Prescription Eyewear - what would YOU like to see?

[EdLyons]

So a very open question to those that need prescription glasses...

I am working with a new lab to be the UK sole provider of lenses for one of the best known shooting glasses manufacturers.

What sort of thing would you like to see available regarding tints/coatings/effects etc?

Sadly, there still isn't the technology to make full wraparound shield...but if and when that comes i'll be on it!!

The 100straight lenses also haven't yet been invented either!

 

[chubby]

Like the 560-580 Pillock ones that dont look daft and you can get 3 lenses in the kit, Purple,Yellow, Light Brown? without spending more than £300.

 

[Hamster]

Sorry just realised it's prescription not regular shooting glasses. 

 

[ExSCA]

Ed - I think you know my view on this.... I'd like a system that can take a strong prescription like mine, but allow interchangeable filters - without massive metalwork. 

And a unicorn. 

 

[shootinguru]

I would like a pair that doesnt make my eyes run for an hour when I wear them? as I wear them for driving and shooting only.

 

[EdLyons]

Sorry just realised it's prescription not regular shooting glasses. 

what would you like in regular ones Hamid?

Like the 560-580 Pillock ones that dont look daft and you can get 3 lenses in the kit, Purple,Yellow, Light Brown? without spending more than £300.

True...but always going to be tricky to get quality lenses at a budget price 

Ed - I think you know my view on this.... I'd like a system that can take a strong prescription like mine, but allow interchangeable filters - without massive metalwork. 

And a unicorn. 

This might be possible ?

I would like a pair that doesnt make my eyes run for an hour when I wear them? as I wear them for driving and shooting only.

why do they make your eyes run?

 

[Hamster]

Ed,

I just can't get my head around the fact that one set of quality glasses bearing a readily recognisable and respected name can be literally half the cost of another. Now I do absolutely accept that one needs to pay a certain amount on top of the primary purpose of it being a safety device, to ensure lens clarity and of course more still to fund the fun and games of the maker chasing that elusive shade  :blink:  but some of the prices of these things are bordering on immoral let alone ludicrous.

My wife buys expensive glass labels usually on our way through airports when we find a good deal or at least lose the VAT etc, and these are undoubtedly superior quality lenses which again contain a massive element of global advertising, fashion models and of course elegant structures, yet they're rarely much more than £150-300 quid ! I bought a flash brand of casual glasses for myself from TK Max for £29, reduced from £135 and these too are superb and compare favourably to my Pilla ones in clarity terms.............so you see there is a lot of evidence to suggest we really are being had by one or two makes in particular.

I would love for you to somehow break this cycle and introduce a series of models that can be bought with single lens kits from as little as £135 (with clear lens) with extra lenses available for no more than £80 max. The frames need to be sturdy, comfortable to wear, resist recoil, easy to swap lens and the cases need to be well designed and able to accommodate the frame fumble free, either folded or unfolded (my current Pilla case is absurdly poorly designed), these can be costed separately at around £25 ?! 

Call the company Lyonlens with entry level clear called ClubKlass and BanditKlass with 3 sets. I deserve a free one just for that. 

 

[DavidJ]

Ed, I seem to struggle with keeping my lenses clean. Is there any coating that can make for easier cleaning? Even using the many choices of sprays and cloths I never seem to be able to get them smear free for very long. Something that dry's smear free or prevents the attraction of particle's that seem to make their way on to my glasses. 

I'd also like a frame / insert / lens combination that is higher on the top line, a bit Dennis Taylor like as I'm always trying to get that frame blur out of my vision. I know you can get frames that lift by adjusting the nose bridge to correct this.

What tint's and coating are available to this new lab that might have given you some ideas?  

 

[Will Hewland]

Cleaning: buy an e-cloth. They are £1 in the right shop. Totally amazing for iPads, iPhone screens and all glasses. Normal glasses cloths are rubbish.

 

[Deershooter]

Can they make a pair and that have prescription lenses with interchangeable coloured filters not a silly insert that you see the edge of 

 

[Scuta]

A high contrast, Polaroid lense with a super-hydrophobic coating please...

 

[shootinguru]

what would you like in regular ones Hamid?

True...but always going to be tricky to get quality lenses at a budget price 

This might be possible ?

why do they make your eyes run?

Because I dont wear glasses normally!  I find it's like putting on someone else's glasses?

 

[leighH]

Ed

Slightly sideways but when out and about I use a pair of off the shelf Sun readers (bi focal) as my long vision is fine. Don't know if there would be enough demand for your proposed product with this option.

Do you know of a reasonable brand for safety Bi focals as I would like a good pair mainly for refereeing in?

Cyril

Best refer to an expert about your eyes,  but Maureen has been having similar trouble and now takes sea buckthorn oil, which has done the trick.

regards

Leigh

 

[EdLyons]

Can they make a pair and that have prescription lenses with interchangeable coloured filters not a silly insert that you see the edge of 

plenty of those available currently, and this is exactly what I'll be doing soon too ?

 

[shootinguru]

Leigh, Sea bucthorn oil won't make me sterile or impotent will it?

 

[Will Hewland]

Because I dont wear glasses normally!  I find it's like putting on someone else's glasses?

I'm guessing the prescription is wrong. The only time my eyes water is when I don't have glasses on and im straining like hell to focus. Glasses should relax you and stop your eyes watering!

 

[ExSCA]

Call the company Lyonlens with entry level clear called ClubKlass and BanditKlass with 3 sets. I deserve a free one just for that. 

You deserve to pay double for missing the opportunity - ClubGlass/BanditGlass

I'm buying the domain names now. 

 

[Nimbusgb]

The prescription glasses industry is an almighty rip-off but it's monopoly is being eroded by the lasik industry a little. I've been wearing the damned things for 50 years.

I got to see the manufacturing of spectacle frames pretty close up and stuff that's selling at several hundred quid to the consumer, designer frames, cost a few pounds to manufacture. The markup on frames is astronomical and makes the designer fashion industry look like amateurs! 

Most lenses cast and cut by robotic machines, the days of ground glass lenses is almost gone.

Photo chromatic coatings ( transition in UV light ) have been around for donkeys years ( since the 60's ) and yet the cost continues to escalate not come down.

£600 plus for a pair of glasses is just absurd.

A wraparound setup that fits to or is worn over my existing frames ( like safety glasses ) would be ideal.

 

[leighH]

Cyril

Sterile

well it's a bit late to think about extending the Jeffery lineage (also a euphemism).

Impotent

well part of your problem may be those little blue tablets you already take for that, making your eyes stick out on stalks.

regards

Leigh