Polaroids

[Stealph Viper]

Here is something else to consider when choosing your Polaroid Sunglasses, which colour lens.

A splash of colour.

Choose the lens colour that helps you see exactly what you’re after.



Lens colours help you see what’s ahead

Yellow – perfect for seeing all the way to the bottom of shallow water. On overcast days, yellow uses all available light to enhance contrasts.

Brown – enhances grassy river or lake beds. Great for contrasts and low light at dawn and dusk.

Grey – ideal for spotting darker fish in deep water and for all kinds of weather.

I have also posted a link Fishing Sunglasses | Polarized Fishing Sunglasses | By Polaroid so you can read up for yourself, there is even a review on one pair by FishingMagic and Carp Fishing Forum.

[stan_lee]

I use the fox Polaroids and think there good for the money at around 20 quid a pair but you can also get the set with one pair of frames and three sets of lenses to cover all your needs.
I have tryed quite a few pairs of Polaroids over the years and think there all about the same until you start to paying megabucks.

Lee

[rufus]

The problem with all polaroid glasses is that they do not always work as we would want, in all possible conditions - I mean to say that not all states of the sun-ray's angles, vis a vis the waters ever variable surface, are always at optimum angles for the lens.

What you really need is a photographic polarising lens filter that you hold in front of one eye and rotate for optimum penetration...

Is that clear?

[The Scarlet Maggot]

Originally Posted by rufus

that you hold in front of one eye and rotate for optimum penetration...

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[ED (The ORIGINAL and REAL one)]

Originally Posted by rufus

The problem with all polaroid glasses is that they do not always work as we would want, in all possible conditions - I mean to say that not all states of the sun-ray's angles, vis a vis the waters ever variable surface, are always at optimum angles for the lens.

What you really need is a photographic polarising lens filter that you hold in front of one eye and rotate for optimum penetration...

Is that clear?

--or a fixed photographic polarising lens filter and rotating eyeballs .....

[Derek Gibson]

I seem to remember having a pair of ''Dennis Searl'' polarised glasses back in the early sixties. They had two small levers built into the frame above each eye. The object being that you could alter the polarizing effect.
Several members of the Northern Specimen Hunters group had them. It was Steve Crawshaw who introduced us to them............
Surely with today's technology it must be possible to achieve the principal we are all looking for. Or would it again be cost prohibitive.

[flightliner]

Originally Posted by Ray Roberts

Oh, by the way, the service from the people in the Optilabs shop is second to none. If you can get to their shop then they do eye tests on the premises, very thorough they are too. They also do normal specs and they are a fraction of the price of High Street opticians.
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Ray- do you think "optilabs" would take the lenses out of my old sunglasses and re-frame them-- I dont know what make they are but they re the best I have ever used and dread the time when the frames finally fail on me.I've had them for about fifteen years and paid £7 for them.

[Mark Hewitt]

Originally Posted by The Sogster

Take two pairs of polarised glasses, hold one in front of the other and look through both pairs of lenses at the same time. Now rotate one pair 90 degrees to the other, you will see that no light is now let through.

I wouldn't reccomend that one......

1) Everyone in the shop will think you're off you're rocker.
2) Surley by turning the front pair through 90° you'll just be looking through one pair, and making a bigger fool of yourself

Just tried the mobile phone test with a pair of Fox ones, and it dosen't work.......... Does that mean my samsung is sh*t?

Best ones I ever had came from boots many years ago. Out of the three or four pairs I have now, bar far the best are a yellow lensed set from a fly fishing dealer. I think made by 'scierra'.

[Ray Roberts]

Originally Posted by flightliner

y- do you think "optilabs" would take the lenses out of my old sunglasses and re-frame them-- I dont know what make they are but they re the best I have ever used and dread the time when the frames finally fail on me.I've had them for about fifteen years and paid £7 for them.

I would have thought that most Opticians could do this if they were non prescription. Optilabs put some new lenses into a pair of frames I had to make some reading/computer glasses. As I had bought a pair of specs and a pair of sunglasses they did this FOC for me.

[The Sogster]

Stealth, no offence taken. I agree we had gone off track.

As for my own, my usual are a pair of aviator style polaroids (tm) with grey lenses. Couldn't tell you the model, just remember buying them in Bengaluru.