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Flattering
lenses
As well as giving you clear vision, modern glasses lens
designs and materials make a big contribution
to the smart appearance of today's spectacles.
Highly advanced plastics have meant that lenses
can be made thinner and lighter than ever before,
even for higher prescriptions.
A popular option for all lenses is an anti-reflective
coating which will virtually eliminate distracting
reflections on both sides of the lens. If you
drive at night or use a VDU you will welcome
the suppression of reflections in your line
of sight and, when people look at you, they
will see your eyes and not a reflection of the
window!
If you need glasses that will help you see clearly
both close up and far away you no longer need
to have an unattractive 'bifocal' line across
the lens. Progressive or varifocal lenses progress
gradually from distance strength at the top
to reading strength at the bottom, with a range
of strengths in between.
Most lenses can be supplied to order in a wide
range of tints and you may wish to consider
photochromic lenses which darken automatically
in bright light. These days, photochromics are
available in lightweight plastic as well as
glass. Ask your optometrist for details
of different lenses for different needs.
Prescription
variations
Short
sighted people have lenses which are think
at the edge and thin in the middle. The effect
of this is to give a "jam jar" effect
of reflected rings all round the periphery
of the lens.
This can be minimised in two ways: Firstly,
choose as small a frame as possible and secondly
use dense lenses which make the lenses very
much thinner than standard lenses. There are
several levels of density so take good advice.
cameronoptometry has the expertise to enable you
to be as fashionable as you want and yet have
an optimal optical correction from your spectacles.
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