Rob, I agree with you all the way on this. Three years ago I decided to buy several pair of the really cheap polarized glasses - the Bill Dance Specials (or some such name) you find for something like $7.99 at Big Five or Wal-Mart. I bought three or four in different lens colors and styles. I did this because I was always losing sunglasses and thought it would be cheaper in the long run, than better glasses. It is cheaper, but as you say, the optics, or lack thereof, really cause you to not want to use them for any length of time. Some of the really cheap ones have "seams" running through the plastic lens that can play havoc with your eyes. Worse of all, the cheap plastic lens get scratched up very easily no matter how well you take care of them .They do work, though, you can spot fish.
I'm actually going to be going down to Outdoor Emporium to look for some new polarized glasses this next week, and I'm hoping I can find something good in the $30-$40 range. By the way, I've found that my lens color of choice always drifts towards the amber colored lens. If I use the gray lens it's usually only during extremely bright conditions. Cliff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Blomquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 11:25 PM Subject: Re: Sunglasses > On Saturday 26 March 2005 22:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does it pay to spend for a "good" pair of polariod sunglasses, or is the > > result (seeing fish in the water) the same regardless of price? Thanks for > > any insights. > > Good polaroids are well worth the money, even on gray days. Now very few > people pay what I do for a pair of custom polaroids, but they are worth it. > > On the other side, however, there are a large number of polaroids in the $20 > range that work very well, and have good optics, just stay away for the > plastic models. What you want is a good, distortion free lens, and that's > available fairly inexpensively. > > As to the result, yes, all polaroids will allow you to see fish more easily. > But the eyestrain of distorions in the lens will limit the time you want to > spend wearing them. > > Rob > > -- > Mountlake Terrace, WA > USA
