"Nalani" Topic

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Armand

Have you quit painting due to deteriorating vision?

1. Yes
2. No
3. Not a painter
4. Have found a work around
5. Still painting, but worse than ever
6.

Did, but picked up an optivisor.

Nope – just look over my glasses a little than usual

6. Briefly, but resumed following cataracts surgery.

Optivisor +1

John

Nalani has her optivisor pulled up over her forehead and seems to have gotten some paint in her hair. The respirator is in place but it looks like the filters may be clogged.

4. Shifted up in scale.

As my vision deteriorates I'm becoming happier with my paint jobs

No, just use magnifying, asked my dentist about his but he said it wasn't cheap.

On the other hand after the picture abpve I might

Yes, like robert, the cataracts surgery helped quite a bit.

No, never. Or at least not until I can't do it anymore.

Very well painted …

My vision has deteriorated to 20/15, but I haven't stopped yet.

I'll stop painting when they pry the brush from my cold, dead hands.

jeffreyw3 or anyone else in that position, I showed the ophthalmologist some H&R SYW Prussians, and explained that that was what I wanted to get back to. She said "Oh. You need 6.0 reading glasses" and handed me a catalog.

Also turns out you can get them from Amazon. Too near a focal point for any normal activity, but exactly what you want for painting.

up-scaled and added an Optivisor

Never quit, just slow…and getting slower.

Newly purchased Optivisor has helped.

It's not my bad eyesight but the arthritis in my hand that makes painting difficult. I can only hold a brush for about 10 minutes at a time on bad days.

I doubt I could paint without my two Optivisors, one mounting a #3 lens and the other mounting a #4 lens. I have quit painting 15mm's though.

Like 14Bore, I asked my dentist about the magnifier he uses, and he replied the total kit, including the light, has a price tag of around $2,000. USD

Yeah, had cataract surgery last Aug. Both eyes 2 weeks apart. Got the cataracts removed and had new lenses implanted. I don't need glasses for any save for reading and working on my 6mm models. And even when painting 6mm I use those "jewelers" flip down glasses.

We do suffer for our "art" …

Robert--yeah, I have different types of "readers" stashed, but the Optivisor is quite different.

As do I … one for reading, one for the computer and one for modelling with the OptiVISOR … Good thing you can get "cheaters" fairly cheaply at drug stores, Dollar General, etc.

6. Moved up to larger scales.

7. Bought 3.0 readers at Costco.

As the optometrist said last week, nice thing being nearsighted is being able to read in bed without glasses. Same goes for painting – just take of the glasses and hold the minis a bit closer.

She's got square hips!!!

Dan

I asked my dentist about the magnifier he uses, and he replied the total kit, including the light, has a price tag of around $2,000.00 USD USD

That's not bad. Mine ran over 4,000.00 Canadian!

Try Joann's Fabrics (IRL preferably, or online) and browse through the quilting lights and magnifiers. Free standing. Desk mount. Head mount. Ho/lo magnification. Tons of different combinations.

Same goes for (now nearly extinct) electronics component stores. Electronics mags usually come with arms for heat sinks (not needed for minis?) and clamps to hold "your project" to give you two hands free for solder and an soldering iron.

Both options have way more options to fit your specific need and are way cheaper. Most of the magnifier lights on sale are cheaper than the replacement nuclear fusion, illuminate three counties bulbs (… OK … high performance LED) which are $50 USD to replace. I bought a quilt magnifier light five years ago and haven't needed the replacement bulb I bought with it.

I use a free-standing quilting magnifier light or an electronics magnification glass (with holding clamps) for putting tattoos on my 28mm minis.