your points. Few cameras (or binoculars) actually have an eyepoint suitable for spectacle wearers. A friend of mine had laser surgery with his right eye corrected for long distance and left for reading. He said he got used to it fairly quickly and now can see long distance and read without glasses. Being sceptical I asked my optician to make contacts for me to simulate the effect. Sure enough after about a fortnight I did not directly notice the difference. However my sight was clearly not quite as good, I could not tell the species of distant birds any more, for example, so whilst my brain was compensating my sight was not as good as it could be. The second alternative was laser surgery and reading glasses. This was a no starter since my close sight is more useful to me day to day, and I am very aware that my wife seems to spend a significant proportion of each day searching for her specs... Anyway I ended up with varilux ipseo lenses which are great for everything else but still obviously have the normal shortcomings with cameras. cheers, FD On 5 Oct, 2010, at 19:15, J. Newell wrote: > ...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 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Collier" <jbcollier at shaw.ca> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Tuesday, October 5, 2010 8:31:50 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica X1: now glasses > > Progressives have "dead" spots, I prefer bifocals. > > John > > On 2010-10-04, at 11:59 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> Bifocals wow! try getting progressives they cost a little more but they >> DO >> so much more.. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information