Characteristics of Carbon Fiber Glasses
Carbon fiber frames have pretty impact resistance. Carbon fiber is made of carbon, the core element of diamonds. It is ten times stronger than iron, and it weighs less than steel. The maximum stress it can withstand before breaking is 7 to 9 times that of steel. Carbon fiber is more resistant to corrosion than metals like titanium. It has high-temperature resistance, radiation resistance, good elasticity. Carbon fiber is not only flexible, but durable, so it won't break if you drop it. Carbon fiber has many benefits, including high stiffness, high tensile strength, low weight, high chemical resistance, high-temperature resistance, and low thermal expansion.
What Is Polycarbonate Lens?
Polycarbonate was invented in the 1970s for aerospace applications and is currently used for the helmet visors of astronauts and for space shuttle windshields.
Polycarbonate lenses were introduced in the early 1980s in response to a demand for lightweight, impact-resistance lenses. Since then, polycarbonate glasses have become standard for safety glasses, sports goggles, and children’s eyewear.
Polycarbonate glasses come with a lot of features such as thin and light and they provide 100% percent UV protection and are up to 10 times more impact-resistance than plastic pr glasses lenses.
The Benefits of Anti-Glare Glasses
As is well known, glare is the excessive brightness caused by direct light or reflected light. It often occurs when sunlight bounces off a reflective surface like water or snow. Of course, anti-glare glasses can also be caused by other factors.
Standard plastic lenses are able to reflect approximately 8% of the light that reaches your glasses and high-index lenses often reflect up to 12% of available light. Hence, anti-glare glasses come in a lot of advantages.
The anti-reflective glasses can reduce eye strain and make your eyeglasses look more attractive because the anti-reflective coating can eliminate reflections from the front and back surfaces of your eyeglass lenses. With this feature, more light can pass through your lenses to improve your vision with fewer distractions and the lenses look nearly invisible.
In addition, anti-glare glasses are helpful to high-index lenses, which reflect more light than regular plastic lenses. In general, the higher the index of refraction of the lens material, the more light will be reflected from the surface of the lenses.
Anti-glare glasses can protect your eyes from UV rays (sunlight that doesn’t appear on our visual spectrum). This feature can be enhanced by some photochromatic or polarized lenses.
Injection frame
Acetate cellulose pellets are extruded by an injection molding machine, which is called an injection frame. Its characteristic is that it saves raw materials, can be mass-produced, has a lower cost, and is cheaper than a plate rack. But the firmness is not as good as the plate frame. However, injection frames are mostly used for glasses for the elderly and children because of their lightweight and resistance to allergies. The injection frame is made of laminated plastic. It is made by pasting a thin layer of plastic of one color on another thicker layer of plastic. Thick materials are mostly transparent pigments. It is also made of three or more layers of plastic.
Disadvantages of Progressive Lens
There are deformation areas under the left and right sides of the lens, which make the image blurry and irregular. It takes 1-3 weeks to get used to it. In addition, it has a narrower field of view in the near and middle distances, and long-term concentration on the narrow focal point can easily make the eyes tired. Suitable for people who need to alternate between distant, medium, and near vision.
However, with the development of science and technology, more and more progressive multifocal glasses have emerged that have a wider field of view, more comfortable wearing, and better meet the needs of eyes. Nowadays, the use rate of progressive lenses among middle-aged and elderly people abroad is quite high. Single-lens and double-lens reading glasses are gradually being replaced by progressive multifocal glasses.
Disadvantages of contact lenses
They require more care than glasses. If you don't clean your contact lenses properly, or if you don't wash your hands before touching them, you could get a serious eye infection. Wearing contaminated contact lenses not only causes damage to your eyes but causes inflammation. If you have high astigmatism, your vision may become blurry when the lenses rotate. And there are a lot of contact lens health risks. There is a lot of news exposed that many informal manufacturers use fake or shoddy materials to make contact lenses, especially for the so-called beautiful contact lens, there are more risks in dyeing and health. The damage to the eyes is unimaginable.
How Do Progressive Lenses Work?
How do progressive lenses work? You may have this problem. As is well known, when you are over 40, your vision begins to deteriorate and you may suffer the presbyopia condition. So, with the progressive lenses, you can see at all distances with one pair of glasses. They start with your distance prescription at the top of the lens and increase as you move toward the bottom of the lens.
Then you move your head position to allow you to focus through different areas of the lens. Move your head upwards to see something in the distance, hold it straight for intermediate or arm’s length vision and down for near vision for objects that are close up.
In addition, progressive lenses avoid the visual discontinuity or image-jump when your eyes shift from one zone to the other in non-progressive multifocals since there are no distinct lines in progressive lenses.
