UPDATE: Have emailed Alex at GEG and he has agreed to have the lenses remade for the glasses.
Evidently, something went wrong during processing at the lab or during grinding at Varilux and what I am experiencing with the color fringing is called "Lateral Chromatic Aberration". Basically, the different color waves of light (red,blue.green) are hitting my retina at different spots instead of at the same spot. It's sort of like the older rear-projection big screen TVs. If you didn't get the convergence (lining up the red, blue, and green guns to the same spot) correct, you'd get a blurry image that had color fringing (exactly what I was experiencing). Wish I'd thought of that analogy. Would have made explaining it to my OD much easier. ;) Will update when I get the replacement lenses. -=# Firewalker #=- On Feb 17, 10:51 pm, Firewalker <[email protected]> wrote: > I am posting this in the hope that someone here can help me out. > > Let me first preface this by saying that I have been wearing the same > progressive glasses for the last 6 years. > > On Feb. 5, I ordered a set of progressive glasses atwww.globaleyeglasses.com > and received them on Friday the 13th (maybe that's the problem > <grin>). When I first tried them, it seemed that the distance vision > was "off" and that everything was a bit blurry and everything had a > strange prism effect along it's edges (local pine trees had a > yellowish-red glow along the tops). The intermediate and reading > sections seemed to be OK other than the intermediate corridor being > way to narrow. > > Thinking that the optometrist had made a mistake on my script, I took > the glasses to an optician to have them checked against my script. > Not telling them where I got them (just said out of the local area), > they checked the glasses and told me they were spot on except that the > seg height was about 5mm to high, and to try wearing the glasses lower > on my nose (I normally wear them practically touching my eyebrows). > This did not help the distance vision problem, so I made an > appointment with my optometrist again. > > The optometrist checked the glasses and said the same about the seg > height. He re-checked my eyes and came up with the same script and > even showed my what my vision "should be like" wearing the glasses. > Not even close. He's not affiliated with any optical shop, (and he's a > tightwad like me<grin>) so I had no qualms telling him where I got > them. He told me that buying progressives online would not be a great > choice as there are certain measurments that change from frame to > frame that the online retailers would not be able to get dead on > because my face and eyes were not taken into account while making the > lenses. > > Here is my script: > OD Sph: +0.50 Cyl: -0.75 Axis: 045 Add: +2.25 > OS Sph: +0.25 Cyl: -0.50 Axis 133 Add: +2.25 > Lenses are 54mm Wide x 37mm High. > > I paid extra for the Essilor Varilux Airwear progressive lenses > thinking I would have excellent vision with the better lens. Now I'm > afraid I'm stuck with a pair of glasses I can't wear, and if I get a > refund, I'm out $85 because the lenses were $169.00. I'd rather have > the glasses correct so I can see through them, but if they're correct > except for the seg height, how can I get Global Eyewaer to remake them > and not still have the same problem? > > What I can't understand is if just the seg height is off, why can't > wearing them lower on my nose fix the problem? > I drive my car for a living, and can't go the seperate glasses for > distance, reading, etc. route for obvious reasons. But, I can't afford > to go to a B&M shop to get progressives either (especially if I'm > going to lose $$ with a refund through GEG). > > If anyone has any ideas how to fix this (or why it's happening), it > would be GREATLY appreciated. > > At a loss.. > -Firewalker --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Check us out at the oft-updated http://www.glassyeyes.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
