Got chatting with FTRShooter on the sticky in this section and mentioned my vission issues. He suggested I make a thread about eye issues and picking optics. A little history I have had diebetes for 45 years now and suffered some of the long term issues it brings. One of them it effects your vision if you are not as careful with your blood sugars as you should be. Well when you are 10 yrs old who wants to test their blood and watch every thing you eat. Then you turn into a teen and a young adult male bad news all around. At about 23yrs old I was diagnosed with retinopathy. Which means I had blood vessels growing onto my retina. Had them removed and all was good all of a sudden my left eye was hard to see through. More laser surgery but the vessel was over the main vision part no more being a left handed shooter. Several years later my right retina was falling off the DR said to wait but I wanted a second opinion. Before I could get it retina detached and I was sent to a specialist who attached it right away. My vision actually picked up and I was happy and actually watching my diabetes closely. How ever with all the laser surgery I have lost a lot periphial vision. Along with that my night vision is sliding too.
I have learned now that I need to pick higher end optics to see what others can see with a lot lower quality glass. In this time I have learned to set up my optics to tgeir best. In fact now it frustrates me when others assume their optics come preset set from the box to match their eyes. Not all assume this some are just afraid adjust them in case they wreck them. An example a friend got got a Nikon bino scope package deal at Cabela's he was so proud how clear his binos were. I looked through them and even with my bad left eye I could see they were not set up right. He went to the bathroom and I set them so both eyes focused the same. When he came back I said what do you now his answer they are twice as clear.
There must be other here that have vision issues how do you deal with them and choose your optics.
I have learned now that I need to pick higher end optics to see what others can see with a lot lower quality glass. In this time I have learned to set up my optics to tgeir best. In fact now it frustrates me when others assume their optics come preset set from the box to match their eyes. Not all assume this some are just afraid adjust them in case they wreck them. An example a friend got got a Nikon bino scope package deal at Cabela's he was so proud how clear his binos were. I looked through them and even with my bad left eye I could see they were not set up right. He went to the bathroom and I set them so both eyes focused the same. When he came back I said what do you now his answer they are twice as clear.
There must be other here that have vision issues how do you deal with them and choose your optics.