Prescription mask or contact lenses

I had two prescription masks made with bifocal lenses. The one I like the best was made in the Bronx by RX divemask The optician was very fast with returning it to me, and it has larger than usual bifocal inserts. I had to ask him to make them bigger, as I already had a mask made with the small semicircular bifocal near the lower mid edge of the mask, and could not see thru them for focusing the camera. With the ones made by RX divemask, I not only see my gauges, camera viewfinder, but also can look for and see the critters I want to shoot!

 

The cost was comparable to other places, and I got excellent fast return on the mask. He can make lenses for most masks. Call him and you get him...

I will check them out as I am in NY and go thru the bronx all the time

thanks

jd

My experience.

Bi-focal contacts are a compromise, but a really good compromise. They use a series of concentric circles, so there isn't a lower and upper section. I found both distance and close focusing were compromised, but workable. Underwater, I noticed the difference even less.

The problem or con of bifocal mask is that the position of the two diopters is fixed.

Thanks !! I dont understand the one eye focused for far and one for near please explain

I just had Lasik. I chose the monovision option. The stronger eye is corrected to 20-20 or better. Once that eye is corrected, you will not be able to focus close if you are beyond a certain age. The weaker eye is corrected to about 20-50. This eye can focus close, but you can't see crap at distance. Over time your brain adjusts and you see things with the appropriate eye dominating for each situation.

I hate it. It sucks. I can't see crap at night. Reading vision is weird. I have a no man's land where I can't read anything. Too close for the fully corrected eye and too far away for the less corrected eye. I don't have to wear glasses per se, but I went from one pair of bi-focals to two pairs. I have a pair of distance glasses for night driving and reading glasses for reading my lap top screen. Each has one plain lens in it.

Do you mind if I print your post and give it to all my lasik and cataract patients?

Actually a lot of people do very well with monovision. But I do recommend a trial in it with contact lenses before you have surgery.

Basically with monovision one eye is made or left near sighted so that it is in focus up close. Of course if you are over 50 you have to pick the near distance you want to be in focus at. Reading or computer? Or the piano??

Surgeons like to put everyone in monovision. They don't want you to pay 5000$ for surgery and and tell your friends you still have to wear glasses for reading.

You should be able to focus through a dSLRs viewfinder without near focus. I believe that image is rendered to optical infinity or something close to it. See a LCD gets very hard as you get older. They are a difficult thing to focus on and you have to hold them close which makes them harder yet to focus on.

You need the near focus to read your gauges and any LCD screens on you camera.

Do you mind if I print your post and give it to all my lasik and cataract patients?

 

Actually a lot of people do very well with monovision. But I do recommend a trial in it with contact lenses before you have surgery.

 

Basically with monovision one eye is made or left near sighted so that it is in focus up close. Of course if you are over 50 you have to pick the near distance you want to be in focus at. Reading or computer? Or the piano??

 

Surgeons like to put everyone in monovision. They don't want you to pay 5000$ for surgery and and tell your friends you still have to wear glasses for reading.

 

You should be able to focus through a dSLRs viewfinder without near focus. I believe that image is rendered to optical infinity or something close to it. See a LCD gets very hard as you get older. They are a difficult thing to focus on and you have to hold them close which makes them harder yet to focus on.

 

You need the near focus to read your gauges and any LCD screens on you camera.\

 

I too had the Lasik, monovision thing 5 years ago. Things are fine for the most part but the old age truck has come and run me over a bit, so now I have monovision Lasik with bifocal lenses so I can actually read something. For the first three years though it was killer, being able to see the clock when I woke up and being able to read the paper, it was heaven

Bill