Time for new glasses

[balzaccom]

It was time, after the COVID slowdown and everything.  The prescription wasn't hugely different from the previous one...but enough that the new glasses do make a difference.  

Oh--and the frames are titanium, because...you know. Titanium.

[bobby49]

I wear nothing frames, and that is lighter than titanium.

I've worn eyeglasses for fifty years, and at my last driver license vision test, I passed it without any glasses at all. Go figure.

[The Other Tom]

Having my cataracts "fixed" was the best thing I've ever done. Wish I had it done earlier. I chose a distance correction, so now I'm 20/20, but I still need reading glasses. I could have gone one eye distance and one eye close, but I didn't think I would like that.

[Wandering Daisy]

After breaking a very expensive bifocals (fell on my face and broke the frame and popped one lens out, never to be found) and having another drop out of my pocket into a boulder field, I have given up on bifocals. I now get one pair of regular reading glasses and another for computer length focus. When I get new glasses, I take the old pair that work the best for what little reading of maps I do. No big loss if I wreck them. I carry them in a bubble wrap mailer cut to fit the glasses. Very light.

[wildhiker]

I started getting presbyopia (inability to focus close up) in my mid-forties and it has gotten progressively worse. For reading maps in the backcountry, I just take a cheap plastic magnifier. Fortunately, my distance vision is still good and that is what matters to me while backpacking!
-Phil

[rlown]

I swear by progressives now. I use my regular pair as backups and I always have the ones I'm wearing in the cars and a backup pair in the glovebox.
I've stepped on glasses in the backcountry and had to re-learn how to walk with the backup pair. I was missing the ground by about 4" just to get back to camp.

[Lumbergh21]

I started getting presbyopia (inability to focus close up) in my mid-forties and it has gotten progressively worse. For reading maps in the backcountry, I just take a cheap plastic magnifier. Fortunately, my distance vision is still good and that is what matters to me while backpacking!
-Phil

Same here. When I got my driver's license renewed this year, they put on it that I wore corrective lenses. I took the eye test without glasses, because for one thing I can't see at a distance with my reading glasses on, but I guess the lady saw me using them to surf the web on my phone while waiting. They refuse to change it. Love the CA DMV.

[balzaccom]

Same here. When I got my driver's license renewed this year, they put on it that I wore corrective lenses. I took the eye test without glasses, because for one thing I can't see at a distance with my reading glasses on, but I guess the lady saw me using them to surf the web on my phone while waiting. They refuse to change it. Love the CA DMV.
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But without your glasses, how do you read your speedometer?

[Lumbergh21]

Same here. When I got my driver's license renewed this year, they put on it that I wore corrective lenses. I took the eye test without glasses, because for one thing I can't see at a distance with my reading glasses on, but I guess the lady saw me using them to surf the web on my phone while waiting. They refuse to change it. Love the CA DMV.

But without your glasses, how do you read your speedometer?

My speedometer is a little bit bigger than 11 pt font and over an arms length from my eyes.