On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 08:28:15 -0600, Roger <leica35@yahoo.com> wrote:

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>Auto focus, I think, is a highly personal choice. Until recently my

>bias was towards high eye point manual focus cameras - e.g. the F3HP.

>My preference has changed more recently as my eyes now require

>multivision glasses - viewfinder magnification also comes into play in

>these situations.

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There is a simple glasses solution to age-related inability

to focus ones eyes over wide ranges, and I think it is

better than using standard trifocal or vari-focus lenses

(I hate the former for the "breaks", and the latter for

the narrow angle of sharp vision...). It uses bifocals

to provide four instead of two distance corrections, with

the advantages of having smooth wide-angle sharp vision

continuously over a wide focus range, good "ground" vision,

and ideal camera VF vision. I have been using this system

for years, and it has no "down-side" - it is described at:

http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/articles.html#glasses.