I've finally been given the crisp long distance vision I've longed for my entire life as a person with severe myopia.

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14. How is your close vision?

I am highly myopic and 76, so it's coming soon. I remove my glasses countless times a day to see up close.

Phone? I'm doing it now. Camera display panel, fine print, you name it.

I would need strong readers to do this, and actually get along fine at home with 2 diopters less power than my distant glasses ( about the same as distant vision equal to a computer monitor distance)

Even reading music on my piano would need reading glasses. I do not subscribe to "one eye close and one eye distant". An optometrist tried that and my head felt like a slip-strike earthquake fault. One side going north and the other side going south.

Lots to decide. Cataracts do not yet hinder normal life. Even lots of photography.

I am not sure about/if "progressive" lenses would work. I'd need 2 diopters or more to see close objects.

Keeping a close 👁️ on things.

I did optical engineering for some years, hence the terminology.

Zoom and autofocus work great on cameras but not on people. We got freakin AI instead.

Ain't fair!!!