Cataracts, bummer

[usonian]

11. Good luck!

I am so nearsighted that I have to take my glasses off to see the big display and put them on to use the viewfinder.

When the time comes, I'll have to decide whether to keep the near vision, with glasses for everything else, or get some far vision (which I haven't had since childhood) and use readers for everything else.

OK for now, and to be honest, I use a set of reading glasses that focus about as far as a computer screen, and I get along pretty well with them around the home. Things are just a little bit out of focus but what's findable is findable.

I manually focused for a very long time, but recent autofocus implementations have been excellent. I still use manual focus with focus peaking, but can get away about 99% of the time with the auto. (The old film camera keeps me honest)

Hint: when my glasses fall from the easy chair, I use the phone with a magnifier app (or the camera). It focuses where it needs to and the screen is as far as I can see. It's like an extra "eye" ... a monocular, though.

I use the phone a lot in stores, where prices and such are either way too small, or too high or too low.

I always thank Trader Joe's for making really big signs for the products.