How bad is your eyesight?
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From: Hong Kong
Originally Posted by VoIPA,Aug 23 2006, 01:29 PM
My prescription for my contacts are currently -7.5 diopters on the left and -8 on the right. My doc told me that my actual correction should be -7.75 and -8.25, but they only go by .5 diopters when you get eyesight that bad.
So who has the worst eyesight here?
So who has the worst eyesight here?
Thank God for contacts.
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Originally Posted by vader1,Aug 23 2006, 03:35 PM
I never win anything.
I think mine are 6.5 or something like that.
I wear disposable contacts....
I already visited the local "cut up your eye" guy...$4k for the "Custom" or $3k for the "generic". Haven't made the committment yet.
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I actually had a funny story about eyesight. I was in physics class at the time and we were doing a lab on focal length. Needless to say we had to determine the focal length of the lense we were given. Without even starting the lab I put the "unknown" lense up to my eye for shits and giggles and I was like WTF?? I can see clearly!! 
I then walked up to the teacher (gave me the done already look) and gave him the focal length which also corresponds to your "grade." I asked him just curious if the focal length was -7.0 and he said yup! He asked how did I figure it out so quick and I said "because its the same grade as my glasses!" He laughed and told me to follow through w/ the lab...
For all those w/ contacts your "grade" is lower due to the fact that the lense is closer to focal point in the eye. If you were to wear glasses your grade would be slightly higher.
I then walked up to the teacher (gave me the done already look) and gave him the focal length which also corresponds to your "grade." I asked him just curious if the focal length was -7.0 and he said yup! He asked how did I figure it out so quick and I said "because its the same grade as my glasses!" He laughed and told me to follow through w/ the lab...For all those w/ contacts your "grade" is lower due to the fact that the lense is closer to focal point in the eye. If you were to wear glasses your grade would be slightly higher.