Question for those who wear eyeglasses.

I use glasses, but they are a weak perscription. I can truly can see without them, so I take them off when I take pictures.

Contacts.

I'm near-sighted, but it feels weird to have them on when looking through the viewfinder. So, I flip them up when looking through it (the diopter is still within my range, thankfully), and while looking at the LCD, but I have to flip them back down when looking off in the distance to see beyond the camera.

I find it to be an inconvenience, but I have to wear my glasses all of the time. I'm like many others who have already commented and cannot see at all without them.

I have to wear them. I also have a spot meter that I use when I'm in full sun and can not get my meter reading in the view finder.

I wear progressives and do okay shooting and viewing when I remember to tilt my vision properly (look through the upper spectacle lens to view the subject; the lower part to view the screen. I'm still working on establishing good habits for seeing well. Just before I got my first progressive pair at a shoot at the zoo, I actually made myself sort of like carsick, or threw off my vestibular system, by looking OVER the tops of my spectacles to view the camera and settings back and forth so much during the day. Bleh.

Josh_30 wrote in post #9926992
Thankfully my vision deficit can be corrected with the built in diopter, so either I take them off or flip them up onto my forehead while I take the shot.

me 2.

Glasses on when using the viewfinder. Glasses off when using LiveView otherwise the presbyopia makes it a total blur. Trouble is, without me specs the rest of the world (well those bits more than 5m away) is a total blur. I've tried varifocals and they just don't work for me. I'd use contacts to correct the distance vision, but then I'd need reading glasses to see the LCDs.

On, until I get tired of smashing them into my camera.

I usually wear contacts but deliberately wear glasses when I'm stalking birds/concentrating on a subject that is near or amongst bushes because I'm frightened of poking my eye. The bushes' branches are very sharp, I don't even notice them sometimes because I'm concentrating so intently on the subject or the camera, the branches ping back easily into your face and I've had a couple of too-close for comfort scratches.

I don't find looking at the subject through the viewfinder a problem but I do find it a little harder to see the meter reading and focus indicator because my eye, behind my glasses, isn't in quite the right place.

I go back and forth. I usually try to keep my glasses on because I'll be able to see better with them on but if I take them off it's usually because the fog/rain on the lenses bother me (if I'm shooting in such weather). Otherwise, it's just a comfort issue, but they're on *almost* 100% of the time.

I wear half glasses, the ones that perch on the end of your nose.I dont need glasses to see through the viewfinder but I cant see the LCD display without them

Joe Ravenstein wrote in post #9926955
I keep my glasses on, without them I would have to drive by braille and I wouldn't be able to find the camera bag or camera.

That's me...

DStanic wrote in post #9927026
The built in diopter is not powerful enough to correct for my vision, but even if it was I would not be able to see without the camera in my face Yes there are lots of photogs that MUST wear their glasses.

I've been wearing tri-focals for about five years now and I have to adjust the diopter some, even with my glasses on...

I leave them on. The first couple of times I took them off but I ended up damaging my glasses. The biggest problem is my nose hitting the LCD screen.

keep 'em on.