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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted February 12, 2007 09:06 PM

1) Thread up film.
2) Start Projector.
3) Light up projection lamp.
4) Focus.
5) Lay down on couch intending to enjoy film.
6) What? Focus is out!
7) Stand up to refocus.
8) What? Focus is OK!

Repeat 5 through 8 until infuriated.

9) Find old glasses.
10) Finally enjoy film.

Stupid Progressive Lenses!

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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...

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Graham Ritchie
Film God

Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006

posted February 13, 2007 12:27 AM

Steve
The doctors have a name for it "The Aging Process" [Eek!]

next its your hearing its all downhill after 40 [Wink]

My wife has just been to the doctor and has told me she has the mumps I guess its from the grandkids coughing and spluttering all over us last weekend, my son thinks its amusing I told him he might not find it so, if he gets it [Eek!]

. it has been suggested I should sleep with my projectors [Smile]

Graham.

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted February 13, 2007 06:07 AM

Graham,

You hit the nail on the head! My Optometrist called it "The Maturing Process", but I could just smell the euphemism! Maturing is the process of reaching the peak. This is more like "over-ripening"!

The progressive lenses are great in a lot of respects. For example for the first time in a long time I can both see the road ahead and read my odometer without quickly flipping my glasses up, but unfortunately the fact that they tie close viewing into looking down means the only way to watch a film laying on the couch is to bury my chin in my chest!

Hope your wife feels better!

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Joerg Polzfusz
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 815
From: Berlin, Germany, Europe, Earth, Solar System
Registered: Apr 2006

posted February 13, 2007 09:33 AM

Hi,

even though there's a high chance that you're only not used to progressive lenses it could be that the optician sold you the wrong lenses (at least this happened to me a year ago).

Jörg

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted February 13, 2007 10:38 AM

Actually the glasses seem great except in this instance I'm kind of forcing them to "work" in a way they weren't intended. The formula is "Look up, see far. Look down, see close". If you can stay within these parameters, everything is just ducky. However, Since this is real life, every rule has exceptions. This particular instance is a good example.

Another is stairs: if you like to see where your feet are landing when you negotiate the stairs, you look down. However, the focus at that angle is arms' length, so what you wind up seeing is more than a little out of focus! Disorienting?, perhaps. Fatal?, hopefully not!

It's a better compromise than before since the prescription was for distance and a lot that I do is close work. This meant the glasses were usually lying on a table somewhere and I kept losing track of them! (Of course since I couldn't actually see them across the room....)

Those glasses will now stay over by my projectors, and life will go on!

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