Dominant left eye and wear glasses...

In the last few years I have started having to wear glasses full time, during this time I was having a break from my SLR.

Now that I am fully back into the swing of things I have noticed a nuisance issue. I shoot with my left eye, which was an issue then wasn't and now is again.

Way back in the days of film SLRs and manual wind on I had issues as I have to move the camera away from my face to wind on, motor-winders and then digital solved that issue.

Now that I wear glasses the issue is back, now however I am constantly smudging my right lens with my right hand holding the camera, not to mention the added difficulty of shooting through glasses anyway.

Did live with dioptric correction and not wearing glasses for a bit, but I am now past those days.

Has anyone else had this issue and tried any sort of eye relief devices on their DSLRs that actually helped? I looked at a couple of options down at the local camera shop but they just shrunk the image in the viewfinder.

Thanks!

What about wearing contacts? I can't shoot with my glasses at all.

hang your cross wrote in post #17213312
What about wearing contacts? I can't shoot with my glasses at all.

I am considering that, but know a few people with issues with contacts. Would mean I could wear sunglasses too though

Never know with contacts until you try for yourself. I wear the monthly kind with no problems. Put em in, and 30 days later take em out an put in a new pair. Maybe I am fortunate, but they work great for me.

FlyingPete wrote in post #17213404
I am considering that, but know a few people with issues with contacts. Would mean I could wear sunglasses too though

I've worn contacts for 15 years with no issues. I'm very near-sighted and they have helped me tremendously.

Yeah, just shoot with your right eye with glasses. I did. You will get use to it, just like every curve ball thrown at us. In a few months, it will become a none issue. If you calibrate your lens, you don't really need to see if its sharp in focus, just get the right composition, shoot and trust the photos will come out sharp.

I wear glasses, and I can't see $#!T with my right eye, glasses or not. I adjust the diopter on the viewfinder so I can see with my left eye. Been doing it that way for about 50 years now.

I'm left eye dominant, and wear glasses. I taught myself to shoot right eyed, for the simpler ergonomics. It took a month or so to get completely comfortable, now it is second nature and I don't even have to think about it.

I am left eye, have "old eyes" or too short of arms once I past 40 and it gets worse, and an astigmatism, tried contacts but the ones for astigmatism are super expensive and with the farsighted old eyes had to do the different prescription for each eye. I tried but the contacts just did not work at all. Commercial planes flying across the sky appeared to be multiple planes flying in formation. So I wear my glasses, shoot with my left eye, and have adjusted to that. I like to shoot with both eyes open and do find that to be something that took a long time to adjust for, but it seems to work.

Canon makes a thicker eye piece. back in my 20D days I found one and it got my face a bit farther away from the camera body. Might take some digging but there are options like this.

I just recently got progressives. The first wedding using them was a breeze. I could see my LCD I did not have to flip up my reading glasses after each shot. I adjusted dioptric for the glasses. I just cleaned wiped my glasses now and then.

If I'm just hobby shooting I don't always wear them. I use the old flip up the readers and adjust the dioptric for that. My distance is pretty good but one eye is weaker so the eyes tired out. By the end of the day I could not tell that I had an HD tv.

It still is a big pain in the rump but the new glasses were a big help.

I am "left-eyed" too and have always been. Back in the days I wore glasses, I used an Exakta film camera, which was perfect -- it was a left handed camera (shutter release on the left side).

I wear contacts now (for many years) but with age have needed to wear reading glasses for close work. The eyepiece diopter adjustment built into Canon cameras easily compensates and I don't need the reading glasses when doing photography.

I think a lot of contact lens manufacturers offer a free trial, that includes the exam and maybe a month of lenses. With those terms it is worth a try.

With my incredible nearsightedness, and the need to wear literally coke bottle lensed glasses, contacts made an incredible difference to me.

I would try contacts first, see if they work for you. I hated wearing glasses, especially for photography and contacts were an OK solution, but for me I couldn't find a brand that I could wear for more than a few hours without getting very dry or otherwise irritated eyes... so this year I got lasik and couldn't be happier, I highly recommend it

The way I saw it (no pun intended) was that my camera gear cost me roughly $3000 and I'll be using it for a few years and changing things out in time... my lasik cost about the same price and I'll be using my eyes for the rest of my life, one heck of a bargain.

Left eye dominant and used to see through the viewfinder. I wear glasses. Never smudged my glasses. My nose is in the way...

I have more problems with my check/nose smudging the LCD. I odn't wear glasses, but when I shoot with sunglasses I find I usually just hold the camera away a little bit. Or take them off.