Doublehelix
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First off a disclaimer, I have no interest in this company or their products other than buying them and loving them.
I saw a YT video the other day that changed my shooting life:
These shooting glasses are truly spectacular. I was TOTALLY skeptical and 100% convinced that these would NOT work for me, but I was getting desperate, so I tried them. All I can say is "wow".
I wear transition prescription glasses on a daily basis, and this makes it really difficult to find shooting glasses that work for me. I have read every article, and tried about a million solutions, including very expensive prescription inserts for some SPP glasses (the prescription insert ended up costing me over $300, than $150 for the glasses).
Long story short, nothing worked. Until now that is!
These glasses have magnification across the entire surface of the lens. Worthless for us that need bifocals, right??? That's what I thought too.
Here is what I did:
I went into CVS to their reading glasses stand, and tried on a bunch of different reading glass magnifications until I found the correct magnification that allowed me to see the front sight of my pistol in perfect focus (arms extended, fingers out like a gun, and than an inch or two further).
Armed with this information, you can take the magnification power (for me, it turned out to be 1.25X at that distance), and I went to Amazon to check these puppies out:
Elvex full lens magnifier glasses:
https://www.amazon.com/Elvex-RX-500...-2&keywords=elvex+full+lens+magnifier+glasses
At the bottom of the page, there is a equation that allows you to convert diopter to magnification (WARNING: These glasses are rated in Diopter units, NOT magnification.)
Diopter/4 +1 so for a 2.0 diopter it would be 2/4 +1 or 1.5X magnification. A 1.0 diopter would be about 1.25X magnification. PERFECT for me!!!
I ordered a set with the 1.0 diopter lenses, (the same ones as in the YT video as a matter of fact), and really did not expect to be able to see the target or the people around me, but for $10 a pair, I figured "what the heck", I had nothing to lose, and I am frustrated to no end with all of the other solutions I have tried.
As a side note, at the same time, I ordered a pair of SPP bifocal glasses that have the magnification at the TOP of lens to try out at the same time ($48).
I absolutely HATED the top lens bifocals from SPP, but could not believe how great these Elvex 1.0 diopter glasses work!!!
I wore them yesterday at a USPSA match all day, and it was completely amazing! I got home last night from the match, and immediately ordered a couple of pairs of sunglasses, and a 3-pack of the clear lens glasses as well.
When I like something, I tend to shout it from the mountain tops, but when I don't, I tend to be quiet about it.
These are the best solution for old fart shooting glasses that I have seen so far, BAR NONE!
I was so skeptical that if they were not only $10, I probably would have never bought them, I was so convinced that they would be like walking around with reading glasses on all day and having everything blurry and I would get dizzy and sick, etc. Instead, they are an absolute miracle!!!
For anyone that decides that they want to try them out, be sure to follow the steps that I did and get the right magnification for focusing on your front sight first, (don't guess!!!), and then be sure to use the diopeter-to-magnification equation I typed above to get the right diopter lenses. Even if you use reading glasses for reading now, the correct magnification to get your front sight in focus might be different.
I am in heaven, and can actually see my front sight as clear as a bell, and can also focus on the target quite well, and have NO ISSUES with seeing the world around me.
GREAT PRODUCT!!!
I saw a YT video the other day that changed my shooting life:
These shooting glasses are truly spectacular. I was TOTALLY skeptical and 100% convinced that these would NOT work for me, but I was getting desperate, so I tried them. All I can say is "wow".
I wear transition prescription glasses on a daily basis, and this makes it really difficult to find shooting glasses that work for me. I have read every article, and tried about a million solutions, including very expensive prescription inserts for some SPP glasses (the prescription insert ended up costing me over $300, than $150 for the glasses).
Long story short, nothing worked. Until now that is!
These glasses have magnification across the entire surface of the lens. Worthless for us that need bifocals, right??? That's what I thought too.
Here is what I did:
I went into CVS to their reading glasses stand, and tried on a bunch of different reading glass magnifications until I found the correct magnification that allowed me to see the front sight of my pistol in perfect focus (arms extended, fingers out like a gun, and than an inch or two further).
Armed with this information, you can take the magnification power (for me, it turned out to be 1.25X at that distance), and I went to Amazon to check these puppies out:
Elvex full lens magnifier glasses:
https://www.amazon.com/Elvex-RX-500...-2&keywords=elvex+full+lens+magnifier+glasses
At the bottom of the page, there is a equation that allows you to convert diopter to magnification (WARNING: These glasses are rated in Diopter units, NOT magnification.)
Diopter/4 +1 so for a 2.0 diopter it would be 2/4 +1 or 1.5X magnification. A 1.0 diopter would be about 1.25X magnification. PERFECT for me!!!
I ordered a set with the 1.0 diopter lenses, (the same ones as in the YT video as a matter of fact), and really did not expect to be able to see the target or the people around me, but for $10 a pair, I figured "what the heck", I had nothing to lose, and I am frustrated to no end with all of the other solutions I have tried.
As a side note, at the same time, I ordered a pair of SPP bifocal glasses that have the magnification at the TOP of lens to try out at the same time ($48).
I absolutely HATED the top lens bifocals from SPP, but could not believe how great these Elvex 1.0 diopter glasses work!!!
I wore them yesterday at a USPSA match all day, and it was completely amazing! I got home last night from the match, and immediately ordered a couple of pairs of sunglasses, and a 3-pack of the clear lens glasses as well.
When I like something, I tend to shout it from the mountain tops, but when I don't, I tend to be quiet about it.
These are the best solution for old fart shooting glasses that I have seen so far, BAR NONE!
I was so skeptical that if they were not only $10, I probably would have never bought them, I was so convinced that they would be like walking around with reading glasses on all day and having everything blurry and I would get dizzy and sick, etc. Instead, they are an absolute miracle!!!
For anyone that decides that they want to try them out, be sure to follow the steps that I did and get the right magnification for focusing on your front sight first, (don't guess!!!), and then be sure to use the diopeter-to-magnification equation I typed above to get the right diopter lenses. Even if you use reading glasses for reading now, the correct magnification to get your front sight in focus might be different.
I am in heaven, and can actually see my front sight as clear as a bell, and can also focus on the target quite well, and have NO ISSUES with seeing the world around me.
GREAT PRODUCT!!!