We’re getting there. We’ve chosen the frame and lens type but what goes on top? You have choices between many coatings depending on what you need. Polarising, transitions, and reflection-free multi-coats are the most common coatings.

Reflection free multicoat

A reflection-free multicoat is now the standard in lens coatings.

It has anti-scratch properties and reduces glare, for example from a computer or strong lighting, and helps you see street lights more clearly at night. It also lets people see your eyes more clearly as a multicoat reduces reflection from your lens.

With an invisible finish, the new improved multicoat now smudges less than previously. Multicoat is the coating of choice for any computer worker or for those who need spectacles for long distance, including night driving.

Transitions

Tired of swapping between your spectacles and prescription sunglasses as you move between indoors and outdoors?

A transition lens may be the solution. Combining your  prescription spectacles and sunglasses into one, a transition lens self-darkens as you step outside and then automatically lightens again when you return inside.

Generation VI  Transitions blocks 100% of damaging UV rays and fade back more than twice as fast as its predecessor when you step back indoors. This is the best self tinting lens yet.

And of course a multicoat can go on top of a transition lens.

Tinting and polarising

For those people who prefer separate sunglasses, tinted prescription lenses can be put into most frames.

The lens can be tinted to any colour or darkness depending on your personal preference.

Polarised lenses go one step further and reduce all glare completely. These are the lens of choice for people in high glare environments – at the beach, when fishing or snow skiing. Fishermen and women prefer polarised lenses because once the glare is reduced, you can actually see through the water, viewing those elusive fish or dangerous sandbanks.

Are these sunnies Rx-able?
This is optics talk but translated it means: “Can you fit my optical prescription into these sunglasses?”

Only certain sunglasses can have optical prescriptions fitted into them. Some sunglasses are not made to have a thicker optical lens fitted into them and may buckle and pop the lens out at a later time.

Sunglasses that wrap around the face may create a "goldfish bowl effect"  and cause you headaches unless a special distortion reducing  lens is used. Please come in and inspect our Maui Jim sunglass range. These are the ultimate high quality, non distorting, prescription made sunglasses available in todays market.

 

 

At Optical FX we carry a large range of fashion and RX-able sunglasses. We can advise which sunglasses are suitable for your prescription.