EVF and glasses

[omens]

in the quest for a new compact camera, I was able to try out the RX100IV and the G5X, both of which feature an EVF. I wear glasses most of the time with the occasional use of contact lenses.

Using the viewscreen was easy but as soon as I tried to use the EVF, both cameras had problems with face detection and it was a bit of a pain to keep my spectacles up against the EVF.

Knowing me, it was probably just me and I need to get use to it. But has anyone else had problems with EVF and wearing spectacles? Have you found a way round it? Or does it just take time to adapt?

I seem to have no problems using my dSLR and specs.

 

[chris malcolm]

I have problems with my Sony A77 EVF and LCD in bright light, especially bright sunlight, most especially very bright Mediterranean sunlight. The EVF is better than the LCD because my eye partially shades it, but if the light comes in from the side, there being a side gap all round due to the specs, it makes the EVF hard to see. That I'm old and in the early stages of developing cataracts makes the problem worse, like a dusty lens you can't clean.

I have three solutions, all based on the same idea, of adding shade, but increasing in effectiveness. The first is a simple old fashioned peaked bonnet, which I sometimes have to put on squint to block light from a low side direction. The second is a hat with a big stiff wide circular brim. That gives better shade all round, a kind of lens hood for the spectacle lenses. The third and ultimate solution, which works really well even in fierce Sicilian sun, is a legionnaires cap, a kind of baseball cap with a neck protecting curtain at the back. When the sun is too strongly intrusive I just put the cap on backwards, with the neck curtain in front, which I drape over the camera. Works very well indeed. If it's both cold and very bright I'll sometimes use a wide black scarf to make a black head-and-camera shade instead of the legionnaire's cap idea.

 

[Nod]

When I'm wearing my specs and using a camera (both a DSLR and an EVF [X-Pro1 and X-T Fujis]) I push the specs up with the top of the camera as I bring it to my eye. Maybe I've been lucky but I haven't (yet!) scratched a pair of specs.

 

[kendo1]

I use a Sony Nex 6 with EVF and just take my glasses off. There's a dioptre adjustment wheel just beside the viewfinder.

I use bifocals.

 

[GreenNinja67]

I have an X-T2 and need glasses for reading etc.

I find the dioptre- adjustment on the camera enough for me to see the information in the viewfinder in sharp focus.

Have to tried a few cameras in Jessops for example without glasses to see if the in built adjustment will suit you?

 

[omens]

Thanks guys. My prescription is -6, so looks like out of range for dioptre adjustment for both cameras.

 

[omens]

Have to tried a few cameras in Jessops for example without glasses to see if the in built adjustment will suit you?

I need to go back and try again. I was in a rush to get home before the wife did.