pappy0352 Loc: Oregon

I also set my Diopter to shoot without my glasses.

Pappy

Chris

Which prescription do you buy for distance or closeup

profpb Loc: Venice, Florida

I do all of the above and use live view then magnify that in camra.

EoS_User Loc: Oshawa, Ontario Canada

As with the others, I set the diopter. Use auto focus, if the camera has it right then ajust the diopter until the image in the viewfinder is nice and sharp. I remember years ago borrowing my friends Pentax to take to a custom car show. I shot 5 or six rolls of slide film and did all focusing with my glasses off. After processing the films I cursed his camera, everything was out of focus. Then reality break came and I realized what I had done. The focus compensated for my eyes and therefore was off in the slides. Lesson learned!

WaltG Loc: Las Vegas NV

I wear bifocals and once tried manual focus on a beautiful mountain scene ... terrible shot because it was totally out of focus even with my glasses on. I now depend on auto focus. It's just faster and easier for me. Like a lot of other approaches to photography, use what works for you.

texaseve Loc: TX, NC and NH

I used to be able to just set the diopter (went through several strengths), now I suffer from CSS, and HAVE to have glasses on.
Someone could make a lot of money inventing an eyepiece that would really work with folks with glasses or glasses just for camera shooting or something. I hate my glasses between my face and the camera. I don't care for the Hoodman thingy, because I don't want to have to remove it every time I want to put it back in my bag.

IsoBob Loc: Hamilton, NJ

:D :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

OddJobber Loc: Portland, OR

I haven't tried it but have read about a few folks who have gone to their optician (or DIY) to have a eyeglass lens cut or ground down to fit a viewfinder frame, then remove the plain viewfinder lens and glue the custom lens in its place. Yup, sounds like there would be a good market for this, but I can't find anyone marketing this idea. Want to invest? :idea:

texaseve Loc: TX, NC and NH

Sure...once we quit getting taxed to death.

fotowerks Loc: San Diego, CA

I use the diopter as well, as I wear glasses for reading. My problem is that while adjusting the diopter and removing my glasses works as far as looking through the viewfinder, I find I need to replace them to analyze my shot and the histogram in the LCD immediately afterward. I may just try the glasses-always-on approach.

Ront53 Loc: Maryland

If the adjustable diopter is not enough, you can buy additional lenses for your eyepiece. I find it very hard to shoot with glasses. 99% of the time, I let the camera do the autofocus.

wjdonahue Loc: Kansas City

Though setting the diopter on the eyepiece and then shooting without glasses will work for some, you have to be careful. Anyone with any astigmatism is in for trouble since the astigmatism cannot be set at the eyepiece. No matter what you set the diopter at the image is still blurry because of the astigmatism. Would be nice if you could get eyepiece lenses with sphere, but alas they aren't available.
have a friend who had a custom eyepiece made to his exact prescription, but then he is rolling in dough......cost him over $500

WAL

The diopter correction is similar to focusing binoculars or a telescope. But you don’t focus the same way. Don’t focus on the Image from the lens it just confusing getting the adjustment right. Point the camera at the sky or on a blank wall. Turn the control to make the setting information; (ISO, etc) clear not the lens image. The blank wall is a help in keeping you from paying attention to the image from the lens. This correction is the same as reading glasses. Don’t keep staring through the viewfinder. You want your eye to be relaxed. Do it a few times.
The advantage of not using your glasses is that you’ll see the entire view.

If you can use the reading glasses like those sold at all the stores this should work well. If you have a strong correction for other than near or far you may have to use your glasses. Leica had a system for osing a correcteion lens made by an optoertrist. I think Nikon and Canon have the same thing.
I have a Nikon F 3 high point that allows viewing the compete screen with glasses. Something that would be a good idea and may be available today.

I’d like to know what people are doing with this. Let me know how it works.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

I do this also...my glasses always get in the way and I cannot get my eye close enough to see ALL of the viewfinder...so I "peek over my glasses" to look into the viewfinder...it works for me.

Mousie M Loc: Coventry, UK

Hi there all. The rule you state implies that the camera focus will be out because your vision needs correction. This is true with binoculars, because you are looking at a virtual image. So if you focus binocs and then give them to someone with a different prescription not wearing glasses, standing in the same spot, they will sneed refocusing. Not so with a camera because it focuses the image onto a screen, then you look at the screen independently. If you can see fe image clearly enough to compose, with or without diopter correction, hen use the AF and shoot. If you can see well enough to manual focus, and you want to do that, it will be fine: you will not be focussing it off because of your eyesight..

I have a big nose which spaces my glasses off, so it is impossible to use them and view through my DSLR! So i use my strongest eye which is my left which is probably the wrong one for the way round cameras are designed! Worse still I have astigmatism which the diopter correction does not help! Who cares , I put most of my effort into composition which is the most important thing, make the best I can of the aperture etc info, and let the camera auto control as much as possible. I have fun anyway!