Eyewear lens colour

ciwi286

I was looking at protective eye-wear and was wondering about the different coloured lenses (specifically smoke, amber and clear) . Is there a significant difference? What would you suggest?

(Preferred role is sniper, if that makes any difference.)

Leftyflip

If its fairly bright out, get some smoke lenses, long periods in the sun without tinted lenses can damage your sight, I forget what its called, but you develop yellow spots around your eye from it and can lead to blindness in severe cases.
Amber or yellow lenses are great, they brighten everything up in dull conditions and do help with UV rays a bit too.
Clear, is well, clear.

thermo

i prefere the amber tints as they are very easy on your eyes.

Puding

Normaly run yellow, Easter to spot movement ( man Gide away of people ) and good in low light

ciwi286

Are the yellow ones noticeably more visible (others spotting me), or does it make much of a difference?

thermo

ciwi286 wrote: »

Are the yellow ones noticeably more visible (others spotting me), or does it make much of a difference?

it does not make much of differance.

ciwi286

Thanks guys!

thermo

there is also option "D",,,,,, mesh. it works well, does not fog and you don't need to worry about scratches.

Inari

thermo wrote: »

there is also option "D",,,,,, mesh. it works well, does not fog and you don't need to worry about scratches.

But at a trade off, you have to worry about particulates and debree

thermo

Inari wrote: »

But at a trade off, you have to worry about particulates and debree

i've never had an eye injury wearing mesh glasses, been wearing mesh 3 years now.

Inari

Aye, but it is a bigger risk due to less coverage. It doesn't mean it will happen, just that it could. Both mesh & goggles have advantages & disadvantages, down to personal choice based on informed decisions at the end of the day.

I just wanted to toss out the devil's advocate

thermo

Inari wrote: »

Aye, but it is a bigger risk due to less coverage. It doesn't mean it will happen, just that it could. Both mesh & goggles have advantages & disadvantages, down to personal choice based on informed decisions at the end of the day.

I just wanted to toss out the devil's advocate

i guess i've just been lucky so...... i forgot to mention my policy is to avoid being shot also!

Private Snafu

I'd recommend the amber lenses myself, they really help to brighten things up in our miserable climate. I'd also recommend you spend as much as you can afford to on your eye protection, I've had enough close shaves using cheap sh*te over the past couple of years....

Puding

a down side of mesh as well is that it will cut down on incoming light, so has a larger drop off in low light from my experience, may or may not be an issue for some people

Inari

Puding wrote: »

a down side of mesh as well is that it will cut down on incoming light, so has a larger drop off in low light from my experience, may or may not be an issue for some people

I found that mesh is worst in changing between light & darkness, as opposed to darkness itself, but is fine in consistent surroundings. As Puding said, this is due to less light being let through. With Mesh you have a choice of Big Holes = More light, & greater risk of debree & shrapnel etc, or Smaller Holes = less risk, less light. Goggles has the best of both of those situations (i.e. most light, less risk) but at the trade off of Fogging problems, which can be both incredibly frustrating, and troublesome

Saike

I personally am a sniper and was about to get bolle smoked goggles. But after reading that the amber ones are better for low light, i'm going to get them instead.

also fogging problems are easily combated by antifog spray (seairsoft have it last time i checked)

I've heard repots that this stuff dont work, but as far as im concerned it works fine. friend got some and tested it and he could breath right onto the lense and it wouldnt fog.

CpcRc

I have yellow and clear glasses aswell as mesh goggles. The yellow definitely makes light brighter but isn't good for early mornings in my opinion as they catch the light of the rising sun and can blind you.
I started using clear glasses and put washing up liquid on them and that really helped with fogging. I then got a pair of yellow glasses which fog less and bring out light more.
But one morning airsofting I kept getting blinded by the sun as the glasses made it too bright and I couldn't see anything else. This was in woodland.
The mesh doesn't fog but it isn't as easy to see as when wearing glasses.
There are pros and cons, but personally I like the glasses more but definitely will use clear in the early mornings from now on.

War Machine 539

MESH. MESH, Did I mention MESH? Inability to see while being shot at is the worst feeling in the world. Period. Stick with mesh dude.

ciwi286

Thanks guys. I got the amber and they're great.
I have never ever had fogging issues, even using goggles that other people complained fogged up really bad.
I'm able to breath right on these and they don't fog up either.