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+1!No effect on eyesight -just a very negative effect on your wallet
Now Dan, I would say it has EVERYTHING to do with your focus! :ROTFL:+1!
. . . . . spot on, I certainly can not see the color green as well since moving to Leica and it had nothing to with the focus!
funny, that happened to me also. I am short-sighted, but the rangefinder-eye improved...but I think that's rather coincidence :wtf:actually, yes. but, also, no.
i seem to be in the minority, but it has changed mine... my prescription for both glasses on contacts changed around, to the extent the eye doctor checked me a few times to verify (what had been a very stable prescription for several years). my weak eye (the one i'm comfortable focusing with) became stronger, but the other languished... in essence, my prescription switched around.
go figure?
Hi BobI doubt that it had much effect on me, but over the years it has become more difficult for me to focus an M.
I think that your eyes will do what they will do whether you shoot an M or not.
-bob
I shot Ms regularly for several years and had pretty good results. Then eek I found that critical focus was harder to get with my MP and M8.Hi Bob
I'm with you about your eyes doing whatever they'll do.
But I wonder whether finding it more difficult to focus an M is more to do with doing it less often?
I find that it's really practice, lots of practice and it gets easier - put it down for a week and it's more difficult again - for a month and it's really tough.
Ah yes - clearly not practising enough :ROTFL:I shot Ms regularly for several years and had pretty good results. Then eek I found that critical focus was harder to get with my MP and M8.
several trips of cameras and lenses to DAG and Leica New Jersey maybe tweaked up the gear but my hit rate continued to go down.
I was averaging around 5-10k frames per year.
-bob
Contacts might be an option however my eyes require hard lenses but due to another issue with Blepharitis I can't wear them either.Ah yes - clearly not practising enough :ROTFL:
I really do stand around in the kitchen snapping away and then checking the focus . . . . but to be honest, the real revelation for me was to use different strength contact lenses in each eye - with a 1.75 in my right eye which I use to focus - don't use magnifiers or dioptre adjusters as they only seem to make things worse. Trying to focus with glasses is a nightmare, and with vary-focals it's even worse:bugeyes:
I've certainly got old-git eyes!