Re: Focusing question

"Bob Kirkpatrick" <bob.kirkpatrick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> If you are far sighted, reading glasses from the drugstore are the
> same as diopters when using a waist level finder.  Pick a pair that
> allows you to focus on the matte screen when you are holding the
> camera at your waist.  If you are near sighted, your ophthomologist or
> optometrist can give you a prescription for a specific focusing
> distance like your waist.  At least one older photographer I know of
> has four different prescriptions in his bifocal photography glasses
> and mentally switches eyes depending upon the distance.
>

Thanks.  That sounds  worth checking in to.