On Feb 5, 2008 10:26 AM, Jonathan Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/4/08, Gabriel Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyway, this morning, my glasses broke *again* and I'm faced with > > spending several hundred dollars to get them replaced - a ritual I do > > every other year. I'm don't really like my glasses and I stopped > > wearing contacts almost a decade ago because looking at a monitor made > > my eyes dry and itchy. > > Several hundred!? > > Do you have special eye weirdness that makes glasses more expensive, > or is that just what they cost when you are not buying the cheap crap > from wal-mart like me? :)
I can't answer for Gabe, but my glasses cost several hundred because I need high-index lens material or they'll be too heavy to wear and I should get a progressive lens material (where the density / index varies) to reduce the chromatic aberrations (yellow and blue on the edges of things 'cause light bends differently at different wavelengths). Add to that the scratch-resistant coating and the polished edges (so it isn't so obvious they're still pretty thick) and you've got a really expensive pair of lenses. It's not special eye weirdness, just complications of higher power. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
