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Best Reactolite glasses

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Postby 88V8 » October 10th, 2021, 11:16 am

More properly described as photochromic, but Reactolite seem to be the Hoover... so, walking up the High Street early yesterday morning, the low sun, oh dear.
Also a nuisance when driving, low sun wet road.

The last sunglasses I bought, Polaroid, allegedly, made everything darker but did nothing for the glare.
I've never had photochromic glasses. My wife had some prescription glasses with Reactolite lenses but found they never really lightened indoors.
Don't need specs indoors, so that wouldn't be an issue.

Would they help with the glare, and is there any difference between brands?

I gather they don't work so well in low temperatures.

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Re: Best Reactolite glasses

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Postby marronier » October 10th, 2021, 11:45 am

I have a pair of Reactolite specs , which are magnificent against glare. Don't know the brand though. They don't work in the car, you have to be outside, so wouldn't be useful against glare when driving.

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Re: Best Reactolite glasses

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Postby AsleepInYorkshire » October 10th, 2021, 11:53 am

I have prescription polaroid's and don't have issues with glare.

I wear them for driving when the suns out for that reason.

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Re: Best Reactolite glasses

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Postby servodude » October 10th, 2021, 2:54 pm

Has to be the "Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses"
- ah no.. you want light not danger

for glare reduction I find the glasses just need to be polarized
- but polarized in the correct axis; lying down on your side in a small boat in the sun can be an eyeopener (until they slam shut in the glare!)

- sd

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Re: Best Reactolite glasses

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Postby pje16 » October 10th, 2021, 3:47 pm

just been for an eye test (fell the other week and broke a pair - pride was my only injury)
and it was explained to me that anti glare and reactolite are two different things
https://specscartuk.medium.com/do-you-n ... 204e08c3b6

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Re: Best Reactolite glasses

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Postby jackdaww » October 10th, 2021, 5:37 pm

there may be some confusion --

polarOID may not reduce glare.

polarISED does.

i havnt tried reactors.

:idea:

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Re: Best Reactolite glasses

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Postby AF62 » October 10th, 2021, 5:51 pm

Unless they have improved dramatically in the last 20 years I wouldn't bother.

Although reasonably quick to turn from light to dark, I found they were too slow to turn from dark to light, and as you noted, they never seem to get properly light.

My solution - contact lenses and normal sunglasses.

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Re: Best Reactolite glasses

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Postby pje16 » October 10th, 2021, 6:07 pm

The ones I had worked fine, both ways
Got from Glasses Direct IIRC
PS can't stand things in my eyes :!:

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Re: Best Reactolite glasses

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Postby 88V8 » October 11th, 2021, 10:11 am

jackdaww wrote:there may be some confusion --
polarOID may not reduce glare.
polarISED does.

Aha.
Thankyou.

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Re: Best Reactolite glasses

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Postby staffordian » October 11th, 2021, 11:53 am

jackdaww wrote:there may be some confusion --

polarOID may not reduce glare.

polarISED does.

i havnt tried reactors.

:idea:


Presumably because Polaroid is the brand, and they may now make a range of glasses, some polarised, some not?

Whereas they "made their name" as a maker of polarised specs?

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Re: Best Reactolite glasses

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Postby 88V8 » October 12th, 2021, 10:02 am

staffordian wrote:Presumably because Polaroid is the brand, and they may now make a range of glasses, some polarised, some not? Whereas they "made their name" as a maker of polarised specs?

I think they made their name as the originators of an advert involving a swimming pool and a young lady.... :)

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Re: Best Reactolite glasses

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Postby pje16 » October 12th, 2021, 10:05 am

If you needed glasses you wouldn't have seen her properly :lol:
Dumbed down advertising :roll:

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Re: Best Reactolite glasses

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Postby Stompa » October 12th, 2021, 10:59 am

88V8 wrote:I think they made their name as the originators of an advert involving a swimming pool and a young lady.... :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84QAvlTAXks

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Re: Best Reactolite glasses

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Postby pje16 » October 12th, 2021, 11:21 am

Yikes £1.50 for a pair :roll:
just paid north of £150 for single vision pair

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Re: Best Reactolite glasses

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Postby RainyDayGeorge » October 22nd, 2021, 2:07 pm

Oakley make glasses that go darker in sunlight - Visions I think they're called.

You can also buy similar lenses off ebay to fit Oakleys - but they don't change as fast or go as dark.

I remember the old Reactolite from 35 years ago - they were a bit slow.


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