Shortsighted ... Time for glasses

[zzr1100]

I've always been slightly shortsighted .... But i think it's getting worse as I get older ..
Although my eyesight is ok for driving/riding (I can read a number plate from 20.5m) and clay shooting I feel it's letting me down for rifle shooting, particularly when not using a scope ..
So here's the question .. Im Thinking of getting "drivewear" lenses for daytime .. They are photochromatic and polarised (good for fishing !) anyone have any experience with them ?

[phaedra1106]

I've worn glasses since noticing I was short sighted when I was about 10, now at 56 I have 3 pairs.

My eyes change throughout the day and from day to day as well. I have a pair for short distance, great for the PC keyboard but the monitor is a bit iffy!, my main "everyday" pair are 2+ years old and today I'm using them with the keyboard & monitor and everything is fine!. The third pair are my new "everyday" pair after I was tested last year, great at anything over 3 to 4 meters but useless for anything less. I have tried bi and varifocals but couldn't get away with them at all, badly affected my sense of balance.

Most mornings it doesn't matter which pair I use for the PC or anything that close, my eyes just don't work until I've been up for a while, could be diabetes but my idiot GP says I'm not diabetic, just "Sugar Intolerant"!!, strange really as my blood sugar levels for the last week have been between 10.8 to 18.5 (first thing on a morning).

[johngarnett]

zzr1100,

Drivewear are very good lenses for day use. Photochromic is useful. Polarised is very good but watch toughened glass in cars - its shows up the strain patterns also be aware that polarised lenses can blank some LCD screen if held at certain angles. ie phones, satnavs and LCD car displays. You will probably appreciate a 'white' lens in some dull light too. Must use 'white' for night driving to see best poss.

As a retired optician I would say Drivewear are one of the better allround daytime lenses. I dispensed quite a few.

Remember safety spex for shooting and DIY ie polycarbonate (or toughened glass). Anti reflection coated plastic or polycarb for full time use.

If all else fails, there's Braille and F class!! (only joking!)

JohnG

[zzr1100]

JohnG .. Thankyou ... I think I'm going to go for the drivewear for daytime and an "ordinary" lens in my second pair for nighttime .. Etc .. Appreciate your input ..

[ovenpaa]

I just use Focus Dailies and have done so for a dozen years or so, they work well and if I need more I wear tinted yellow safety glasses for shooting or sun glasses for driving.

[zzr1100]

I've tried contacts in the past .. Of various types ... Just didn't get on with them sadly ...

[Alpha1]

I had a lot of trouble with my eyes about a year ago the end result was that I am now short sighted.
Because of the type of work I do I was made up a pair of glasses that are like varifocal lenses only they work in reverse. Difficult to explain but I can sit at my desk and read a book/letter then look up at the PC screen that is at least three feet away at the back of the desk and read every thing that is on the screen.
I can then look to my left for example at some thing on a white board about three feet away and read that with out problem.
I can then look down at my watch and read every thing on the face like made in switzerland in tiny tiny tiny letters.

I did not know you could get lenses like this until they pointed it out to me at the opticians after being refered from the Opthalmic dept of my local Hospital.
They are fantastic.

[johngarnett]

Alpha1,

They sound like Vocational Varifocals. Very good lenses. I live in mine in the Cave and my 'pc suite'. The only problem I ever found at work was patients resistance to cost. By the time you have 'real' varifocals, vocationals, sunspex and single vision distance as spare/driving the cost mounts up. But all have their place!

If they are suggested to anyone - consider them. They do work but don't expect them to be general purpose.

JohnG

[johngarnett]

'Vocational Varifocals', should have been 'enhanced readers'.

Only been retired two years too!!!!!!!

Sorry

JohnG

[shugie]

I can't cope with contacts, tried them years ago and the chap who sold them to me didn't explain the cleaning regime properly, so I ended up with very easily irritated eyes.

So I use varifocals, cost me a fortune due to astigmatism and my strong prescription. Something of a compromise, even fancy Hoyalux ones, the bit of the world actually in focus is quite narrow.

Are varifocals ok for scoped rifle shooting, or should I revert to a single vision pair? I reckon I always look through the distance part of the lens anyway.