I haven't had any surgery, but am near-sighted. I have contacts that are set up in a monovision approach much like what your surgeoon did. So one eye sees close and one far. But the close is not good for detailed chimping or detailed use of a smartphone or tablet. So I end up with a pair of reading glasses hanging around my neck. So the problem becomes with photography one of having to take the glasses off to see through the viewfinder and then having to put them on to really examine the playback screen. The on/off on/off came become tedious. It would be easier to always have them on or always have them off. This is leading me towards not using the viewfinder or not using the playback screen. When shooting fast moving things - especially sports, it is not too bad because I don't have time to chimp much. But when doing more slow, deliberate work, this becomes bothersome. At this stage, I am doing less and less of the sports stuff and more and more of the deliberate stuff. In trying to use my K5iis in live view, I find it to be a bit clumsy and frustrating dealing with focus and the general ease of use.
I guess the real fix to this is to just grow longer arms! -- Bruce On March 24, 2015 4:15:29 AM PDT, Yolanda Rowe <ypr...@gmail.com> wrote: >As another who's had cataract surgery, I completely understand the arm >length conundrum. The surgeon and I compromised; the right eye can >focus @ about 18 inches, but it's not enough to mess around with >camera displays or tiny fonts. > >I've found some non-prescription readers by Foster Grant that are >meant to help with reading, using a computer and looking at someone >across the desk. They help with the eye fatigue and eyeglass >switching. My husband purchased some, too, so mine are safe. > >Yonnie > >On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Yolanda Rowe <ypr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Still Pentax after all these years. The first one I had in my mitts >> was a K1000 circa 1978. There are a few K1000s, a Spotmatic (or two) >> and an SF1n hanging around here. >> >> Their digital stable mates are: *istDS (2; one on loan to a cousin >and >> my son shoots w/the other), K10D, K20D, K-5 and K-3. Depending on the >> task at hand, one of the last four will be in my hand. My favorite to >> shoot with is still the K20D when it's just for fun; it feels right >in >> my hands. >> >> Yonnie >> >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 2:59 AM, Malcolm Smith ><rrve...@virginmedia.com> wrote: >>> Following on from the previous thread, what make of camera do you >now use, >>> and has it changed over the years? >>> >>> From 1977 to 2014 I used almost exclusively Pentax equipment, >although I had >>> a brief and disappointing fling with an Olympus in the early 90s. I >still >>> use Pentax *most* of the time, but I now have a Canon camera as >well, which >>> serves a different purpose. >>> >>> Malcolm >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >and follow the directions. -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
