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A human who wears glasses (not sun glasses) would not need them as a werewolf right?

Maybe yes, maybe no. It usually depends on how well the Shift fixes things, like little disabilities and such.
Since Wolves use a suite of senses where we use only sight, your vision might not improve, but the increase in scent and hearing might make up for it.

If the Werewolf-as-Smoothskin has a little farsightedness problem, then the Wulf would probably be allright...after all, when is the last time you saw a Werewolf reading the paper?
Nearsightedness might be offset to a degree by enhanced senses, but if the Smooth has 20/150 vision, the Wulf will be nearsighted, too.

Unless the writer fixes the problem, or unless the Smooth has Lasik or something like it, the Werewolf won't have that much better vision.

I'd imagine a werewolf's eyesight is "fixed." They are the ultimate hunters after all.

If you're going by the human + normal wolf model, then a new werewolf's vision is actually likely to get worse. At the very least I'd expect some loss of color perception.

If you're going by MAGIC!!! then...anything goes, really.

Night_Hunter wrote:A human who wears glasses (not sun glasses) would not need them as a werewolf right?

It would fairly much be a moot point... even if they did need glasses, there'd be nowhere to hang them off... ears would be in the wrong place.

contacts

To me, the human and wolf eyesight abilities would combine to create something better than the two alone could ever be. Also, if their vision had issues before becoming a werewolf, those would be fixed.

*AHEM!*

Okeez: You got the BITE and now you're all Fuzzy and Toothy. You're also nearsighted: your paw looks like a gray dandelion head (fuzzy). The fireplug is findable only by smell. Your Werewolf girlfriend actually looks cute!

Once you're back to Smoothville, how long would it take you to get a Lasik vision correction...even if you had to pawn your stuffed bear and all your pretty shinies?

Right...I thought so. What the Wulf doesn't cure, modern science can!

Wolves are nearsighted. If anything, being a werewolf might worsen your vision. Glasses and imperfect vision is very common in the real world, but movie characters almost universally have perfect vision, except for nerds, Harry Potter, and computer techies, as an archetypcal stigmata. Hollywood writers will use any excuse to get rid of glasses when they aren't actively dodging the subject.

On a related note, I bet contact lenses would get pretty uncomfortable after a night of running around the woods with bigger corneas.

I would think the eye sight would remain relatively unchanged. Though, I would think that a werewolf would have night vision, but be able to see as lucidly as a human.