Superfocus Glasses

[The Annoyed Man]

Anybody had any experience with these? http://superfocus.com/home-superfocus

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I own three pair of glasses (in my current prescription, not counting old ones): "computer" glasses, progressives, and progressive sunglasses.

The superfocus glasses are not cheap...they start at a little under $700, but between my three pair of glasses, I've got more than that invested anyway. I'm going to talk to my optometrist about these things to see what he thinks about them. If they're worth it, I might get a pair the next time my prescription changes.

[AEA]

No experience with them. Looked at the website awhile back but they are too expensive for me and also too GEEKY!

Also, I just could not fathom having to adjust for sights in the middle of a SD situation.

[Charles L. Cotton]

Having to manually focus your glasses every time you look at something at a different distance wouldn't work. Think about how many times you look at different focal distances in a short period of time. My typical work day involves reading documents, looking up to a computer, looking at people walking into my office, looking at the caller ID on my phone, looking out the window, and I could go on and on. Every one of these is a different focal distance. I would never reach up and refocus each time the focal distance changed, so I'd go back to contacts and reading glasses.

For me, his statement about progressive lenses is overblown and contacts and reading glasses work well since I'm farsighted.

Chas.

[jimlongley]

I had the same experience with progressives, not only was it tough for me to find the correct focus area quickly, but the small reading area made it necessary for me to continually move my head when reading and I found the constant "unfocussed" area made me more than just a little nauseated.

Due to my nearsightedness combined with astigmatism, when I began to suffer from presbyopia, contacts were out of the question, they were even worse.

I resorted to surgery when they still did Radial Keratotomy with a knife in your eye, and haven't really regretted it, my glasses are so much thinner, but it has resulted in a requirement for me to wear tri-focals because the correction of my distance vision destroyed my near vision (not an unexpected result). Until recently I passed all of my driver's license vision tests with no correction, but now I have cataracts that have not yet reached the required level for medicare to pay for the surgery.

If medicare or my vision plan will pay for those glasses, I might be tempted to try them.

Years ago I lost my regular glasses, so I wore my shooting glasses to work, that is not me, but that is what my shooting glasses looked like, and they were expensive too.

[AEA]

Very cosmopolitan!

[OldCannon]

I have some custom progressive glasses that were "computer designed" to work with my normal daytime task of looking at a computer and reading.

They're the most useless things I've ever spent money on. I just use drug store reading glasses now.

[urnoodle]

The idea sounds neat but until the technology gets much better I think I'd rather drag 3 pair of glasses around. Tomorrow I suspect I'm going to hear that I need those dreaded bifocals. If so, I will get a pair of glasses for farsightedness and nearsightedness. Now if they can figure out how to keep them on your face when you bend over without the crazy looking straps holding them on, I'd pay good money for that. My glasses always fit for the first week or two then they start slipping down my nose. I typically wear contacts but now that's a hassel.