uncorrected: minimum 0,5 for each eye (whats this mean?)

[OmgUrMom]

anyone know what that means? i am clueless. I have pretty bad eyes without contacts/glasses.

I think 20/300 or something like that. Would i make the mininum for this or not?

[ronjon619]

fu(king doctor mumbo jumbo. Sometimes I think they like to say the official / scientific term to make their patients feel stupid. My last physical the doc comes in and says you might be an ideal candidate for hypertension. He could have just said high blood pressure.

[OmgUrMom]

you don't know tho ronjon? yea idk why they say it like this ugh

[ronjon619]

nah, i dont know what that means

[OmgUrMom]

anyone?

[OmgUrMom]

comon someone has got to know!

[brooks85]

from what I can tell, it reminds me of the prescription number for my contacts. For example, the box says my eyes are -3.0


so whatever you are trying to qualify for, probably going to need laser correction

[minet123]

I don't know
I missed that day at optometry school,was at the track
Seriously go down to Mall of America/wallmart to one of those eye glass stores that have an optometrist on duty and ask them

[OmgUrMom]

bump, my daily 6 points later tonight if anyone can figure this out. Otherwise i'll have to go with minets advice and contact and optometrist

[OmgUrMom]

upping the offer to 12 points!!!!!!!!

[jai7123]

upping the offer to 12 points!!!!!!!!

- 5 diopters would equal poor vision of 20/150 -200 in terms of nearsightness.

+ diopter numbers are used to describe farsighted people.

Example: Reading glasses are +1 diopters to +3 diopters (which also corresponds to the lower panel of a bifocal, lower panel is essentially a reading lens) Go to a pharmacy and look over the reading glasses section, most people use a +2.0 diopter.

[OmgUrMom]

i can't see well far away. so i guess that would be farsighted?

my vision is 20/300 only farsighted

so would i qualify or not? what you posted is not at all helpful because I dont understand it.

[jai7123]

i can't see well far away. so i guess that would be farsighted?

my vision is 20/300 only farsighted

so would i qualify or not? what you posted is not at all helpful because I dont understand it.

Sorry for any confusion.

If you cannot see far, you are nearsighted (myopic)

Now standards for vision in countries other than US, the numbers are not expressed using the Snellen scale 20/xxx etc. Rather they are expressed as 0,5 as you mention.

Good news is uncorrected vision 0,5 is accepted as acceptable vision for uncorrected vision. In fact, it is the minimum standard to join the French Foreign Legion.


Medical aptitude is determined ONLY by the medical corps of the French army. No foreign certificates are recognized.



Minimum visual acuity :



* uncorrected: minimum 0,5 for each eye
* corrected: or [7/10 and 2/10], or [6/10 and 3/10] or [5/10 and 4/10] (total: 9/10 with the two eyes)



Correction in diopters (US measurement)
* near-sighted: -10
* far-sighted: +8

http://emile.wordpress.com/2006/09/09/french-foreign-legion/

Hope that helps

[OmgUrMom]

jai my vision is NOT 0,5 (as far as i know) the only way i know it to be expressed is 20/300. (pretty bad) What im wonder is if it is above 0,5 or not?

[jw]

20/40 or 0.5 vision uncorrected in at least one eye is the vision required to pass many driving tests (for driving without glasses)

You are MUCH worse than this.




Taken from here

http://www.perret-optic.ch/optometrie/optique-test/opto_optic_test_gb.htm

Some interesting reading on how it is measured and what it means.


"The sphere determines nearsightedness or farsightedness. No sphere is noted as "plano". If the power is a minus, it is a nearsighted prescription. If it is a plus, it is farsighted. Mild prescriptions are in the range of plus or minus 1 to 3, while high prescriptions are over plus or minus 5 to 7."

[knelson]

I'm -1.25. I think the minus might have to do with nearsighted/farsighted?

[OmgUrMom]

its the way europeans measure their vision, didnt than the american system i guess.