I am literally still putting steroid/antibiotic drops in both my eyes after having lens replacements. Moreover, I’m picking up the ipad for a sec after having just spent 30 minutes looking through the sights of a good number of the more common items in my safe.
After talking with several people, including @
mmc45414 who was most helpful, I ended up going distance vision in my non-dominant eye, and setting my dominant (right) eye for arms-length focus. As it happens, the ideal distance for a music stand is within a half inch or so of the FS on a G45, so having an eye optimized for arm’s length yields both specific (shooting, music) and non-specific (using a cell phone, reading a menu, email, checking my watch, etc.) benefits. In short, I’m sold on the mono vision solution. I don’t *need* glasses to do the things I want to do at this point. I’ll probably get a pair optimized for distance so my dominant eye can be more equal to my non-dominant/distance eye for driving long distances, but I don’t have to get glasses any time soon to function.
At this point, I have peregrine falcon vision in my distance eye, and I can see the sights on my old fixed sight J-frames with my dominant eye, so I am a seriously happy camper. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend mono vision as a solution, with the caveat that I’m only 4 days out from the dominant eye.
mmc will be along at some point—I found his input to be most reassuring, but I’m thinking mono vision all the way. Two distance eyes would be killer for hiking and driving, but you’ll be chained to low-mag readers from any walgreens to check the time if you wake up at 3am, or read a menu, or surf P-F on your phone. Not the end of the world; I did that with my first eye for 2 weeks, but it’s nice to be able to see my watch or the sights of a vintage j-frame without glasses. On the other hand, there is at least one other P-F’er who did distance in both eyes, and is doing wonderfully. The up close correction isn’t a deal breaker, considering the overall improvement.
Whichever way you go, you are going to like it a hell of a lot more than what you’ve got now, for sure.
HTH.