Hey guys.
Andrew esquivel here.
Back with another review, and today I’m going to be reviewing my new lenses for my
glasses.
Now, before I begin, I want to give a quick shout out to a few viewers of mine who had
a very good eye for detail on a previous video of mine that I had done about two years ago
involving a review of this [shows a lens], which will be a predecessor to my newest lenses.
Now, two years ago, I thought what I had were lenses manufactured by Zeiss and the coding
from Crizal called the Sapphire UV.This [lense] was particularly a very strange thing to have
because Crizal and Zeiss, and Crizal’s parent company, which should be named Varilux, are
competing companies, and generally you don’t see competing companies technology packed
into the same lens.
That been the case, here is where some confusion happened.
There are some independent laboratories out there that do have the technology and capability
to do something very weird like that, but it’s very rarely done and it’s not something
you’re going to find typically, which is what started this discussion.
The idea was, well you shouldn’t be possible to have Crizal stuff on a Zeiss lens, and
it turns out, they were right, and I want to thank them because I tried to do my very
best to be accurate and honest, and if there’s a serious discrepancy with the info I have,
in this case, the manufacturer of the lens, I want to bring it up to everyone else because
I want to be as thorough in my information as I can, and sometimes there can be difficulty
when we’re talking about eye wear because there’s a lot of different technical terms,
a lot of different names for a lot of different things and there’s a lot of manufacturers
with a lot of special proprietary technologies to it.
What are these exactly [lenses]?
Well, locally I was able to go to my doctors and pull-up the information from about two
years ago, and it turns out that these [lenses] are in fact Varilux lenses with a Crizal Sapphire
UV coding.
Not Zeiss, which in this case, puts me in a particularly interesting scenario because
although I did not know the true manufacturer of these lenses, I can say with much certainty
now, how I feel comparing two competing companies against each other.
In the end, this may actually work in a beneficial manner to do this review and put these two
companies head to head.
Now, you might be thinking, well, these are different lenses, are they even remotely comparable?
The fact of the matter is yes.
They actually are relatively comparable.
The points of comparison are, and I have them written down here.
Is, first of, these are both considered digital lenses.
Now, what it means to have a digital lens is pretty simple to understand.
With the normal set of lenses, they have a circular mould that a machine then cuts into
the shape of your frames.
With digital lenses, instead of having a starting predefined circular disc of material that
they grind down from, the material is created, based of the prescription in the first place,
and then it’s put into the style of frames that you have.
They’re much more tailored from the get-go versus getting something in general and having
that adapted to your lens, which helps enhance your vision further.
On top of that this happened to be at the time Crizal’s most high encoding, which
was the Sapphire UV.
Having said the coding on these lenses, which we’ll go into a lot of details in just a
moment, are called the Zeiss DuraVision BlueProtect, which these are designed for a very specific
application, which is filtering out powerful blue light from electronic devices that may
harm your eyes, but the Sapphire coding was chosen on these lenses for that exact, same
purpose two years ago.
Crizal has a coding called the prevencia, which is the competitor to Zeiss DuraVison
BlueProtect.
Now, that been said, the only other major differences between this and this is this
is polycabornate and these are trivex, but it’s still similar enough for me to go over
some comparisons.
All my opinions that I had about these lenses here from Varilux and not Zeiss , that I did
in a review two years ago still stand.
Fact of the matter is these were one of the most high-end lenses that Varilux had to offer,
and subsequently, they did an amazing job, and I absolutely loved and enjoyed using these
for the two years that I got to use them.
That hasn’t changed, but what has changed, is the manufacturer and some extra things
about these lenses that are proprietary in some ways to Zeiss, which makes me want to
lean more towards Zeiss at the moment.
With that been said, props to Crizal and the parent company Varilux for the lenses that
I had been using for the past two years, but now it’s time to talk about these guys and
some of the features that they provide.
Let’s dive on in.