In article <01bc1956$a2199a40$2603c8cd@NorthStar.NorCom.mb.ca>, towers@norcom.mb.ca says...

>Can anyone answer this question:
>If a person needs glasses to see far-away objects clearly but can see
>close-by object OK, would he/she wear his/her glasses when looking through
>an SLR camera??
>I assume that this photographer needs to "see" clearly what is on the
>mirror, which is close and NOT the real image which is far. What I am
>asking, really, is: do you view the close image OR the far-away image?
>I just started wearing glasses to see far-away objects clearly----do I need
>them for SLR photography?? How 'bout for looking on the groundglass of my
>medium format camera?
>Comments will be much appreciated.......an ageing photog.

Hmmm, you haven't "seen" ;-) anything yet - just wait 'til your
eyes barely focus, and quadrafocals are in order....;-(
Most SLR's VF's are set up so that the screen appears to be
about 3-4' away, and is generally well-focused with the distance
lens of the glasses. (I had my camera-eye "long-distance" lens set
for about 4' so I could still manually focus the camera easily
[and it helped to fill the gap between the normal distant-correction,
and my bifocals {which are set at two greater than normal distances},
providing four distance corrections, alternating between the two sides]).
Use whatever works - if you can see the ground glass "grind" better
with the glasses, use them. If not, don't (or get a pair with the
camera-eye corrected for about 4'...).
Hope This Helps