Bummer: I focus better with glasses than without.

[rpavich]

This is a bummer.
I bought an R-D1x (which I love) and took a while getting to the right diopter for my vision (I'm nearsighted with a bit of old-man vision and astigmatism to boot) but I did, and since then I have been shooting with my glasses on a lanyard so that when I want to shoot, I drop my specs and I can put my eye right up to the eye piece so I can see all of the frame lines and surrounding real estate.

I've been focusing pretty well, I've had my share of misses and just put it down to the difficulty of rangefinder technique.

But this morning I was reading about the "Walter RX diopter" that does astigmatism correction also and it gave me the idea to put the clear diopter back in my camera and try to shoot with my glasses to see how much better astigmatism correction would work.

Well...bummer, it works a LOT better. I nailed each focusing try with ease. Even my 90/4 Elmar-C, I could tell that the slight "ghosting" I was getting on the focus patch was due to my slight astigmatism and while I'm happy that I can focus more accurately, I'm not happy because seeing frame lines is now much more difficult and one very big plus to the rangefinder system is seeing the "whole thing" at once.

I guess I'll now save up for the Walter RX so that when I get my M240 (next year) I won't have this issue, but in the mean time...bummer.

I guess I joined the glasses club 🙁

 

[JP Owens]

Eye relief is a problem. I always get small frames that place the lenses close to my eyes. Eventually, though, that wasn't enough. On rangefinders I have to use a combination of a diopter and shoot with my glasses. It is why I don't do rangefinders much, anymore. A mirrorless camera with an adjustable diopter and big, bright EVF is just so much more pleasant to shoot.

 

[Dwig]

...A mirrorless camera with an adjustable diopter and big, bright EVF is just so much more pleasant to shoot.

The adjustable diopter in such VFs is great, but it does absolutely nothing to correct for astigmatism. If you are using AF or some electronic "RF" function most people with astigmatism can find a compromise setting that corrects well enough for viewing and reading the display info and settings.

Personally, I've always shot with glasses. With my Pany G-1, I use the eyepiece diopter to adjust between my distance/driving glasses and my computer/reading glasses depending on which I'm wearing at the time.