Spectacle wearers and polaroids

[Leon Roskilly]

I tried clip-ons for a while.

 

The problem always was with light getting in behind and reflecting off the back of the lens, and the extra cleaning involved.

 

Finally I bought a pair of prescription varifocal polaroid glasses from optilabs.

 

I use them for coarse and sea fishing and for bike-riding, as well as in the car.

 

These have lasted me quite a few years now, and survived a number of renewals of my ordinaray varifocals, and still remain scratch-less

 

(The big advantage of varifocals is that I can now unhook a fish without the need to take them off, lose them in the tall grass etc., and accidentally kneel on them!)

 

One of the best buys I ever made

 

http://www.prescriptionsportsglasses.co.uk/

 

 

(Of course you can now get varifocal contact lenses which might be another solution, in conjunction with ordinary polaroid glasses. Oh! and then there's laser treatment, but I'm not sure that solves the problem of short-sightedness)

Edited June 25, 2009 by Leon Roskilly

[chesters1]

ahem polarised polaroid is a tradename

i have found a disadvantage in the clip on design ,flip them up and watch kids they think you are mickey mouse and follow you .try it

some clip on designs are useless others better with less room between the lense and clip on.

i'm just trying bi-focals for the first time ,i am in two mind to whether they are a boon or downright dangerous ,certainly my ability to gawp down ladies cleavages is severely restricted or is more noticeable i am?

 

the reason i pointed out the difference is not restricted to polaroid ,specsavers boast their lenses are pentax ,well ofcourse they are not pentax have never made lenses at one time they used asahi now probably its a cheap backstreet chinese company

Edited June 25, 2009 by chesters1

[chesters1]

they (glasses suppliers of any name) never give you perfect eyesight anyway .

they use a formulae which is probably a century old to work out what prescription you need!

i want better eyesight not eyesight of a victorian cross section of society also when you look at the "board" for reading glasses notice the writing isnt small you can find far smaller writing on your sauce bottle ,just because lead letters could only be made to a finite size in victorian times does not mean it is now so glasses retailers are deliberately restricting your eyesight

they are probably co conspiring with insurance companies so you cant read the small print

Edited June 25, 2009 by chesters1

[ColinW]

As I understood it when I looked into having this done laser treatment can cure short sightedness (i.e. inability to see long distances) but does not tackle long-sightedness (inability so see short distances), which is what people usually suffer from as they get older.

 

Not quite true. Short and long sightedness are caused by the lens not being the right shape when the eye is in a relaxed, staring into the distance state. With the age related problem, presbyopia, the lens can still be in perfectly correct shape, so distant objects are as clear as when you were ten years old, but you can't squeeze it to a rounder shape to focus on things close up. Either the lens is too stiff or the muscles are too weak. This can obviously NOT be improved in any way by laser surgery. Since some of them seem to suggest it can, it makes you wonder what other lies they are spouting!

I now have half moon high strength reading glasses for coarse fishing, like my old headmaster used to wear. Split shot now look as big as cannonballs and I don't need to take them off to see my float. I don't have a solution to the sunglasses problem. I very rarely coarse fish into the sun! When I am fly or sea fishing there's not so much fiddly stuff to do anyway, so a cheap pair of polarized wraparounds I got from my local garage usually do me.

[Rusty]

Thanks for the responses all. The polarised varifocals would seem to be the best solution but I'm not sure I'd want to spend that much. I'll give the OP ones a try.

 

Chesters, you having a bad day?

[Steve Walker]

No good for varifocal wearers, but I just use contact lenses and plain polarising sunglasses.

[Andy Macfarlane]

Apart from using Abu Adjustable Polaroids for fishing now and again, I also have Hi-Lux specs from the optician.

 

You can read about them here.

 

Click HERE for 4 eyes thread

 

...andy...

[andy_youngs]

I'm both shortsighted and longsighted. The last time I got new specs I took my prescription to specsavers and got a bog standard model variafocal specs for circa £150, polariods for £80, and a diving mask for £40. I can't use the polariods for close in work, but that's not what I bought them for; I bought them for fishspotting and they work just fine for that.

[Dalesdad]

Does any one know if there is such a thing as clip on's for childrens sized classes

 

Dales wears glasses and is colour/colourless blind and he struggles to see the float in anything but dull water.

 

His lense measures around 20mm deep by 40mm wide. Can only find "SMALL" on ebay etc which are 40 x 50 which i believe are small adults and would be too big.

 

Any suggestions?

[chesters1]

you can cut them down with scissors so long as the clip part is retained they'r only plastic