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Buying some new glasses and pondering Transition Signature 7 coatings for an extra £60.
I never usually bother with sunnies unless its blindingly bright/sunny and I happen to have them to hand (usually driving).
How dark do they go on an average English day? Will I look like Rossendale's answer to Miami Vice in the middle of winter?
Any negatives to Transition lenses?
TIA
Yes - they won't work so well in the car! The screen stops UV which is what triggers the transition. Also you do have a tendency to change even when it's not that sunny out, ie that cloudy but bright day in the middle of winter.
They will leave you staggering around in the dark for a few min when you go back indoors too as they're much slower to go clear. Probably 30sec to go dark but 5min to go clear again.
Having said that I really missed having them as they do stop you squinting in bright sunlight, but I probably wouldn't have them as my only pair...
Tranistions do driving/outdoor glasses - [url= http://www.transitions.com/en/products/drivewear-transitions/ ]clicky![/url] - I am in a similar position to the OP - anyone used them ?
They go darker in cold weather than hot.
Transition extra active is atm the best transition lens and ONLY one that works partially in the car, they can go as dark as a proper sunny, the latest variant is also supposed to have a graded change depending on the current light conditions ( will be ordering myself a set this week to try them out as need the info for patients). Personally I would never be without a transition having used them for years, but they are not for everyone......one word of caution they dont look good on wedding pics I actually have a spare pare of glasses with clear lenses especially for these occaisions.
They look awful. Sunglasses frames have pretty big lenses, wide arms and occasionally a wrap around. Most glasses frames have pretty small lenses.
At best you end up looking like a villain from Indiana Jones.
You also get naff sun protection - sunglasses have big lenses and thick arms to stop light getting around the lenses and into your eyes.
They look awful. Sunglasses frames have pretty big lenses, wide arms and occasionally a wrap around. Most glasses frames have pretty small lenses.At best you end up looking like a villain from Indiana Jones.
You also get naff sun protection - sunglasses have big lenses and thick arms to stop light getting around the lenses and into your eyes.
was thinking of these that would look okay with a tinted lens ( i think)
http://www.pretavoir.co.uk/ic-berlin-oleg-p-chrome.html
They look awful. Sunglasses frames have pretty big lenses, wide arms and occasionally a wrap around. Most glasses frames have pretty small lenses.At best you end up looking like a villain from Indiana Jones.
You also get naff sun protection - sunglasses have big lenses and thick arms to stop light getting around the lenses and into your eyes.
written by someone who doesn't get good advice about frame choice in his opticians.................basically there are 2 ways to make a decent sunglass either a very close fit with good wrap (most sport style frames) or a v large coverage lens (normally fashion style frames) anything else and too much light comes in around the edges to make them useful.
Transitions WILL make you look like a creepy bloke. They are terrible. I've got them on my Oakley SUN glasses and they are permanently semi-tinted. Make you look very odd if you were them indoors or at anytime where theres no sun about.
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One of my favourites on and off the bike,
ref Hora above 'cheap' transitions are suseptible to 'staining' where the lens retains some of the colour, a good lens doesn't do this.
They look awful. Sunglasses frames have pretty big lenses, wide arms and occasionally a wrap around. Most glasses frames have pretty small lenses.
At best you end up looking like a villain from Indiana Jones.You also get naff sun protection - sunglasses have big lenses and thick arms to stop light getting around the lenses and into your eyes.
Complete bollocks. Obviously never, ever looked at the ranges of sunglasses with small lenses, and thin frames, made by Oakley, RayBan, Smith, Dragon, Arnette, etc.
I have an old pair of Oakley WHY4 frames, (now 31 Three) with Fire Iridium prescription lenses, which look like these:
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[/img]Do you have a better idea of what makes a proper sunglasses design than Oakley? Or RayBan, who have been making sunglasses with thin metal frames and arms, with small lenses like the Lennon's, which I have several pairs of, including my current prescription pair, the lenses are Shamir, Multipoint Varifocal, with DriveWear photo-reactive, and which are perfectly good at blocking bright light.
Idiot. 🙄
^^ handbags!!
Countzero are you a twenty something Boss-wearing go getter or a middle aged bloke?
Theres your answer
I don't wear the Oakley's, the prescription is about fifteen years out of date, however, I may get them re-glazed as sunglasses one day. My current glasses are the RayBan Lennon's, which are these:
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Currently writing this wearing a Blur tee shirt from the IoW Festival, and a pair of Frakture camo skate shorts.
I wouldn't wear Boss if I was paid to, and I really couldn't give a toss what you think, hora.
I was commenting on somebody's clearly misguided idea of how sunglasses should be made, not inviting fashion tips from some random bloke on the Internet. 🙄
Get a pink tinge and those glasses are Jimmy Saville lookalikes.
Attack another poster calling him an idiot and bollocks and expect critism back.
Agree?
Hora, he is wearing a blur t shirt and has just been to a festival, best you don't engage in an argument with him as you will clearly lose!
Hes also wearing what appears to be plastic sandals.
.Countzero I am an idiot as I bow down to your satorial tour de force.
Ha!
anyway...............decided not to bother with the Transition coatings in the end, im always bobbing in and out of an office dozens of times a day and couldn't be doing with the slow clearing of the lens's.
please carry on with the handbags though!
Shamir drivewear lenses eh? Hmm. The MAR coatings won't last you 18 months and they are useless indoors as they are always pretty darkly tinted as they are polarised. There is no decent transition for driving available, trust me. The transitions xtra active are pretty poor as they dont react as well as normal transitions. Best option is driving sunglasses, preferably polarised.
Countzero, they're exactly the sort of glasses that make you look like and odd bod with tints. There are basically three acceptable styles of sunglasses for blokes:
Aviators
Wayfarers
Sports sunglasses. Whilst you're actually doing the sport on question.
Wayfarers you might just get away with plain glass, Aviators with plain glass make you look like Norm Abram at best...
Anyway, there's no point arguing when this can be empirically proven. There are no photos of anyone wearing transitions glasses that look good in both tinted and untinted states. Not even on the webpages of the firms who make them.
They seem to go dark quickly but the speed to go from dark to light is very slow (glasses are less than one year old). Think a few minutes for them to go almost clear - which is rubbish. Going into somewhere dark from somewhere bright can have the same problem as sunglasses.
I would still get them on my next glasses, just my expectations would be lower.
Shamir drivewear lenses eh? Hmm. The MAR coatings won't last you 18 months and they are useless indoors as they are always pretty darkly tinted as they are polarised. There is no decent transition for driving available, trust me. The transitions xtra active are pretty poor as they dont react as well as normal transitions. Best option is driving sunglasses, preferably polarised.
Another quote from an 'expert' who knows bob all......
below is the AA's advice re tinted lenses
Tint density
Tinted lenses are graded according to the density of the tint, and all sunglasses should, by law, be labelled and show the filter category number.
Lenses with light transmission less than 75% are unsuitable for night driving.
Yellow tinted lenses are not recommended for night driving. The tint is likely to be unperceivable anyway if the lens has a light transmission factor of 75% or more to meet night driving requirements.
Lenses with light transmission less than 8% are unsuitable for day or night driving.
Due to the light levels within the car, filter category 2 lenses which transmit between 18% and 43% of light are recommended for daytime driving.
Filter category 4 lenses only transmit between 3% and 8% of light and are not suitable for driving at any time. Sunglasses with these lenses should, by law, be labelled 'Not suitable for driving and road use'.
Which is exactly how the transition xtra active's work.........funny that how people in the industry do the right thing