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I understand best way is to hold viewfinder up to face and against face, but what if you wear glasses?
 
digitalman4242 said:
I understand best way is to hold viewfinder up to face and against face, but what if you wear glasses?
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You just bear with it. I've been wearing glasses since pre-teen and I'm a lot older now. Been doing glasses and even multi-focals now. The new frames get warped a bit over time because I wear the rimless type. Or you can take off your glasses and use more dioptre correction but that leaves you blinking when you are not looking through the viewfinder.

Then there's this

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I second that. I'd avoid the dioptre adjustment myself as it doesn't correct properly for my particular vision - all it does is magnify, which is not what most people need.

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LIke all the others here, you just bear with it. I've worn glasss all my life and you get used to a poorer view than others get.

For this reason, I tend to demand high quality pentaprism viewfinders that I get with the better Nikon cameras. The bigger and better viewfinder makes wearing glasses a little easier. They often tend to have a higher eyepoint as well, allowing more relief. You have to check before you buy.

I like the looks of that hoodman cup though. I just wonder if it might put a grimey mark on my glasses.
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I make sure I wear contact lenses if I am doing a long session of pics.

Not much of an answer though, sorry :)
 
I've been wearing glasses since 1983, and shooting with SLRs since 1977 - I transitioned from no glasses to glasses with my film SLRs, and have shot all my digital cameras from prosumers and P&S to DSLR with glasses. I've never had a problem with any viewfinders, from the smallest, junkiest EVF on an ultrazoom to my current APS-C DSLR (pentamirror with what most would consider a smaller finder). Maybe it's the person, the face, or the strength of the prescription - but for me, no problem - I can see crystal clear even through smaller mirror OVFs, can manually focus, manually expose, etc without effort. I shoot with both normal nearsighted untinted glasses as well as prescription polarized amber/brown sunglasses and have no issues with either one.

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My problem is that I can see through the viewfinder OK, but I can't see the exposure data at the bottom without crunching the eyepiece and the eyeglasses into my face.
 
That's where I'm thinking face and glasses differences come into play. I wear very small rounded lensed glasses that fit almost flush with my face and brow, and my face is fairly flat with a small brow and nose - so it's rather easy for me to flush my eye right against the eyepiece.

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JohannSnyman said:
My problem is that I can see through the viewfinder OK, but I can't see the exposure data at the bottom without crunching the eyepiece and the eyeglasses into my face.
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I had this problem with the Canon 30D, but the viewfinder on the 7D is vastly improved - bigger & brighter - so it's not a problem for me now.

Mark
 
Guidenet said:
LIke all the others here, you just bear with it. I've worn glasss all my life and you get used to a poorer view than others get.

For this reason, I tend to demand high quality pentaprism viewfinders that I get with the better Nikon cameras. The bigger and better viewfinder makes wearing glasses a little easier. They often tend to have a higher eyepoint as well, allowing more relief. You have to check before you buy.
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This also applies to Canons. Anything less than a 60D has a pentamirror viewfinder that is noticeably smaller and more tunnel-like than the pentaprism viewfinders that the 60D (and up) have.

But even with my 60D, I still sometimes can't see the entire frame and all the data readouts that are under the image frame. I got used to wiggling my head around to see all the parts of the frame, when needed. Shrug. There are worse things in the world.

Wayne
 
Wayne, you're absolutely right. Tell you what. Go to your camera store and try a Canon 5D MkII on for size and surprise yourself. Or in my world the Nikon D700. I was so impressed I bought one and will never look back. I have a D300 and a D700. The huge gigantic pentraprism on that full frame is wonderful. My old glasses wearing diabetic eyes love it.
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