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So any tips with taking pictures while wearing glasses?

Just finding it difficult, tried without glasses as well.
My Sony has a line of settings at the bottom when looking through the eye piece, but can't really see much of them.
 
Most cameras have an adjuster that allows you to adjust the focus within the viewfinder so that you can see the settings text clearly.
I can take photos with or without my glasses, but I have to adjust the viewfinder when I take my glasses off. I tend to just shoot with my glasses on though as its easier for me wearing them all the time anyway.
 
Some camera viewfinders have very little "Eye relief"so you have to get your eye right up close, to see the entire field. In the past a few manufacturers have sold attachments to increase this relief. Canon and Olympus amongst them, but mostly you are stuck with what ever view you have.
Glasses usesers ( like me) are well advised to try cameras before they buy.

The focus adjuster is no help with this aspect of the viewfinder, it only focuses.
 
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Not sure about the setup with your camera but usually you'll be able to adjust the dioptre setting for the viewfinder - either through an adjustment on the camera or slip on adjusters that go over the eyepiece. This allows you to use the viewfinder without glasses (unless you have a really radical prescription!)

I've recently had glasses for reading/PC work - using the viewfinder on my camera is fine as it's adjusted for my eyesight but sometimes to look at the detail on the rear screen it's a glasses job. Bit of a pain but I'll suppose I'll get used to it!!
 
Thanks all, I think it's just something to get use to as all the compacts I've used you just use the screen to aim.

Tried a few this morning with and without glasses, defo feels better without.

Also downloaded a trial version of Adobe lightroom to see how the pictures come out ... think I need a LOT more practice!
 
Adjusting the diopter is probably the best way to do it, unless, as said, you've got something like astigmatism, in which case, you're stuck with the specs I think.
 
Stuck with specs then as I've got astigmatism, had a play with the diopter, doesn't make much difference.

Think it's just a matter of getting use to it
 
Hi,i am in the same position as yourself ......not to much you can do really ,i can adjust the dio no problem their but then i have to put my glasses back on to view the lcd screen .......i have now resigned myself to getting used to wearing my glases all the time.....my biggest problem is when i am concentrating on a subject with my eye to the viewer i can quickly mist my glasses up with my breath very annoying .
 
Yes, could be. I've worn specs fulltime since I was, oh, fifty years younger. Now I wear varifocals and can use either eye, specs on. With digital I'll use live view but have no problems using viewfinders other than sometimes getting a smudge on my specs lens.
 
TripleD said:
Stuck with specs then as I've got astigmatism, had a play with the diopter, doesn't make much difference.

Think it's just a matter of getting use to it
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The diopter wont do owt for the astigmatism, as thats a shape of the eye issue, not a focusing issue as such.
You can get contacts for the condition, called toric lenses, but I dont know how good they are since I've not worked up the nerve to stick my finger in my eye on a daily basis.
 
den said:
i can quickly mist my glasses up with my breath very annoying .
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I've got some anti fog stuff that's good for limiting that, normally use it in the winter as I got fed up with walking into places and not being able to see.
 
I think this is one of these things you get used to with time (I used to really struggle with my first film SLR 30 years ago where the primitive exposure indicator was tucked away to the side). You get used to looking around the viewfinder - I don't even have problem using single vision lenses for photography despite now being both short sighted and having increasingly severe presbyopia in my right eye (the lenses correct for the former). One other thing does occur to me though to check in case this is the cause - are your glasses reactolite, or at all tinted? This will make things much harder.
 
I've just (in the last week) changed mine, I used take my reading glasses off and had adjusted the dioptre to suit, however, when I was checking camera settings (or chimping) I had to put my glasses back on.
So, I'm experimenting with the dioptre setting with my specs on.

I don't suppose it will improve my photography but it should be a bit less irritating.
 
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The diopter wont do owt for the astigmatism, as thats a shape of the eye issue, not a focusing issue as such.
You can get contacts for the condition, called toric lenses, but I dont know how good they are since I've not worked up the nerve to stick my finger in my eye on a daily basis.
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My wife uses toric lenses and gets on with them very well. In fact, I think they might even be varifocal but I'm not sure.

With my DSLRs, all the info is visible wearing my specs and using the 'finder but my bridge has an EVF which switches on automatically when brought up to the eye and doesn't always when I have my specs on. Can't see all the info either with specs on. It has enough dioptre adjustment on the EVF for my vision though, so no real problem.
 
VirtualAdept said:
The diopter wont do owt for the astigmatism, as thats a shape of the eye issue, not a focusing issue as such.
You can get contacts for the condition, called toric lenses, but I dont know how good they are since I've not worked up the nerve to stick my finger in my eye on a daily basis.
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Toric lenses work well as long as fitted correctly, and of course if the astigmatism is really high you can still get lenses but some opticians won't fit you as they may not do specialist lenses. (thankfully I do)

As for glasses fogging up, you can actually get anti-fog glasses :-) ask your optometrist about these.
 
Been taking photographs for 38 years and always worn glasses the only problems were when I found I was getting to many out of focus in the manual days and that was a wake up call to have an eye test.Otherwise never been a problem
 
Mine stay on at all times so I just live with it but have to say it is nice to look through the viewfinder without them now and again just to see what I am missing!
 
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