I'm sorry I knot this is very off topic but I am not a member of any eye forums
Do you guys feel your eyeglasses distort your field of view?
I got prescriptions for nearsightedness today. While I can now see very sharply, I feel my field of view is now distorted by the lenses, like if the focal plane of the glasses was out of alignment with my eyes. I am seeing keystoning and it makes me a bit tipsy, near-far relations are a bit skewed, kind of like WA distortions.
The lenses were made at a major & leading UK vision place after almost 1 hour and a half of testing...
I have worn glasses forever and when I get a new set, sometimes I feel skeptical with my new spectacles when navigating stairs, until I get used to them. Here is a link to a quick read that addresses the situation you describe:
Wobble wrote:
I have worn glasses forever and when I get a new set, sometimes I feel skeptical with my new spectacles when navigating stairs, until I get used to them. Here is a link to a quick read that addresses the situation you describe:
When I was a kid andgot my first pair og glasses, I rode my bike home after picking them up, and the ground looked 10 feet away! I had to walk my bike home I was so freaked out!
RJKphoto wrote:
When I was a kid andgot my first pair og glasses, I rode my bike home after picking them up, and the ground looked 10 feet away! I had to walk my bike home I was so freaked out!
Guari wrote:
Do you guys feel your eyeglasses distort your field of view?
It gets better. I have the no-line bifocals after wearing single-prescription lenses for decades. Took me a year to adjust. My biggest issues were going down (not up) stairs and the tunnel-vision feeling I couldn't look at anything out of the corner of my eye. Try swiveling your whole head to center something in your field of view on a crowded NYC subway platform.
Also, my nearsightedness wasn't really too bad until recently so I often shoot with no glasses, especially if the camera's finder has built-in diopter correction. But I cannot see a single control or read one letter of the LCD panel w/out reading glasses.
I'd say it's a pain in the butt but I think my pains there come from other age-related issues. :-)
henryp wrote:
It gets better. I have the no-line bifocals after wearing single-prescription lenses for decades. Took me a year to adjust. My biggest issues were going down (not up) stairs and the tunnel-vision feeling I couldn't look at anything out of the corner of my eye. Try swiveling your whole head to center something in your field of view on a crowded NYC subway platform.
Also, my nearsightedness wasn't really too bad until recently so I often shoot with no glasses, especially if the camera's finder has built-in diopter correction. But I cannot see a single control or read one letter of the LCD panel w/out reading glasses.
I'd say it's a pain in the butt but I think my pains there come from other age-related issues. :-)
At the risk of going OT on this, perhaps, OT thread, in reading this discussion I got to thinking about Henry's comment about shooting w/o glasses but being unable to read the LCD and other controls w/o glasses. That's my situation also. It occurred to me that having a monocle handy might be a solution for that. So I just ordered a +3 monocle to experiment with. So, Guari, your question sparked a discussion that spaked a thought that might be a solution to a problem. Thanks!
As has been mentioned, it gets better with time. Been 'four-eyed' for a while now but STILL do not wear my glasses when shooting. Just can't seem to get the hang of that.
