M10-R wearing eyeglasses

[AndersPH]

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I read that wearing eyeglasses with M10-R and precision focusing can be hard, anyone with experience with this? Is Visioflex 020 or Visorlex 2 a solution? Probably buying a M10-R next week.

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[CP93]

The simplest solution is a diopter ring for the viewfinder; however, that is only a partial help for those of us with astigmatism.

I haven’t tried the Visoflex.

Edited July 21, 2024 by CP93

[TomB_tx]

While I don't have an M10-R, I've worn glasses full time for 60+ years and used Leica RFs since the 1960s without focus problems. 

[newtoleica]

My vision has deteriorated over the past 20 years with presbyopia and mild astigmatism. 
I find a +2 diopter works well enough. I need glasses to drive but try not to wear them otherwise. It’s not quite the ‘contrast pop’ it was 20 years ago, but it’s fast enough. 
I can use the camera without a diopter and use my glasses, but since I like to use the 24 Summilux (framing just beyond the edges of the whole VF) that’s not ideal for me.

i dislike EVFs. I have a Q2 but prefer the M10P. The 10P with the Visioflex is much less useable than a Q2 though. 

Edited July 21, 2024 by newtoleica

[rogxwhit]

I wear glasses all the time.  Well, I don't sleep in them!  Mine are bifocals or varifocals.  When using my unmodified M10, I look through the viewfinder using the upper part of the specs - the far vision part - this works perfectly. 

On that basis, hopefully you should be fine. I would definitely eschew either of the bolt-on evfs unless desperate or for some special need - we choose rangefinders for their crystalline viewfinder experience - a great pleasure in itself.

Lenses of 35mm or 50mm work best.  Wearing specs, the field of view of a 35mm fills the vf, which is pretty neat & could be said to be an ideal circumstance.  With a 28, you have to crane your neck about to see into the edges - though you can just wing it & guess!  With a 50, you have to actively remember to note the framelines, which those of us with a lifetime of using SLRs & DSLRs haven't been used to doing.  With a 75, well the frame's getting a bit small ...

My eyes & specs aren't yours, of course, but I hope that I've given you some clues.

 

Ps: Sometimes I mount a 15mm, and use the clarity of a hotshoe-mounted optical vf with it for the active field of view, whilst still using the camera vf's rangefinder to focus.  This method can obviously translate to other focal lengths.  A bit more of a fiddle - the worst being that the attached vf can be easily dislodged without you noticing, especially when getting the camera out of its bag, fall off & lose itself the undergrowth.  But one cultivates appropriate disciplines ... 🙂

 

 

Edited July 21, 2024 by rogxwhit

[Hans Stinis]

I have been wearing glasses since over 20 years while using Leica M-series, and have an M10-R now. Focusing is not an issue. Previewing the scene through the rangefinder for wide-angle lenses is a pain, especially at the same time avoiding scratching my spectacles… Nonetheless, I believe experience gave me enough intuition to get the scene as I previewed with ‘guessing’.  My eyes are funny and therefore diopter correction does not work for me. Still the tactile experience of the M is worth this compromise (for me).

[Bobonli]

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Both Turnley brothers have worn glasses for years and their work doesn't seem to suffer. I wear glasses but sometimes out of vanity I prefer not to when walking about trying to be causal. So I bought a diopter and it helps. What I can say is that you have to try the diopter; it doesn't seem to be in anyway related to your eyeglass RX...you just have to go to the store and try for yourself.

[jakontil]

I wear glasses all the time, for general use, a diopter would help, for any range like 50mm, a 1.24 mag will help me

[MaticB]

Me too, I wear progressive glasses - multifocal! As said before, I use upper part of the eyeglasses for focusing, and it works fine, except with 35 APO. Here I have to correct the focusing distance, moving focusing ring to "a little closer". I believe this is due to extremely narrow defined focusing distance with this superb lens. However, because I was forced to use Visoflex 2 for wider lens (21 super elmar and 28 summilux - the later mainly because with lens on I hardly defined vision field in viewfinder), now I also use Visoflex for 35 APO. Not only focusing is precise (here too though, you need some time to properly choose the range of maximal contrast). For 50 summilux and 75 summarit, focusing through viewfinder with eyeglasses on is just perfect.  

[Jeff S]

I’ve worn glasses (correcting for distance and astigmatism) with my M bodies since the 80’s, now with the M10R and M10M. But for the last 10 years or so I’ve added a +.5 diopter, in addition to my glasses, for optimum focusing with these old eyes. Didn’t need to visit a Leica shop; just stopped by my local optician, with camera, and experimented with their free trial diopters.

Jeff