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Reading glasses for outdoor use

  • 19-01-2009 12:31PM
    #1
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,530 ✭✭✭✭


    I need mild reading glasses for reading, only +1, which isn't a huge problem, but I do a lot of hillwalking and need to be able to read maps and route cards, and also compass and GPS. Now, if it's a bright sunny day, I can usually manage OK, but in bad light conditions it becomes a bit of struggle. Wrestling with getting reading glasses out and putting them back on again, especially in bad weather conditions strikes me as being a bit of a pain in the proverbial, so I'm wondering whether there are such things as either sturdy sports reading glasses I could hang around my neck without worrying about losing/breaking them, or possibly some kind of varifocal sports glasses? I've found some varifocal safety glasses on a US site, but was looking for something more local.


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  • #2
    Shamanic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 385 ✭✭Shamanic


    you could look into getting Bifocals into a cheap frame with Plano-no prescription-in the distance and wearing them on the hills full time?


  • #3
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,530 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Shamanic wrote: »
    you could look into getting Bifocals into a cheap frame with Plano-no prescription-in the distance and wearing them on the hills full time?
    Sorry, I don't know what you mean by Plano? I'm new to all this glasses stuff.


  • #4
    Shamanic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 385 ✭✭Shamanic


    by Plano i mean no prescription, so you said you only need them for reading so you'd have a bifocal with no distance prescription but the reading prescription in the bifocal segment. Therefore you can walk fine looking through the main body of the lens and when it comes to reading you look through the reading segment at the bottom of the lens.


  • #5
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,530 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    OK, thanks for that. Anyway, after a good bit of rooting around I've found a few places on the net that do wraparound sports glasses with a plain lens and a bifocal bit at the bottom, so I've ordered a pair to see how I get on. They should help with wind getting in my eyes on those particularly nasty days (like this recent weekend!) too.


  • #6
    Shamanic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 385 ✭✭Shamanic


    ok but i do have to say, as a professional in this field, buying glasses over the internet can be an extremly bad idea, especially things like bifocals. These need heights and ocular centres taken by a Dispensing Optician in accordence with the frame you are purchasing in order to be optically correct. Dispensing Opticians spend 3years studying and have to register with a professional body, its not something to gloss over.

    But you may have no problems, best of luck


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