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Wearing eyeglasses while using a riflescope

Shooting with glasses suck. Lenses on top of scope lenses just add up to produce distorsion. Eye glass are not flat but curve with different perspective between your eye and varying thickness of the glasses. They are not helping shooting but are creating problems.I remove them for shooting and I do very very well without them. No point in adding layer of glass or even worse plastic in front of a 5k scope where lenses were made for precision.
That has been my feeling as well for a long time. But I thought I would share my latest findings.
 
RX Safety also has Trivex lenses.
I do have the Trivex lens just looked at my receipt I thought that I ordered them with that glass but couldn't remember I have single vision pair with the trivex also which I use to shoot with, bifocals don't work for me they are clear and very light, they are Located in Middlesex NJ takes about 10 days to get glasses..great company very long lasting glasses and the price is not hard on the pocketbook
 
I do have the Trivex lens just looked at my receipt I thought that I ordered them with that glass but couldn't remember I have single vision pair with the trivex also which I use to shoot with, bifocals don't work for me they are clear and very light, they are Located in Middlesex NJ takes about 10 days to get glasses..great company very long lasting glasses and the price is not hard on the pocketbook
I tried to order a pair from RX Safety but had a problem finding the Trivex lenses. I'm old and easily confused and Zenni worked well for me. I like simple things.
 
The first pair that I ordered was the safety glasses, with no prescription. I wanted the least expensive Trivex glasses that I could get and kept them simple. If I was shooting without glasses up to now, I just wanted a shield with no other changes. I say for the first test, they aced it.
Like you I can't read without glasses, but as I explained, you're using your far vision to see through a riflescope, it's afocal.
I would love to have a non prescription pair with a small reader portion on the bottom to see the turrets markings.
I will check out the website to see if this is available.
Thank you for this safety glasses recommendation.
 
Please explain
A simple way that I understand it is:
without getting overly technical
The different colors of light refracts through the lenses at different angles
(Reason why we get a rainbow) All those colors enter from one end then exit according to their physics assigned angles)
the goal is to get them to line back up at your pupil on the other end
Red Blue Green being the main 3 colors of importance
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If one color is off, alignment, (They can use coatings or additional lenses to correct CA)
If one color is off, the image deteriorates either in contrast, focus, sharpness, quality, etc
This is very important for low light conditions, since you need all the help you can get and having as much of the color spectrum available for your eye assists in low light image quality
this is why paying more money for a scope usually yields better results in this area.
Think BSA vs Zeiss
there is no way that a $100 Walmart 6-24x BSA will have much attention paid to CA, and more attention instead simply on image magnification
High end coatings that aid in this area are expensive - (lets say $800 as the processes and rare elements used are also expensive)
again, another reason why even a decent $500 scope will not hold up to a March
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I have read mixed opinions regarding wearing glasses with using a scope
Some say it's ok, I tend to believe that extra medium the light has to pass through may deteriorate quality
If it works for you, go for it.
yet it is important to know that, The occular adjusts for whatever corrective your eye needs
 
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Great info.

I recently got long distance correction sunglasses and eyeglasses for driving and bicycling. They’re not useful outside of that. But I still could really use cheaters or progressives for all purpose use. I do have a progressive prescription that I have yet to fill and there are so many options to get them done it’s bewildering. Ordering them has been on my to-do list for a few weeks now.

The low CA high impact glass is a feature I really want and this helps me narrow it down a lot.
 
A simple way that I understand it is:
without getting overly technical
The different colors of light refracts through the lenses at different angles
(Reason why we get a rainbow) All those colors enter from one end then exit according to their physics assigned angles)
the goal is to get them to line back up at your pupil on the other end
Red Blue Green being the main 3 colors of importance
--------------
If one color is off, alignment, (They can use coatings or additional lenses to correct CA)
If one color is off, the image deteriorates either in contrast, focus, sharpness, quality, etc
This is very important for low light conditions, since you need all the help you can get and having as much of the color spectrum available for your eye assists in low light image quality
this is why paying more money for a scope usually yields better results in this area.
Think BSA vs Zeiss
there is no way that a $100 Walmart 6-24x BSA will have much attention paid to CA, and more attention instead simply on image magnification
High end coatings that aid in this area are expensive - (lets say $800 as the processes and rare elements used are also expensive)
again, another reason why even a decent $500 scope will not hold up to a March
-----
I have read mixed opinions regarding wearing glasses with using a scope
Some say it's ok, I tend to believe that extra medium the light has to pass through may deteriorate quality
If it works for you, go for it.
yet it is important to know that, The occular adjusts for whatever corrective your eye needs
I will state again; coatings do nothing to correct CA. In optical terms, coatings only to control the reflection of light at the air/glass boundary, and they can reduce glare or ghost images (all products of reflectivity.) The do not imp[act or affect CA in any way, shape, or form.

There are also coatings to make the glass more scratch resistant, repel water, mud and dust and make coffee. But coatings don't do CA.
 
A simple way that I understand it is:
without getting overly technical
The different colors of light refracts through the lenses at different angles
(Reason why we get a rainbow) All those colors enter from one end then exit according to their physics assigned angles)
the goal is to get them to line back up at your pupil on the other end
Red Blue Green being the main 3 colors of importance
--------------
If one color is off, alignment, (They can use coatings or additional lenses to correct CA)
If one color is off, the image deteriorates either in contrast, focus, sharpness, quality, etc
This is very important for low light conditions, since you need all the help you can get and having as much of the color spectrum available for your eye assists in low light image quality
this is why paying more money for a scope usually yields better results in this area.
Think BSA vs Zeiss
there is no way that a $100 Walmart 6-24x BSA will have much attention paid to CA, and more attention instead simply on image magnification
High end coatings that aid in this area are expensive - (lets say $800 as the processes and rare elements used are also expensive)
again, another reason why even a decent $500 scope will not hold up to a March
-----
I have read mixed opinions regarding wearing glasses with using a scope
Some say it's ok, I tend to believe that extra medium the light has to pass through may deteriorate quality
If it works for you, go for it.
yet it is important to know that, The occular adjusts for whatever corrective your eye needs
I had trouble setting or keeping parallax perfect while wearing my glasses… I had to set up close to the same and it was frustrating. My ophthalmologist is a gun enthusiast and looked into it and then told me to try without eyewear… it worked .. no glasses better 1000 yards results particularly when light conditions changed during a string… we’ve just ordered some old fashioned bi-focals with big top eyebox to see how I do with them… I know light shining into the area of the eye and scope eye peice with glasses mon plays tricks… eyeglasses cause trouble for me
 
Being nearsighted and not enough adjustment in the occular of my scope, I have to shoot with glasses. One particular aspect of my shooting glasses I have been thinking about lately is the polarization filtering I had added to my lenses. They are also tinted bronze and mirrored. I'm wondering if the polarizing filter is reducing or making muddier the mirage I see through my scope. I do shoot with a spotting scope focused in closer to better see the mirage, but some days it can be worse.
 
I have seen the results of case failures that would have resulted in eye damage and possible vision loss, if the shooter had not been wearing glasses.

I am slightly nearsighted. My glasses are bifocals with lines,d which became a requirement when I hit my early 40s. None of this causes me any problem for my shooting, not image quality, or chromatic aberration.

I have a fair amount of background in the basics of optics and vision. Sometimes I get the impression that some shooters forget that we are not using our rifle scopes for bird watching or photography.

IMO, assuming reasonable image sharpness, the most important quality of a scope used for target shooting is that it not have any shift in point of impact at a given setting. This is not something that can be assumed based on price tag.

Many many years ago, I made a scope rack such that five different 36X scopes could be mounted, side by side, with the whole thing on a sturdy portable table, shooters could adjust the scopes to their own eyes and take as much time as they wanted to view a target through each of the scopes. All of the ring sets were adjustable. I used a single, centered scope to adjust them so it was centered on the same target. Perhaps it is time for someone to do the same thing. Back then 36X was the highest power available for a fixed power scope. The scopes were a Leupold, two different Tasco designs, a Bausch and Lomb, and a Weaver T model.

Have any of you experimented with light tint yellow filters on your objective, eyepiece or as glasses lens tint, for improving contrast and apparent sharpness, particularly in overcast conditions?
 
Being nearsighted and not enough adjustment in the occular of my scope, I have to shoot with glasses. One particular aspect of my shooting glasses I have been thinking about lately is the polarization filtering I had added to my lenses. They are also tinted bronze and mirrored. I'm wondering if the polarizing filter is reducing or making muddier the mirage I see through my scope. I do shoot with a spotting scope focused in closer to better see the mirage, but some days it can be worse.
Stay away from polarization when using riflescopes. It can introduce issues. Also, any tinting of eyeglasses reduces light transmission and can create issues with different coatings. Stay as clear as possible.
 

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