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Hi guys
One thing I cant seem to get to grips with is when looking through the eye piece on my camera, should I be wearing my glasses
Or do I set the focus so i don't need to?
This is baffling me.
Gareth
Quote: I always wear my glasses even with dioptre adjustment.
I do the same. What's the point of taking your glasses off, taking a picture, putting them back on etc?
To me it just feels wrong, wearing glasses while looking through the view finder......
its probably just me...
wear your glasses i always have and always will ! we were given glasses to wear so why take em off it's sillly really
Wear them. I tried without but couldn't be arrised having to put them on all the time in order to read the camera-top screen.
Malc
Just do whatever you're most comfortable with. Personally I take mine off because I like to get my eye up tight to the viewfinder to see all of the viewing screen and camera settings shown in the viewfinder.
Quote: I wear them for distance, but not for reading
I have thought about that recently.
Eye distance to viewfinder is minimal so I am beginning to think I need some plain ( not varifocal ) reading glasses when manual focussing.
As long as you can see the whole frame it isn't a problem, but not many cameras have high-eye point viewfinders. As long as you set the diopter correction for what you normally do....
The only time you might have a problem is if the exposure is changed if the eyepiece isn't covered, for instance if using a big ND filter, you will need to cover the eyepiece or the meter might read light from t rather than through the lens. Cameras expect the eyepiece to be covered by your eye!
Nick
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