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Contact lenses vs glasses for birding

To: "Dave Torr" <>
Subject: Contact lenses vs glasses for birding
From: "Peter Shute" <>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:40:12 +1000
I shut my right eye, and focus for the left, then I shut my left eye and
adjust the diopter for my right.  Usually the dipoter setting ends up
close to zero.  I have actually become quite quick at diopter setting,
as my first binoculars were crappy ones that required different settings
for different distances!

The problem is that every now and then I find it's wrong (but hasn't
slipped).  So I go through the procedure and fix it.  The setting ends
up a bit to the right of zero.  Then a little while later I have to put
it back again.  From this I deduce that one lens moves a little on my
eye, then moves back.  I will experiment with blinking to try to fix it
instead.

Peter Shute

Dave Torr wrote on Wednesday, 10 October 2007 4:19 PM:

> Seems you are not adjusting your lens settings correctly. The
> technique is to see which lens has the diopter setting. If it
> is the right one then close your right eye and focus on a
> distant object. Then close left eye (and open right one) and
> refocus using ONLY the diopter setting. This should then be
> fine in all conditions (until it gets knocked!)
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