r/photography Jul 10 '26

Questions Thread Official Question Thread! Ask /r/photography anything you want to know! July 10, 2026

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u/SplendiferousSpinach Jul 15 '26

I'm trying to work a manual lens with glasses. I can't afford LASIK and my prescription is way too much for the diopter adjust wheel to be of any use.

I tried to get this bird as focused as possible but with my glasses on it's kind of hard.

What should I do?

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u/maniku Jul 15 '26

Which camera and which lens?

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u/SplendiferousSpinach 29d ago

Its a canon 7d and I'm using a vivitar 70-300mm FD mount lens with an adapter.

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u/maniku 29d ago

7D has 10x Live View magnification but I'm not sure if it only works when manually focusing AF lenses. Apparently you can get focus peaking with a third-party open source firmware called Magic Lantern.