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- From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Contact lenses and blood vessels in the eye!?
- Message-ID: <28176@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 16:27:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.175945.3753@menudo.uh.edu> <1992Nov13.023143.163637@watson.ibm.com> <23904@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <23904@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> laura@TASVAX.NSWSES.NAVY.MIL writes:
-
- >At high strengths, glasses become *very* uncomfortable.
- >The weight is cumbersome, even with the new super thin lenses.
-
- >There is a period of weeks of wear to get used to looking at
- >everything curved (imagine your reflection on the back of a spoon).
-
- These problems only occur if you want to follow the current fashion of
- wearing big spectacles. Big lenses greatly increase the maximum
- thickness of glass necessary. This adds weight in much more than in
- proportion to the area, greatly increases the curvature effect at the
- lens edges, plus the unpleasant "bottle-bottom" effect in very strong
- lenses. Although I've never met anyone with worse short sight than
- myself (4" max focus), and I insist on glass lenses, I've also never
- met anyone with _lighter_ spectacles: the lenses are simply small,
- about 1"x1.5" ellipses, which was as small as I could get -- I'd
- prefer smaller.
-
- These small lenses also give me better vision. There is no curvature
- effect in my peripheral vision, since my peripheral vision simply
- looks outside the lens. So I don't hit other cars when parking (a
- characterisitic of people with big strong lenses), and am less likely
- to misjudge my footing in rough terrain. I also feel safer, since the
- extreme edges of my peripheral vision are not obscured by the edges of
- my spectacle frames.
-
- Big (heavy) lenses are purely cosmetic -- the extra spread of lens
- doesn't give you any useful extra high definition vision, and it
- severely screws up your peripheral depth perception. Big lenses are
- the spectacle equivalent of high heels.
- --
- Chris Malcolm cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh +44 (0)31 650 3085
- Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
- 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK DoD #205
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