Eye care

trooney

I find after a few hours with my eye shoved up to the viewfinder I can start getting a bit uncomfortable as my eye tires out a bit and I need to rest it. I'm just a hobbyist, so don't spend loads of hours each day looking at the world through a couple of sq cm. Anybody else find this?
How do the folk who are full-time at it work with that? Does anybody have any sort of eye-care regime? Regular eye-tests and such?

Tallon

I have glasses, its a pain in the rectum

dakar

Tallon wrote: »

I have glasses, its a pain in the rectum

Erm, I'm no optician, but I have a feeling that's not the part of the anatomy glasses are designed for, no wonder you have a pain :eek::pac:

DaireQuinlan

Tallon wrote: »

I have glasses, its a pain in the rectum

Oh for crying out loud Tallon, how many times do we have to repeat this ? Glasses go on your NOSE. Sheesh.

But yes, I find my eyes get quite strained sometimes after being jammed up against the viewfinder. It makes a difference which camera though. My F4 which has a gigantic bright 100% viewfinder doesn't give me anywhere near as much trouble as my FE-2 or F100, they seem a little more pokey. I don't know how you cropped body digital types actually get on. I looked through some dslr viewfinder at some point and it was like looking down a long dark tunnel.

Morrisseeee

I thought my digital camera had an OK viewfinder, ...........until I looked thru a 35mm film camera, wowee what a difference. Its like comparing a 15 inch monitor to a 40 inch widescreen TV :eek::p

oshead

I used to find that the sight from my left eye (the one closed), becomes blurred after a long session. So I started shooting with both eyes open. It took a while to get used to though.

babyhack

oshead wrote: »

I used to find that the sight from my left eye (the one closed), becomes blurred after a long session. So I started shooting with both eyes open. It took a while to get used to though.

Same here
Closed eye gets blurred after a while
Have started shooting with both eyes open, still trying to get used to it

BH

duffarama

Morrisseeee wrote: »

I thought my digital camera had an OK viewfinder, ...........until I looked thru a 35mm film camera, wowee what a difference. Its like comparing a 15 inch monitor to a 40 inch widescreen TV :eek::p

The E-510 is fairly small tbf, I have an E-410 (which I don't use much since getting the E-620) and it's the same size viewfinder. When I'm using it I have no problems but when I switch to a 35mm camera my eyes do feel a lot more refreshed!

Fajitas!

I'm another speccy, but I don't find too much of a problem with my eyes after, I've sort of settled with not putting my eye right up to the viewfinder, which means I can't see the display at the bottom, but I can see the shot in focus, and I'm happy with that. I know my settings anyways.

I must say though, there's nothing like going back to a medium format waist level viewfinder after a week through a 35mm DSLR.

leche solara

Tallon wrote: »

I have glasses, its a pain in the rectum

You must be wearing them wrong

SaturnV

I went through a stage of very bad eyestrain from the viewfinder, and everything through it looked kind of... funny.

Turns out I had accidentally shoved the diopter adjustment on the viewfinder... Not my finest hour.

fran426ft

An elderly photographer for the newspaper my girlfriend works for had to have surgery on his eyelids twice due to ingrown eyelashes from years of looking through viewfinders. They were just curling back on themselves from being pushed up to the viewfinder.