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...

Regular wearers gets this feeling?

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:

Link

Hope this helps knowing that it will get better shortly.

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:

Link

Hope this helps knowing that it will get better shortly.

Yes yes, I almost ran over a lady when walking earlier today and I have that feeling one gets when looking down the edge of a very tall building.

Thank you ver much for the link. I know understand what is going on

I'm all up for it if the brain will adapt. I do not recall my vision ever being sharper than it is now with the lenses on.

Thanks!

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. :-)

Henry Posner
henryp@bhphoto.com
B&H Photo-Video

henryp wrote:
Guari wroteo 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. :-)

Henry Posner
henryp@bhphoto.com
B&H Photo-Video

It's good to know I'm not alone! I still try to lift my head to see things up close, even when the glasses are off!

It definitely gets better. Try escalators with new glasses.. WHOA! Have had glasses for 45 years now, bifocals for the last 4

Good to know guys and thanks for sharing, I'm slightly bonding with my glasses, step by step

Not only is new glasses syndrome alarming, any time I switch from glasses to contacts, especially if it's been a while, I get similar issues.

I feel very disheartened when I have to use viewfinders and I don't have contacts in. Although that hasn't happened in many years because of lcd's.

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.

Kenny

Try to check if the prescribed lenses still your actual eye lenses needs.

Cheers,
Samuel