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Subject: [OM] Re: OT On hazards of aging
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:11:51 -0500
The argument that you always have to look perfectly straight on sounds 
to me perfectly ridiculous.

Chuck Norcutt


Wayne Culberson wrote:
> 
>> It's been a great solution for me. First pair lasted about 6 years
>> before I needed a correction change, and I used perfectly good old
>> frames for them, so they cost me less than $50 per year. I did buy new
>> frames for the new ones, so the oldies could be emergency backup.
>>
>> Moose
>>
> 
> 
> Wish I could buy glasses for $50. I just bought a new pair that cost me 
> almost $400, which were supposedly going to be a bit better than the old 
> ones that I've had for 6 years. However, the new ones are worse, as anything 
> outside of almost perfectly straight on is blurry. The optical store I 
> bought them from is arguing that that is normal, as they are aspherical 
> lenses, whereas my older ones are spherical. Their argument is that 
> aspherical lenses are better when you look perfectly straight on, and can be 
> made thinner and lighter, but the trade-off is that when you cast your eyes 
> to the side without turning your head, they are more blurry. Is that true? 
> So do aspherical camera lenses give pics only sharp in the center? I'm not 
> buying it yet and am arguing for replacement lenses. They are arguing that I 
> have to learn to always turn my head, rather than my eyes. Well, I'm too old 
> to turn my head far enough to do a shoulder check, for instance.
> 
> As to losing my glasses, they are either beside my bed at arms length, or on 
> my face. And I always travel, even short distances in the car, with a spare 
> pair. I'm pretty well usless without them.
> 
> Wayne 
> 
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