I use progressives. The problem may be that the angle that you look
through the glasses doesn't match the setting of the diopter. I think
the trick is to look through the viewfinder at a well focused image in
exactly the way you hold the camera and look when taking pics and,
very important, relaxed and with rested eyes. Don't try to bring it into
focus with effort of the eyes, just turn the diopter adjustment back and
forth until the viewfinder image is in best focus. Then mark this place
with a tiny dot of paint or carefully count the clicks from one end of
the diopter range so you can reproduce it. Then push the knob in to lock
it. I wonder if diopter knobs may mysteriously become unlocked and move
under heavy use of the camera?
AF in no better in many situations than the care with which you put the
little box (or whatever) over the area you want in focus and lock it.
This still requires peering through a viewfinder, usually one that is
smaller and/or darker than the OM-4. Try out viewfinder and AF operation
before committing.
Moose
Fast Primes wrote:
Hi Folks,
Last year, I went on a photo tour that was really intense in terms
of shooting, I shot over 50 rolls of film most being with the OM4, but
also a MF RF as well. Toward the end of the tour, my right eye became
so exhausted, I had to switch to the left for shots. Not, only do I
wear glasses, but they are progressive as well. Prior to the tour, I
had never experienced this before! My question is, for those who wear
glasses (particularly progressives), how do your OM4 (or 3) diopter
correction for minimal eye fatigue? Possible, it might be a good aidea
to not use progressives, but a particlar single vision lenses
optimized for a distance X? Or am I asking the impossible and should
consider AF for the next heavy shooting foray?
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