Prescription Eyewear - what would YOU like to see?

[ehb102]

I'd like to be able to customise my frame. My lenses work fine, but why couldn't I choose to have them slightly longer vertically and less wide ? You can cut lenses and filters to fit any size frame so presumably picking the lens shape wouldn't cause problems. 

 

[EdLyons]

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.

mmm that's a whole different debate really, and the same thing applies to "designer" clothes too. The point about photochromatics would stand if they were the same lens designs from 60 years hence, but they are vastly different now.

wraparounds over your specs are available at the moment, "SolarShields" cost about twenty quid ?

I'd like to be able to customise my frame. My lenses work fine, but why couldn't I choose to have them slightly longer vertically and less wide ? You can cut lenses and filters to fit any size frame so presumably picking the lens shape wouldn't cause problems. 

lens blanks do come in restricted sizes, and the restrictions are even greater with any prescriptions that are a little more complex, so the shapes are a bit limited.

you certainly can customise a frame to an extent, but then you're in the realms of completely bespoke eyewear going into many hundreds if  not thousands.

theres a chap called Tom Davies who does exactly that, to have a consultation with him costs £5000 ?

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!

I think you may be correct Will, does sound a little irregular 

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

leigh, I've thought the same and have sourced a product that can do exactly that and just work with the specs you already have and won't cost an arm and a leg either!

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?  

Thetr are "easy-clean" coatings, and I am bringing a hydrophobic coating out. As Will said, a good cloth does help, Selvyts are also excellent 

 

[shootinguru]

Ed, whats the answer for my problem?

 

[EdLyons]

Ed, whats the answer for my problem?

first thing I'd suggest is a recheck of the prescription with the same person, if no joy a second opinion from another would perhaps help. Sounds like there may be an inaccuracy there 

 

[RobertBeard]

It would be nice if they didn't steam up which always happens at the most inconvenient time!

 

[ehb102]

Bah! You fix every other problem under the sun and not this one?

Advances in technology will make it happen. 3D printing of frame parts for example. 

 

[Parcours pete]

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.

I thought it was your scores that made your eyes run nothing to do with glasses ?

 

[DavidJ]

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

Ed, what is stopping the full wraparound shield?

 

[chippy]

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!

would it be possible to have a pair with reading lenses in the bottom. Just in case a shooting card needed altering part way round a shoot.

 

[Will Hewland]

Ed, what is stopping the full wraparound shield?

It would be great to just get these. When Ed Lyons did my glasses it was apparent that even big ordinary lenses are hard to get right. Small rectangular lenses (from spec savers or wherever) are easy to do.

 

[EdLyons]

A few things really - generally the two eyes will have a different prescription, so they would need to be blended somewhere in the middle, which would be a bit of a mess. Also, the effective power of a lens changes depending on how far away from the eye it is, hence a very curved lens would have a different power at the edge than in the centre unless it is specially modified and surfaced. Also, if the right eye saw through part of the left lens i.e. across the curve, it might feel rather iffy!

It would be great to just get these. When Ed Lyons did my glasses it was apparent that even big ordinary lenses are hard to get right. Small rectangular lenses (from spec savers or wherever) are easy to do.

True, large diameter lenses are subject to aberrations and issues with distortion from prism and all sorts of things...

 

[DavidJ]

What exactly is a wrap around shield? I would have thought that it would sit on the bridge of your nose just the same as a traditional two lens frame. If so then wont there be two zones that the each eye would look through?

 

[EdLyons]

would it be possible to have a pair with reading lenses in the bottom. Just in case a shooting card needed altering part way round a shoot.

I can supply something for this

What exactly is a wrap around shield? I would have thought that it would sit on the bridge of your nose just the same as a traditional two lens frame. If so then wont there be two zones that the each eye would look through?

Like the Pilla Panther for instance, the closest so far is the Oakley Mframe and Radar systems with the prescription part implanted into the shield..

 

[shootinguru]

OH  Parcours Pete,   You are supposed to be magnanimous in victory! I used all my expertise to help you make the big time and you repay me with cruel and hurting remarks about my scores!

Still you know me. I will soldier on not complaining and take the medicine!

 

[Salopian]

Ed,

 please try to refrain from using the 'P' word, we are trying to talk quality in this thread !

'O' is splendid as is 'R R' but 'P' is really taking the P 

Kind regards,

eter

 

[Parcours pete]

OH  Parcours Pete,   You are supposed to be magnanimous in victory! I used all my expertise to help you make the big time and you repay me with cruel and hurting remarks about my scores!

Still you know me. I will soldier on not complaining and take the medicine!

Guru 

your a tough old bugger !!

A few insulting words from me 

Ain't gonna hurt you ?

 

[shootinguru]

Ed, every pair of prescription glasses has been the same, some make me feel as if I'm pissed?

Parcours Pete, I have booked in for a 4 hour session with the "shrink"  I never slept all night cos of your cruel accusations   I have decided to sell the gun and take up growing beetroot. I got pissed off being a "*** object" around the shoots with girl referees sliding their hands up my shorts in the summer especially while I was shooting! :bye: