Contact lenses & shooting pictures

[Deb Wisker]

How many of you (either pro or amateur) wear contact lenses when you shoot? Do you wear strictly monovision lenses? I have recently started wearing multifocals and I am finding I cannot focus as well as I can with monovision lenses. Should I just not try to work with the multifocals and wear the monovisions when I know I am going to take pictures?
Any tricks from multifocal wearers or is it a futile effort?
Thanks!

[OsmosisStudios]

How strong is your prescription? I have a -1.5 in my left and -.75 in my right, which isnt enough for me to worry or for it to affect anything, really. So I dont bother with contacts/glasses.

[inkista]

I'm starting to go presbyopic (far-sighted from age), but I'm only wearing toric soft contact lenses (correction for myopia and astigmatism)--I use the diopter adjustment wheel to read the display in the viewfinder and counteract the presbyopia. So, if your correction's within the diopter adjustment, I'd say go with the monovision for shooting, except maybe for macro work.

[jdepould]

I'm a glasses guy, so it's not totally comparable, but between my lenses (single vision) and the diopter I don't have trouble. If I'm really trying to nail the focus down, I use Live View and zoom in on the part I need sharp.

[mohammad233b]

I'm an optometrist, eye care pro and understand your concern. Yes, you're right. Binocular vision and fusion is a useful process that we have. In monocular vision you don't have stereopsis. And lenticular accommodation is weaker than binocular. Mutifocal contact lenses are revolutions , but adaptation time is longer than specatacles.

Mohammad

[Deb Wisker]

Thanks everyone. I'm going to go back to the monovision lenses for shooting.

[ReginaldShort]

hiii...

I find problem with wearing glasses while clicking pics from cam.it was very to select right position of object My composition is fine, but I've finally realized I am struggling to see the very edges of the frame reliably.