Hi Larry - join the club! At my age, it's inevitable that I need more help (I started wearing glasses for myopia at age 12!). I now have two pairs, progressives for walk-about use, and a single focal length pair giving me a range of about 70-200cm (funny that), which I use for computer work. I can read books and papers without glasses at all, after my lens started to harden, changing the unassisted focussing range. Closer work and tiny print is another matter altogether...
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Larry Colen Sent: Monday, 19 December 2016 1:51 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Re: My next piece of photographic gear Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > :-) > > I'm a bit older than you. I've been wearing progressives since around age 47 > or so, fifteen years ago. They work great for me, as long as I'm not working on a large screen computer display ... then I have bifocal splits that give me 22" and 14" in focus. I've been wearing progressives since I was about 48, I probably should have gotten them a year or two earlier. It's just annoying that my older glasses no longer work just fine, it's even more annoying that my vision no longer corrects to as good as it once did, or that I get ranges where my eyes just won't focus, even with the progressives. > > I've never cared whether I wore glasses... regular, progressives, or > bifocals. I just want to see: to read, to do my photography, and to enjoy the beauty of life. Whatever it takes to see is all that matters. > > What else is important, really? > > G > >> On Dec 18, 2016, at 6:10 PM, Larry Colen<l...@red4est.com> wrote: >> >> I have come to the unpleasant realization that as much as I enjoy obtaining >> new lenses, the next pair of lenses that I need to buy will not be K-mount but eyeglasses. >> Last week, when I was trying to adjust the temples, my eyeglasses snapped in >> half. Unfortunately, my spare glasses just don't seem to work. I went thirty years with my prescription barely changing, and now in my fifties and in the era of progressive lenses, glasses just a few years out of date make it hard to read the text on my computer screen, much less process photos. >> >> This rant brought to you by the letter F, no that's an R, wait, it's a P, >> definitely a P. >> > -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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. -- 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.
