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Reflection Free Coatings

As the name suggests, these are coatings designed to eliminate the many different types of reflections that occur due to the very highly polished nature of both sides of a spectacle lens. These reflections can be particularly  troublesome in the evening when there are a lot of artificial light sources such as car headlights and street lighting. In theses instances, the reflections can cause troublesome halo's around the source making your vision less clear and in extreme cases dangerous. Whilst Anti-Reflective (AR) coatings cannot eliminate all the discomfort, they will make things significantly more comfortable.
AR coats also improve the cosmetic appearance of spectacles by removing the bright flash off the lens front, eg. on photographs, so the finished product is much more aesthetically pleasing. As with all lens products, there are different qualities of AR coats; some work better than others so always make sure you purchase a high quality one for the best performance.
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NEW: SOLITAIRE® 2 X-TRA CLEAN
With the new X-tra Clean Finish Rodenstock once again sets a new standard in Ophthalmic optics. The extremely smooth surface means that dirt hardly sticks and if the lens does get dirty, the dirt can be easily removed without leaving any streaks or residue on the lens.

In fact, the lenses are so smooth Rodenstock have needed to develop special glazing processes and materials to ensure the edging precision necessary to maintain Rodenstock standards.
Solitaire® Protect PRO 2: Reflective properties like never before.
The premium Solitaire® Protect PRO 2 coating achieves 60% better anti-reflective properties compared to current premium coatings, which in turn results in a higher transmission value of the lenses. Owing to the natural bronze skin tone, the eyes are visible without colour changes by the lenses. The result is a lens with excellent reflective properties that also ensures a natural look.
Solitaire® Protect Plus 2: Premium coating for your lenses
Our high tech Solitaire® Protect Plus 2 coating protects your lenses from problems such as dirt, dust, water and reflections. Lenses with this coating are also twice as scratchproof as conventional lenses, have excellent antireflective properties , superb cleaning properties and perfect UV protection.
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Solitaire® Protect Balance 2: Fit for the digital world
In addition to all the benefits of the Solitaire® Protect Plus 2 premium coating, Solitaire® Protect Balance 2 also reduces the unnaturally high proportion of blue light that laptops, smart phones, tablets and other screens emit. Excessive blue light can lead to straining your eyes and insomnia. By reducing the blue light, Solitaire® Protect Balance 2 allows you to work in front of a monitor in a relaxed manner and enhances your felling of well being in your everyday life by ensuring a balanced biorhythm.
Solitaire® Protect Sun 2: the latest generation of UV protection.
Sunglasses with Solitaire® Protect Sun 2 enable you to enjoy 100 % protection from UVA and UVB and maximum anti-dazzle. In addition, our premium Solitaire® Protect Sun 2 coating provides protection from reflections and is extraordinary easy to look after and resistant due to its pearling effect and dust-repellent properties. Solitaire® Red Sun 2 reflects a portion of the available sunlight infrared rays, thus reducing the heat load on the eye by infrared radiation.

Scratch Resistance

No lens material, including glass, is completely scratch proof. That's why most manufacturers of plastic lenses are able to put a very thin scratch resistant coating onto both surfaces of the lens in order to make them far more durable. Many lenses such as hi-index or polycarbonate are actually treated as standard but on more basic lenses it is still an optional extra. Remember though, whilst very tough, these treatments cannot protect the surface of the lens from ever getting marked so always keep them in a case when not being worn.

Tints

There are many different coloured tints available to treat lenses with. Whilst many are purely cosmetic there are a number of conditions that can be helped by more specialised colours. Colourimetry is a process by which reading difficulties can be improved by careful selection of specific tints; low vision patients may benefit from  special contrast filters such as orange or yellow. The most obvious use is as a sunglass but care must be taken to ensure that lenses with darker tints must have the appropriate UV protection as well.

Mirror Coatings

Mirror coatings are purely cosmetic and are available in an assortment of colours. The wearer perceives no difference in vision regardless of what colour the coating is, only those looking at the person wearing the glasses can see the mirror coating. Mirror coatings are normally applied to sunglass lenses.
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Polarised

Polarised lenses absorb light that has been reflected by a surface such as water or snow. By doing this, the glare caused by the light is reduced greatly giving much sharper, clearer and more comfortable vision. Traditionally used by fishermen to reduce glare from the water they are fishing in, they have a myriad of different uses. 
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Un-Polarised Lens
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Polarised Lens

Vista-Mesh Lenses


​Vista-Mesh from Norville Optical features a special micromesh filter built in to alleviate symptoms caused by exposure to certain visual stimuli including some migraine sufferers and those with photosensitive epilepsy.
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Features
  • 90% LTF brown contrast filter
  • Reflection free HMAR
  • Super easyclean topcoat
  • UV385 cut-off
  • Unique V-M optical mesh filter
  • Mid-index 1.56 material
Benefits
  • Aligns scattered light reflections
  • Dampens flicker
  • Sharpens contrast
  • Reduces eye-strain
  • Deflects EMI radiation
​Applications
  • Computer use
  • Night driving
  • Office environments
  • Clinical afflictions
  • Digital devices
  • General near vision tasks
 
G R Hardwick (Optometrist) |16 Rossall Road | Cleveleys | FY5 1AP | TEL: 01253 853030
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