What Are Tinted Lenses?

" What Are Tinted Lenses? "

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Author : Dhooran     Date : 26-Feb-2006

The tinted lenses are now most popular because it is easy to identify from the solution. However, it does not change the colour of your eye.

Varieties In Tinted Lenses:

Generally, brown and Gray tint colours are most popular. Brown is the best colour because it allows the wearer a wider light spectrum to the eye by blocking blue lights and offer optimum contrast. Brown tint is suitable for applications where the distances need to continuously be judged. It is also suitable for low light situations like late afternoon or early morning. Grey tint is suitable for bright light situations because it blocks the bright sunrays. Tinted lenses are widely published as a new treatment for reading disorders and visual stress in children. In present days, the children who feel high levels of visual stress and perceptual bend while reading reports have a variety of vision shortage.

The blue and green tint used for fashion by youths nowadays. The blue is the worst colour of all because it absorbs blue light and creates more glares. Consider a custom-made lens tinted brown but with a blue flash mirror coating, if you like blue tint. For shooting and skiing on cloudy days use yellow tint, because it intensify contrast without blocking much light. Bolle designs a special green tint especially for tennis games. The green tint helps to highlight the yellow colour of the tennis ball and makes the white lines stand out. The Tinted polycarbonate lens offers you protection from airborne particles.

Features Of Tinted Lenses:

The lens absorbs the tint colour into the lens material. In Tint density, the 0% is completely clear and it does not permit 100% of light to pass through solid. For fashion, 10% to 20% of tint is used and for outdoor protection from sun, 50% to 80% of tint is used. A lens with full tint at the top and then fade gradually to no tint at the bottom is a gradient lens. A lens with full tint at the top and bottom and a medium tint in the centre of the lens is a double gradient tint lens. Double gradient tints are popular with skiers because it blocks the glare of the sun from above and below from the snow, allowing a clear view in the middle.


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