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Another product recommendation
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Following a few suggestions from people here, I'd just like to say that
glassesdirect.co.uk rock a fat one.
Memoflex frames with anti reflective, scratch resistant and UV coating on
the lenses, £61. Delivered in 4 days. I is chuffed.
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Dan....
How do you get on about centreing the lenses to the pupil, like they do in
the opticians with a ruler across the forehead. Prescription is easy enough,
just get it from your optician, but it is the measuring that has put me off
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Read the PD figure from the prescription, that's the Pupillary Distance
figure that they need. Typically it's about 60mm in total, which I believe
is the distance from the centre of one pupil to the other.
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That still won't centre the lenses over the pupils, because your nose
may well not be half way between the two.
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buying online.
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Well, I'm going to chalk one up for the local optician[1]. Walked in
to a branch I don't normally use and told them I was after a
sunglasses version of the existing specs I have. First off they
managed to source the frame, which they no longer. Then they priced
them up with ultra-thin[2] Nikon Transitions lenses and they came out
at 400 quid.
They then reduced the price to just over 100 quid because I've been
with them so long (20 years) and I have a contact lense subscription
from them. Delivery in a week.
[1] Dolland & Aitchison
[2] Because bats have better sight than me and bottle tops look silly
in small frames.
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My new prescription will make my lenses somewhere between 8 and 10mm
thick. Don't talk about bottle bottoms to me.
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He wasn't. He was talking about bottle *tops*. Are you bli...
Oh! Wait...
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Fark. They must weigh a ton - have you tried the ultra thin lenses? Not
cheap, but worth every penny IMO
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Mine wouldn't be far off that. They're 2-3mm thick at the edges with
the thinnest lenses you can get.
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If we're talking concave lenses for myopia, then the greater the
diameter, the thicker the lens will be at the edge. My regular specs are
rimless so don't use the thinnest lens available (too brittle) and my
Oakley sunnies are pretty much on the limit - any thicker and they'd be
unwearable.
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Oh, I know you're a special case. I meant "we" as in "Ben and I".
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Being blind blows goats at times, but I wouldn't dare risk unnecessary
eye surgery.
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-5.5 and -6.75.
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Luxury. -9.5 and -11.5. Which is why I wear hard gas-perm contacts..
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