r/tacticalgear • u/Sauerkraut99 • 1d ago

Question Does This Mean I Need Glasses?

Recently purchased my 1st LPVO, and after adjusting the diopter, I noticed that I was able to achieve a slightly clearer image on 1X than I can ever possibly get with my unaided eyes, no matter how long I stare at a distant target.

Is this something I've done wrong with the scope setup, or is it just that the scope diopter is adjusting for a slight imperfection in my vision?

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u/runswithscissors94 1d ago edited 1d ago

Dawg lemme tell ya, actually noticing the individual leaves on the trees after getting glasses for an aligmatism hits different. I was driving to work one night and couldn’t figure out why i suddenly couldn’t read street signs or why all the lights looked so angry. I’ve had glasses for 9 months and now when i take them off, i have no idea how i drove or functioned before.

Get your eyes checked

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u/Sauerkraut99 1d ago

I mean, it's nowhere near that bad.
I'm talking about a *slight* increase in the readability of some writing on the side of a water tower that was more than a mile away, or the ability to clearly see a cable that was like 500 yards away that I wasn't otherwise able to pick up on.

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u/runswithscissors94 1d ago

Do you bump into things sometimes?

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u/Sauerkraut99 1d ago

No

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u/runswithscissors94 1d ago

Okay. I think it’s still worth getting checked. I thought my vision was fine until I put glasses on.

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u/captchairsoft 1d ago

I agree with that get checked people...but...almost no LPVOs are truly 1x they're usually 1.-insert tiny decimal here- which would definitely let you see justa bit better than you're used to.