How Is Your Eyesight?

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How many blind photographers do we have?

[KenJulio]

I'm puuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrfect...virtualy

[brad]

I'd be legally blind if it wasn't correctable.. without my contacts, I can see about an inch clearly.

Even then, I end up with double and triple vision trouble from time to time.. but that's been better since changing a med.

I'm so blind, I'm not even a candidate for lasik. :(

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Originally Posted by brad

I'd be legally blind if it wasn't correctable.. without my contacts, I can see about an inch clearly.

Even then, I end up with double and triple vision trouble from time to time.. but that's been better since changing a med.

I'm so blind, I'm not even a candidate for lasik. :(

I'm legally blind in my right eye without my glasses, as my vision in that eye is about 20/220. I'm near-sighted in one eye and far-sighted in the other. This has long made me prone to having trouble focusing; I can't focus simultaneously on the same spot.

[Lexie]

Need contacts for reading other than that I see clearly now........

[brad]

Yikes, Richard.. that's a pain, I'll bet.

I had a friend in high school who was 20/30 in one eye and off the chart bad in the other... made depth perception impossible when he wasn't wearing his glasses.

Me, personally, I literally had coke bottle bottom glasses before they developed the better plastics in the late 80s...

[Tom]

20/200 in each eye
corrected to 20/15 in each eye with contacts/glasses

[carrbowl]

I had lasiks 9 years ago...then reading glasses a year or so ago...now the eyes as a whole are getting worse..man I hate glasses...

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Originally Posted by brad

Yikes, Richard.. that's a pain, I'll bet.

I had a friend in high school who was 20/30 in one eye and off the chart bad in the other... made depth perception impossible when he wasn't wearing his glasses.

Me, personally, I literally had coke bottle bottom glasses before they developed the better plastics in the late 80s...

The biggest problem I'm having is finding a good pair of inexpensive glasses. I have insurance, but I always end up spending $200+ on glasses, and then they have problems. One pair disintigrated, broke into several, tiny pieces. My last pair were frameless, but had screws that constantly came loose. The shop replaced the screws with some bolts that protruded 1/4 inch towards my eyes from the frames. If I had been smacked in the face, they would have blinded me! Now, this pair I have keeps coming out of alignment, causing me eyestrain and nausea. The shop re-tightened everything once, and that worked for a year, but now I need it, again. I've moved to a different city, so getting the adjustment is going to be a nuisance.

I looked into getting lasik a few years ago. I was told that 1) lasik wouldn't benefit me very much (especially in my far-sighted eye) and 2) at my age, I should wait for the vision change before I get the surgery.

[bondarnes]

I have always had almost 20/20 in my left eye and have always been near sighted in the right eye. Now my ability to focus close is about gone and I am developing cataracts especially in my right eye. I will have that taken care of before summer.

[toverman]

I am near-sighted and have astigmatism. But I remember the good ol' days in my early 20s when I was too dumb to realize I needed glasses!

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I probably would read more if I didn't have so much trouble with my vision. Stark black and white makes ghosts in my vision and it is difficult for me to focus on text.

[OTRphoto]

I'm 20/15 in my left eye and 20/200 in my right. Without my glasses I squint alot... my fiance' calls it my Pirate face.. lol

And I can't have lasik because my eyesight changes every couple of years thanks to an issue with my optic nerve behind my right eye.

And I can't do contacts because my eyes are too dry. Even the 'wet' ones that you can leave in for 30 days - I had to take out every night and was putting drops in about ever hour during the day.

So I'm stuck with glasses. Except when I shoot.. lol I take them off and rely heavily on autofocus

[Dobick]

Ok -- so I didn't read the choices well enough -- I answered incorrectly. I am not literally blind -- I am legally blind, but it is corrected.

Sorry about screwing that one up.

[RicknTX]

Ironic that you post this question. I wore glasses all my life from the 8th grade til about 2002 when I had Lasic and my vision was corrected to 20/20. Sinced then I developed cataracts and just completed my 2nd cataract surgery last Thursday with the multi-focal IOC lens but now my vision is a minute bit out of focus and reading up close is a b*tch so will need to get some readers til my vision stabilizes from the surgery, THEN I have to get PRK to restore my vision to 20/20. Hopefully I can add a future post in a couple of months that I have 20/20 restored...? Well, you DID ask... <lol>