Lenses
Lighter, Thinner, Sharper, Wiser
Modern lens materials can now reduce the thickness and weight of your lenses whatever your prescription. Special coatings also help to reduce unwanted glare and reflections.
Thinner lenses are made from materials which have a higher refractive index than standard glass or plastic. This means that less lens thickness is needed to achieve the same focusing properties. Modern aspheric designs also mean that the curvature of a lens will be flatter to give a better cosmetic appearance.
Progressive Lenses
Progressive lenses, often called Varifocal lenses, enable clear vision at all distances where a different prescription is required for distance and near vision. Unlike bifocals they have no line to interfere with vision or to give away the fact that you need reading spectacles. Progressive lenses have continued to improve in design over the years to reduce the initial distortion that some people experience with this type of lens and to make them far easier to adapt to. There are nowadays many different designs of progressive lenses, different visual tasks or occupations may be better suited to a particular type of lens. Professional help and advice is the only way to ensure that the right lens is matched to your requirements.
Lens Choices
We are constantly updating information regarding the latest advances in lens technology to ensure the best possible lens performance for your prescription. Being an independent optician we are able to source the most suitable lens design and material from a wide range of manufacturers. Our experienced team will always individually discuss the options available to accurately dispense your spectacle prescription.
Essilor
Essilor is the world’s largest manufacturer of ophthalmic lenses. They invented “Varilux”, the world’s first varifocal lens in 1959 and have been improving on a great idea ever since. Essilor also has an impressive array of photochromic, tinted and high index lenses as well as lenses for special applications.
Nikon
When it comes to the best camera lenses, everyone knows the Nikon name. The same technology, highest quality materials and years of proven optical design experience, has allowed Nikon to develop their range of high quality spectacle lenses.
Norville Group
This independent Gloucester-based British company produces the most comprehensive range of spectacle lenses available in the UK today. Because they manufacture all the lenses on-site in Gloucester, they are able to produce lenses for complex prescriptions that are often rejected by the larger multi-national groups.
Rodenstock
One of our flagship German lens brands, Rodenstock design lenses with leading technology and innovation plus excellent quality. They specialise in manufacturing lenses to cater for complex prescriptions and are a brand unique to independent practitioners. We often successfully dispense these lenses to clients who previously had not tolerated progressive lenses.
Seiko
Always innovative in their design, Seiko produced the first internal surface progressive lens for easier adaptability and the first double aspheric lens for excellent peripheral vision on higher range prescriptions.
Zeiss
Carl Zeiss, a well-known German lens manufacturer, still leads the field in the manufacture of glass prescription lenses. If you require the thinnest possible lens, the Zeiss glass lenses are available in the highest refractive index of 1.9, therefore ensuring the best possible appearance for those with very high prescriptions. Their new iScription lens can considerably improve visual performance at night and help improve the safety of night driving.