Why do nearsighted people need accommodation in order to focus on objects, if the vision is focused in front of the retina (too much refractive power), doesn’t accommodation worsen the vision in this case?
Great question! You have good insight and are quite right: myopic (nearsighted) people can see up close even after becoming presbyopic! This is because the default focal point for a nearsighted eye is abnormally close -the same reason their distance vision is blurred. This can come in quite...