A question about prescription glasses.

lizzard_nyc

So I will be shooting a parade. It will be at noon, so the possibility of shooting in bright conditions is likely.
I am nearsighted and need prescription glasses. I also have prescription sunglasses.

Do you recommend that I shoot with w/ my sunglasses --it's already difficult to use the viewfinder with glasses, I'm not sure how much harder it will be to use them with sunglasses--I can't see without them, I cant' use contacts, but I'm worried about glare and it getting in the way of me getting shots.

Rookie question I guess. I've never shot for long enough where this posed a problem. But the parade will be about 4 hours, plus pre and post parade shooting.

Thanks for any advise.

ivar

lizzard_nyc wrote:

So I will be shooting a parade. It will be at noon, so the possibility of shooting in bright conditions is likely.
I am nearsighted and need prescription glasses. I also have prescription sunglasses.

Do you recommend that I shoot with w/ my sunglasses --it's already difficult to use the viewfinder with glasses, I'm not sure how much harder it will be to use them with sunglasses--I can't see without them, I cant' use contacts, but I'm worried about glare and it getting in the way of me getting shots.

Rookie question I guess. I've never shot for long enough where this posed a problem. But the parade will be about 4 hours, plus pre and post parade shooting.

Thanks for any advise.

I shoot with sunglasses frequently outdoors, no problem. Just remember to look at the histogram for the exposure, instead of the image on the display

lizzard_nyc

Thank you Ivar.
Such a noob question:)

ivar

lizzard_nyc wrote:

Such a noob question:)

Not at all! I've always wondered what the best way is; with/without, sunglasses/normal glasses. I've even had a custom dioptric adjustment lens made. It worked extreme well, but since my eyes have an astigmatism problem, I need two; one for landscape oriented shooting and one for portrait oriented. It's just not practical changing the two. So in the end, I just shoot with glasses

lizzard_nyc

I have an astigmatism problem too! So I feel your pain:( and glare problems.
I'm going this Sat to see an opthalmologist about LASIK to see if I'm a candidate--so maybe my vision problems will soon be behind me. Unless they blind me in the process--at which point I will be rich and all my problems will be behind me. --I know sick sense of humor.

JimT

That's is a great question

I wanted know what others do, but I did not have the guts to ask.

Jim

Moogle Pepper

If you have sunglasses on and a CP on, you are going to see some funky colors in your viewfinder. But it is totally doable!

What I hate personally, isn't the glare, but after shooting for a few hours is the smudge that accumulates on my glasses. Argh!

ole doc

my ophthalmologist said that the set back cups on view finders and binoculars are designed for no glasses. With glasses your eyes are already set back (called "eye relief") so best to take off the viewfinder cup. Of course I am referring to the eye level viewfinder not to an LCD screen. Another tip.
If you wear bifocals or progressive lenses, the "image" in a rangefinder or binocular, or rifle scope is a distant view and should be viewed through the distant (upper) part of the glasses.
whodathunk
Nick
edit: If you get grey sunglasses or the light-variable kind, I believe they are neutral grey (check with optician and be sure to get ones that are) then the only problem is the image will be darker and no color changes should occur.
Nick

David_S85

Does your camera accept diopter lenses? Most every dSLR does. Maybe visit a big camera retailer and ask to try different diopters to see if they might work better than your glasses?

stuffjunkie

I shoot with prescription sunglasses a lot. My eyes are rather sensitive to light (migraines) and sunglasses are important for me. I prefer unpolarized prescrition sunglasses. The optical shops seem to push the polarization option...but in today's LCD everything world one often cannot read a camera LCD (or watch, or gas pump etc) I have one camera where the viewfinder display is almost unreadable in sunlight w/ sunglasses...so the histogram is vital.

redleash

I have to shoot with glasses always, and I have progressive lenses. I do end up looking through the top part (distance) the most, as Ole Doc said. I bought progressive, polarizing sunglasses when I got a new prescription--same type of sunglasses I always get. But the first time I tried to shoot with them, it freaked me out 'cause I thought something was wrong with my lens. I had a polarizing filter on! Double polarization does not work well. :cry

I ended up ordering a second pair of non-polarizing sunglasses to use for photography. (Fortunately, because the optical shop messed up the order on my regular glasses, they gave me the second pair of sunglasses free!) I actually don't use my sunglasses a lot when shooting, but when I need them they do work well.

As for glasses getting smudged after shooting for a bit . . . I HATE that!!!!! Does anyone have a good idea, other than continually wiping them off with a lens cloth -- and not the same one I use for my camera lens.

Lauren

Art Scott

I bumped up my diopter setting on my viewfinder and so I do not wear glasses when shooting.........sorry that is no help for the question you asked...........

I do keep Zeiss prewetted lens wipes in all of my camera bags as well as the small pillow looking microfiber cloths to clean any lens that needs it....camera or eye glass lens.......

takeflightphoto

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