Guess what? I am pretty blind too without some type of vision correction. Most of my friends don’t realize this until those few times they see me with glasses on.
How blind am I? Well, my contact boxes are at -4.25 left and -4.00 right and my eye glasses are .25 stronger to make up for the effect of the lens being 1/4 inch away from my eyes.
Without glasses… Actually it's much worse.
With glasses on
Pretty scary!!!!
If you ever want to know how bad someone’s eye sight is, look through their glasses. What you see will be the reverse correction to what is being re-aligned in their vision.
So how do I shoot? Quite well, actually. As long as I’m using some form of vision correction, I’m pretty good 20/10. Keep in mind, I have been working around this little problem for more than 20 years. I have been wearing soft contacts for most of that time. And I follow the protocols closely, so my eyes are no different than they were 20 years ago.
An interesting side effect of my blindness is my affinity for CLEAR images and a love for great use of depth of fields. I tend to notice the little things that may be a bit out of kilter, like an errant hair, or lint on someone’s clothes.
What about RK for correction?
Every vision correction service will run from you after you tell them you’re a professional photographer and you have to be at 20/20 vision or better. They won’t take the chance that things won’t go right. So, for the time being I’m staying with my contacts, glasses, corrected scuba masks and such, until they get it right. Then again, I am highly skeptical of vision correction people that won’t give you a 20/20 guarantee. You paid for it, make them get it right!
Yes, I’m a dive master too, and I have corrected mask and a un-corrected mask.
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