First things first.
We have to go over all the different features that have been packed into these lenses.
What I'm going to do is go over a short itemized list of all the features that are in the lenses,
and give a quick blurb about their features.
After that, I'm going to go over each one individually in greater detail.
First off, we have the manufacturer.
These lenses come courtesy of the manufacturer called Zeiss.
If you haven't heard of them, let me tell you something – they are a premium manufacturer
of lenses, because their manufacturing techniques are far superior than the less expensive options
you'll find out there.
And yes, Zeiss does tend to cost a little bit more, but trust me, it's worth it.
The best way I can describe the difference between getting the lens from them versus
a cheapo depot manufacturer is take a look at an HD TV.
Let's say it's 1080p.
It's pretty good, especially when you get your brand new prescription everything looks
fine.
But let's say you then switch over to lenses from Zeiss.
Now it's like looking at a 4K resolution TV.
You start to see all the tiny little minut details that maybe you really didn't notice
before, but for some reason now they're starting to become more apparent.
And in allows you to be a little bit more detail oriented because of that.
That brings me to my next point.
Zeiss offers a variety different lenses designed for different applications.
In my case, I got what's called the digital lens.
The digital lens is designed for the modern era that we live in right here, right now.
It reduces the eye strain caused from the usage of electronic devices like you cellphone,
your tablet, your TV, the computer screens.
It's very important that we start taking the eye strain that we get from devices like this
more seriously.
Zeiss has tried to manufacture a lens to help combat certain types of eye strain associated
with the usage of electronic devices, particularly things like your cellphone.
The average American looks at their cellphone quite often, and that causes a lot of eye
strain for various reasons, and we'll go over what this particular series of lens does to
help reduce that kind of eye strain specifically involved with cellphones.
But it's really only one piece to the puzzle.
Which brings me to my next point.
The lenses I'm wearing have an anti-reflective coating that also happens to come from Zeiss.
In particular, I chose the BlueProtect.
I chose this because every screen that we look at, be it the phone, the tablet, the
computer, the TV, all emit a certain frequency of the blue light.
It's actually a range of frequency, of blue light that these screens emit that are detrimental
to your eyes.
BlueProtect attempts to block out that particular frequency of blue, so that it doesn't make
it past the lens and into your eyes, causing further eye strain.
There's a number of different materials you can choose from to have your lenses constructed
out of, and depending on your prescription you may be limited in the range of materials
you have available for you to use.
But in my case, my lenses were made out of the material called Trivex.
In order to give an idea of why I chose Trivex over some of the other material choices out
there, I'm going to compare to something very similar, which would be polycarbonate.
Polycarbonate's very common material, and it's very inexpensive compared to Trivex,
but here're some reasons why Trivex is my choice.
Trivex is, one, more scratch-resistant.
Two, it's a lighter weight material.
And three, it's a much more clear material.
That last part sounds kind of weird, because all of the materials are clear, but you'll
see later on in the review exactly what I mean and why these are really cool if you
really need to distinguish different colors from each other.
The last feature to go over with these lenses is a little something called i.Scription.
For reference sake, we're going to be talking about a unit called the diopter, and the best
way that I can describe a diopter is the measurement of the refractive power used in your lenses.
I could be a little bit off on that description, because I'm not a doctor, and the technical
definition for it is a little beyond my knowledge.
But what I'm about to tell you should make sense regardless.
When you go to get your new lenses, they write your prescription with the specificity of
up to a quarter of a diopter.
With i.Scription, it's much more specific.