thought i was losing my eyesight

windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
edited April 28, 2005 in The Big Picture
Having diabetes is very scary! lately ive been rubbing my eyes a lot after looking through the viewfinder on the 20D.... 15_8_4.gif The green settings inside have been getting blurrier - and i havent been able to see anything in focus.... 10_1_18.gif i even took the day OFF to get my eyes checked and then it dawned on me........... I bet the dioptric adjustment changed...... when i readjusted the setting it was like someone gave me back my eyesight......
Does changing this setting have any other effect other than making the - inside the viewfinder readings - sharper??


am i the only fool around here???

troy

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  • LiquidOpsLiquidOps Registered Users Posts: 835 Major grins
    edited April 25, 2005
    pardon me for just a sec....






    BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA



    ok... i'm done.... I've so done this before on my 717.... it's like a miracle when you find you're not blind and it's just that.....

    good times... Thanks for letting me know i'm not alone

    Steven
    Wandering Through Life Photography
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited April 25, 2005
    lol3.gif


    I've done it too. Went a whole day thinking my long time perfect eyesight was finally going south. gave myself a headache over it. And no, the diopter is just that, it's for your eyes only, no other effect on the camera.
    Erik
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  • motimoti Registered Users Posts: 77 Big grins
    edited April 28, 2005
    windoze wrote:
    am i the only fool around here???

    troy
    Absolutely not. I had exactly the same experience two weeks ago...
    Moti
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 28, 2005
    Hey Troy,

    When my diabtes was diagnosed a few years ago one the first symptoms I exerienced was blurred vision. I was in a panic. I had just bought my first DSLR and a bunch of glass and now I couldn't see clearly. Talk about a cosmic joke. Fortunately the symptoms stopped once I got on medication.

    One of my biggest fears is losing my vision. If I couldn't shoot I don't know what I would do.

    Harry
    Harry
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited April 28, 2005
    windoze wrote:
    Having diabetes is very scary! lately ive been rubbing my eyes a lot after looking through the viewfinder on the 20D.... 15_8_4.gif The green settings inside have been getting blurrier - and i havent been able to see anything in focus.... 10_1_18.gif i even took the day OFF to get my eyes checked and then it dawned on me........... I bet the dioptric adjustment changed...... when i readjusted the setting it was like someone gave me back my eyesight......
    Does changing this setting have any other effect other than making the - inside the viewfinder readings - sharper??


    am i the only fool around here???

    troy

    No, I couldn't see out of my Rebel for practically the whole year I had it, maybe 6 months, but a long time.. Blur. I thought it was the camera.

    And I would post on here that "of course I can't see much through my viewfinder", and I would tell my husband.

    I asked him to check it finally. He wouldn't, said he could never see through my cameras. I kept asking him, he finally yelled something about my setting things differently????

    That was at least 6 months ago. I had the Rebel a yr until feb when I bought a 20D. OK, I pondered on that statement, the situation, and in a moment of boredom fiddled with that thing that changes the settings. (I do have the manual, but since I thought all cameras were just set for perfect vision, and I was wearing my glasses.............well I didn't really think I could change it.)
    But I was in the car waiting, or something, and I turned that thingy. Low and behold, god made light clearly.

    Now, I mentioned it on dgrin, in responses, many times, and I mentioned it to my husband many times.....................????

    Sometimes I guess we forget what we know and what a newcomer might not know, or have forgotten. I used Nikon film cameras for years without problems, I don't know why I had not problems. And I don't know why no one told me about the thingy.

    ginger who can shoot blind.......
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • GerryDavidGerryDavid Registered Users Posts: 439 Major grins
    edited April 28, 2005
    Harryb wrote:
    One of my biggest fears is losing my vision. If I couldn't shoot I don't know what I would do.

    Harry
    I was thinking about this a while ago.

    Tina turner had her legs insurred, models have other stuff insurred.

    So can photographers insure thier eyes? Cuz if you loose your vision, your out of business. Sure you can rely on auto focus/ auto exposure, but theres no auto compose, hehe.

    Or are you already covered by something? Ill be moving to the states from Canada, so what I think I know about this sort of stuff probably wont even apply over in the states.
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited April 28, 2005
    windoze wrote:
    am i the only fool around here???

    troy

    No! Enough said. :bluduh

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