Sunglasses?

Hey all,

I normally wear fairly small, I would call them "techie" glasses but normally don't wear sunglasses - that may change, as I expect to do alot of outdoor photography this summer.

First, what kind of sunglasses do you wear while taking photos? Second, if you don't wear prescription sunglasses, can you adjust the viewfinder enough to compensate for your vision?

I cant see any of the viewfinder info with my sunglasses on. They are polarized though. I don't know if that makes a difference. So when I do wear them, I keep having to put them up.

That may cause a problem if they are perscription.

You can adjust your viewfinder to correct for your prescription by using the diopter wheel and/or add-on diopter lenses. The best bet, though, is contacts. That way you can see clearly with or without the camera up to your eye.

Me? If my eyes were any worse, I'd have to get a Braille adapter.

What happens if you are using polarized glasses when using a CPL filter? Carnage??

I don't wear sunglasses while I am shooting. Similar to v8rumble, I can't read the info on the viewfinder with my sunglasses on.

No sunglasses, just a ball cap to shield my eyes which might have to get turned backwards to shoot. Shades are going to change the way you see the color and the actual light in the picture, making it hard to judge exposure or even what the image will look like. I just can't stand slamming my glasses into the view finder and its just to hard to follow a subject or see what is going on while wear any glasses. Thank goodness for contacts.


Jack

I don't think polarized glasses have something to do with not being able to read viewfinder data. I have few Oakley sunglasses with which I shoot, and they are suppose to be polarized. Personally I just can't imagine shooting without sunglasses, when there's sun and all that bright snow around. You get used to this once when you are using them a bit more often, but it does feel a bit weird on beginning.
But luckily I have no experience with prescription glasses, and I hope it will stay this way

I wear polarized glasses most of the time while shooting, sometimes if you turn the camera the right way you can't see the lcd but you work around it or take them off if you really need to see something. I've been contemplating getting non-polarized sunglasses to wear but can't bring myself to buy another pair.

Good question on sunglasses. I normally have them on when I'm shooting. The issue I have is they are large and have a habit of fogging up. I'm now looking for some that don't have that problem.

I wear regular glasses, & sometimes a hat if there's glare.

Be sure to put a small bit of white on the wheel when it's set right, because at the worst possible time you'll find that you've moved it & things aren't sharp any more.

I have managed to shoot with glasses so far, and the only thing I would worry about with the sunglasses on is the data at the bottom of the viewfinder.

Oh, and if you have polarized sunglasses and you are also using the CPL you should be fine because both SHOULD be polarized the same way. Overlapping two polarized elements that are both oriented the same way will not be much different than just having one of them, but if you rotate one 90 degrees then it will go completely black. That means that if you suddenly switch to portrait orientation you will be in trouble.

Stocky wrote in post #5574040
Oh, and if you have polarized sunglasses and you are also using the CPL you should be fine because both SHOULD be polarized the same way. Overlapping two polarized elements that are both oriented the same way will not be much different than just having one of them, but if you rotate one 90 degrees then it will go completely black. That means that if you suddenly switch to portrait orientation you will be in trouble.

That is only true if you're using a linear polarizer. The whole point of the CP is that the quarter-wave plate which distinguishes it from a LP essentially "depolarizes" the light which has been passed by the polarizer, so a second polarizing element (like the beam-splitter used to redirect light to the AF sensors) doesn't cut off all light.

Thank you for the correction. I didn't really understand the CP idea, but I think I got it now. Is the quarter-wave plate the reason there is some additional light lost to a circular polarizer? I understand that they usually block more than the 1 stop that you should get from a linear polarizer.

Actually, linears (back when I used to use them) commonly needed a filter factor of over 1 stop. Filter factors on polarizers vary between manufacturers, depending on how they make theirs.

I wear sunglasses with contacts all the time when I shoot outside. I find when I have contacts in my eyes are a bit sensitive to bright light so I pretty much always wear sunglasses.

The pair I have now is polarized, so if I turn the camera to portrait orientation I can't see the lcd, landscape orientation is no problem though. Overall its a fairly minor inconvenience since I only realy use the lcd to check the histogram for the most part.