01-04-2011, 07:41 PM
I am the poster child for myopia, having worn glasses since I was 18 months old ... please ... no Coke bottle jokes!
I have worn bi-focals now for better than 15 years. I use an Optivisor with a #5 optical plate screwed to the front of it and a sinbgle "high intensity" Tensor-type work lamp. For really small, really close work, I look just over the top of my glasses , straight through the Optivisor and just move in closer. I've built stuff like the Scale Structures Limited "Vertical Steam Engine," which is maybe 3/4" tall with ten or twelve parts, and painted it ... as an optical aid, the thing is a God-send ... oh ... can I still say that?
Sure, I used to get ribbed by my former wife (and now by my grown up daughter) about how I look with it flipped up on my head ... so what! I could say something about the way they ... well ... I could, but I won't ... because I'm too nice a guy to say something like that! I just smile and suck it up.
I would highly recommend the Original Optivisor and one or two "high intensity" lamps ... you should be fine!
I have worn bi-focals now for better than 15 years. I use an Optivisor with a #5 optical plate screwed to the front of it and a sinbgle "high intensity" Tensor-type work lamp. For really small, really close work, I look just over the top of my glasses , straight through the Optivisor and just move in closer. I've built stuff like the Scale Structures Limited "Vertical Steam Engine," which is maybe 3/4" tall with ten or twelve parts, and painted it ... as an optical aid, the thing is a God-send ... oh ... can I still say that?
Sure, I used to get ribbed by my former wife (and now by my grown up daughter) about how I look with it flipped up on my head ... so what! I could say something about the way they ... well ... I could, but I won't ... because I'm too nice a guy to say something like that! I just smile and suck it up.
I would highly recommend the Original Optivisor and one or two "high intensity" lamps ... you should be fine!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln