Poll for Eyeglass Wearers

Poll for Eyeglass Wearers

  • You can tell I shoot with RFs because my eyeglasses have more scratches than a BGN-grade Summar

    Votes: 136 43.3%

  • Because I need to wear my eyeglasses, my enjoyment of RF photography is reduced 900 percent

    Votes: 57 18.2%

  • I realize how lucky I am not to have to wear eyeglasses

    Votes: 19 6.1%

  • I don't feel sorry for eyeglass wearers because that just means there's more RF gear for me

    Votes: 6 1.9%

  • I have no problems shooting RFs with my eyeglasses

    Votes: 121 38.5%
  • Total voters
    314
Try this on for size. Not only an eye glass wearer, but Ａ left eye shooter to boot. My right eye is uncorrectable and is nearly blind. Great for all those new LCD and d-pad controls they place on the new fangled digital cameras.
 
I use the DAG plastic cover thingie on my M4-P; works great. I can kind of mash my eyeball up to my glasses and get most of the 35 lines.

I use IIIf's too, usually scale focus w/ an SBOOI. Have to watch the SBOOI, I hold it out a little, it can really scratch.
 
Acquiring scratches on glasses from camera viewfinders is the main reason I have asked for glass lenses for years, against a lot of predictable resistance from the optometrist, and paying more for them. I can't stand spending every day looking through scratched lenses.

And I do find that glasses complicate seeing wide-angle brightlines and the edges of viewfinders. When I wear contacts, then I run into the problem of middle age far-sightedness and not being able to see camera settings without reading glasses. You just have to put up with this stuff if there is not a simple/affordable workaround.
 
Unfortunately I wear glasses, fortunately I shoot wide angle, 28 to 35 with a 15 in the mail so that the frame lines are pretty visible to me. None of the options really filled the bill for me, my glasses are scratch resistant and I enjoy my RFs 100%.
 
I'm old you know. I made a comment about the frame lines being visible for the wide lenses and that's just not the case.... I was thinking the long lenses I guess and got confused. Just took some shots in the back yard with the 28 and find I just don't worry about frame lines that much.
 
Before I finally gave up on rangefinder cameras, I was almost always resorting to using accessory Voigtlander viewfinders. They didn't scratch my glasses nearly as badly and the room around the frame lines seemed bigger. The only rangefinder camera that I found comfortable to use, viewfinder-wise, was the Zeiss Ikon. It has a beautiful huge viewfinder in which I was able to see even the 28mm frame lines.
 
I wear eye glasses but I am fortunate that my eyes aren't that bad. I am far sighted and my main problem when I am out shooting without glasses is seeing the camera and lens settings but I can manage. I can shoot both ways and my glasses are very scratched partly from the camera viewfinders and from taking my glasses off and just tossing them into the seat of my car. - jim
 
I've worn eyeglasses since I was a kid. Not only do I wear glasses, I've had progressives for twenty years now... and I have no issues seeing through my VF, nor do I have scratched lenses...
 
Dioptrics = glasses optional. I'm a -2.5/-3. The workaround involves sticking glasses on head, in chest pocket, whatever does not break them (which I have done recently, sitting on them after taking a number of images with the M5 oops) while I work.

Requiring everything outside the frame to also be perfectly in focus is over-rated. Indeed, I prefer it to lose focus. Not dissimilar to the times when I was a drinker and smoker and FT poet, and wanted to do my writing in bars among drinking smoking strangers but not be distracted by them. I just took my glasses off. Of course after a while I glazed over, but that's a cautionary story for a different audience.

With the cameras I use that lack diopters, I can afford to be kind to my glasses because I get to do without them on the gear I use most. A different sort of self indulgence, I suppose. In any case, these are very minor inconveniences for me.
 
I wear glasses but can't answer one single question in the poll because there isn't one called 'Can't think what all the fuss is about'. So I assumed the skewed nature of the questions towards there being only problems with wearing eyeglasses and using rangefinders is irony, but they didn't seen funny enough, so I'm not sure if I'm just reading a thread started by a pillock.
No I don't sleep with them on.

Johan
 
I'm a glasses wearer, and I find that I'm not a big fan of rangefinders. (I love my TLR though.) I have an argus c3, a canonet, and an agfa isolette with a solinar lens, and I can't seem to make myself enjoy using them. I want to like them but I've never come across a RF I enjoyed.
 
Ever since i bought my M6 in 1985 my usual lens was a 35 'cron. As my eyesight deteriorated I started using diopters so I could see the 35mm framelines. However, my close focus got so bad that I couldn't see the aperture settings without putting my glasses back on which was a pain in the derriere. Now I shoot with a CV 50/2.5 so I can see the framelines with my glasses on. The plus side is I'm really enjoying the 50mm FOV 😀.

cheers,
clay
 
I have worn glasses for nearsightedness since I was in my late teens. At about the same time that I got glasses I also got my first 35 mm camera, an Aires 35-IIIL rangefinder. I do not shoot much with wide angle lenses field of vision through the viewfinder is not a serious issue. When started using rangefinder cameras again a few years back I did have problems with scratched lenses but I learned to use electrical tape on the eye pieces to protect my glasses. The gummed reenforcements that they sell at stationary stores to keep punched holes in paper from pulling out also work well if you can get them to stick. I am currently experimenting with liquid electrical tape.
 
Shortly after my uncle gifted me with his 20 year-old M3, I took it to have it serviced at Marty Forscher's downtown in Manhattan. As he gave the camera back to me (after calling his apprentices around to show them the original black Leica seal), he asked me, "You've been scratching your eyeglasses on the viewfinder, haven't you?"
"Yes," I said. "Well, you won't be scratching them any more," and he showed me a black rubber ring he'd attached to the metal viewfinder to protect my glasses. It's still there after 35 years. No trouble seeing the frame-lines either, I'm happy to say.

Interesting -- I just noticed that this thread was dormant for nearly 5 years and was just resurrected!
 
For years I’ve worn spectacles with plastic, hard-coated tri-focal lenses made by Pentax, Zeiss and Nikon correcting for near, middle and far distance vision.

Never had a problem with scratches from using rangefinders or SLRs… or binoculars.
 
I wear eyeglasses, and don't have very many serious issues.

With the Canon P - I cannot see the outside frame. But that's easy enough to compensate for. It's vf design isn't particularly hard on glasses.

With my M4-P - I put an adhesive ring of rubber on the eyepiece, to help protect from scratches. No serious issues.

Older fixed lens rangefinders are kind of a crapshoot, but honestly - nothing really worth mentioning stands out.

All in all, of the options provided - I had to mark "I have no problems shooting RFs with my eyeglasses" - It's not truly "no problems" but they are minor, and this is a closer fit than the other responses.
 
Contacts have been the answer for me. I thought at first that I would want the ones that allow you to see up close for the focus patch with one eye and far with the other. Turns out that because the focus patch is a mirror, that I needed the long distance in both eyes. Works perfectly except for chimping. You film guys don't have that problem to worry about.
 
hendriphile said:
Shortly after my uncle gifted me with his 20 year-old M3, I took it to have it serviced at Marty Forscher's downtown in Manhattan. As he gave the camera back to me (after calling his apprentices around to show them the original black Leica seal), he asked me, "You've been scratching your eyeglasses on the viewfinder, haven't you?"
"Yes," I said. "Well, you won't be scratching them any more," and he showed me a black rubber ring he'd attached to the metal viewfinder to protect my glasses. It's still there after 35 years. No trouble seeing the frame-lines either, I'm happy to say.

Interesting -- I just noticed that this thread was dormant for nearly 5 years and was just resurrected!
Click to expand...

My bad, I stumbled across this post from outer links while searching something about Kiev-4a's eye relief, and voted, then it's up and somebody started to reply...

I made some homemade rubber ring for my Zorki-1's viewfinder to protect my glasses but it didn't stay longer than one afternoon. Guess it needed better glue.
 
I was telling my wife about a month ago that I am going blind. Then I looked at the lenses in my glasses a little more closely and realized they were so scratched up that it was making everything I see soft. LOL
 
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