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Anyone tried using these lenses in the snow?
Prizm Snow Torch and Road are both listed as a Rose base colour and 19/20% VLT. The visualisations on the Oakley website for the Road and Snow lenses look very similar (though no idea if those bear any relation to reality).
But I've used road in the woods by mistake and they seemed to reduce contrast (and it wasn't just that they were too dark, though I'm sure that didn't help).
I'd agree the Road version is less than ideal in darker, shadowy conditions, the Trails are brighter and zingier. If I were going out on a bike in snow - fingers crossed for the rest of the week - I'd take the Road over the Trail unless it was properly overcast I think, but no idea how well they'd work compared to something designed specifically for snow.
If it snows overnight/in the next few days, I'll let you know.
I tried using prizm trail in my flaks when skiing in mixed conditions (Sun/Cloud) and they're ok, however they are beaten squarely into the ground by the proper jade prizm snow in my goggles, which are brilliant in everything apart from night skiing in lapland.
Are you thinking of bike glasses when skiing? Or cycling later in the week when it may have snowed? For ski related stuff, the graphs may look similar, but I suspect the real world use would be very different, especially in flat-light.
It's for a week of skiing.
I've already got Trail Torch, Trail and Road lenses for my Jawbreakers. Wondering whether the Road-Snow difference is enough to justify the spend on snow specific set.
With the members 20% it's £60 for a set of Snow Sapphire jawbreaker lenses (which seem to be the only snow lens aftermarket. Weird. You can buy a Sutro with snow lenses but you can't buy Sutro ANY snow lens as a spare for it.)
So I bought a set of Prism Snow Torch in the end. Definitely a very different tint to Road - looking at a white painted wall the wall looks much redder (Road makes it look grey strangely). Looking at reds and greens it feels quite like a darker tint of Trail.
Skiiing they were good (as you'd expect) and they worked from blue sky to overcast but they didn't feel a game changer in the way Prizm Trail did when I first used it off road. My goggles are Giro with Zeiss Vivid lenses (their competition for Oakly Prizm) - the 'low light' "infra-red" lens that came with those is *really* good for those flat light days because it's not very dark but does increase contrast on the snow.
So my conclusion - Prizm snow Ok rather than wonderful but get some low light goggle lenses. Oakley don't seem to do a low light prizm snow lens. The Zeiss/Giro one is about 50% VLT.
https://www.giro.com/news/what-does-vlt-mean.html