Sunnies - What Lens Colour??

[Jack_Lives_Here]

Now that I've jumped into the normal vision cataegory - got me some contacts - I need to get a pair of standard polarised sunnies. Was having a look at the spotters brand but no idea on lens colours. What colour lenses are being used by the fisher folk out there???

[NeilD]

Penetrator is the best of all the ones I have tried. I got nearly five years out of my last pair. My mates don't like how bright they are but I love em.

Neil

[Payneful]

Dave

Would have to agree with Neil, I have the penetrators and simply love them. Really good on dull days ... can really brighten things up. They are photochromatic as well ... ie darken and lighten acording to light levels.

Sam

[mackmauler]

zeeke, id recommend yours to anyone, especially for inshore work.

[Zeeke]

lol, everyone else is recommending them too Rob.. so ill recommend them aswell, Spotters Penetrators Bronze.. they are the best ones.. they have another colour in the penetrator lense but it doesnt perform as high as the bronze lense

Tim

[bay_firey]

Just got prescription sunnies made up with brown/bronze lenses, they leave the old grey lenses for dead

[agnes_jack]

Go the Penetrators!
Awsome the way they open up the water.

Tony ;)

[Jack_Lives_Here]

Thanks for the feedback - Penetrators in the bronze it is. Those gold ones do look pretty cool though 8) 8)and that's half the battle - looking good doing it ;D

[NeilD]

The move to contact lenses rather than prescription sunnies is a great move. I am now using some lenses that don't have to be taken out and cleaned etc. Try them as they make overnight trips a lot more enjoyable.

Neil

[bay_firey]

Stuck between a rock and a hard place

Can't get diposable/leave in contacts and the regular ones are as dear as poison and will only last about 18 months

Buggar

[agnes_jack]

Mark
Have you seen the hydroTac lenses? Don't know if they would be any good to you but, they come in lenses from +1.25 to +3.00 magnifications. They simply adhere with water to your sunglass lenses or can be placed in diving masks etc. They are a little half moon shaped lense that can be removed and reused at will. They stick with a suction type effect.
Let me know if you want more info
regards, Tony

[moondancer]

Just been through the process of geting prescription polaroids - optometrist reccommended the greyish lenses far above other colours. Interestingly, when in the black frame they look more grey/ blue - i reckon they're great.

[bay_firey]

Thanks Tony

But I have astigmatism (my eye is not round) so can't focus on anything no matter how much it is magnified

[Jack_Lives_Here]

Got one of those stigmatism thingies as well - the eye doc just ordered my contacts to counteract it - I don't even know they are in now.

[Wesley_Pang]

Dave,

I've just got a pair of Spotter Penetrator in the Hooch Style.
http://www.spotters.com.au/images/large/Hooch-Bronze.jpg

Seem pretty good up at Hervey Bay on the flats. Saw lots of Stingrays, but no Golden Trevally.

I've got astigmatism too, but just use 1-day disposable lens.

Wes

[Leo_N.]

I don't know if you guys have ever tried Makos, but I wouldn't wear anything other than Mako Warriors - the lenses are far more scratch resistant than any other that I have tried, brown lenses for all light conditions, awesome polarisation, and above all they fit my head (maybe head is a bit wonky) better than any other pair of sunnies that I have tried.

[isaac]

Yep got the mako warriors in the bronze aswell, they have top quality glass lenses. Cost me $180 5 years ago and only have one little nick in them from mowing the lawn ;D. cheers Isaac

[Dug]

I still stick with cheap polaroid glasses. I lose glasses like anything, 2 or 3 pair per year, losing $30>$40 glasses hurts a lot less than $140 :-[ Dark /grey/ green lens works for me.

I now use soft contacts after being told I could never wear them. John Mountford optometrist in the T& G building Queen St Brisbane fitted them for me and was just amazing! like I said a string of optometrists had told me I could never wear contacts. I can leave them in for a week at a time, Normal people should be able to leave them in for up to a month. Brilliant for using cameras with one eye is a reading lens the other a distance lens for cameras and driving etc so no changing glasses to tie knots etc.

[cod_botherer]

I used to always get grey until I went flyfishing with guide in NZ.

After trying his Amber (bronze?) lenses, I'll never go back to grey, the difference is amazing.

[Leo_N.]

Dug,
I found that I lost glasses a lot before I got my first set of good ones - fork out those hard earned dollars and you will soon start to remember where they are and look after them better.

[Robbo_Townsville]

Turned thirty something not long ago and the wife and kids read my mind an got me a pair of Penetrator Spotters in Bronze.

Fantatstic for blue water fishing.