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Advantages Of Separate Sunglasses Vs Transition Lenses.

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Persons that wear prescription eye ware also need to protect their eyes from the sun’s rays. Without protection from the sun’s UV radiation, you are more likely to form cataracts. Wearing corrective lenses means that you cannot just pick up a cheap pair of sunglasses like everyone else does. There are a couple of good options for you for sunglasses. One is to have a separate pair of prescription glasses made and tinted for use as sunglasses. The other is to choose transition lenses. Here is a comparison of Separate Sunglasses Vs Transition Lenses.

Transition lenses change in tint when exposed to the sun. They become darker when outside and move back toward a clearer lens when you are inside. This means that you do not have to change glasses when you go inside or outside or the house.

Your glasses do the changing for you. You will not be fumbling for glasses when you are driving the car. You do not have to change from your sunglasses to the regular glasses if you are driving at dusk. When you are shopping, there is not the constant changing from one set of glasses to the other as you go from store to car to store.

However, some wearers find some disadvantages to the transition lenses.

There is a time delay in the changing of transition sunglasses. This can mean several minutes outside without dark glasses or several minutes inside with dark glasses as you wait for the transition. This may cause problems seeing during the transition time.

If you choose separate sunglasses, they can be tinted darker than transition lenses. For people that are very light sensitive, this can be an advantage. The darker sunglasses can also be put on before leaving the inside of a building to avoid the shock of walking out into the sun.

You will probably not save money by buying transition lenses. The difference in cost is almost what you would pay for a pair of prescription sunglasses. In addition, if you have vision insurance, your insurance may not pay for transition lenses, but it will often pay for a spare pare of glasses. With the spare pair of glasses, you pay the price for tinting and you have prescription sunglasses. You can choose how dark or how light you want the tint to be. The cost of tinting glasses is often relatively inexpensive.

No matter what type of lenses you end up with, Coach has great designer frames like the Coach Sarah S814 or Coach Taryn S801.

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