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Urgh... So as part of my new job (Police) I was sent for a compulsory eye-test having not had one in about ten years! I thought my eyes were pretty fine - I was wrong! My eyesight is 6/6 (which equals 20/20 vision) which is apparently normal. However, my optician told me that my eyes are slightly out of focus at long distance so has prescribed me glasses to provide 6/5 vision (better than normal). I picked up my glasses today and have been wearing them around the office. I have to say, I am taken back by how much these things improve my eyesight. I had never noticed before just how 'out of focus' my eyes were. I'm actually beginning to wonder if this has been a cause of my perceived 'focus' issues with some of my photographs in the past... Anyway I'm just slightly miffed. I know it can't be helped, but I really don't see me getting used to wearing this glasses. I won't want to wear them on the new job that's for sure, but the optician has recommended I wear them for driving. Another bloody expense to worry about year in year out! Guaranteed I'll forget to bring them out with me when I get up in the morning!!! :meh: :indifferent:
 
As someone who has worn glasses since I was something like 3 they are second nature to me, just part of getting up in the morning, I can see how it could be a difficult thing to get used to have to start wearing them all of a sudden p

Is laser eye surgery an option for you?
 
MWHCVT said:
As someone who has worn glasses since I was something like 3 they are second nature to me, just part of getting up in the morning, I can see how it could be a difficult thing to get used to have to start wearing them all of a sudden p

Is laser eye surgery an option for you?
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My mother had laser eye surgery done because her eyes were pretty awful. Also, no matter how many prescriptions she had she swore that her glasses were never 'right'. Anyway, I don't have the money for that kind of expense. I did jokingly mention it at the opticians and she sternly replied with "Absolutely not. It's not clinically needed." - so I guess "No" would be the answer to that :p
 
It's an age thing. Had perfect vision until I was 45 and then had exactly the same issues as you. Been wearing them for over 10 years now and still dont like them :(
 
Have you tried your viewfinders yet to see how focus looks on them at distance? I'm assuming that the 6D and 7D both have eyepiece focussing adjustment, but I don't know if you can micro adjust the focus on them? Might be worth testing?
 
Alan Sandham said:
It's an age thing. Had perfect vision until I was 45 and then had exactly the same issues as you. Been wearing them for over 10 years now and still dont like them :(
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not necessarily, i was told recently by my optician that sometimes your eyesight can get better over time.

im slightly less longsighted than i was 5 years ago.
 
Peter B said:
Have you tried your viewfinders yet to see how focus looks on them at distance? I'm assuming that the 6D and 7D both have eyepiece focussing adjustment, but I don't know if you can micro adjust the focus on them? Might be worth testing?
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First thing I did when I went home this lunch time... I dialed the focusing adjustment dial a few clicks anti-clockwise and, indeed, things looked a little sharper... :sorry:
 
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Assuming the optician gave you a copy of your prescription, buy a pair to keep in the car and another for work if you're worried about them getting damaged. Last year I got 2 pairs for £22 delivered to use at work. I try to go for light weight frames as thin as possible. I've used both suppliers above for many years without issues.
 
I'm another ling-term spec-wearer - over 40 years for me and, as Matthew says, it's second nature.

In your case, Eddy, what about contact lenses? You may get away with just one eye with a lens (this is what my GF has).
 
Eddzz!! said:
I'm only 23! :crying:
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You're just aging faster than the rest of us :)

I've just been using specs for about 6 years, you get used to them.
 
neil_g said:
not necessarily, i was told recently by my optician that sometimes your eyesight can get better over time.

im slightly less longsighted than i was 5 years ago.
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Yes, I agree - my prescription changed for the better this year also. Dont think it will end up with no need for glasses though, sadly.
 
43 years under the belt wearing glasses ( started when i was 3 ). and just had to switch to varifocals cos my eyesight was getting to bad for single vision... that made me really feel old as always associated varifocals/bifocals with old codgers!
 
I've had glasses since about 16, I think I was about -0.75 at first but now about-2.25, I think my strongest prescription was about -2.75 about 15 years ago. Just got used to glasses and they do offer protection when cycling, which I do a lot of. Short sight is actually useful as you age as it means you can read without needing reading specs.
 
Eddzz!! said:
Urgh... So as part of my new job (Police) I was sent for a compulsory eye-test having not had one in about ten years! I thought my eyes were pretty fine - I was wrong! My eyesight is 6/6 (which equals 20/20 vision) which is apparently normal. However, my optician told me that my eyes are slightly out of focus at long distance so has prescribed me glasses to provide 6/5 vision (better than normal). I picked up my glasses today and have been wearing them around the office. I have to say, I am taken back by how much these things improve my eyesight. I had never noticed before just how 'out of focus' my eyes were. I'm actually beginning to wonder if this has been a cause of my perceived 'focus' issues with some of my photographs in the past... Anyway I'm just slightly miffed. I know it can't be helped, but I really don't see me getting used to wearing this glasses. I won't want to wear them on the new job that's for sure, but the optician has recommended I wear them for driving. Another bloody expense to worry about year in year out! Guaranteed I'll forget to bring them out with me when I get up in the morning!!! :meh: :indifferent:
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Anyone else starting to cry.. this is such a sad story.. I really do feel for you..


Eddzz!! said:
I am taken back by how much these things improve my eyesight.
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I really do love TP :) Never ceases to suprise me :)
 
KIPAX said:
Anyone else starting to cry.. this is such a sad story.. I really do feel for you..




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I really do love TP :) Never ceases to suprise me :)
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Misery guts.
 
Well, you should have stopped before it affected your eyesight! Or at least cut back or something! Didn't your Sunday school teacher or someone tell you how it would affect your vision!! :rolleyes:
 
I hate wearing glasses. They really get in the way.
Riding my bike - messing around with glasses every time I put my lid on, misting up, getting covered in rain if I lift my visor even slightly in the rain, glare
Photography - Getting my eye close to the eyepiece
Driving - glare
Sunny days - no nice sunnys with mirrors or anything, just boring normal glasses with dark lenses
Air rifle shooting (rabbits) - have to wear a camo thing over my face so glasses mist up
Kids - they've broken at least one pair
Wearing the damn things - always slipping down my nose, hassle

So my friend welcome to the pain in the arse which is wearing glasses

And before anyone says contacts make my eyes it's and stream like niarga falls.
 
I wear 2 pairs of contact lenses and glasses at the same time! I have a condition called keratoconus, which won't correct using glasses, so for 30 years I wore hard contact lenses. Then, for comfort reasons I had to start piggy backing my lenses, putting a soft lens in first, then a hard lens on top. Works great, comfy and I can see. Due to natural degeneration of my eyesight I now have to use basic glasses for reading at the same time as my lenses.
 
KIPAX said:
Anyone else starting to cry.. this is such a sad story.. I really do feel for you..




OMG! ...



I really do love TP :) Never ceases to suprise me :)
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You're a funny guy! :asshat:
 
Bobsyeruncle said:
I wear 2 pairs of contact lenses and glasses at the same time! I have a condition called keratoconus, which won't correct using glasses, so for 30 years I wore hard contact lenses. Then, for comfort reasons I had to start piggy backing my lenses, putting a soft lens in first, then a hard lens on top. Works great, comfy and I can see. Due to natural degeneration of my eyesight I now have to use basic glasses for reading at the same time as my lenses.
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I know it seems bad that I'm complaining - especially when you compare my situation with yours - I look like a right d*ckhead! I'm just not used to it yet :)
 
Eddzz!! said:
I know it seems bad that I'm complaining - especially when you compare my situation with yours - I look like a right d*ckhead! I'm just not used to it yet :)
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No you don't. As an adult it's a pain to start wearing them.
You'll get used to it.
 
Worn them since I was seven, at first so I could see the board in class but full time by the time I was 10. I had those lovely NHS brown frames as a child which made me an instant target.

At their worst my presecription was -7.5 dioptres, in the last few years it has come down ot -6.75, so long-sightedness is coming as well.
 
have worn specs since my mid teens. Did use contact lenses for about 10 years but switch back to specs - current ones are varifocals - best pair I have had in years ... even if I do have to admit the lenses are Nikon !

Always surprises me the number of people who don't have their eyes tested and assume they are seeing "correctly".
 
I've been wearing since age 5 - sadly that's almost 24.....errrrr...46 years. I have all of them....the original cats eye glasses, the ones I destroyed sledding down the biggest hill in town...the pair Dad taped together....etc. They are like a time capsule of my life. I gave contact lenses a try in my 20's, they worked fine, but once kid's came along, they became just another thing I didn't have time to worry about so I gave them up and went back to glasses.

When I turned 40 I was into what we call progressive lenses here - 3 prescriptions in one pair. Due to the strength of my prescription, the fit has to be absolutely exact. I was lucky with this new pair they only had to be adjusted 3 times over 2 weeks, the prior pair took 6 months of fit adjustments to get right. I wanted to fling that pair across the room.

Sadly, the cost is something you'll have to work into your budget. My cost is high about $750/pair, I think that's roughly 400£? No wonder I'm still using a 450D and my hubby buys his readers at the drugstore, lol.

I'm a canon gal....but not when it comes to my glasses....they're Nikon lenses.;)
 
onomatopoeia said:
I had those lovely NHS brown frames as a child which made me an instant target.
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Yet now they're cool. How did that happen?!!


I think it's a mistake to prescribe glasses for short sight to children - at least if they are expected to wear them all the time.

A few years ago I read a paper written by an optician who suggested that when a child is growing up, it is natural for the eye to change shape to bring it into correct focus. I think he said that the brain triggers a hormone to be produced if it detects that distant objects are out of focus and that it somehow controls the growth of the eye to accommodate.

As soon as you put a corrective lens in front of it, the brain thinks everything is o.k. and that there is no need to adjust anything.

On top of that, we regularly get tested and corrected for distance sight but spend our lives looking at close objects - books, computer screens, etc. Our eyes adjust to this then the next time we go to the optician, our distance has suffered so (no surprise) we get slightly stronger lenses prescribed and the cycle repeats requiring ever increasing strength of lenses.


Steve.
 
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Steve Smith said:
I think it's a mistake to prescribe glasses for short sight to children - at least if they are expected to wear them all the time.

A few years ago I read a paper written by an optician who suggested that when a child is growing up, it is natural for the eye to change shape to bring it into correct focus. I think he said that the brain triggers a hormone to be produced if it detects that distant objects are out of focus and that it somehow controls the growth of the eye to accommodate.
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Yet it was impossible for me to function without them, I could not read the blackboard, I could not see the television (in the days before VCRs we used to have a TV dragged into the classroom to watch the BBC schools programming sometimes) and so on.

I've not seen any comparative study over say a decade, I guess because the effect of a child's education would be so dramatic if they were denied properly corrected vision.
 
onomatopoeia said:
Yet it was impossible for me to function without them, I could not read the blackboard, I could not see the television (in the days before VCRs we used to have a TV dragged into the classroom to watch the BBC schools programming sometimes) and so on.

I've not seen any comparative study over say a decade, I guess because the effect of a child's education would be so dramatic if they were denied properly corrected vision.
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I needed them too from the age of seven, I just wonder if the deterioration would have been slower if I only wore them when I needed them rather than all of the time.


Steve.
 
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