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How can I measure my PD. And how is it done?
Center to center or middle of face to center.
And just how important is it?


 
Posted : 02/09/2011 1:02 pm
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Middle to centre - could be different for each eye. Done with a ruler and the trained eye of someone who knows what they are doing as far as I can tell. Important as it centres each lens to the eye (as the frame is effectively symmetric) - no idea what difference it makes, but my PD is different by a good few mm eye-to-eye, as it were.

Order new glasses online are we?


 
Posted : 02/09/2011 1:06 pm
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Tape measure just above/below your pupils. Get someone to take a digital photo. Zoom right in and read off the measurement from the centre of one pupil to the centre of the other.


 
Posted : 02/09/2011 1:25 pm
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[url= http://www.metsuki.com/pupillary_distance-free_pd_ruler.php?free_pd_ruler.html ]free pd ruler[/url]


 
Posted : 02/09/2011 2:13 pm
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From what I have been told its not a great idea, only need to be slightly out to mess up the glasses fit and even more risky measuring to buy contact lenses online


 
Posted : 02/09/2011 7:04 pm
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You don't need to measure PD for contact lenses.

I did my own measurement that simply measured the outside of the left to inside of right (or something like that) and they were fine.

http://www.specsonthenet.com/measuring-PD.jsp


 
Posted : 02/09/2011 7:18 pm