Varifocals or Plain glasses

Just wondering, does wearing varifocal glasses cause anyone any problems. I have varifocals and also a pair of plain reading glasses and was wondering if it's worthwhile changing glasses or just rely on the auto focus beep/lozenge.

I'm sure it must cause problems, so I only use single vision glasses.

I also wear varifolcals and have no problems with my K10/K5. I do, however, have almighty problems with cameras which use a rear display instead of a view finder as I have to tilt my head right back whilst holding the camera at arms length.

regards
Bernard

Never thought i'd be contributing to a thread on glasses and poor eyesight...but it comes to us all.

I've got a pair of lowest strength reading glasses which I try not to use with my camera as its a right pain. At the moment I can get away with adjusting the dioptre adjustment above the viewfinder on my Kx but it is really difficult trying to see whether a shot is in focus etc when holding the Kx at about 18" distance and trying to squint at the LCD in outdoor light. This is a major reason why I am hoping to upgrade to a K30 later in the year. Not only is the LCD screen much higher resolution but it is bigger (3" as opposed to 2.7"). Every little bit helps.

Any manufacturer that designed 'poor eyesight alleviation ' features into their next DSLR range would do very well I suspect.

I need glasses to see far away, but need reading glasses of plus one which fits in with the dioptric range. If i need stronger readers then i will get an old m viewfiner add on forget what theyre called but they come up for sale regularly.

Ditto Bernard. OK K7-K5 But need to tilt head back with I-10.
Just set the dioptre adjuster to the top "distance" part of your specs and away you go.
CHEERS Vic.

I wear varifocals and have no issues other than not being able to see the whole viewfinder frame in the O-ME5 magnifying eyecup due to the distance between eye and viewfinder when wearing glasses.

i have varifocal and use the center of my glasses lens to view with the dioptre adjusted to this, seem to be ok. at least the dioptre is in the middle of its adjustment range whereas when i tried taking my glasses off it was at the extreme limit of its travel and i was sure i could have done with more

High quality varifocals have three vision areas, distance, middle distance and close up. I wear Essilor made(Varilux) ones and get on well. Cheap unbranded from cheap opticians were a big failure though!

I'm very short sighted (-8 dioptres) but get on fine with my K5. Just as well a there is no correction adapter for that strong!

Quite.

Moi aussi!
Andy