What do eyes look like behind modern progressive lenses?
Hi, dear community,
I'm thinking about getting one of those newer progressive lenses. Not the kind where the lenses are divided into visible compartments.
I am nearsighted minus three, presbyopic/farsighted plus two.
Will my eyes appear smaller behind the lenses, and if so, by about the same amount as if I were minus one myopic? Or how should I imagine that?
Thank you for answers 🙂
Hello,
I have about your minus values in my gliding vision and do not think my eyes look smaller. I have thinly ground glasses (high refractive plastic glasses) with the broadest transition to the close.
Let the optician advise you well; whether you want to tint your glasses colourless or slightly, let them show you pattern glasses for comparison.
The three zones of a gliding viewing glass: top: far view (over 2 m), bottom: near view: below 0.5 m), in between the progression zone (transition zone) for the intermediate distances. Above all, the way the progression zone is designed decides on the price of a gliding spectacle.
https://www.glasses-sehhilfen.de/sliding spectacles/
A thousand thanks for this super answer : )
I’ll talk to my optician and try to do it as you : )
Could I still know what you paid for the glasses? And are all spectacle frames suitable?
Very much.
My glasses cost almost 770,-€ last year. Plastic lenses with refractive index 1.67 (thin ground), super-reflective, surface-hardened, cleancoat (light layer) and filter tinting brown approx.12%.
Please show sample glasses if you want a light tint and let you explain the de-mirror options – if you don’t know them yet.
All sockets should be suitable: full-edge frames, Nylor (half) and also drill sockets (edgeless) – if you choose plastic glasses. For mineral glass only full-edge frames are possible. Do not choose too large so that the glass edges are not too thick.
Just let your optician advise you enough, and please remember that each optician determines his selling price himself. So you can only take the price of my glasses as an indication.
Success 🙂
Gerne, and thanks for’s ⭐
Many thanks for the detailed information : )
You only have -3 for the distance, so your eyes don’t look much smaller. The lenses are not stronger than those of a binoculars, but even weaker downwards, so no aesthetic disadvantages are to be feared at all.
If you have little eyes like me anyway, -3 does something… but thanks for the encouragement : )
On your photo they don’t look small, and as a woman you would have the chance to influence the effect with targeted make-up technology. What do you want me to say about 12? 😉
But as a guy you don’t stand under the social beauty pressure; )
You have up your -3 and down -1. In the meantime, the strength becomes less and less. If you hold the glasses over a book or a cardboard paper, you will see a distortion effect. In the upper area, the glasses reduce more than in the lower area.
Your eyes will appear as small as before.
what newer eyeglasses do you mean? The special aspect of eyeglasses in contrast to bifocal glasses is that there are no “visible compartments”. That’s not new!
Much more important than the question of how big your eyes look, whether the glasses fit your requirements/ lifestyle. But you’re supposed to settle this with an optician of your trust.
Thanks, but if glasses aren’t new, why did older people often have these ugly bifocal goggles, but not today? I think about the ’70s, ’80s.
Okay, I guess I have a different view of “new.” The 70s and 80s have been a little longer.
Bifocal—Gleitsicht: nothing gets better. I’ve been wearing the glasses around the 1940s for a long time. Available today, including as Rodenstock Ardis 1.50
file:///C:/Users/Ulrich/downloads/use information_rodenstock_manufaktur.pdf
Scroll until Ardis 1.50
You won’t notice any change.