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Fluid goggles and balance

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ADR

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I bought a pair of Erics fluid goggles a while back and they didn't work for me because my head is small :duh which caused the goggles to wrap around a little rather than sit in a flat surface to each other.I took the lenses out (sorry Eric) and have mounted them with some new mounts into some Cressi Galileo's as they are rigid through the nose piece and therefore maintain the flat surface for the lenses. My vision is now very good, however nothing is quite where I expect it to be. (eg if I reach for a glass of water, I can see it very clearly but the glass is about 50mm further than I expect it to be so I fumble at it to pick it up.) If I walk through the house, again everything is very clear but it's as if I've had too many drinks and I bump into walls and miss steps etc. Is this just part of the deal with fluid goggles or is there more too stting them up. I'm sure having fitted them 5 times now that they are set up right and some pics are attached. Any hints???
 

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G'day Andy. I think that having objects farther away than they seem is just a fact of using a magnifying lense. If you think about it, didn't something similar happen when you first put a mask on. Or it's a fisherman thing. Fish are always smaller when you take them out of the water.
Aloha
Bill
 
The closer the lens is to your eye, the less the magnification.

It sounds like you mounted the lenses too far from your eyes, causing significant magnification.

Try pushing the goggles up against your face and see if the magnification changes.
 
Eric/Bill,

Thanks, that well could be the issue. Sounds like I might have to cut my eye lashes as they are very long(quite girlie in fact!!!) to get the lenses closer to my eyes. The other thing I've discovered having mounted the things 6 times now is that my eyes are far from symetrical in relation to my nose.....I guess I'm not perfect after all
 
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