Bifocals, multi-focals, progressive lenses, and other sugar-coated names

[flatwins]

When I turned 40 a couple years back my eyesight started going south a bit. So anyway, today I got bifocals. My optometrist joked around asking if it helped if he referred to them as "multi-focals". Wow these things are odd. Sometimes, depending on where your eyes are in relation to the lenses, they will take a straight line and turn it into a curved line. Gonna take some getting used to, that's for sure. I've heard 2 or 3 days to sorta get the feel of them. They sure are nice for looking down and reading fine print and detailed items though. Aging sucks!

 

[JB Books]

Ha ha ha. I feel the same way.

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

Next you can look forward to cateracts but they've got amazing surgery to fix that.

 

[ssgt ben]

My last pair I had the type that darken when you are in uv light. Keeps from switching to sunglasses.

 

[dennishoddy]

Wait until you shoot with bifocals. Bifocals will help with the sights, but the target will be blurred at times. It all depends on your level.
I'm going to have to get some "shooting glasses" made.

 

[flatwins]

My last pair I had the type that darken when you are in uv light. Keeps from switching to sunglasses.

I had that on the pair I just retired. Thought I would really like those transitional lenses but got to where they drove me nutz!

 

[ratski]

Sounds like you have the "no line" bifocals.

I tried those as my first pair of glasses and they drove me nuts.

The "bent lines" were troublesome and it felt funny walking.

I switched to regular bifocals.

My biggest problem is that I have a very narrow depth of field for my focus at different distances. It takes a while to zero in the right prescription. I finally took to measuring how far it was from my eyes to the book when I read or the computer screen and we worked off of that to get it into my sweet spot.

Dave

 

[cjjtulsa]

I feel your pain. I'm currently fighting the need to wear reading glasses, and my last eye exam (yearly for work) I was told that was the last passing grade I was going to get. He said in five years I'd be wearing bifocals. Ugh. I'm slowly accepting the sad facts.

 

[flatwins]

Sounds like you have the "no line" bifocals.

I tried those as my first pair of glasses and they drove me nuts.

The "bent lines" were troublesome and it felt funny walking.

I switched to regular bifocals.

My biggest problem is that I have a very narrow depth of field for my focus at different distances. It takes a while to zero in the right prescription. I finally took to measuring how far it was from my eyes to the book when I read or the computer screen and we worked off of that to get it into my sweet spot.

Dave

Yep, the are the no line type. I picked them up yesterday at noon and wore them for around 12 hours, finishing with a low-grade headache. We'll see how they do today.

 

[HMFIC]

I feel your pain. I'm not quite to the point that I need any correction, but I've noticed that my up close focus has tapered off and it takes longer to refocus between distances. Getting older sucks.