Photography & Glasses

SparrowHawk

Hi All,

I been wearing contact lenses for several years & enjoy some very amateur photography. Recently I've switched to glasses (which are photochromatic) & I find it very difficult to gauge colours & also just uncomfortable trying to see through the viewfinder properly.


Any ideas?

Thanks,

SH

DeVore

Some viewfinders can be adjusted for your eyes so you wouldnt need glasses to see through it. Perhaps you could find one of them (I dont even know if viewfinders can be replaced so that will tell you how much help I am!)

You cant be the only person in the world with this problem so I'm sure theres a standard solution for it...

DeV.

Fajitas!

There should be a wheel beside your viewfinder that controls the dioptic...erm...something or other.

Basically, it usually goes from -3 to +1 if I remember correctly. If that fits in with your eyes, all well and good.

Alternatively you can get an extender for the cushion around the viewfinder, so your face isn't as pressed up against the camera?

SparrowHawk

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the info - I didn't even think of the "little wheel" - that'll tell you how much of an amateur I am!!

I give that I try when I get home this evening

Thanks again.

SH

K_user

As a person who always wears glasses I can empathise SparrowHawk.
If the “wheel” doesn’t work don’t get too concerned, it has never stopped me. You can compensate with a little adjustment of pose and camera grip.

Stephen

on a lot of cameras the part of the viewfinder that meets your eye (can't remember what its called ) is interchangeable, so if the diopter adjustment doesn't go far enough to suit your eyes you can replace it with one that does.

Dara Robinson

I have glasses, My view finder has a dial that I can change to my eye sight without or with glasses,

Olympus E1

DadaKopf

I have glasses. My sight is -1.5 and my adjustable viewfinder can't sharpen my viewfinder enough. The camera is an EOS 400D.

Fajitas!

I can't remember what number my sight rests at...but I'm short sighted and can't even see the LCD screen in my viewfinder, my diopter goes down as far as -3.

SparrowHawk

Thanks for all the replies!!

I checked out my camera - Nikon D100 - I can change the "focus" of the viewfinder to nearly my eyesight, so I'm happier than I was, definately. Wearing glasses just doesn't feel right..I might check out if it's interchangeable - many thanks again for the tips

SH

Fenster

I take mine off, thankfully I only have mine for double vision.

Zillah

Huh.

It has never occured to me that my glasses might get in the way. They never have, I don't even notice them.

Stephen

I find it weird using glasses with anything that has a viewfinder - I feel like I'm too far away from it.

bp_me

I have glasses and purposely wear contacts if I'm expecting to be using the camera. It makes things much easier.

mervifwdc

I dont find the glasses too much trouble, but watch for 2 things.

1. Never wear sunglasses when shooting, especially polaroids. The pictures are not what you saw, they are what the camera saw.
2. In the rain, wear a baseball hat with the longest peak you can get. Keep the glasses and viewfinder dry.

I had to photograph half a rugby match with sopping glasses and a sopping and smudged viewfinder. All I could see was if the red AF point was on what I wanted to capture. I just blasted away, trusting the camera was still autofocusing correctly. Worked a dream. Pleasently suprised (and releived!) when I got home.

Merv.

Calina

Interesting.

By definition I prefer to wear my glasses when photographing than my contact lenses. Yes the lenses are more comfortable but - and this is the killer - I have an astigmatism which the lenses are not as effective in correcting. Hence I see better through the lenses with my glasses than with my lenses.

That being said, it has never bothered me to use a viewfinder and glasses.