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Re: [at-l] eyewear

Highlander,

I get glasses that have a variable length focus --not normal bifocals or
trifocals.  The lower part of the glass has a short focal length for
reading, and the upper part a near-infinite focal length.  Instead of
moving your head, you just shift your eyes.  Works quite well, though it
typically takes a few days to get used to.  When hiking, you glance
downward with your eyes and the area around your feet is in focus,
shifting your gaze upwardallows you to see clearly more distant objects. 
This also works very well while driving (glance downward with eyes only
to read the instruments, look straight ahead to see the road).  The only
time I've noticed a problem is while lying on the floor on my back trying
to watch TV, in which case its natural to look though the lower part of
the glasses, which are at too short a focus to see the TV image clearly.
---terry---

On Wed, 3 Jun 1998 08:51:39 -0400 "Alice Kauzlarich"
<kauzlar@madison.main.nc.us> writes:
>Were they bifocals, trifocals?  Now that'll add extra cost.  Then you 
>have
>to drop your chin to your chest to see the trail. I trip more since I 
>have
>bifocals (and need trifocals now).
>
>Highlander
>
>----------
>> From: talford@juno.com
>> To: at-l@saffron.hack.net
>> Subject: Re: [at-l] eyewear
>> Date: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 12:16 AM
>> 
>> Following the recent thread on eyewear, and thought I'd offer the
>> following thoughts.
>> 
>> I just got two new pairs of glasses, having gone about two years on 
>my
>> old set.  Cost was about $570 --- yikes.  One frame is titanium, the
>> other mostly plastic.  I believe the titanium frames cost somewhere 
>in
>> the $75-$125 range -- in any case they were a bit more than my 
>plastic
>> frames and a bit less than a set of super flexible frames I also
>> considered.
>> 
>> One pair of my new glasses has a a $60 treatment that allows the 
>lens to
>> darken with increasing light.  Works great -- to the point that I'm
>> usually not even aware of the tint change  when going from bright
>> sunlight into the office or even a movie theater or vice versa.  
>This
>> auto-adjusting tint technology has been around for many years, but
>> apparently keeps getting better (quicker response and greater range 
>of
>> light-dark). You can order autotinting feature in different degrees, 
>I
>> just went with the default that my doctor suggested after telling 
>him
>> that I would be using them for both indoor and outdoor athletics, 
>and am
>> delighted with them.  The other pair of glasses that I bought has 
>clear
>> lenses.  Both have "full" UV protection and some sort of 
>anti-scratch
>> coating ($15 charge).  My doctor recommends wearing even the 
>untinted
>> glasses outdoors to protect the eyes from UV damage.  (To my 
>knowledge
>> there is no constant relationship between the darkness of glasses 
>and the
>> degree of UV protection.)  I don't know if contact lenses have 
>similar UV
>> protection.
>> 
>> Some years ago I tried extended wear contacts, mainly to avoid 
>fogging
>> problems when playing tennis in humid conditions.  I liked them, but
>> found consistent practive of sterilized cleaning a slight 
>imposition, and
>> then I lost one when I went swimming, forgetting that I had them in 
>at
>> the time.  Since then I've only used glasses, which I also generally 
>feel
>> are more appropriate to trips of extended duration -- contacts would 
>seem
>> to require one to take precautions against eye infections when 
>handling
>> them in potentially unsanitary conditions.   I think titanium frames 
>with
>> autotinting shading, anti-scratch coating, and full UV protection 
>would
>> be a reasonable way to go, and would avoid the need to carry
>> sunglasses/shades (which one should consider if wearing regular 
>contacts
>> -- especially in glaring conditions such as on open water, in the 
>desert,
>> on snow, etc. (of course skiiers are likely to wear tinted goggles
>> anyway). Also, I concur with the message that someone posted 
>earlier,
>> suggesting the benefits of croakies to hold glasses in place.
>> ---terry---
>> 
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