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datan0de, no gory details here or scary pictures!
So, I went in for my month-checkup and they say everything looks great. Still 20/20. About the ghosting and halos, they said I can expect to see those go away starting the third or fouth month, so I'm hopeful. Otherwise, I'm thrilled about the procedure. I LOVE not having glasses and seeing clearly!
I had trouble finding pictures of the actual procedure when I made my initial post about this, but I just found out that a friend of mine apparently had Lasik recently too and HE got the actual pictures of HIS procedure! I'm envious!
I've also been told that some people have trouble seeing the difference between my ghosting and no-ghosting images. I am only now starting to realize just how good my eyesight really is (and was with the glasses) when compared to people I know. I have always relied very heavily upon my eyesight, I can see very fine details, can see long distance, can see in very low light without strain, and I can distinguish between very, very similar shades of colors. The only thing the Lasik did was enable me to do all this without long-distance correction.
But the ghosting thing is a problem for me when I focus a projector. My sharp eyesight is what makes me a decent projectionist. It is my responsibility to take an image and make it visible when blown up to a very large scale so people can see it up close and up to hundreds of feet away.
So I took my grid from my initial post and I "blew it up" in photoshop to our smallest screen size, 6 feet by 8 feet, in the hopes that people can better see what a difference it is between the ghosting and no-ghosting. I have to see it on a small scale, and the slightest out-of-focus image, blown up to such a large degree, becomes immediately visible. When they spend the money that these people do on hosting a convention, they insist on the clearest picture possible, and a flaw in my eyesight is immediately magnified to an unacceptable level. So I'm very hopeful that this will indeed go away in a couple of months.
Anyway, here are the images:
No Ghosting
Ghosting:
I had trouble finding pictures of the actual procedure when I made my initial post about this, but I just found out that a friend of mine apparently had Lasik recently too and HE got the actual pictures of HIS procedure! I'm envious!
I've also been told that some people have trouble seeing the difference between my ghosting and no-ghosting images. I am only now starting to realize just how good my eyesight really is (and was with the glasses) when compared to people I know. I have always relied very heavily upon my eyesight, I can see very fine details, can see long distance, can see in very low light without strain, and I can distinguish between very, very similar shades of colors. The only thing the Lasik did was enable me to do all this without long-distance correction.
But the ghosting thing is a problem for me when I focus a projector. My sharp eyesight is what makes me a decent projectionist. It is my responsibility to take an image and make it visible when blown up to a very large scale so people can see it up close and up to hundreds of feet away.
So I took my grid from my initial post and I "blew it up" in photoshop to our smallest screen size, 6 feet by 8 feet, in the hopes that people can better see what a difference it is between the ghosting and no-ghosting. I have to see it on a small scale, and the slightest out-of-focus image, blown up to such a large degree, becomes immediately visible. When they spend the money that these people do on hosting a convention, they insist on the clearest picture possible, and a flaw in my eyesight is immediately magnified to an unacceptable level. So I'm very hopeful that this will indeed go away in a couple of months.
Anyway, here are the images:
No Ghosting
Ghosting:
