Hi All,
For those who wear glasses, do you have a blue light lens on them? Is it worth it or just another upsell from the optometrists?
Blue Light Lens - Glasses? Worth It?
Llakes_8 on 07/08/2017 - 21:15
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I do runs of nights at the hospital.
Ordered a set and got given one as a gift from a kickstarters.
The reported blue light filtering clear ones didn't make any difference in my opinion regarding fatigue, etc the next day or with eye fatigue on screens.
Now the yellow ones make you look like a bit of a tool, however in my anecdotal experience, they do make maintaining a normal routine after the nights easier. On the flip side, using a screen with them is a bother if colour matters to the work you're doing.
The benefit is likely just a placebo effect, but that's the great thing about placebo's, even when you know they exist, you can still get their benefit.
My prescription glasses got that option, its great.
I have blue coatings on my glasses since the start of this year.
It will be a personal thing as the research says but I think it is great for me.
I spend heaps of times for my research projects with comp so it is really useful
as it was mentioned above, it give little yellowish tint to the vision but I got used to it in less than 10 mins and I don't see a difference at all. If you use do any colour stuff probably it will be a good idea to have that in mind.
In terms of the lenses, it has blue-ish tint to it and in my opinion, it looks better than normal anti reflective coatings. I started wearing glasses for long period so i am bit of a lens freak so i always go for the best lenses. I say you ask them for samples if they have one and have a look at the tint itself.
Hope this helped
If you are looking at an ultra bright display all day (apple cinema display etc) they are "kinda ok". I still think the difference is kinda negligible.
But they do make you look smarter.
I have a pair which I use when I give talks and presentations….
i got a pair, theyre good. bought from zenni, theyre like a very light tint sunglasses, slightly grey. makes computer screens and bright days a bit less harsh, and arent noticeable to other people. i used to wear them all the time because theyre more comfortable, but went back to regular after i stopped staring at screens as much
and before zenni sold blue light lenses, i got a pair with 10% yellow tint. those were great, very effective at cutting out pc glare. i had been feeling eye strain every time i looked at my pc for a while and these were pretty much an instant fix. they look a little weird, but i pretty much only wore them at the office and who cares what those guys think. sometimes id forget i was wearing them and keep them on afterwards though
pc glare
LOL.
300 nits of blinding light!
Read this and its actually decent more so than a sales pitch
(https://www.zeiss.com.au/vision-care/en_au/better-vision/und…)
I know a bit more of the reasoning if you don't quite get what you need from the article
My latest prescription lenses are the Zeiss DriveSafe (which I assume is one implementation of what the OP is referring to), and they noticeably reduce the perceived glare from halogen car headlights.
Blue light lens? This is new to me, reading a bit I don't think I'd bother. I have the anti-reflective coating, which is good, and polarised prescription sunglasses, also good.