My wife and I both had cataract surgery about 3 years ago. I would have liked for us to go with the variable focus lenses but the cost was too great, somewhere around $3000 per eye, so for both of us that would have been $12,000. I figure at our ages, 79 and 82 we can buy a lot of reading glasses for that money. Strange, the way my wife's eyes were, she did not need new eyeglasses, apparently she was somewhat farsighted at the beginning and stayed that way, her glasses were basically progressives for readin. I was nearsighted and had to get completely new lenses. My cataracts were not that bad, just annoying bright lights, especially when driving at night and reflections on windshields and chrome surfaces.
Strange thing, I am 79, started wearing glasses about age 13, and never had a problem with any iron sight up until the time I had the surgery and none after, actually can shoot now without wearing my glasses, which are basically no correction on top and readers for close up on the bottom area.
I do like scopes for longer range shooting, but diopters for closer range stuff. I use a diopter for shooting a little swinger, diamond shaped, about 1 1/2 inches on a side out at about 30 yards, I can barely see it in my front diopter, I like a double diopter type sight. Beyond that range the smaller target is hard for me to see. I have several of the Gehmann type irises, standard, one with the 1.5x magnification and adjustable focus , and one with all of that plus color filters, and in reality like the standard adjustable iris the best.
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