Wanderlust 4x5 P&S

[Roger Cole]

Pretty sure we are all half blind. A prerequisite for any photog. I need my glasses for viewfinders and then have to take them off to look at GG from 2 inches. Soon getting granny straps for my goggles.

Saw this after I posted - same for me!

[Roger Cole]

Roger, could you provide a link please? Thank you.

Randy suggested I post the link here, but I found where I'd got it from and just quoted it. See the link above for cheap viewfinders.

I had been concerned he'd run out, but if you read the description he makes these, and admits up front they aren't going to compete with a $200-$600 model, but though he has a couple of feedbacks saying they are not useful and dim, many others seem to like them. For $32 (including shipping to the US) I figure there's not much to lose. He makes them in an assortment of focal lengths so you can get shorter than a 28mm if you want.

Here's a direct link to the 28mm:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/28mm-Viewfin...item2a2a343f58

24mm:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/24mm-Viewfin...item27d1986f24

[Larry Kellogg]

Of course it depends on ones vision and glasses too. I have to wear my glasses when doing almost anything more than 6" away, including viewing at infinity. Though I do take them off under the dark cloth. Usually I forget my dedicated reading glasses so you can see my regular glasses dangling out from under the darkcloth as I hold them with the temple in my teeth.

Same for me too. I need the glasses to focus with a loupe, but feel more comfortable taking them off to assess composition. It's a pain. I guess my progressive lenses don't work well in this situation. I don't know how I would explain it to my optometrist. I could bring along the camera.

[Roger Cole]

I take my glasses off to use the loupe too (and to focus my enlarger.)

[Kuzano]

I'm going to ask my NeuroSurgeon friend for one of those sets of glasses that have the two flip up magnifying lenses. If they're good enough for poking around in your brain, they're good enough for 4X5 format photography. In addition, if you wear them in bars... they make the drinks look man size, like days past. Not the tiny shots they sit in front of you now for $6 bucks.

[Tin Can]

The glasses sound great. But you are in the wrong bar. My local pours at least a two oz shot. I don't go there often anymore, but they showed me the old days last Saturday. Sunday was a lost day.

I'm going to ask my NeuroSurgeon friend for one of those sets of glasses that have the two flip up magnifying lenses. If they're good enough for poking around in your brain, they're good enough for 4X5 format photography. In addition, if you wear them in bars... they make the drinks look man size, like days past. Not the tiny shots they sit in front of you now for $6 bucks.

[rdenney]

I'm going to ask my NeuroSurgeon friend for one of those sets of glasses that have the two flip up magnifying lenses. If they're good enough for poking around in your brain, they're good enough for 4X5 format photography. In addition, if you wear them in bars... they make the drinks look man size, like days past. Not the tiny shots they sit in front of you now for $6 bucks.

If they are made for doctors, they probably cost $2473.45..

Rick "or $8.99 at Harbor Freight" Denney

[Roger Cole]

If you can get your insurance to buy them though they'll have a negotiated discount price of $218, minus your 20% co-pay...

[Tin Can]

what is insurance???

If you can get your insurance to buy them though they'll have a negotiated discount price of $218, minus your 20% co-pay...

[Ben Syverson]

Lou Reed invented a series of eyeglasses called Lou's Views. You can flip up the lenses individually. Pretty ingenious! Check them out.

Later he was having trouble seeing the contact list on his iPhone, so I collaborated with him to create Lou Zoom, which is an iPhone app for viewing your contacts in high contrast Helvetica Neue. He liked it so much that he made this video, which is basically my favorite thing ever. Wired Magazine called the app "Reed’s best collaboration since Songs for Drella."

I swear I'm not making any of this up.