might sound strange but wonder into your local lidl, they had some pretty good looking snorkel mask and flipper sets for 14.99 the other week, was a drytop snorkel and silicone mask so worth a punt

HD isn’t supported by scart hence the ‘HD’MI

PS3 here too, as it has other advantages…..

had mine from tim at sideways in alsager a few years ago. not sure he still deals with them though, if he does, a great bloke to deal with

Nearest I can think of is the phantom?

From a purely optical point of view, if you are thinking of oakley money check out Maui Jim’s, optically far superior for similar money

used to run the 500 class and beat them!!

Cosford ’09 i think

Wifes cousin has a business doing this in Liverpool area called smooth studio, alway thought this was a good name

We do aftercare for one of these companies and as said above a very high percentage of people get very good results, however as with all forms of eye surgery there is a risk (although very small) more common is a reaction to bright lights etc.
It wont cure your vision for ever as said above in mid to late forties you will start to need help of glasses for reading.
the risk is your own to decide on, for people with strong prescriptions it can be a life changer, for people with low prescriptions is vanity really worth that much?

those that argue for aren’t right and those that argue against aren’t right either every case is different

still have this, goes like the proverbial …. off a shovel

must have been amatuer hour……

you ‘might’ be noticing an effect called ‘power rings’ hopefully it will settle although some people cant tolerate it. This could be compounded if the lenses have been bevelled (basically has the edge of lens been ground off), if its a machine bevel sometimes they can be a bit big on your power of lens, a well done ‘hand’ bevel can look much neater and be less noticable

Off the top of my head the minimum fitting height from your pupil centre to the bottom of the frame is 14mm for the most compact of designs

Watersides infinity lens has as little as an 11mm corridor now, but havent used it as i think the graduation will just be too steep, but generally its as T666DOm said most frames will take a vari, just depends how the frame sits on you.

two general pieces of advice get into thenm early as it helps when there isn’t as much difference between near and dist vision and first pair dont jump straight for the short corridor options for the same reason.

cheap vf’s generally have a narrower corridor of undistorted vision as compared to a better quality lens unfrotunately most of the manufacurers (for a change not the opticians) make you pay for this convirenience.

Loud and proud is the only true way!!

eye of a hurricane is usually 0.5km plus across, should be v
easy then

think i might be the winner

wont happen, b4 my time some idiot negotiated the nhs contract that way now we all suffer for it

and who would then do sight tests?

I’ve tried the new specs on in a shop and with high index lenses, coatings, etc, the online price was less than half the high street price. I’m all for supporting local shops, but not paying over £400 for a pair I can get online for £175. Will take a punt for that saving and worst case, get them reglazed.

That’ll be because the optician has to invest in approx £100k of testing equiptment that the online spec sellers don’t have to

sight test cost = £10-30 depends on where you get it done
sight test cost to optician = £65-70……

is it any wonder they need a mark up on frames/lenses to survive?

Bomber Z1’s 321 disc on hope hubs sram xo gripshift, it goes up it goes down and its still fun after 5-6 years

IF you struggle getting a reglaze to your old specs find a good independant they will have access to some specialist labs, or might even glaze on site, to give you an idea my son is a +2.50 -5.50 and for skiing i bought him a pair of the cheap goggles from decathlon then glazed them myself to his prescription using some high base curve high index polorised lenses.

Basically if it has the right rim/fittings anything is glazable with in reason ( blank lenses can only be manufactured up to a certain diameter) just some frames fit certain prescriptions better

Dont wish to worry you, but if its getting worse its almost cetainly not a floater, do you know which is your nearest hospital with an emergency eye clinic, it would be best to give them a call tbh

import duty anyone or does our OP’s aquaintence intend to avoid this?

cant really comment on the others, but wifey has the kindle fire HD and its a fantastic bit of kit

to put it in perspective when we had cats one killed up to 4 mice a day, pus the odd bird and what ever it could get hold of,

so far our 10mth old springer has managed to catch a rabbit a squirrel and 3 birds, each of these i have managed to rescue, but it shows if its in the breed they’re gonna flush out and get stuff and theirs nothing you can do other than very intensive obedience classes where it can override its natural instincts

TBH glass is still the best material optically for lenses for both light transfer and thinness (RI of 1.9 against the best plastics of 1.74)

Why would internal reflections within a high index lens cause dizziness?
My thoughts would be that only reason you’d get these would be due to poor lens manufacture, rather than any specific property of the lens material.
Seeing as I have a worse prescription than pretty much anyone on here and my very high index bi-aspheric lenses don’t cause me any problems, I might be in a better position to actually comment on them. So don’t patronise me.
Actually the worst issue I’ve found recently is for the fashion to have the edges polished rather than left ground.

some people just cant tolerate it in the same way some people just cant tolerate varifocals due to the distortions you get in the lens, I wasn’t patronising you its just how it is and AP unless you are -21 or higher then trust me I know what i am talking about, we have patients who have to have blended lenticular lenses etc (look look a minatue version of the bullnose glass you used to see in doors)

And yes i agree v high prescriptions should not be machine bevelled as this creates a horrible ‘lightring’ affect which is both crap to look at and thru but….a well done hand bevel can take the sharp edge off the lens without the problem

seb is that single vision or a varifocal? just interested as £300 for SV is a ridiculous amount, for a vari it would depend on the manufacturer but could still range anywhere from a good price to expensive

les than 5% of people will have this problem, the patient wanted the best possible cosmetic appearance of his glasses this was supplied, he had a problem they rectified it (hopefully at no extra charge) where is the bad part of the service?

My thoughts are on that are that your optician isn’t very good.

Why? its a known issue called ‘power rings’ the optom resolved the problem, sounds like he got good service to me

Higher index will make the lens thinner and lighter, optically there is no difference between high index and standard cr39, coatings allow more light to pass thru the lens in theory giving slightly better vision

Something most opticians wont think to ask you, do you wear you glasses cycling if so maybe go for a polycarbonate lens as it has a higher refractive index(1.59) than standard plastic(1.5) although not quite as high is the high index(1.6-1.74) stuff if yo go this route do get a multi coat as poly does scratch more easily and the multi coat includes an anti scratch layer.

Having said all of the above the frame choice can also have a big impact on the weight/cosmetic result of the lens so speak to someone in practice for best advice

i have this one used abused and survived………

wonder if mr salmond has thought beyond the 30-40 years of oil/gas revenue?

DezB, you’d be surprised, all 3 optoms that work for me wear cl’s on a daily basis, one even wears monovision (dont go there gets even more complicated).

And yes we have patients who use daysoft lenses who we still look after the aftecare for, but they are cheap for a reason…….ts old technology………doesn’t mean its bad just that there is better out there

So can I ask again. In my situation, where I am checked every 6 months by a UK high St optician, but choose to use cheaper lenses for some of my wear pattern

1- do you in your professional opinion feel these lenses are in any way substandard compared to the branded ones?
2- do you think I’m taking a risk in doing what I’m doing?

I’m actually not trying to be difficult now, I’m genuinely interested in your opinion; I don’t want to risk my eyesight (fwiw my optician has noted no ill effects in my checkups)

Cant be too exact but here goes as i dont know the lens types involved

My only real concern here is does your Optom know you are wearing the cheaper lenses, and has he seen you in them? If the answer to both of these is yes then I would have no issue with it.
If the answer to either or both is no then get it checked out and all ‘should’ be OK, but there is a chance the ‘cheaper’ lens is not suitable for your eye, in converse the optom could actually also say use the cheaper full time as they are better suited to your eye actually saving you money

We actually have patients that do this and dont see a problem if the lenses are both suitable

I have no problem naming my practice as Karen J Boulton Opticians in Wellington Telford, at no point have I said the lens is inferior I have stated that the prescribing of the daysoft lens falls outside the guidlines layed down by the G.O.C. the governing body for all opticians in the U.K.

My problem is that we care about peoples sight, the anonymous internet companies care about the bottom line.

Do you think it is an ‘accident’ that the company’s address is Jersey (to fall outside of the UK guidlines for both medical practices and probably taxation(wonder how many of the daysoft wearers blast amazon for this tactic)) but the phone number you call is to the motherwelll area in Scotland.

Grum, its not arsey, its just you dont have to pick up the pieces after someone loses the sight in an eye due to what amounts to stupidity and ‘cheapskating’………we do, ask anyone who has lost sight due to a corneal ulcer

1 how painfull it is

and

2 Do they now wish they had listned to their optician

with having owned a practice for over 10 years and had a wife in optics for more than 20 EVERY one who has had this problem has regretted not listening and thinking they could do it cheaper themself

you only have 1 set of eyes are they really worth taking stupid risks with?

and think yourself lucky, my contacts are c£100 each lens!

sounds like a david thomas complex lens which are expensive

e.g. £107.99 for 90 pairs of Acuvue TruEye from ContactsForLenses (or Tesco or ASDA) but £126 for the same lenses from Vision Express.

HAHA we charge less for those so guess its ‘Tesco/ASDA super pricibg again

and with regard to

The “nearest equivalent” they have supplied me exactly matches the lenses I was paying through the nose for at my opticians (the “medically trained professional” who gave me my prescription in the first place).

you completely missed the point, how ‘old is that CL prescription, is it still current, and is it actually a contact lens prescription, if the answer to either of these is no you could actually be damaging your eyes, but more fool you…….

Errr.. yes. They have good reviews and I’m getting branded & sealed packages of contact lenses from them that I’m sure are the genuine article. Why would I trust them any less than a UK based distributor?

To be provided with a lens it should be prescribed by a medically trained professional to give the best suit and fir for your eye.

your so called sparkling internet company provides people with their ‘nearest equivalent’ and sends you on your way

I would say this is a pretty damn big reason to distrust them…….

over use: I hardly ever wear contacts – usually just for sports and the occasional night out.

check ups: you assume too much. Not having to faff about proving what prescription I have is rather different from never bothering to get my eyes checked.

I still go for check ups. That is only sensible.

do you go for an eye test or a contact lens check up as these are two completely different procedures? oh and the prescriptions for each can be different

ack to the resposible bit you could be wearing the wrong prescription for your eyes…….

I own an opticians and it does I am pissed off that I am losing my huge markups on contacts because of companies like these

The biggest lol yet that shows you reaaly ‘know’ your stuff most disposable lenses the profit margin is less than £1 per box