Let's say you enjoy perfect eyesight, a blessing indeed for our line of work.
Then quickly, your eyesight degenerates – in both eyes.
LF becomes too difficult – you decide it's time to see a doctor.
After examining your stricken eyes, your doctor, much to your relief, says don't worry, you're only aging, it's all quite natural, and he can help. He can fix your near vision, or your distant vision – not both – and prescribe spectacles for the other. He adds that you'd always need the spectacles for the type of vision you choose them for.
In a recent thread on cataract surgery (good luck, Bruce Watson), I mentioned that either choice, in the context of my personal landscape work, would be equally bad: Fix distant vision, but you'd still need spectacles for set-up, focusing, movements; contrariwise, fix near vision, but you'd still need spectacles to see distant (and not-so-distant) subjects from your tripod position. Scylla or Charybdis.
Such a choice would, of course, be based on many lifestyle considerations, not just your LF work in field, studio, and darkroom, and it would be a very personal choice indeed.
But when it comes to LF, what choice would you make – and why?
Also, would you order a special eyeglass design to ease your LF work?
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