About Eye Glasses

[Richie]

Hi everybody.

I'm a bit leery about telling the enemy about this but here goes lol. How many out there are practically blind at the monitor without their glasses on? I'm guessing a lot! I bet lots of us have bifocals and have our chins stuck out half the time trying to see what the heck's going on. "Where is he....RAT TA TAT TAT..I'm dead." So I'll get to the point. How many of you have spent the money for a special pair of specks just for flying? I'm going to have to because it's getting bad.

[phoenix1963]

Hahaha, I am pretty shortsighted anyway, but I like teasing the wife that she has to have reading glasses even though she's younger than me.
I need them soon though.

It's that Generational thing again, I bet a good proportion of us are over 40 and grew up with WW2 stories.

56RAF_phoenix

[Richie]

Exactly. Me included from Dad.

[DroopSnoot]

Its depressing isnt it.
I've been told by I've got to wear them all the time now. Just the other day my youngest child broke my glasses and they are off being repaired, so in the mean time I have to go without, I'm looking like I'm doing a mole impression while watching TV or using the PC.

[ATAG_Snapper]

Yep. I have an eye appointment on Thursday (routine check up) but this is the first order of business with the eye doc! I wear bifocals which work great for everything else -- reading, driving, etc. My wife works at a computer all day and has her "computer glasses" -- looks like I'm going the same route. TBH, it's not just CoD. I've been finding it harder of late doing email, spreadsheets, etc. on the PC, so spotting little dots a little quicker in the virtual skies may be a side benefit! LOL

[JG52Krupi]

Bloody cheaters, from now on you have to go to an optician that only test using 1940 equipment and produces authentic 1940's glasses ;)

[SlipBall]

I just went through this inevitable life's episode...I asked the doc for 20/15 vision, so you've been warned!:-P

[sg1221]

After a cornea transplant I no longer need glasses , however I shall continue
using poor eyesight as an excuse for my dismal combat flying skills !

can't seem to see a big plane but dang sure see his little tracers :shock:


sg

[raaaid]

well i rather play without my glasses of

after 6 hours without glasses i percieve any media inlcuding games in 3d

thing i dont take off the glasses any more or hardly

check this out:

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/raaaid/mw4.jpg

its not so crazy you may even apreciate depth here with no glasses:

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/raaaid/bizarre.jpg

so advantages of glasses: better definition

advantage of naked eye: 3d perception

[flyingblind]

Sadly, I also moved on to bifocals a few years back. I always keep my perscription and get a cheap pair of reading glasses on line for using with a monitor.

[ATAG_Snapper]

I figure another pair of glasses is cheaper than a HD projector! LOL

[Troll2k]

I am not sure.Have you seen the cost of designer frames lately?

[5./JG27.Farber]

I am not sure.Have you seen the cost of designer frames lately?

I used to work in an opticians.

A prescription is broken down into parts like this

Sph cyl axis prism add


Sphere is - or + optical diopter which come in increments of 0.25
The symbol + or - means you lenses are either concave or convex, longsighted or shortsighted...

Cylinder is due to the shape of the eye not being a perfect sphere and is where present always has an axis.

Prism is serious stuff, I dont think I need to explain. You will know if you have prism in your Rx and will definatley need Rx lenses.

add is addition, this is what the optician literally adds to your Rx (perscription) to make your standed glasses reading glasses...



If you have no prism, and little cylinder 0.25 or less and your sphere is fairly balanced equal on both sides by around 0.50 you dont need to buy intermedite specs from an optician... You could buy some ready readers of a weaker perscription than the combination of your sphere and add... Obviously, if you get any eyestrain or tired eyes you have either got the wrong strength and or you will want to see you optician and get some perscription glasses... Also the addition and shphere is worked out differently if you have a +cylinder, the perscription has to be transposed and it affects the outcome, I only worked in -cylinder... I do not know the formula.

I would get in front of your computer first and measure the difference then replicate that distance when sampling the ready readers in store...



I am not an optician - you do this off your own back. :-P

[raaaid]

the glasses im currently wearing costed me 630 euros:mad:

[5./JG27.Farber]

the glasses im currently wearing costed me 630 euros:mad:

Sounds like a serious Rx...

[drewpee]

My wife brought me a 42inch tv screen to use as a monitor. People laugh when they see it but it make a big difference with game play and I don't need my stupid $10 reading glasses.

[Screamadelica]

I only got my first pair a year or so ago to help focus on 1mm increments on a ruler that I needed to use for picture framing. Two years down the track and now I can't read a phone book or newspaper without them. Always thought this rapid decline once you start wearing glasses was due to an international conspiracy of optometrists, but have been assured by everyone it is normal as the years go by. Isn't being over forty great!;)

[Robert]

Carrots, my friends. Carrots. They helped the Brits virtually beat the Nazis in the skies over Dover, and they'll help you in the virtual skies too.


SIGH! Been looking to go this way too. I have a pair of narrow lenses to help defeat the ugly look of large lenses with astigmatism. They need to be thick on the edges because of the curvature of the iris and glass lens. I use narrow oframes that are not only lighter, but much more attractive (I need all the help I can get). So it's not like I can get a nice pair of glasses with bifocals. The INVISO eye line bifocals are almost useless to me because the band that allows me to read is so small that I'd need a joint for a neck so I could lean back enough for that part to be effective.

Gawd what an ugly word bifocals is. Wearing a pair for the first time is almost as bad as when your waist gets to be larger than your pants inseam. You just know you'll never see that part of youth again. SIGH!

Shuddap and eat your carrots!

[swiss]

Wearing a pair for the first time is almost as bad as when your waist gets to be larger than your pants inseam. You just know you'll never see that part of youth again. SIGH!


LOL!

Sad but true.

[JG52Uther]

I have worn glasses for years, and still hate them with a passion. I also need prisms, which means I can't wear contacts full time.
My latest visit to the opticians a couple of weeks ago resulted in bifocals being mentioned in the next couple of years...
I feel old.
Using a good quality 32" led TV helps a lot with games though.

[5./JG27.Farber]

I have 6/5 vision and Im only 29 :-P

Its going to suck ***** when I need specs.

[SlipBall]

I have worn glasses for years, and still hate them with a passion. I also need prisms, which means I can't wear contacts full time.
My latest visit to the opticians a couple of weeks ago resulted in bifocals being mentioned in the next couple of years...
I feel old.
Using a good quality 32" led TV helps a lot with games though.



That's too bad, contacts are a real handy alternative, for that special occasion.:shock:

[=CfC= Father Ted]

Any marketing-type chappy doing demographic research for flightsim games needs to check out this thread...

I'm short-sighted and awaiting the onset of age-related long-sightedness, with the dreaded bifocals. *Sigh*

[5./JG27.Farber]

Why do you all think you need bifocals?? There are varifocals, reading glasses, distance glasses and intermediates.... Bifocals are no good for flying...

[JG52Uther]

Well there is no way I will get bifocals! I would rather have another pair of glasses. By the time I have decked myself out with TiR hat, headphones etc, putting a different pair of glasses on will just be another part of my pre flight check...