A Tip For Kontax Eye Glass Wearers

[ruben]

Yesterday, I went to my SuperFarm store to buy some medicine. As allways in my way out I lurked at the reading glasses section, where I found prices this time very reduced, some u$ 13 for a pair and the second free of charge. Good ! One for home, one for office.

For sometime I was looking for glasses to use both at home and at my job, vis a vis my computer. Due to radiation fears or suspictions I like to seat rather away from the screen, some 15 cm beyond the extension of my arm. After a lot of diopter examination I picked two pairs of +2,25.

Today at work they proved to be great. Now the next question was how will they affect my Kontax viewfinder vision. And bingo ! from 1m to infinity the improvement of sharpness is strongly noticeable, perhaps the best I could imagine if my sole purpose had been to purchase diopters for my Kievs.

Now the last question of relevance is how sharp I can see with them walking in the streets, without my Kiev at eyelevel. Here it is a bit less comfortable. Without any glasses my vision is sligthly unsharp at infinity, the unsharpness growing as the subject gets closer.

With this 'Kontax glasses', my vision is slighthly better than with my nude eyes, but less good than with specially dedicated optical glasses providing me sharpness from infinity to 1,5 meter (these are byfocal, so at the lower section I can read my hand clock)

So are these specific +2,25 glasses a new component of my street shooting: DEFINITELY YES! and I strongly recommend you, if you are an eyeglass wearer to go with your Kontax to the pharmacy.

Cheers,
Ruben

 

[Dogman]

I wear progressive lenses due to a lifetime of near sightedness and developing "over 40" distant vision in my early 30's. I've found I can actually see through the Kiev finder much better without glasses. I discovered this because I scratched my eyeglasses on the Kiev eyepiece the first time I tried to use one. Since then, I've been taking off my glasses when using the Kievs and discovered the rangefinder patch appears brighter and focusing is easier.

 

[ErnestoJL]

Nice idea. I´ll give it a try next year.
Being older than 40 that´s something to have in mind.

Cheers and happy new year!

Ernesto

 

[ruben]

Bad news for me, but it may work for you Ernesto.

The bad news for me is that I don't see sharp enough the people around with the glasses making me see sharp at the viewfinder. Therefore I cannot walk with them.

So I will have to go expensive and buy a trifocal glass. Or find and intermediate compromise diopter cheap reading glasses

Nevertheless this experience have taught me something very important: There is a world apart between seeing sharp through the viewfinder and seeing "almost sharp", as I see through with my glass for walking.

Cheers,
Ruben

 

[ruben]

Again surprised: the short range eye glasses fitting sharp Kiev viewfinder view, are usable for daylight walk and longer distance no camera viewing.. Not for night vision, but yes for daylight. So I am sparing going to the oftician for the trifocal.

Cheers,
Ruben