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1 edit | [FYI] Believing my eyes
OK, the cataract removal/lens implant surgery this morning was successful so far. Now, for the kicker I didn't expect - color shift. The eye with the new lens sees brilliant blue-white while the original equipment eye sees a relatively yellowish white. It's almost like one has tungsten light white balance and the other fluorescent, and the saturation is increased in the eye with the new lens.
The opthamologist never said a peep about this, so it's quite a surprise.
Now what to do? I've edited all my pictures with a different set of eyes. A bit of research yields that this is not an uncommon occurrence with this kind of surgery. It alsp seems that my brain will recalculate and reprogram over the coming months.
So, who among the lens-implanted community has experienced this?
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Chuck22
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| I experienced more or less the same thing after my cataract/lens implant surgery in 1995. What was the most frustrating for me was that the color reception was different in each eye. My doctor explained that as the eye lens aged and clouded, it tended to yellow slightly. The "abberation" really bothered me until the second eye got the cataract/lens surgery six weeks later. After that, I had no adjustment problems.
Although not in digital imaging editing back then, it caused me some problem with my work--graphic arts preparation for color printing  . |
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Jason Levine
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Interesting that you should post about this. Over at PCQandA, one of our moderators, Shelly, had cataract removal just a couple of days ago and mentioned a yellow-white color difference. Here's his post:
»www.pcqanda.com/dc/dcboard.php?a···98&page=
I don't know whether he's into photography, so I don't know whether he can give you a photographer's view on this or not. He was an engineer, though, if that helps. |
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Congrats on the successful surgery!
I noticed the same thing. I think the difference is due to the fact that I also have a cataract forming in the other eye, and according to this wonderful chart my retinologist has in his office, an eye with a cataract in it will see warmer, yellower colors. My brain has coordinated the color shift, though. 
Be careful, though, in these first few days after surgery. Though the odds were against this happening, I suffered a retinal detachment in my eye six days after my successful cataract/lens implant surgery. I developed multiple tears, and had to have emergency laser/vitrectomy/pneumatic retinoplexy surgery. Although I didn't permanently lose my vision in that eye, I seem to have a permanent level of distortion and my vision in that eye is no longer as sharp as it was right after the surgery. 
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| said by DownTheShore  :Congrats on the successful surgery! I noticed the same thing. I think the difference is due to the fact that I also have a cataract forming in the other eye, and according to this wonderful chart my retinologist has in his office, an eye with a cataract in it will see warmer, yellower colors. That's my situation, although I can read without glasses. The Dr. didn't say squat about the effects, but thaks to the internet I found what I needed to know 
Thanks for the tip! I'll take extra care about activity. I have a retinal tear in the other eye awhile back, and they spot-welded it with a laser andit's been good since except for floaters.
I think Jason's referenced poster said it more accurately when he said that the perceived light temperature rose about 2000 degrees K with the new lens.
I will let all this stabilize then go back and review my edits to see if I perhaps overcompensated in any I've done in the past year.
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Glad you came through the surgery well, and that it seems to have improved your vision significantly. Just think how convenient it will be to be able to close one eye and imagine a scene with the white balanced tweaked in Photoshop  .
So, do previous photos you've edited now look to be off-color at all? I suspect you won't see a very dramatic difference, and certainly your photos always looked great to me. But then again, my eyes are aging, too, so...
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Congrats on making it through surgery. Now, for your solution:
shoot black and white . |
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ks_av8r
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When I had the surgery (at a very young age ) I commented the same thing to my doctor. His comment was that I will see colors that I haven't seen since I was 5 years old. |
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You know, in a larger sense I can now understand in a very small way the situation alphapointe and other non-sighted people encounter - that of the concept of color and light.
From a larger sense, what is RED - or Blue versus purple, or white, brightness, color temperature? When my perception of color, light, contrast, brilliance, hue or saturation is suddenly altered, I begin to see some tiny idea of what it's like to be color-blind, or without sight. I have the present fortune to see a "before versus after" view, and to have experienced a change in perception of light, color. I am grateful for this small expansion of my understanding of sight.
To alphapointe and others who view the world without physical sight, my hat is off to you!
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