I often go on walks with just my Nikon 950 around my neck to look for birds because of its superzoom abilities, but it also does some very good macro when i spot bugs and such.
That’s when I quickly clip-on my Rynox macro I keep in the back pocket. This is terrifically small, lightweight, ‘only enough room for one camera’ system for traveling.
Except that I’m constantly slipping my eyeglasses off and on while switching between macro and tele from looking down, when I shove the glasses back and forth to the top of my head for spotting between the two realms. And that’s often when they fall off the BACK of my head when I look almost vertically upwards.
Eyeglass chains and straps prevent glasses from slipping off the face down, but they don’t work when you switch to looking up while ‘parked’ at the front of the head.
Anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
I’m kind of dealing with similar issue as I had cataract surgery earlier this year. Now have great distance vision but need reading glasses to use my phone or review camera photos/ settings. I might go back to contact lenses so I have fewer things dangling from my neck and to avoid the back and forth of putting on glasses and taking them off.
my wife bought me some reading glasses that have lenses that flip up when you don’t need them but they still get in the way when I have a camera in front of my eye.
Goodness YES, I certainly relate to this. As the years go by, the eyesight gets steadily worse and this is the first year I’ve been obliged to put on glasses to “hunt” for my insect subjects, but then I need to take them off both to walk (otherwise I feel dizzy) and above all to take photos. I haven’t found the ideal answer yet, but I’m making some progress with half-lenses, a bit like these…
It’s still a bit awkward, but I can just about manage to operate the camera with the glasses on, looking over the top of the lens. Not ideal, but it’s better than losing a pair of glasses a week as happened before. Oh the joys of ageing!
I’ve almost always got two pairs of glasses hanging on straps around my neck: reading glasses so I can actually see to focus my phone, and sunglasses so I can see to walk. I am constantly switching from one to the other, getting them tangled up and practically choking myself with them.
I’m sure I look quite comical when I’m wrestling with them…
For this reason I seldom take my real camera anywhere - it would be yet another complicating strap (although having a cross-body camera strap instead of a neck strap helps a little, and prevents neck strain.)
I do use a cross-body shoulder strap for my telephoto camera so it’s not hanging from my neck with my binocs and reading glasses. I briefly tried having both reading glasses and sunglasses hanging from my neck but that was rather comical when they got entangled along with my binocs. I think even the birds laughed at me as I tried to extract my binocs.
Years ago, I met someone who had auto focus eyeglasses where liquid crystal tech actually made the switch automatically between far and near delegation on their angle and/or a touch switch on the frame. Bifocal performance for full lens coverage.
Sadly, these were pulled from the market shortly after I looked at them. My guess is the legal complications of using eyewear that depended on charging. What happens, from a liability point, when your glasses quit while driving, perhaps?
When out hiking with my camera I am almost always in those multifocal sunglasses. (Unless it is a gloomy winter day) Back at my laptop with reading glasses. Before my sunglasses were multifocal, I lost a pair at Cape Point - out of the way for the camera … and gone walkabout when I wanted them again.
I haven’t had that problem, though I do wear glasses and have to switch quite a bit. My suggestion would be to keep the glasses on a normal chain/lopp then tie another cord to the back of that and attach it to somthing, so that if they do fall off backwards this acts as a retainer.
