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the WLKO 6 o'clock optical news report.
Our headline story tonight, after six grueling months,
Mrs. Janice Wright-Bellvue of Smithfield, Rhode Island
finally settled on a frame that she likes.
In other news, Luxotica Today announced
that they were simply buying the entire planet Earth
outright and plan on reselling it bit by bit
to the highest bidder.
In US news, oh, wait, wait, I'm getting a newsflash here,
oh, yes, it appears that John will be appearing
in a new place for the introduction in this video.
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Hello, and as always, I would like to welcome you to
the addition to the Laramy-K OpticianWorks Training Center.
Last couple of years, we've been digging into
a whole lot of whiteboard, formulas, math, theory.
Well, the time has finally come
to start looking at some dispensing techniques.
I got an email the other day from a gal who's said
she needs to buy a new pupilometer,
and she asked if I had any suggestions.
Well, oddly enough, HilCo had just sent me
this beautiful loaner, so today,
we are gonna take a look at it,
and do our very first product review.
Jen, thank you so much for writing,
I really do appreciate it, I love hearing from folks.
When I did my little introduction a minute ago,
I said a review, and that would be far from fair,
this is not a review, this would be an overview,
I might review this again six months or a year from now
when I've really used it
in a whole lot of different settings.
In the current HilCo catalog,
they have two pupilometers, this particular one is their
H as in Harry, X as in x-ray 400.
It says it is a self-calibrating, liquid crystal display,
adjustable LED light source.
It occludes right and left, of course,
it does binocular and monocular
within plus or minus half a millimeter.
It's adjustable for distance 30 centimeters to infinity,
it has a one year warranty.
It's part number 238700H, and it sells for three hundred
and seventy five dollars, which is kinda normal.
Alright, let's see what we think here.
Feels good, it's a nice weight,
looks like it's pretty well made.
Takes two double A batteries, I think it was two double A's,
two double A batteries, yes, indeed.
I am so tempted to get off the rails here
and start talking about pupilometers
and taking pupillary distances and
that's not what we're about, we're just gonna
take a quick look at this pupilometer,
which HilCo was nice enough to lend to us,
and I had the question on.
Let's get that thing fired up,
beautiful LED readouts, there.
Nice, smooth action, that's beautiful.
This also has a vertex distance,
you can switch between those.
Not gonna get into that feature because I haven't
enough experience using it to give you a good idea
whether it works or not.
Let's see, we got, that's nice, that folds out of the way
if you want.
This would be the customer side of things,
ah, that is a beautiful target.
Really nice and crisp, the white is a nice, bright,
'cause it's an LED.
The older models, the batteries, they
wear down, the white would kinda become yellow,
the bulb would get old, they'd start looking kinda cheesy.
That is beautiful, and it should stay that way,
because it's an LED.
Got a nice, beautiful, crisp green dot in there,
so it's easy to tell the customer what to look at.
We've got an occluder,
got to close my right eye, okay that's,
that's a little weird, you'd have to be really careful,
not that you occlude very often,
but if you did, it appears that you could actually
have this kinda like half closed.
It doesn't have a lock for close,
it only has a lock for center.
So I would be careful about that.
Again, not that you occlude very much,
I'd just leave it locked in the middle there.
That's good.
I'm not a fan of adjusting for distance and doing near PD's,
but let's see what happens when we do that.
Oh, that's beautiful.
Very nice, smooth, you can feel your eyes converging, nice.
Very good.
What else does this have?
Let's see.
It also has, oh, it has a magnifier, that's right,
and I'm not sure exactly,
oh yeah, that really sharpens up.
I guess, especially for somebody who,
you know, needs a reading, or, you know,
can't accommodate anymore, that's a good feature.
I am gonna go grab my assistant,
have her come out and let me take a look
through my side of things
and see what it looks like through there.
I am going to take your pupillary distance,
and what I'm gonna do, is I'm gonna rest this
against your forehead, I'm gonna sit this on your nose.
Inside here, there's a target, it's white
and then there's a green dot.
I just need you to stare at the green dot for me,
and you may hold this like a pair of binoculars.
If you would, lean on in towards me, great.
Alright, thank you very much.
That looks good.
Alright, looking inside there, it's really clear.
What I see, the light shines into her eye,
it comes back through the visual I see.
You see a little sparkle of light
and that you block with the wires
that you're moving with this.
The wires are really nice and big,
you can block that light really easily.
Reading is good and the light coming back
is nice and bright,
again, 'cause it's a nice new machine.
Fresh batteries, LED, doesn't get much better than that.
I'd say that HilCo's got a winner, here.
As always, thank you so much for watching.
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