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Jun 12, 2018 16:02:04   #
fishone0 Loc: Kingman AZ
 
I hated them for photography --now I use regular plain glasses and so happy that my transition lenses are no more

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Jun 12, 2018 16:17:21   #
carl hervol Loc: jacksonville florida
 
I hate them it like being in a fish boil.

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Jun 12, 2018 16:47:36   #
mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey
 
carl hervol wrote:
I hate them it like being in a fish boil.

I would sure hate to be in a fish's boil, especially if its near its butt. Sounds disgusting. But if your referring to progressive lenses, I've been wearing them for more than 15 years and have no clue what you are referring to. After a short acclimation period when I first got them I have had no issues at all over the years. I know some people wear them a couple of hours a day for a few days and just give up. They do take a bit of getting used to, but once that's accomplished they are terrific. That's why millions of people wear them.

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Jun 12, 2018 18:22:08   #
SusanFromVermont Loc: Southwest corner of Vermont
 
Leitz wrote:
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I wear no-line bifocals = progressives
I have stopped wearing the progressives with transiton = turning gray in bright light.

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Jun 12, 2018 18:38:52   #
therwol Loc: USA
 
gorgehiker wrote:
It is time for me to get new prescription eyeglasses. I am wondering if any photographers have experience with trying to look through a viewfinder or at the LCD screen with transition lenses for their eyeglasses. Thanks for any advice.


I've had only one pair, and that was enough. Even though I ordered the lightest of the options, they got so dark in bright and even not so bright sunlight that I'd have to take them off to use my camera's viewfinder. They took too long to get light after going indoors. They were like wearing dark sunglasses when I didn't need dark sunglasses. The worst thing was that I got the pair right before a 6 week vacation to the UK, and while you might say "What sun?", there was enough on some days to make the glasses a problem. They were the only pair I took with me. They've been in a drawer ever since.

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Jun 12, 2018 19:18:45   #
Leitz Loc: Solms
 
SusanFromVermont wrote:
I wear no-line bifocals = progressives
I have stopped wearing the progressives with transiton = turning gray in bright light.

Sounded like a contradiction there! I also wear plain progressives. Transitions are fine - as long as the sun doesn't shine.

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Jun 12, 2018 20:09:41   #
SusanFromVermont Loc: Southwest corner of Vermont
 
Leitz wrote:
Sounded like a contradiction there! I also wear plain progressives. Transitions are fine - as long as the sun doesn't shine.



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Jun 12, 2018 21:00:12   #
Murray Loc: New Westminster
 
Yes. Haven’t experienced any problems

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Jun 12, 2018 21:19:46   #
Bunkershot Loc: Central Florida
 
gorgehiker wrote:
It is time for me to get new prescription eyeglasses. I am wondering if any photographers have experience with trying to look through a viewfinder or at the LCD screen with transition lenses for their eyeglasses. Thanks for any advice.


Go for it. You won't have a problem...

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Jun 12, 2018 21:54:58   #
mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey
 
SusanFromVermont wrote:
I wear no-line bifocals = progressives
I have stopped wearing the progressives with transiton = turning gray in bright light.

While they are sometimes referred to as no line bifocals, that is poor terminology to use because there are true no line bifocals which are literally just bifocals without an obvious line. Progressives are something very different from bifocals or trifocals.

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Jun 12, 2018 21:59:31   #
daeod Loc: Levittown, PA
 
Transitions lenses are activated by UV light and car windshield glass blocks most UV light. I tell patients that if they want transitions for driving sunglasses, that they need to drive with they're head out of the window like a dog hanging its head out the window.

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Jun 12, 2018 22:07:51   #
Murray Loc: New Westminster
 
therwol wrote:
I've had only one pair, and that was enough. Even though I ordered the lightest of the options, they got so dark in bright and even not so bright sunlight that I'd have to take them off to use my camera's viewfinder. They took too long to get light after going indoors. They were like wearing dark sunglasses when I didn't need dark sunglasses. The worst thing was that I got the pair right before a 6 week vacation to the UK, and while you might say "What sun?", there was enough on some days to make the glasses a problem. They were the only pair I took with me. They've been in a drawer ever since.
I've had only one pair, and that was enough. Even... (show quote)


Sounds to me that your problem is the auto darkening of the lense in bright light. I had a pair of those and found similar experiences as yours. Now I have trifocal clear lenses that work fine & a pair of sunglasses with the same prescription

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Jun 12, 2018 22:10:43   #
mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey
 
daeod wrote:
Transitions lenses are activated by UV light and car windshield glass blocks most UV light. I tell patients that if they want transitions for driving sunglasses, that they need to drive with they're head out of the window like a dog hanging its head out the window.

Yep, That's what I do.

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Jun 12, 2018 22:46:55   #
drmike99 Loc: Fairfield Connecticut
 
Transition lenses are lenses that darken into sunglasses in bright light. Some in this thread are confusing them with progressive lenses which are seemless bifocals. Not the same thing.

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Jun 12, 2018 23:15:04   #
therwol Loc: USA
 
daeod wrote:
Transitions lenses are activated by UV light and car windshield glass blocks most UV light. I tell patients that if they want transitions for driving sunglasses, that they need to drive with they're head out of the window like a dog hanging its head out the window.


Just tell them to get a pair of prescription sunglasses. If you are used to wearing sunglasses, like my wife, you may like these glasses. If not, you may hate them. Not only do they change your perception of color (more defined and clear without them), then make it especially difficult to see anything on an LCD screen like on some cameras and all phones in sunlight where the screens are barely readable to begin with.

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