A hypermetropic eye can be corrected naturally, within certain limits, for many years through the focusing capacity or accommodation. When accommodation is able to compensate hypermetropia, the natural visual acuity of hypermetropic patients is very good. This compensation is, however, limited and can take place only for low to moderate degrees of hypermetropia. In fact, if the accommodation is insufficient to compensate the whole refractive error, then visual acuity appears to be decreased and images appear to be out of focus at all distances.