Nice Little Shock.

[DTCwordfan]

Annual eye test today - been wearing reading glasses +2.0

Got a shock though - the optician starting with the usual "your eyes are in great condition and almost those of a 16 year old."

Then "However age catches up with us, you are right on the cusp of having to wear long distance for driving." It's unbelievable how the focus has slipped in the last year, not that I had really noticed.

So I am now lighter by £200 for a new Rayban carbon frame and the coatings on the lens.........

Aggghh.

The question that I have to answer is which to wear for drawing etc when "live" - he couldn't answer that one.

[ummmm]

What do you mean when "live"?

[chrissa1]

I was wondering that too ummm. My new ones are still giving me gyp too.

[DTCwordfan]

working outside with the building etc in front of me, rather than from a photo (which I rarely do).

[Psybbo]

Varifacals needed DT?

[Psybbo]

Varifocals even^

[shaneystar2]

Probably because of focussing .Looking up at something and then down onto whatever it is you are doing in the way of fine work .
My last glasses recently cost me nearly 400 notes and in spite of them being varifocal with bells and whistles I still have to take them off and hold stuff under my nose to see fine detail .

[Nibble]

DT, I've discovered the real deal for your hour of need, and they're "green" and rechargable....

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2011/02/17/electronic-glasses-adjust-to-visual-needs.html

[DTCwordfan]

He said that was up to me, though they couldn't fit them in my current frames, which I love - Danish designer titanium ones - and my reading distance is still the same.

[shaneystar2]

You possibly need a wider frame or bifocals .I had these fashionable ones with narrower frames but it affected my field of vision .
So now I look like Marge Proops :)

[DTCwordfan]

my pen and ink drawings, shaney, some are buried over in Arts......I thought that may be the case.

Nibble - what will they come up with next.....there was the electronic spoon on TV being shown at the Las Vegas Tecchie fair - that measures your speed of putting food in your gob and vibrates when you are too fast! Crazy.

[DTCwordfan]

I am going for the wider frame - not least I need the width and a long side bar, so gone for a Rayban one that has a relatively flat arm and not too wide.

[DTCwordfan]

(not too wide in the arm of the specs or whatever they call it)

[Nibble]

IMO - Probably better not to use the electronic glasses and the spoon at the same time though, dt, as the focusing of the glasses may interfere with the proximity filter on the spoon, with the inevitable messy ending.

[DTCwordfan]

lol - and then there are the rotating drill bits aka known as teeth à la Jaws in the Bond movie....

[lady-janine]

i went to have eyes tested in december and was told that one eye was weaker and one was stronger so had to have new specs. not a pleasant price surprise.

i have this theory - even if you have 20/20 vision (proven) and then go to opticians they will find something wrong with your eyesight so that you have to have glasses.

[DTCwordfan]

possibly Lady J, but now it has been revealed, I am noticing that I can't read script at a distance that I would have had no issues with a year ago. For example from the Tesco's entrance, I couldn't read the sub-blurb on the Staples sign, the other side of the road ~ what's that - sixty yards away max?

[lady-janine]

i only have one pair of varifocals.i am very lucky in that i can still read in bed without having to wear them.

I did use contacts for years and am now seriously considering having laser treatment. my youngest tells me she recently had it done and has not looked back. she just refused to wear glasses. i quite understand this as they can be such a pain - coming indoors from the cold; working in the kitchen; taking them off to get my hair cut and realising i have forgotten the case and they may get scratched; using binns, etc, etc. never wear them in the garden in case they get broken.

[jno]

bifocals rather than varifocals, I would have thought, one half to see the subject, the other to see the pen. Driving distance glasses would probably cover the former.