A Different View
Many people who wear glasses often
find the level of clarity to be just short
of perfect. This can create eye strain
and make wearing glasses even more
difficult.
Shamir Canada has developed a
balanced progressive lens holistically
adapted to the patient’s prescription.
The result is a clear and comfortable
visual experience.
“Like all of our lenses, Autograph
III is a full back-side freeform lens.
The power range is very wide, with
cylinder available up to -9.00 (this is
quite rare) and the material choice
in transitions and polarized is very
deep, quite unique in the market,”
said Martin Bell, National Sales
and Marketing Manager for Shamir
Canada.
He notes the lens creates an
image size that is closer to natural
size, and is well balanced between
plus and minus prescriptions. He says
plus lenses will often give the wearer
a magnified image but with a smaller
field of view than with uncorrected
eyes.
To address this, Shamir has
applied reverse engineering to its
technology by defining the size of
the object patients want to see and
simulating real world images through
EyePoint
TechnologyIII.
This
provides improved viewing for all
patients regardless of lens power and
frame choice.
“Image positions are different
between a plus and minus lens. This
means that minus wearers usually
have to look very low in the lens to
read properly, and plus wearers have
the near image displaced upward
which can “cramp” their distance
area,” he said. •
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