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Originally Posted by chetccox
This is something I am use to. Other wise I need to put my glasses on for close up and remove them for distant shots.
I am having trouble understanding this statement. Why do you need to remove your glasses for distant shots? The rangefinder focal point does not change. It is in focus close up and at infinity as evidenced by the constant focus of the red led data in the viewfinder. Perhaps you are referring to the frame lines and you cannot see where they are with your glasses on, but I would think it would be more important to see them for a close shot - thus without the glasses.
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For some reason when I have my reading glasses on, I only need them to see close, and look through viewfinder as a distant subject THAT subject is blurry. If I take my reading glasses off the whole image in the viewfinder becomes clearer. If I then look at a subject that is close, without my reading glasses on it is very hard to get a clear image in the rangefinder patch.
I realize the the range finder patch IS always close to my eye. So you would think I would get a clearer image in the rangefinder patch all the time when I had my glasses on. But for me that is not the case, at least perceptually.
Could be because of the distance from my eye to the lens in the glasses, the distance from the glasses to the glass in the eye piece on the camera and the distance from there to the actual rangefindr patch.
I am now using a +1.5 but I think I need to go to a +2. I normally wear +1.5 for normal distance computer work and general seeing close but go to a +1.75 for book reading (unless I'm in real good light or the print is larger (Small print makes me feel really old)) and for close up work on small objects I even double up the glasses, 1 pair of +1.5 and then a pair of +1.75 over them.
My distant vision is good, although I have noticed recently I can't read the road signs at night as well as I use to. I have to wait until I get closer to them. But in daylight I have no problems seeing far. Everybody alway asks me Where did my ball go when we're golfing.
I use to have eye like a hawkand could see dust on the head of a record stylus.
Rangefinder get tougher to use when nyou get older.
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Ok let me see if I can expane it a little clearer.
Yes the rangefinder PATCH is always in the same place but what you are really looking at through the viewfinder changes depending on whether you are close or far from the subject. So even though the PATCH is clearer with my glasses on at any distance the rest of the image is blurred at far distances. The rangefinder patch is superimposed over the top of the normal view. So even though the rangefinder patch is more in focus with glasses on at any distance the rest of the image is not at far distances.
At this point I'm not sure any type of correction lens will help getting both in focus at far distances.