Experience getting new lenses on vintage frames?
Has anyone ever actually done this? I’ve always heard it’s something you can do, but does it end up being insanely expensive? Hard to find somewhere to do it?
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its like 70 or 80 bucks usually
cheapest to do online probably
U mail the frames in?
Yeah, there's places where you send the frames in and they'll put lenses in. I was looking into this at one point and this one seemed pretty well reviewed
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Let me know how it goes if you do it
I’ve asked my local optometrist to do it. Sometimes they won’t because they don’t want to be responsible for the possibility of breaking vintage frames but many times they will.
I had it done in the same place I got my regular glasses. It was the same price as lenses for new glasses would’ve been, just didn’t pay for the frames.
Yeah you mail the frames in for most. I didn't love Lensabl since their default lens is fairly low index vs others, so it was heavy/thick.
The annoying thing is that a lot of online ones do include the coatings by default, but in person at the optometrist they don't and will try to upcharge you, but it just depends. My local optician did it for a fair price
Just get the base anti reflective coating, it includes anti-scratch
can you ask for oleophobic coating individually like that? I know some of the higher end packages claim to be smudge resistant but I only need that feature and don't really care about glare or blue light
All AR coatings are oleophobic and scratch resistant
They don't really tell you that to try to get you to buy the higher end ones
is there any difference between them in terms of oleophobic performance? I just want the most smudge resistance possible. Is glass any better than polycarbonate? I feel like my warby parker lenses get smudged if you breathe on them
Not really and oleophobic coating doesn't last long. No one uses glass; it has a better refractive index but it's heavy and fragile. I'd split this off into its own question thread
ok, thanks, I'll look into it some more and maybe do that later
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