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Location: pittsburgh, pa | What is everyones opinion on an overall lense color for sunglasses? |
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Location: searchin for 50 | I don't really have a color just make sure they are a polarized lense. I buy mine at walmart for 15 bucks . That way when they fly off of your head when your riding with someone who is going wfo.you don't feel so bad   |
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | Amber is best overall color to use. The better the glasses you buy, the better for your eyes.. Cheap ones may work.. but if you spend many hours on the water during the year.. your eyes will appreciate a good pair. Costa Del Mar, Ocean Waves, Maui Jim are a couple good brands, along with RayBan and Bausch and Lomb. Many will say the Ocean Waves Backwater Green is the best color... but always leave out that the base color of that lens is Amber, not green. Backwater green is a mirrored lens.. Costa Del Mar has a green mirror also that is a Amber based lens color. For Low light conditions Both Costa and Ocean waves have a Yellow based lens, Costa calls theirs Sunrise Yellow I think, Ocean waves is a Purple Mirrored tint called Crown Royal Luminator. |
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| I must say that I really don't like the amber for on the water sunglasses, nor the yellows. Usually when I am wearing them I want to cut as much light as possible out, and am not trying to preserve light. I have used the lighter ones in the evening and don't feel I get better water vision penetration than the grey, and if it is bright out I feel much more comfortable in the grey or green sunglasses. If I was hunting in them I would probably prefer a lighter glass. If you have good eyes I think that in non prescription glasses most people would be well served by a pair of Roland Martins, well designed and reasonably priced.
I wear cheap prescription sunglasses in the biggest lense they have so that it covers as much peripheral area as possible but use a wire frame to save weight and to promote air flow on rainy days so they don't fog up. $88 at WaL mart, just had to buy another pair. They seem to work just fine. Probably lose them somehow in 3 years or so and need another pair. |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | If you choose Ocean Waves brand I stongly suggest "Backwater Green". I also us a lens with an amber tint for cloudy days or during low light. |
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | Mark, as stated above, Backwater Green(a mirrored lens) is a Amber based lens color. So my question would be this, do you wear two different pairs of amber glasses through the day? If so what is the advantage? just wondering. |
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | Get a pair of Renegades from Wal-Mart.
I have worn glasses that cost $200.00 a pair, and glasses that cost $11.99 a pair.
Is there a difference...very little, do the high end glasses do anything better for me.... nope.
I have one pair of glasses, I wear them on sunny days, cloudy days, rainy days, etc......do I miss follows because I don't have a pair of $200 glasses...nope.
I can see just fine in the water with my Wal-Mart Renegades. |
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Location: Michigan | In my opinion if you are concerned about taking care of your eyes, then dont go cheap. Can you see into the water good with cheap ones? Yeah you can. Do cheap ones do an efficient job of filtering out UVA rays which can damage the retina? absolutely not, Do cheap ones do an efficient job of filtering out UVB rays that cause cataracts? No. cheap ones are simply dipped or sprayed with a UV coating that wares off fairly quickly or scratches off. A quality lens has a UV filter that is integrated into the lens.
Whatever color,style of glasses you go with, get a quality lens. Your eyes will thank you in the future.
Jason |
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| Yea you can get cheepos and have the worst headach of your life to help you enjoy your time on the water you only get one set of eyes spend a few bucks and not at wal mart it's the Devil |
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| Cheepo's are fine. I prefer mine in grey or green.
I welcome anybody to try and spot a fish behind a bait before I can, or feel better after fishing than I do by wearing a pair of sunglasses that costs $$$$ more than the $6-7 Bill Dance dlip ons I used to wear until I finally decided that the advantage of a prescription pair (only have to wipe one pair of lenses dry in the rain) outweighed the cheapness of sunglasses that I often lost anyway, and still do, 3 pair over 10 years.
I have a pair of $16 clip ons from wal mart I am using over my regular glasses and darned if they don't work just fine also. Give me the cheepos and 4 or 5 new baits. |
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| Buy nice glasses, maybe some people can't notice a differenc, but I sure can.
Maybe my eyes are more sensitive than others. I''ve seen fish that other's haven't: contrast and quality polarization. I like amber/copper/browns pretty much all the time.
The worst decision I ever made was to pick up a cheapo pair once when I was on vacation--headache, crappy vision, poor fit on my nose. Normally I don't whine but I ended up down south not wearing the cheap glasses because my eyes hurt less that way, one week in the Keys w/o glasses and my eyeballs felt microwaved.
Once I made the move to nice glasses, I found they last longer because they don't scratch as bad, they fit well so they don't blow off, and because they are worth more than some cars I have owned I tend not to lose/wreck them, which saves me the time and hassle of buying replacements.
Glass seems to resist scratches the best, cr39 sucks and the newer poly stuff seems in between.
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| I wear Oakley M frames. It's a matter of what you feel comfortable with, however if you spend a lot of time on the water, I think the argument here is saying that you should invest in a quality pair to insure the health of your eyes. Do I think my oakley's help me see better? You bet... Here is some data to back that up.... http://oakley.com/technology/polarized/
Edited by JZDANK1 12/3/2005 8:58 AM
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