Through the Viewfinder, Wear Glasses or Not?

Just recently my vision has become an issue and I have to wear my glasses all the time. When I look into the viewfinder, I can't get close enough with the glasses on, but I can't see if I don't keep them on.

If you wear glasses all the time like me, how do you look through the viewfinder? Glasses or no? (Don't tell me "with my eyes")

I take it you've played with the diopter adjustment on the eyepiece. How about the eyepiece extender EP-EX15 ? Luckily I still only need my glasses to read the menus, ok on my far vision. Good luck, you certainly aren't the only one in this boat.

I use my glasses all the time to look through the viewfinder and i never have problems.
ETA.. i don't press my eye all the way up.. but I just squint and look through all sorts of glass.. heh.. my nose is usually touching the screen.

Wear Glasses (most of the time).

I'd prefer not to, and I could take them off to take the shot(s), but it would be too time consuming (take them off, store them, take the shot, get the glasses, put them on, etc, etc.) I have adjusted as well as I can, but the piece that remains is the smudges on the lenses (of the spectacles) from the rubber eye cup of the camera - annoying.

I can function walking around without the glasses on, but sometimes I might miss a shot because I can't see it clearly without the glasses.

Have Fun,

I have my glasses on when looking thru the finder. On the 20D, I use the extender which seems to help quite a bit. I tried it on the 1D, but I am not sure that I like it there. Either way, I have never had a problem seeing thru the finder. The diopter is set at normal.

I wear them. I'm not sure they make a dioptor sufficient for my optical needs.

OK, they do, but I don't have it. Besides, I don't want to have to keep putting them on and taking them off. Glasses are a necessity for me.

I have been trying manual focus lately because my eyes take so long to focus, I thought maybe the AF wasn't working right. Then I look at the picture later and it's dead on. It's me. Now I don't trust me with the MF and have to trust the lens and the camera to be smart enough to get it right. I do smudge the LCD screen all the time, that's why I put one of those covers on it.

contact lense are awesome.
Also with glasses, take the rubber bit at the back of the viewfinder off, it makes it easier.

I do both. It depends on what Im shooting if I wear them or not. Landscapes or flowers I wear them. But for panning or birds I wont wear them so I can press my eye nice and tight to see the whole frame at once without moving my head up, down, left or right like I have to do with my glasses. Its a pain in the neck but Ive learned to deal with it.

I wear trifocal progressive lenses. I can't get anything in focus at any distance without them. So if I am shooting a low shot, I am looking through the top of the glasses (far distance correction), if I am looking straight ahead through the viewfinder, I am looking through the middle-distance (computer work) part of my lenses, and if it is high on a tripod and I an craning to look through the viewfinder, I am probably looking through the lower part of my glasses, which is the reading lens.

It SUCKS! I can't keep the diopter adjustment on the camera right to work with any single lens distance, so my viewfinder often appears blurred. When I am taking my time, I'll get my angle set and then fiddle with the diopter adjustment so I can verify focus in the viewfinder, but most of the time, it's some wierd situation like on my knees, angled up through a fence or something where I don't have the position long enough to get "comfortable".

Oh, and my glasses get all smudged from the rubber on the camera, and scratched from the camera body.

I have my diopter adjusted so I don't need my glasses when I look through the viewfinder.

I keep my glasses on but I peek over them while looking through viewfinder.

I use a -1 diopter with glasses on and I was pleasantly surprised that through a year of shooting, the eyecup did not leave any marks or smudges on my glasses.

The funny part is that I should probably be using a diopter of 0 with glasses providing correction of my eyesight, so no further dioptric adjustment is needed.. it's not the glasses either, I just paid my optician a visit and everything checks out just fine.

When shooting outdoors in bright sunlight with shades on AND a polarizer on the lens, I peek over the shades to check the polarizer is producing the effect I want, then I go back to shooting normally once the polarizer is set properly.

Does any one have a picture of the extender in place on you camera? I am wondering if it will fit my bag with the extra 15 mm

Niels.

Here you go.

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Do you like the extender? I'm wondering if that's the way to go for me.