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- Hello, I would like to welcome you
to the Laramy-K OpticianWorks training center,
where today we are gonna look at some photochromic products.
We have in no particular order,
a few ZEISS PhotoFusion examples for show and tell.
We're gonna do a side by side comparison
with some Transition 8s and IOT Neochromes,
take a look at some
of our own Laramy-K Flash coated photochromics
and a few from Essilor's signature color series.
Now, on television and in the magazine ads,
beautiful people step out into a beautiful world
and their lenses magically, and almost instantly,
change from a crystal clear to a deep dark sunglass.
Well, you aren't gonna get any of that here.
You got my ugly old mug
and my driveway out in front of the studio.
Let's start out by seeing how long things really do take.
(birds chirping) (upbeat music)
All right, I am gonna start inside here
so that we can all see the timer.
And I'm gonna go ahead and start that right now
and come on out here.
And again, you just can't see the timer
and I apologize for that,
but I'll keep it right there anyway.
These have been undercover now
for a good five minutes or more, come around this side.
And we're gonna let them sit for at least a full minute.
Then we're going to flip them.
Then we're gonna give them another minute, flip 'em over,
give 'em another minute and see how we do.
All right, we're at one 41 when we flipped these,
'cause right now they're front up.
All right, that is four 10.
Let's see if I can, maybe that.
All right, let's head on inside.
Start the clock in there.
Let's set that down right there.
Let's get this camera fired up.
There we go, get these in place.
All right, that's done.
I'm gonna go collect my stuff outside here,
bring the other camera inside.
And while we are waiting here,
let's make a special thank you to Sios
for sending me that flipper there, that flipper,
and couldn't think of a better tool for this job.
I asked them if they'd send me one
and they, as always, stepped up to the plate for us.
All right, let's go ahead and close that garage door.
(door rattling)
Let's see how we're doing here.
I'd say we've got a long ways to go.
(legs grinding)
Let's see what the temp is here in this corner.
Let's see, we've got about 58 degrees.
And we'll only turn the heater on over here.
More room temperature like.
Why not?
Just warm things up a little bit.
I mentioned that temperature can play a role here.
The rules are cold weather means a darker lens
with slower reaction times,
hot weather means a less full dark lens
with faster cycle time.
I know this is exactly like watching paint dry.
That is the entire point.
I also know that, well, basically,
no one is actually going to watch this.
I do think that you'll fast forward back
and forth a few times, watch the timer,
and hopefully see that it is not all back to normal
in a matter of seconds, or even after five full minutes.
Keep in mind here that the timer has been running
since I left the garage.
I uncovered the lenses outside at about 26 seconds
And I set them on the stand inside
at about four minutes and 50 seconds.
I got her up to 65 over here.
It's a little bit more room temperature like,
make it the trigger goes a a little bit faster.
I think that we could all agree that those
are now at a point where you could wear them indoors.
Certainly not clear, but wearable.
I think we all know that photochromics do tend
to trigger quite quickly,
but obviously their return
to full clear can be quite lengthy.
I now think that we could agree
that those are close to clear,
and perhaps even in different lighting or contrast,
you may not even notice them at all.
Now of course, we are here to learn.
So, what did we learn from that sequence?
I think we have a few takeaways here.
First, the top row, were the T8s,
the bottom were the Neochromes.
And I think it's quite safe to say
that they both performed about the same, identical really,
and that they are both pretty darn good products.
Now, the important takeaway here for opticians
is that we have provided you with a unique perspective
in real time that you aren't going to get anywhere else.
This is not a TV ad or a magazine article.
How long does it really take for a photochromic to cycle?
Keeping in mind that temperature
and lighting can change things.
If you watch the clock,
it appears that these lenses reached about an 80% sun
in about one and a half minutes.
They returned to their most clear state
in about eight and a half.
Just something really important to keep in mind
as an optician.
It is now time for a show and tell
where we have our ZEISS PhotoFusion,
our Laramy-K Flash photochromics,
and our peak at the T8 signature colors.
Good morning, yes, it's day two here.
And we were doing photochromics anyway.
So, we had some other products we wanted to share.
So, this little wrap up piece at the end
we're just gonna call show and tell.
Now I've got these inside and outside.
I'll share both with you.
This first one is the ZEISS freeform PhotoFusion blue
and PhotoFusion pioneer green.
Let's take a look at those.
Out of all of the colors that this stuff comes in,
in all the different samples that have played with here,
I think this ZEISS PhotoFusion blue
is really, really a standout.
I'm not sure exactly what I would use it for.
Maybe like a nice round frame with a little flash mirror,
nice flat base curve, kinda cool looking,
but that's pretty intense blue.
Again, that's the ZEISS PhotoFusion blue and pioneer green.
And I think that green is really close to a G15.
So, those are kinda cool, there it is outside as well.
All right, let's take a look at something else.
All right, I've got my flipper loaded up.
We have now got the Essilor's Transition 8 colors series,
and we have an amethyst, emerald, amber and sapphire.
Let's see what those look like.
Well, triggers really, really quickly.
That's a nice sign.
Now, I just called those Essilor Transition 8 colors series.
I did a quick check and I'm pretty sure that technically,
they are supposed to be called
the Transitions Signature Style Colors Gen 8s.
But to be honest,
it gets really confusing really quickly with them.
Now the lab sent them
because they are supposed to be special,
or as I said earlier, differently colored.
And yeah, I guess, but you know, put a gun to my head,
I see blue gray, gray, brown, and green.
So yeah, maybe a little different,
maybe a little more pastel, if you will.
But to me, certainly nothing earth shattering.
And there is that series outdoors.
And one more flipper to go here,
and we can wrap up our show and tell.
Okay, in this flipper, looking at it this way,
in the upper left that would be lens E,
that's a random single Essilor
basic gray green Transition 7,
and then lenses five, six, and seven
are our very own Laramy-K optical Flash silver with a gray,
blue with a gray and the gold brown.
And I'll show you that Flash coat there.
Hopefully, yeah, you can pick
that up a little bit, see that.
All right, let's trigger these.
Mirror coats are really, really hard to pick up on camera.
So, you're not getting the full effect
of how cool that looks.
All right, so again, we've got a older version, T7.
We just happened to have one laying around.
So, we went ahead and cut that.
And then we have our Flash mirrors,
a gray, gray, and amber, and the silver,
the gold and the blue mirror.
Pretty cool.
There, those are the same ones, those are outside.
Give you an idea what it looks like out there.
(upbeat music) All right,
just wanted to share that with you,
that wraps up show and tell.
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