Eyeglasses - on or off?

I've started using live live for focussing for landscape and macro and that means I have to take my reading glasses along with me, the results have been worth it.

KirkS518 wrote in post #14921469
I have glasses. I don't wear them, ever. I have adjust the dioptic adjustment to where it looks the sharpest to me, but I really just rely on the AF to be correct. The problem is when I'm manually focusing. Should I be wearing my glasses? If I wear the glasses, then the adjustment I made to the viewfinder makes it difficult to see.

What do you guys that wear glasses do? Wear them, or not?

Run some tests to see if you're doing your manual focusing accurately. If you are, keep doing what you're doing. If not, contacts are probably the best idea. You could get some daily wear lenses and only wear them when you're shooting. No maintenance required. When you're done for the day, throw them away.

On. I can't see jack **** w/o them so it would be pointless to try and shoot with them off.
no amount of diopter is going to help me lol

Joe Ravenstein wrote in post #14922149
I wear my glasses everywhere but in the water or in bed. If I lost my glasses I'd be driving by braille.

and interestingly enough ... drive through ATM's have braille, so you could still get money

I wear contacts 98 percent of the time. I wear my glasses when my eyes get tired of contacts, sometimes on the weekends if Im lazy, blah blah. However I HATE wearing glasses when Im shooting, so I just wear my contacts. I cant imagine how anyone shoots while wearing glasses.

I wear my glasses for shooting pictures. If I change the diopter so the view finder is clear without my glasses I still will not be able to see the camera controls so I would still have to put my glasses back on to see.

When driving I can see the white lines on the road, it's just the black stuff on either side I can't see.

johnward82 wrote in post #14981670
I wear contacts 98 percent of the time. I wear my glasses when my eyes get tired of contacts, sometimes on the weekends if Im lazy, blah blah. However I HATE wearing glasses when Im shooting, so I just wear my contacts. I cant imagine how anyone shoots while wearing glasses.

I've been considering contacts just because I hate shooting with glasses so much, and because I want to be able to see 100% through the view finder

My glasses are either on top of my head or very low resting on the tip of my nose while I'm shooting. It's more comfortable for me this way. It's a personal decision.

stsva wrote in post #14926732
I wear glasses full time - I use a Hoodman glasses model eyecup on the camera.

Same here.

stsva wrote in post #14926732
I wear glasses full time - I use a Hoodman glasses model eyecup on the camera.

Same here. Only thing I really hate is smudgy glasses. I always cary a microfiber cloth in a pouch with me.

I never liked wearing my glasses when I was shooting. Then I got LASIK and haven't 'looked' back since.

Now I do occasionally wear my sunglasses if I'm shooting outdoors, but that can affect how I percieve the WB so I usually take them off initially, make sure WB is acceptable then put them back on.

I don't understand why you would look through the viewfinder without your glasses on. Your glasses/contacts are suppose to correct for your eye problems. if you focused without your glasses on, wouldn't it look good to you, but nobody else? (ie, those with 20/20 eyesight?)

^ That's what I wondered as well, but the diopter adjustment makes the correction, it's like the camera becomes your glasses for the VF, but not the sensor.

So I've read all the responses, and one issue I have that's a bit different then most, is that my eyesight isn't bad enough to warrant contacts, or even wearing glasses full time. I actually never have them with me. It's a very light prescription, so I find the glasses to be more of a hassle then they're worth. But I had considered using them for shooting, but haven't tried it yet.

KirkS518 wrote in post #14986901
^ That's what I wondered as well, but the diopter adjustment makes the correction, it's like the camera becomes your glasses for the VF, but not the sensor.

So I've read all the responses, and one issue I have that's a bit different then most, is that my eyesight isn't bad enough to warrant contacts, or even wearing glasses full time. I actually never have them with me. It's a very light prescription, so I find the glasses to be more of a hassle then they're worth. But I had considered using them for shooting, but haven't tried it yet.

If your correction is light, the diopter adjustment may be satisfactory. There is a trick to doing it though:

The principle is that you want to your eye to focus on the screen itself. First either remove the lens or set the focus to its closest point and train the camera on a blank wall--just so there is no scene detail for your eyes to try to focus on. You want your eyes to concentrate on the autofocus marks, not any object beyond.

Set the diopter adjustment it to a strongly defocused position.

Then move the diopter wheel quickly back and forth, passing right through the point of sharp focus beyond it to the opposite defocused position.

Seesaw the wheel back and forth until you feel the point of sharpness and stop at it. Don't try to focus slowly to that point or your eye will accomodate to "almost in focus." You can best find the sharp point when you're moving quickly from the defocused extremes.

As a bit more information, the focusing system is set to present the focus screen at about 1 meter from your eye. So you should normally wear the eye correction you need to see sharply at one meter.

RDKirk wrote in post #14987358
If your correction is light, the diopter adjustment may be satisfactory. There is a trick to doing it though:

The principle is that you want to your eye to focus on the screen itself. First either remove the lens or set the focus to its closest point and train the camera on a blank wall--just so there is no scene detail for your eyes to try to focus on. You want your eyes to concentrate on the autofocus marks, not any object beyond.

Set the diopter adjustment it to a strongly defocused position.

Then move the diopter wheel quickly back and forth, passing right through the point of sharp focus beyond it to the opposite defocused position.

Seesaw the wheel back and forth until you feel the point of sharpness and stop at it. Don't try to focus slowly to that point or your eye will accomodate to "almost in focus." You can best find the sharp point when you're moving quickly from the defocused extremes.

As a bit more information, the focusing system is set to present the focus screen at about 1 meter from your eye. So you should normally wear the eye correction you need to see sharply at one meter.

Thanks! When I adjusted it, I did take the lens off, and focused on the focusing screen. I didn't try to do it quickly, and did notice I was having trouble deciding between 2 settings. I'll do it again tonight in rapid fire mode. At 1 meter I can see everything clearly.