With or without glasses? Is there any consensus on using your eyeglasses, or not, when taking pictures? I've always kept mine on. Manual focusing is the issue. I made the diopter...

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Is there any consensus on using your eyeglasses, or not, when taking pictures? I've always kept mine on. Manual focusing is the issue. I made the diopter adjustment with the glasses on. Had cataract surgery in June and am still adjusting to my new vision. Have a little astigmatism, hence the glasses. When manual focusing, not sure if I'd do better with or without glasses. Thanks in advance for advise.

Whuff Loc: Marshalltown, Iowa

My diopter is adjusted so I use it without my glasses.

Walt

Buckeye Loc: Dayton, OH.

Whuff wrote:

My diopter is adjusted so I use it without my glasses.

Walt

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Nikon_DonB Loc: Chicago

Keeping track of the lens cap is hard enough for me. I keep my specs on. Although I sight with my left eye so if I am back button focusing I smear the right lens of my glasses with my thumb and I HATE contacts. Sometimes you can't win.
Yea!

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

gvarner wrote:

Is there any consensus on using your eyeglasses, or not, when taking pictures? I've always kept mine on. Manual focusing is the issue. I made the diopter adjustment with the glasses on. Had cataract surgery in June and am still adjusting to my new vision. Have a little astigmatism, hence the glasses. When manual focusing, not sure if I'd do better with or without glasses. Thanks in advance for advise.

I don't know if there is a good answer beyond getting old is a bitch but it's better than the alternative!

Having worn glasses since I got measles when was 8 years old they are a natural thing for me. I like to be able to see the environment that I am in and taking photographs in, so I use my glasses for both normal vision and through the viewfinder which seems to work without adjustment, even with manual focus lenses.

If I use live view (rear LCD screen) which is needed for manual focus long lenses in my circumstances then the glasses interfere, so they get taken out of the picture so to speak (pocket, forehead), whatever works best at the time.

I tend to think of this as a very personal thing because every individual has different ways of doing things.

Good luck.

By the way, did you get a good camera for your wife? Pray tell, what did you end up with?

I took the easy way out and got my wife a good camera. Best of both worlds!: -D

OddJobber Loc: Portland, OR

gvarner wrote:

Is there any consensus ........

On UHH? Never!
A couple others have already mentioned it's a personal thing, but for the record, I'm near-sighted and got used to working (carpenter) without glasses. I only use them for driving and watching TV across the room. So when I'm shooting, I use diopter correction and the glasses are on my forehead or in a pocket. YMMV.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

I'm lucky enough to only need "ready-readers" so far.
So the diopter correction works for me W/O my readers.
But I need them to make changes, so they are usually on my face anyway. I just look over them, like half-eye glasses.

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

The lower half of my bifocals are designed for the viewfinder whilst the upper half are designed for distance viewing.

I have a second pair for distance and reading, and a third pair for computer work.

I am long sighted with severe astigmatism.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Use the focus indicator in the viewfinder - takes all of the guesswork out of the equation.

Psergel Loc: New Mexico

I've tried it both ways and have come to the conclusion that I have to just leave my glasses on or lose my mind.
It's a pain to shoot with them on but if I take them off I can barely see the displays to make adjustments.

I think that if I did most of my shots from a tripod, I'd adjust the diopter for my bare eyes, put my glasses on a chain and take them on and off as needed but......that's not the way I shoot most of the time.

Psergel Loc: New Mexico

BTW
If you asked "which is more, two or one" you would not get a consensus.

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

Gene51 wrote:

Use the focus indicator in the viewfinder - takes all of the guesswork out of the equation.

:thumbup: :thumbup:

Les White

I work without glasses when looking through the viewfinder but have reading glasses on a cord and around my neck for occasional review of histogram and pictures (distance vision is fine but need occasional help for closeup work)

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

gvarner wrote:

Is there any consensus on using your eyeglasses, or not, when taking pictures? I've always kept mine on. Manual focusing is the issue. I made the diopter adjustment with the glasses on. Had cataract surgery in June and am still adjusting to my new vision. Have a little astigmatism, hence the glasses. When manual focusing, not sure if I'd do better with or without glasses. Thanks in advance for advise.

Definitely with for me, and they are glass.
--Bob

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

Eye-sight changes - you would probably need to adjust the dioptre as often as replacing specs with new ones. But for me it is not just about manual focus - I favour EVF so that I can also see camera info in the viewfinder - histogram etc. I used to leave my glasses off when shooting, and could see in the VF perfectly with the dioptre adjusted. Now I keep specs on and have a different adjustment on the dioptre.