Subject: Varilux Lenses and birders
Date: Dec 3 19:56:12 2001
From: Douglas Canning - dcanning at nisquallyestuary.org


On 3 Dec 2001, Bill or Sue Smith wrote:

> As many of you know, birding with eye-glasses (especially
> bifocals) can be frustrating, both with binoculars and a telescope.
> I'm considering buying Varilux Lenses for my next pair of spectacles.
> They're the ones where the bifocal sections merge together. Does
> anyone out there have experience with them, and if so, do you
> recommend them, not recommend them, or feel they make no difference?

I made the switch from trifocals (!) to Varilux many years ago --
more than I can remember right now. Most things in life are a trade-
off, but for peering through binocs or a telescope, Varilux are
unimaginably better than bifocals or trifocals.

With bifocals or trifocals I had to make sure I was above the focal
line. With Varilux it doesn't seem to matter one bit which part of my
eyeglasses I'm looking through -- it all gets taken care of with the
binoc or scope focusing.


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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Washington
dcanning at nisquallyestuary.org
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