Photographers with glasses.....

I keep mine on and hope the image is in focus. I can't take the glasses off due to shooting in Manual mode and needing the see the little numbers on the LCD and dials. Yes, I am totally messed up otherwise. And I do every so often take chimp and do a zoom in to make sure the AF is good.

SuzyView wrote in post #10017299
I can't take the glasses off due to shooting in Manual mode and needing the see the little numbers on the LCD and dials.

Same here... wear them all the time.

Hoodman just came out with frames (Titanium PhotoFrames) where the lenses (each one) can be swiveled up out of the way when shooting so you can wear them all the time and swivel them out of the way when shooting. Great idea. Retail for about $195.

KCMO Al wrote in post #10017493
Hoodman just came out with frames (Titanium PhotoFrames) where the lenses (each one) can be swiveled up out of the way when shooting so you can wear them all the time and swivel them out of the way when shooting. Great idea. Retail for about $195.

I saw that. That may be an acceptable solution for people who don't have extremely strong corrections, and can thus tolerate moments of poorer correction (or moments of asymmetrical correction). However, for those who have very strong corrections, it's nearly as much trouble to be flipping a lens up and down every time their raise and lower their cameras as it is to put their glasses on and off.

Fumbling with spectacles just to see again every time you lower your camera is just too much trouble, compared to other options (including the option of just looking through the camera with your spectacles on--which is most people do).

Not to mention entering fingerprint city with all that direct manipulation of the lens itself and the likelihood of wearing out rather expensive frames more quickly.

For the vast majority of young people needing simple diopter correction, the solution is an equally simple choice: Surgery (of various kinds), contact lenses (of various kinds), spectacles (of various kinds). No choice is perfect--they all have pros and cons that make individual "choice" necessary instead of one solution being an obvious given--but every choice is acceptable.

For people with greater issues like presbyopia combined with diopter correction, the situation is slightly more difficult--maybe. I'm doing just as well with a -8.50 diopter correction and progressive bifocal spectacles as I did with plain -8.50 spectacles alone.

Glasses on when using the viewfinder. The coatings on my left lens can attest to that. Off for viewing the LCD (look over the glasses). I keep a microfiber cloth in my pocket to clean my glasses, when needed, otherwise they smudge up enough to interfere with my view through the viewfinder.

One does what one needs to do.

Being extremely near-sighted and presbyopic on top of that, I do the same thing. I glance over the top of my bifocals to see closer than reading distance (effectively adding an uncorrected option to the near and far options of my spectacles).

Something I discovered: There is a style of modern (i.e., narrow) frames called the "Randy Jackson" line that is designed to be worn lower on the nose, similar to reading glasses.

Because of that specific design feature, when used with a bifocal prescription, the near distance area is comparatively larger than with similar modern narrow frames designed to be worn higher on the nose--with those frames, the near distance portion can be a thin sliver impossible to use. The area designed for distance vision is a bit smaller, but large enough (there's just more uncorrected sky in your vision area).

Because they're fairly narrow and worn lower on the nose, it's also very easy to peer over the top of them so that we hyper-nearsighted folk can easily see the LCD of our cameras. Very nice for Live View.

Very cool, too, according to my daughter.

I need to wear my reading glasses when taking photos. They rest low on my nose, so I don't need them when I am looking thru the viewfinder (I look over the rims), but I need them to review the shot on the LCD, and to see the menu for my settings. The biggest gripe I have is that I have to be very careful when looking thru the viewfinder, or else the rims (plastic) will scuff the LCD. I'm very careful now with my 5DII since I learned the hard way with my 40D...scuffed the hell out the LCD cover...I still can't believe the plastic rims would mar it as bad as it did