Reactolite glasses

People, I have a problem, which hopefully someone can help with!
I have worn glasses for over 50 years, and have only ever needed /
wanted 1 pair of spectacles. For over 20 years I have used Reactolite
Rapide lenses which do everything I want.

They are now no longer available, so my optician has supplied
Transitions which I think are crap.
They are clear indoors, and not very dark outside, but the worst
thing for me is they do not work in the car, or behind a visor.
I spend alot of time in bright sunshine,
and cannot cope with changing glasses all the time.


Someone must do a photochromic lens that works in the car.
Reactolites
did!!


Colin

 

I think you're at an age where you should wear some of those tinted
clip on things that flip up when you don't need them. But in the mean
time.

http://www.specsaversdirect.co.uk/special_offers.php?pname=offers/free-reactions

"F.A.B Gramps"

 

Dunno about the car - but for the bike:
http://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorcycle_parts/content_prod/82/2726

Any use?

 

My experience is that my old lenses (transitions IIRC) were much better
than my new ones (Kodak something something or other)

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Plastic lets less UV through than glass. Glass lets about 10% through.
Back in the old days, you could get a bit of a suntan through your
tempered windscreen, but the plastic in laminated screens blocks 99%.
Hence of course, there will be UV getting through all the non-forward-
facing windows as they are as far as I know still made with tempered (ie;
cheaper) glass.

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You can get different "darknesses" of Transitions. My optician showed
me a little chart with the darkened colours on when I got mine.

And I got warned they wouldn't work in modern cars due to windscreens
having anti-UV coatings.

 

@4ax.com:

as Paul says up there, it's the plastic layer in the laminate that blocks
UV

 

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Paul Carmichael

Theoretically, yes.

You see, that's the dangerous thing about theory - it leads those
without practical experience of the thing to spout bollocks.

For that reason, probably.
Certainly, Reactolites I've had have worked fine in cars.
--
Dave
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How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

Gentlemen, I have done some more research and have come up with
Drivewear.Seems to do the job, but no use at night!

http://ezinearticles.com/?Drivewear...ngeable-Eyeglass-Lenses-for-Driving&id=563484

Any comments?

nilocp