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- From: M20614@mwvm.mitre.org (Hugh Pritchard)
- Subject: Re: Contact lenses and blood vessels in the eye!?
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- References: <1992Nov12.175945.3753@menudo.uh.edu> <1992Nov13.023143.163637@watson.ibm.com> <23904@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> <28176@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:14:31 GMT
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- In article <28176@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
-
- >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.
- >
- >These problems only occur if you want to follow the current fashion of
- >wearing big spectacles. ...
- >
- >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. ...
- >
- >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.
-
- When I wore thick, bifocal cataract lenses (about +13 diopters strong),
- I always got them as big as possible, because my peripheral vision outside
- the lenses was non-existent -- it was useless even to glance to the side;
- I had to turn my head and look straight on. [When you've had your natural
- lenses removed due to cataracts, you become, in effect, *very* far-
- sighted, and nothing is ever in focus without some sort of artificial
- lenses (glasses, contacts, or implants).]
-
- So, I disagree with the view that people who get large-framed glasses
- do so merely out of fashion-consciousness.
-
- ** Hugh Pritchard, hapritch@mitre.org, 703/883-6616
-