After cataract surgery, the light bulb goes on! After being nearsighted for my whole life, I chose long distance lenses as replacements for my cataract surgery. This left me needing to...

jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA

After being nearsighted for my whole life, I chose long distance lenses as replacements for my cataract surgery. This left me needing to wear reading glasses which I fully accept.

Now that I can start shooting again, I was wearing my reading glasses because I could not focus in the viewfinder screen during an event. It was anti-climatic, because I was hoping I was done with glasses while shooting.

About half way through the opera, I realized that I had forgotten the age old maxim that tells me to check my settings before starting a new shoot.

The setting I forgot to adjust was the diopter of the viewfinder to my new vision. DUH, leaving it at the old setting would force me to employ reading glasses! Took my glasses off, adjusted the setting on both cameras and voila!!!
No need for glasses in the viewfinder... of course, I still need them to see the display panel, but luckily I learned to adjust most settings by feel so I can keep my eye to the viewfinder.

traveler90712 Loc: Lake Worth, Fl.

jdubu wrote:

After being nearsighted for my whole life, I chose... (show quote)

After wearing glasses for a billion years or so, I too had the same thing done. I choose for my reading glasses, clear glass top and the reading lens on the bottom. So if I forget to take them off or put them on, I ready to read or shoot.

jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA

traveler90712 wrote:

After wearing glasses for a billion years or so, I too had the same thing done. I choose for my reading glasses, clear glass top and the reading lens on the bottom. So if I forget to take them off or put them on, I ready to read or shoot.

I hear you about that.

What I was looking forward to was being able to wear sunglasses, not clip-ons or prescription. I play a lot of grass volleyball and wearing sunglasses is a luxury for me now. Of course, the changes in lenses played havoc with my depth perception and I was misjudging my passing, setting and my approach to spike the ball. Just starting to get back to form.

Now if they could only do something about floaters running across my vision...

traveler90712 Loc: Lake Worth, Fl.

jdubu wrote:

Now if they could only do something about floaters running across my vision...

GOODLUCK!

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

traveler90712 wrote:

After wearing glasses for a billion years or so, I too had the same thing done. I choose for my reading glasses, clear glass top and the reading lens on the bottom. So if I forget to take them off or put them on, I ready to read or shoot.

An excellent idea! I made the same choice 5+ years ago and have not regretted it. In my case, I was able to use pre-set bifocals, so my glassed cost me about $15-25, depending on source.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

jdubu wrote:

After being nearsighted for my whole life, I chose long distance lenses as replacements for my cataract surgery. This left me needing to wear reading glasses which I fully accept.

Life without cataracts is so much better. Having to use those $1 glasses from the Dollar Tree is annoying, but it's better than needing Rx glasses for distance. The colors are better, too.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

jdubu wrote:

I hear you about that.

Now if they could only do something about floaters running across my vision...

My floaters don't run anywhere - they concentrate right on the view through the viewfinder!

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

Floaters are the best aren't they.:) I think they call it the golden years.:):)

jdubu wrote:

I hear you about that.

What I was looking forward to was being able to wear sunglasses, not clip-ons or prescription. I play a lot of grass volleyball and wearing sunglasses is a luxury for me now. Of course, the changes in lenses played havoc with my depth perception and I was misjudging my passing, setting and my approach to spike the ball. Just starting to get back to form.

Now if they could only do something about floaters running across my vision...

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

Yes Cataract surgery is now easy and vision is great except I do need readers for the computer and reading otherwise my vision is 20/20

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

jdubu wrote:

After being nearsighted for my whole life, I chose... (show quote)

I'm in the same boat. I got "reverse progressive" eyeglass lenses so I can see at all distances from 8" to infinity. They've almost no correction from 1/3 up, to the top of the lens. At the very bottom, they are +2 or +2.25 diopters. They're also the lighter Transitions lenses with an advanced anti-glare coating, so they darken to work great as sunglasses outdoors.

I actually see better without my glasses, but when I'm switching between the back of the camera and the viewfinder, or doing anything in bright sun, they're great. They were an expensive solution to a nagging issue...

I think L.L. Bean sells some bifocal sunglasses with the top 2/3 set to no correction and the bottom third set to +2 diopters. Those would work for me when shooting outdoors.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

jdubu wrote:

I hear you about that.

Now if they could only do something about floaters running across my vision...

When the floaters get so large that you think you saw a mouse run across your kitchen floor, or a blackbird fly through your family room, you might be in trouble.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Kmgw9v wrote:

When the floaters get so large that you think you saw a mouse run across your kitchen floor, or a blackbird fly through your family room, you might be in trouble.

Yeah, it would be nice if they could suck the goo out of your eyes, filter it, and squirt it back in! Sounds gross, right? But hey, most body plumbing issues are fundamentally simple, once they establish safe procedures for them.

GENorkus Loc: Washington Twp, Michigan

It's wonder you found a simple way to improve your photography!!!

Boentgru Loc: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

jdubu wrote:

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My cataract surgery was just in one eye. I found that color perception is now different in each eye; the non-operated eye perception is much more toward the yellow for whites. So when comparing colors I tend to use the new artificial lens eye.

MtnMan Loc: ID

jerryc41 wrote:

Life without cataracts is so much better. Having to use those $1 glasses from the Dollar Tree is annoying, but it's better than needing Rx glasses for distance. The colors are better, too.

That's what I do too. I have many pairs lying around so I don't have to search too long to find one and at $1 each I don't care when I step or sit on them.