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> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:45:13 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Garry D. Lewis" <erind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [OM] OM1 Metering
> Yes I can see that( wearing glasses myself). But more
> than 1/4 or 1/2 stop difference?
It depends where the sun is. If you are shooting with the sun behind you or
in front of you, or there is no sun (i.e. a typical summer's day in the UK),
the effect is minimal. But if you are shooting with the sun at the side (on
the side corresponding to the eye you use -- left side for me, since I am
left eyed), the sunlight is reflected off the skin around your eye into the
viewfinder.
> Anyway, does it really pay ( to us glasses wearers) to
> invest in a dioter and eyecup- if we have to remove
> our glasses to use our cameras, then put them on to
> see?
I do this, because my carefully composed trannies too frequently ended up
being misaligned -- using glasses I cannot see both left and right edges of
the viewfinder frame at the same time. These days I use a "granny cord" --
one of those cords that you attach to your spectacles to suspend your
spectacles from your neck. I walk around with spectacles on, and camera
suspended from my neck. When I see something I want to photograph, I take
my spectacles off and allow them to hang around my neck, and raise the
camera to my eye. When the picture is taken, it's back on with the specs. I
have adjusted the cord length so that the specs and camera hang at different
places (specs at chest level, camera at stomach level). Also, I don't use
my regular frameless plastic-lensed specs for this -- they would be too
likely to get damaged. I use an alternative pair of specs with sturdy wire
frames and glass lenses.
-- from Cy in the UK
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