Sunglasses?
Apr 25, 2019 13:19:01 #
Gallopingphotog wrote:
Following up on the post asking folks how they cop... (show quote)
I've tried prescription sunglasses but they affect the color and if I'm using a real small aperture, it can be too dark to see what I'm doing. Right now I have some flip-up sunglasses but they are pretty cheesy and fall off real easy. Can anyone suggest a simple solution? Or a brand of flip-ups that don't flip up and off and away!I don't have to worry about that, since I've been using transition lenses since my early childhood, they allow me to see clearly and they turn dark when its too bright!
Apr 25, 2019 13:31:32 #
CatMarley wrote:
Doesn't your camera have a diopter correction adjustment? + or - 3 should be enough for fairly severe myopia or presbyopia, then just hang your classes around your neck with a lanyard. I can't imagine trying to look through the viewfinder with glasses on. You can't really get close enough to the eye with glasses. Then, of course, contact lenses are much better today than they were years ago.
That may work for most people. However, I can not shoot bare eyed. The diopter does not give me enough adjustment. I love the eye cup that is on most cameras. I can block,out everything and see through the view finder very well. Like most of the posters, I never wear sunglasses because of how they effect the image. I also wear an Australian outback style hat. No hard brim so it does not get in my way.
Apr 25, 2019 13:51:28 #
thephotoman wrote:
That may work for most people. However, I can not shoot bare eyed. The diopter does not give me enough adjustment. I love the eye cup that is on most cameras. I can block,out everything and see through the view finder very well. Like most of the posters, I never wear sunglasses because of how they effect the image. I also wear an Australian outback style hat. No hard brim so it does not get in my way.
Perhaps an ophthalmologist can help ypu. Sounds like contacts would be worth investigating.
Apr 25, 2019 13:57:18 #
Check Amazon for Rawlings Flip-Up Sunglasses....the type used by baseball players. Not pricey at all.
Apr 25, 2019 14:24:30 #
B&H and Adorama have for purchase diopters of different strength, could help you out. Get a copy of your Rx and then see what strength you need for your camera. This could be a great help to you, check it out. Good luck...
Apr 25, 2019 14:25:39 #
CatMarley wrote:
Perhaps an ophthalmologist can help ypu. Sounds like contacts would be worth investigating.
The real issue (once you get to a certain point visually) is the ability to see through the eyepiece and to see the back of the camera and other objects around you when not looking through the eye piece. I use progressive lenses and look through the sweet spot of my glasses when shooting and can then pull back and read the back of the camera when necessary. I could not do that without glasses. And I have tried various approaches to contacts that do not really give me that. Mono vision does not do it nor do those concentric ring contacts. I am sure if you have mild vision issues (rated as between 0 and +-3) you can probably do a contact especially if your eyes are young and flexible. But for those of us at +-6, it just does not work.
Apr 25, 2019 15:19:44 #
Gallopingphotog wrote:
Following up on the post asking folks how they cop... (show quote)
Good perscription sunglasses can be made close to neutral in color, but it helps to work with the optician, not the doctor, to get close.
I have a pair of "Fit Overs" that fit over my perscription glasses. They are polarized and neutral in color and I love them. None-the-less, even if YOU wear sunglasses that alter colors, the camera won't see that. If you prefer the color you saw, that can always be obtained in post process.
Aperture setting doesn't affect the preview brightness in a viewfinder or screen unless the depth of field preview button is stuck. Wide open aperture does, if that is what you meant.
Apr 25, 2019 17:19:50 #
Gallopingphotog wrote:
Following up on the post asking folks how they cop... (show quote)
I have Transitions eye glasses and those can get weird outdoors in UV light. But as I said in the earlier Thread, I take my glasses off when I can to shoot. I'm near-sighted and have the camera viewfinder diopter set to compensate.
Apr 25, 2019 18:04:36 #
JoeN
Loc: East Texas
I don’t have your vision problems but I do wear sunglasses any time I am outdoors. When I get ready to shoot I take off my sunglasses long enough to set up the shot then put the sunglasses back on. I don’t like polarized sunglasses because they make some digital screens go black and the tint is important because anything other than gray will cause a color shift. It seems you need sunglasses that fit over your glasses. Check out companies that sell safety glasses and you will find tinted glasses that are made to fit over your prescription glasses. If you don’t mind looking like you just had cataract surgery they should do just fine. Another benefit of the safety glasses is they can be very inexpensive, anywhere from ~$7 up.
Apr 25, 2019 19:30:06 #
CatMarley wrote:
Doesn't your camera have a diopter correction adjustment? + or - 3 should be enough for fairly severe myopia or presbyopia, then just hang your classes around your neck with a lanyard. I can't imagine trying to look through the viewfinder with glasses on. You can't really get close enough to the eye with glasses. Then, of course, contact lenses are much better today than they were years ago.
Some people, including myself, have no choice. Even after cataract surgery I need correction due to Graves' disease (double vision), astigmatism and for reading/close vision, and the doctor says I must use sunglasses. I have done photography for 65 years without removing my glasses. I've never had a problem.
Apr 25, 2019 20:20:15 #
BlueMorel wrote:
I wear sunglasses that fit over my glasses. When I take them off I tuck one earpiece into the neck of my shirt and they stay there pretty well. BTW polarized sunglasses don't work for shooting with if you have a CPL filter on the lens LOL!
They (polarized) don’t work with some LCDs. 1st time I wore the sunglasses when using my former camera when I rotated to portrait mode the screen blanked out. Thought my camera was broken. Took me a few minutes to realize what was happening. I think it was my Nikon Coolpix 60. No longer have that though.
Apr 26, 2019 19:41:26 #
carl hervol
Loc: jacksonville florida
get contacts I did quit fooling with glasses or get lasics ever glasses wearing complains about glasses just bite the bullet and quite complaining. 
Apr 27, 2019 13:10:35 #
This is a followup after a real-life experience shooting at the lake on a sunny day, not my usual bailiwick. Since I'm temporarily without my glasses after cataract surgery, I'm borrowing hubby's old readers for closeups, which meant that I was switching from sunglasses to readers and back again to read the navigation on my phone or to look up stuff. What a pain! I finally had a solution - wear the readers
OVER the sunglasses when needed, then push them up when I didn't. Distance isn't a problem, so I used this only when we were in the car. I'm sure it wasn't the most fashionable look but it worked. I just used auto settings on the camera when we got to where we were going - not my usual choice, but it worked to compensate for no readers while out on the pier, and shooting west in mid-afternoon. If I were by myself I would have chosen morning hours, but it was an enjoyable outing anyway and I got some usable pictures of waves crashing on the lakeshore.
OVER the sunglasses when needed, then push them up when I didn't. Distance isn't a problem, so I used this only when we were in the car. I'm sure it wasn't the most fashionable look but it worked. I just used auto settings on the camera when we got to where we were going - not my usual choice, but it worked to compensate for no readers while out on the pier, and shooting west in mid-afternoon. If I were by myself I would have chosen morning hours, but it was an enjoyable outing anyway and I got some usable pictures of waves crashing on the lakeshore.
Apr 28, 2019 02:38:24 #
It probably depends on the type of camera you shoot with. I have both myopia and presbyopia so wear glasses with progressive lenses all of the time. If I took them off I wouldn't be able to see if there was anything worth shooting. Contact lenses are of course not an option. However, I never have problems getting the eye close enough to look through a viewfinder with glasses on, although I have to use the dioptre adjustment because the distance part of the glasses lens is against the viewfinder. They are also transitional lenses so darken with increasing light intensity. This is usually not a problem with my Canon 70D because the light through the viewfinder is bright enough, but I do have trouble seeing the image or data on the rear screen in bright sunlight, sand or snow (the last rarely a problem where I live). I also have trouble with the EVF on my Nikon P900 under extreme conditions. The worse case was on top of Mt Etna where the strong UV and reflected light from the snow sent the glasses so dark I couldn't see anything through the EVF and thought the camera had stopped working. If it became a persistent problem, the option would to carry a pair of non-transitional lenses for photography, and use the transitional lenses at other times.
May 8, 2019 16:55:50 #
My solution to this problem was to purchase a pair of prescription bifocal sunglasses that are not polarized. The tinting is a neutral grey. I shoot mainly travel photos with a Sony RX10 IV. I keep the brightness of the viewfinder and monitor screen at their brightest settings. I keep the sunglasses on while I shoot and I can still see to review shots and I can see the screen to read the menus. I used this
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