I recently got some new glasses from an internet vendor. They are varifocals, and I have no problem with them in use, they have done a good job of dispensing.
The one disappointment is that the lenses do not darken enough in sunlight. Subjectively, about half as much as my old ones that have the same proprietary feature. This is very evident from a photo of the two pairs after exposure to sun.
Now - they have told me that I should expect this as they will only reach full performance after a number of cycles. This sounds like cobblers to me, and I can find no references to this anywhere, including the FAQs on the Transitions website.
Has anybody ever come across this excuse? I'll give it a few days but I am minded to send them back. I've already had them a fortnight.
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Yes, I've heard the same, many years ago and can't remember the source...
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Are they glasses or plastics? A search of the web was not terribly enlightening, but the two materials do differ. I've had photochromic lenses for years but always glass.
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And what do you wear with them? I'm imagining black shoes with chunky plastic soles, pleat-fronted trousers and a beige cardigan. (Must stop visiting those specialist porn sites.)
Do you also have an overcoat with swivelling vent panels, so you can go indoors without having to take it off? Tinted lenses are for outside, for heaven's sake, and then only when it's sunny. Indoors means clear (and properly clear, not 85 percent clear, and not those weird blue tints they tried to sell me in my last pair but one.) Don't mess with Mister Inbetween.
}:---)
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Did you have to accentuate that so positively, WDB? Be stuck in my head all night now.
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Perhaps if I guided you to one of those sites I mentioned ... the visual image might crowd out the auditory one.
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That's him - the dodgy fella I saw at the Women's Regatta a couple of years ago. Spun some likely story about being there to watch his daughter rowing, but I could see his game - which was more than he could, sauntering casually into shops and crashing into racks of blazers because his glasses hadn't cleared in time.
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I like the rhythm and sibilance in "crashing into racks of blazers". Pinched.
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You need to catch up WdB. They are as clear as clear indoors, as were the last pair. No sign of a tint, nor do I want one.
The main drawback is that they don't work in a car. Unless it's a convertible, one of which I happen to own.
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>> Are they glasses or plastics?
They are plastics. I thought they all were now? Modern lenses are incredible, compared to those made in the pre-digital era.
I don't really need glasses for distance. It's the age related presbyopia that's got me. I used reading glasses for a while, but I just kept losing them, sitting on them etc. so the answer was to give in and wear them full time hence the varifocals. I don't like changing over and the automatic sunglasses option is very convenient. I have worn sunglasses outdoors when it's bright, summer or winter, for decades.
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They are plastics. I thought they all were now?
Nope, my glasses are glasses. Only ones I bought with plastic lenses were when I was competing. Glass is harder, so less easy to scratch.
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Shove them in the fridge overnight.
Not kidding.
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Shove them in the fridge overnight.
According to one forum, where a member claims to be a past employee of Transitions, that only works for the plastic lensed version, and only the one time. Performance under normal conditions is unchanged.
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>> I recently got some new glasses from an internet vendor.
A site for sore eyes, perhaps?
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If that's true then you could prove it very quickly. Well as quick as a few transitions.
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Transitions lenses - smokie
