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Glasses wearers, do you suffer from chromatic aberration and distortions? How do you deal with it?

Larxia

Member
What kind of budget ass glasses are you guys using?
Ugh... I wish it was this simple, but that's absolutely not the case. Like I said, I even got some high quality free form lenses and it was the exact same thing, so I'm not sure what kind of "good" lenses you're using if they really get rid of these effects.
 

20cent

Banned
That's strange, for me the distortions are much more noticeable indoor, because the closer I am to something, the more of it's surface will be in the distorted "area" of the lenses and will look even more curved / convex. My monnitor with my full prescription glasses is totally unusable because of this. I'm right now wearing a pair with a very lowered prescription (reduced the strenght by -1.50) I can see clear up to about 65 cm with them, it's much more comfortable and distortions and chromatic aberration are way less visible, but it's not strong enough (especially if I move back from the desktop to play a game with a controller and I'm at around 90cm from the screen) and I often have some blur on the screen.

It's not really the distortion that bothers me, more like everything look slightly further away than it is with glasses, like looking through the wrong side of binoculars.. my myopia is pretty bad I guess.

What kind of budget ass glasses are you guys using?

Seiko extra slim lenses...
 
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Do you know what was so different about these lenses that make them better?
Because I did try online glasses too, Zenni and Eyebuydirect, and I can't see any quality difference with the pairs I got at retail optometrists.
I even got a pair with free form lenses in a retail optometrist last year, they are supposed to greatly reduce distortion, they have some kind of digital surfacing to have multiple center of vision instead of just one in the center, they scan your face with a specific device before ordering the lenses. And it was the exact same damn thing, no difference at all.

I'm not sure which Zeiss product I have but the code name on the certificate/card says this: "ZEISS FIN ASPH SV CLT16 LOTUTEC"

On the product page they specifically call out the barrel distortion issues that other lenses have: https://www.zeiss.com.hk/vision-care/en/spectacle-lenses-from-zeiss/single-vision-lenses.html
 
Oh, yeah I forgot to mention that I really don't want to get Lasik, I've seen a lot of reports about issues like halos and glares.
Many people say that it's perfectly fine in a bright day outside, but that it's really bad in scenarios with more contrast, like at night or in front of a screen, with for example subtitles having a glowing light around them and such (I actually often have something similar when I wear contacts.)
And if you don't like the result with lasik, it's done and you can't go back, so it's pretty scary.

I had Lasik back in Aug 2007 with a lifetime warranty and during the past almost 12 years, my left eye has only changed slightly. I have had no "halo vision" or glare. As with any surgery there is a risk, but I'm sure the precautions are much better than they were over a decade ago.

Take it from someone who was -4.50 in left eye and -4.25 in the right. My prescription changed every year and I was pretty much blind without my contacts or glasses. Consultations are free so seriously consider talking to the Doc about your concerns. You won't regret it!
 

Larxia

Member
I had Lasik back in Aug 2007 with a lifetime warranty and during the past almost 12 years, my left eye has only changed slightly. I have had no "halo vision" or glare. As with any surgery there is a risk, but I'm sure the precautions are much better than they were over a decade ago.

Take it from someone who was -4.50 in left eye and -4.25 in the right. My prescription changed every year and I was pretty much blind without my contacts or glasses. Consultations are free so seriously consider talking to the Doc about your concerns. You won't regret it!
You had almost exactly the same prescription has me, just that it's inverted for me, -4,25 on left.
What worries me even more about these halo / glare / haze or whatever is that I actually have some of them in contact lenses most of the time (but never with glasses / naked eyes) while most people I asked don't have them.
Like for example, it's pretty common with my contact lenses that I will see some text being like this :

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Some kind of double / ghosted text with some glare / bloom around it. It's perfectly fine outside in bright light, but in front of a monitor I can often have stuff like this, not always to the same degree, it kinda depends of the blinks and such... I made these pictures myself to illustrate the issue to ophtalmologist / optometrists but they had no idea about this either, I tried eye drops but that didn't change anything.
So this + my eyes being super tired when I wear them is why I'm not such a fan of contacts... maybe there is some magical brand / model somewhere good for me, but I tried a lot of them and didn't find the "good one".

These issues seem to be really similar to what people describe with lasik, so if I have them with contacts, maybe I'm more at risk of having them with lasik too? I really don't know.
 
You had almost exactly the same prescription has me, just that it's inverted for me, -4,25 on left.
What worries me even more about these halo / glare / haze or whatever is that I actually have some of them in contact lenses most of the time (but never with glasses / naked eyes) while most people I asked don't have them.
Like for example, it's pretty common with my contact lenses that I will see some text being like this :

PsFp112.jpg


MlDVsr0.jpg


Some kind of double / ghosted text with some glare / bloom around it. It's perfectly fine outside in bright light, but in front of a monitor I can often have stuff like this, not always to the same degree, it kinda depends of the blinks and such... I made these pictures myself to illustrate the issue to ophtalmologist / optometrists but they had no idea about this either, I tried eye drops but that didn't change anything.
So this + my eyes being super tired when I wear them is why I'm not such a fan of contacts... maybe there is some magical brand / model somewhere good for me, but I tried a lot of them and didn't find the "good one".

These issues seem to be really similar to what people describe with lasik, so if I have them with contacts, maybe I'm more at risk of having them with lasik too? I really don't know.

Geez... That would be pretty scary. I can't believe that your eye doc hasn't been more helpful with your problem. I've never known anyone to have a problem like that either and I'm sure you've probably tried to find articles about others with a similar problem.

Do you have an astigmatism? I did and my surgery corrected the issue. (I don't remember if I had similar halo issues though) I know I sound like I'm trying to sell something, (lol) but I just know how frustrating things can be with glasses and contacts. (Had my first pair of glasses in 4th grade.)

I hope you can find the right doc to get everything figured out!
 

Larxia

Member
Geez... That would be pretty scary. I can't believe that your eye doc hasn't been more helpful with your problem. I've never known anyone to have a problem like that either and I'm sure you've probably tried to find articles about others with a similar problem.

Do you have an astigmatism? I did and my surgery corrected the issue. (I don't remember if I had similar halo issues though) I know I sound like I'm trying to sell something, (lol) but I just know how frustrating things can be with glasses and contacts. (Had my first pair of glasses in 4th grade.)

I hope you can find the right doc to get everything figured out!
I only have 0,25 of astigmatism in the right eye only, so that's mostly nothing.
So you never noticed things like that with lasik? Like white text on dark background (like here if you're using dark theme) is totally clear?

And I don't know about docs... I mostly gave up on them, they are expensive and I can't just try 100000 of them, they all just tell me the same thing, It would be nice to find the magical one who would be honest and would understand my issues, but that seems like a very rare treasure, even a legend.
 
I only have 0,25 of astigmatism in the right eye only, so that's mostly nothing.
So you never noticed things like that with lasik? Like white text on dark background (like here if you're using dark theme) is totally clear?

And I don't know about docs... I mostly gave up on them, they are expensive and I can't just try 100000 of them, they all just tell me the same thing, It would be nice to find the magical one who would be honest and would understand my issues, but that seems like a very rare treasure, even a legend.

Nope, but it was explained that it was a potential risk. Everything has been perfect except for a slight change in my left eye. It's nothing that would require me to go back. My surgery included a lifetime warranty that allows me to have the procedure again if my vision declined.

I hope you do end up finding a good doc to help you with your problem! That would drive me insane to have an issue like that.
 

isual

Member
so, when i had insurance at my last, last job, i used it to buy me a pair of glasses that had the lightest lens (so it will not be THICK), and had the best frame for my head (crown). was worth it. i think i paid 400 dollars out of pocket in total ?
 

Mininuke

Neo Member
I have basically the exact same problem, with less distortions and I only have this problem when I see at an angle or near the sides of the glasses its not so bad on my glasses but I wish I can find a solution, I use crizal prevencia from essilor, and the doctors also acted like they never heard of it. lemme know if you you have discovered anything, I have 2 friends own the same glasses but they barely noticed it, meanwhile it annoys me.
 

Mininuke

Neo Member
I must emphasize that the glasses are perfect when I look straight, but when I look at an angle I end up with some blue/orange highlights on bodies. especially shiny bodies I think.
 

Larxia

Member
I have basically the exact same problem, with less distortions and I only have this problem when I see at an angle or near the sides of the glasses its not so bad on my glasses but I wish I can find a solution, I use crizal prevencia from essilor, and the doctors also acted like they never heard of it. lemme know if you you have discovered anything, I have 2 friends own the same glasses but they barely noticed it, meanwhile it annoys me.
Hello!
Sadly no I still haven't found any solutions... It still depresses me and I wish I would find one.
So you don't have any issues when looking straight in front of you? Even on a monitor for example? Because for me, even when looking in front of me, I can see the color fringes and the distortions around the screen, the vision is "okay" only at the very, very, very center of the lens.
I think Blade2.0 just meant glasses in general when saying "wearing them", and not that specific coating you're talking about.

This thread bump reminds me of something I wanted to ask, for all people in this thread who notice the same issues, did you notice these issues immediatly when getting a new pair or did you always notice them? And if it started with a new pair, did these issues go away when going back to an older pair that seemed fine before?
Because even when I try weaker prescription and such, I can still see it, but sadly I don't have my actual previous pair to compare it directly because of what I explained in this thread, lenses replaced.
I wonder if I would now actually see these distortions and aberrations on the previous pair I used to wear before.
 

eot

Banned
I pretty much only wear contacts, I got a pair of glasses as backup for a trip I did, and I noticed the CA straight away. Asked my glasses wearing family / friends and they hadn't noticed it themselves, so I partially chalked it up to a) cheap glasses b) being used to moving my eyes instead of my head c) being very sensitive to the phenomena in general. I notice straight away in games, even if I have to zoom in like 8x to confirm it's actually there. If people don't see it it's probably because they're not used to noticing it and their brain just smooths it over.

It's kind of a fundamental issue that comes about from material dispersion. It's not impossible to solve, but not worth it when most people don't care. In optical setups one usually combines elements that have different dispersion properties to correct for it, which doesn't work in something you wear. There are metamaterials in which you can engineer the dispersion, but it's not really commercial tech.
 

Blade2.0

Member
the crizal prevencia? I thought they came out like 2018 or so.
Maybe i get a little bit, but i never notice it.

EDIT: Sorry, wasn't replying to you in the first post. just being general that I've worn glasses since 3rd grade.
 
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kingbean

Member
I just go into the options menu and turn it off, and if i can't I hope I can find my glasses .ini file and do it there.

(I haven't read the thread, so if someone else made this joke oh well.)
 

Mininuke

Neo Member
Hello!
Sadly no I still haven't found any solutions... It still depresses me and I wish I would find one.
So you don't have any issues when looking straight in front of you? Even on a monitor for example? Because for me, even when looking in front of me, I can see the color fringes and the distortions around the screen, the vision is "okay" only at the very, very, very center of the lens.
I think Blade2.0 just meant glasses in general when saying "wearing them", and not that specific coating you're talking about.

This thread bump reminds me of something I wanted to ask, for all people in this thread who notice the same issues, did you notice these issues immediatly when getting a new pair or did you always notice them? And if it started with a new pair, did these issues go away when going back to an older pair that seemed fine before?
Because even when I try weaker prescription and such, I can still see it, but sadly I don't have my actual previous pair to compare it directly because of what I explained in this thread, lenses replaced.
I wonder if I would now actually see these distortions and aberrations on the previous pair I used to wear before.

I first made my glasses in 2015, they were pretty good overall and without any protection of blue light/uv light, and i decided to make new glasses around 2019, they were all garbage I tried over 3 glasses, because they made everything kinda of 3D or so and they felt a bit too strong but no chromatic aberration, and then I found a good shop around my town who sells these crizal prevencia anyways when I first wore them I felt that they are better but I noticed the chromatic aberration right away, I actually still have my old glasses and I just put them on they dont have the problem but when I look at a super tight angel I kind of get a bit of chromatic aberration but its like super hard to notice, anyways back on the new glasses I think I will continue using them cause I never see these chromatic aberration even on phone/monitor or whatever when I look straight. I also think the cause is the layers, I assume your glasses have bunch of layers too?, if not then its probably a material problem
 

Mininuke

Neo Member
Hello!
Sadly no I still haven't found any solutions... It still depresses me and I wish I would find one.
So you don't have any issues when looking straight in front of you? Even on a monitor for example? Because for me, even when looking in front of me, I can see the color fringes and the distortions around the screen, the vision is "okay" only at the very, very, very center of the lens.
I think Blade2.0 just meant glasses in general when saying "wearing them", and not that specific coating you're talking about.

This thread bump reminds me of something I wanted to ask, for all people in this thread who notice the same issues, did you notice these issues immediatly when getting a new pair or did you always notice them? And if it started with a new pair, did these issues go away when going back to an older pair that seemed fine before?
Because even when I try weaker prescription and such, I can still see it, but sadly I don't have my actual previous pair to compare it directly because of what I explained in this thread, lenses replaced.
I wonder if I would now actually see these distortions and aberrations on the previous pair I used to wear before.

If your glasses get CA even when you look straight I recommend getting similar lenses as mine, and also I forgot to mention that the old glasses had very small lenses compared to my new ones
 
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Mininuke

Neo Member
If your glasses get CA even when you look straight I recommend getting similar lenses as mine, and also I forgot to mention that the old glasses had very small lenses compared to my new ones

Also on the current glasses even when I look from an angle I only get a bit of CA and the bodies doesn't get deformed or bend or anything like that, I will visit the doctor who made my glasses again soon and explain the problem to him, if he fixes it I will let you know, but when I talked to him on phone he didnt sound familiar with the problem much. cause he said I use the same glasses and it didn't happen to me but said I think it will be removed if he removed one of the layers, blue light one I think.
 

Mininuke

Neo Member
Do you have an Astigmatism? My eyes are kind of like that but more from a distance.
I dont know whats called in english but judging by some googling I think so yes , dunno if literal translation helps but its called
Deviation of the eye or so, but yeah I think so
 

Irobot82

Member
I dont know whats called in english but judging by some googling I think so yes , dunno if literal translation helps but its called
Deviation of the eye or so, but yeah I think so

Yeah it's when your eye is more football shaped (american football) than sphere shaped. You'll always have double vision because of it. I think lasik can fix it.
 

Mininuke

Neo Member
no I dont think its something that level, Its all good outside of the new glasses, well tbh its all good even with new glasses its just the bit of the color shift that annoys me, but judging by the research i did its all cause of the reflective coating, if i remove it it will be fixed but i want it cause i use a lot of pc and phones
 

Larxia

Member
This is beyond science. You need Digital Foundry to take a look at this.
You don't know how much I would love that! :messenger_loudly_crying: Not necesarilly digital fountry lol but some video analyzing this and acknowledging these issues, because it's super depressing to feel like you're the only one having these problems when everyone around you don't understand what you're talking about, even eye doctors. It always feel "nice" when I find people online who have the same issue, I feel less lonely, however it never led to a solution so far.

I just go into the options menu and turn it off, and if i can't I hope I can find my glasses .ini file and do it there.

(I haven't read the thread, so if someone else made this joke oh well.)
If you knew how many times I thought about this lol Wishing I could just fix it by changing some .ini in my glasses like you do in games.

If your glasses get CA even when you look straight I recommend getting similar lenses as mine, and also I forgot to mention that the old glasses had very small lenses compared to my new ones
Are you sure you're not getting any chromatic aberration at all on your monitor? If you look at a white image like this in full screen, aren't the borders orange / blue if you're not perfectly in front of them?


For me the right side for example looks orange if I have my face facing the center of the screen, if I look at the right side just with my eyes, it's orange-ish, and if I move my head to the left while still looking at it, it becomes even more orange, and if I move my head to the right instead, it will become blue. The color fringes start to appear very quickly, I only need to sliiightly move my head to change their strenght.
 
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Larxia

Member
I pretty much only wear contacts, I got a pair of glasses as backup for a trip I did, and I noticed the CA straight away. Asked my glasses wearing family / friends and they hadn't noticed it themselves, so I partially chalked it up to a) cheap glasses b) being used to moving my eyes instead of my head c) being very sensitive to the phenomena in general. I notice straight away in games, even if I have to zoom in like 8x to confirm it's actually there. If people don't see it it's probably because they're not used to noticing it and their brain just smooths it over.

It's kind of a fundamental issue that comes about from material dispersion. It's not impossible to solve, but not worth it when most people don't care. In optical setups one usually combines elements that have different dispersion properties to correct for it, which doesn't work in something you wear. There are metamaterials in which you can engineer the dispersion, but it's not really commercial tech.

There's definitely many truths in what you say.
The other day a friend sent me this picture of plants vs zombie, to show me how it looked because he found the game really pretty :



I replied that it could be pretty but the chromatic aberration was ruining it. He didn't understand because he couldn't see any chromatic aberration, and even when I told him specific stuff on the picture to look at, like the plants on the wall on the left, he still couldn't see it, I had to zoom the picture a lot and show him zoomed in areas for him to finally see the colors. And even after seeing it like this, he still can't see it on the normal fullscreen size picture, and it drives me crazy.

It really makes me sad because, it's an obvious example of something that is there, the aberration is on the picture, it's there, it's not in my head, I'm not imagining it, but somehow, people don't see it while I instantly noticed it when opening the picture and I thought it looked awful.
When I look at this picture, it looks obviously off, wrong, almost like some sort of double vision / astigmatism, you can see that the grass on the wall look all wrong and kind of doubled / blurry, with iridescence all over the image. And it makes me sad because it's a good example of how it is in real life too, stuff is there, but people don't see it and will tell you it's in your head, while it's actually there. It feels a bit like being in a nightmare where only you are aware of something, it's awful.
It was already annoying dealing with stuff like this in video games, but now that it affects my real life too, my vision, people not seeing stuff like this is even more frustrating than ever for me, because it affects my life.
 
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Mininuke

Neo Member
You don't know how much I would love that! :messenger_loudly_crying: Not necesarilly digital fountry lol but some video analyzing this and acknowledging these issues, because it's super depressing to feel like you're the only one having these problems when everyone around you don't understand what you're talking about, even eye doctors. It always feel "nice" when I find people online who have the same issue, I feel less lonely, however it never led to a solution so far.


If you knew how many times I thought about this lol Wishing I could just fix it by changing some .ini in my glasses like you do in games.


Are you sure you're not getting any chromatic aberration at all on your monitor? If you look at a white image like this in full screen, aren't the borders orange / blue if you're not perfectly in front of them?


For me the right side for example looks orange if I have my face facing the center of the screen, if I look at the right side just with my eyes, it's orange-ish, and if I move my head to the left while still looking at it, it becomes even more orange, and if I move my head to the right instead, it will become blue. The color fringes start to appear very quickly, I only need to sliiightly move my head to change their strenght.


nope I dont see it even on white screen when I look straight, its probably like I said its very bad quality coating / lenses, you just gotta spend about 1k usd or so to get the perfect glasses with anti reflections, anyways, I read somewhere that some people are can be more sensitive to CA than others which makes sense, which reminds me of when I first played Resident evil 2 remake I turned off the CA effect rightaway
 

Larxia

Member
nope I dont see it even on white screen when I look straight, its probably like I said its very bad quality coating / lenses, you just gotta spend about 1k usd or so to get the perfect glasses with anti reflections, anyways, I read somewhere that some people are can be more sensitive to CA than others which makes sense, which reminds me of when I first played Resident evil 2 remake I turned off the CA effect rightaway
Coatings shouldn't change the amount of CA, and the lens index with the highest abbe value, so the lowest amount of CA, is 1.5 index CR-39 plastic lenses, which is the cheapest type of lens. Going in higher price means higher index which means lower abbe value which means even more chromatic aberration. I'm not sure what I could really do to reduce it, there's nothing in higher price range that seems better for chromatic aberration. I tried index up to 1.67, I also even tried "free form" lenses, the ones with the "digital surfacing", and it didn't help with either chromatic aberration or distortions, it was exactly the same, just a lot more expensive =/
 

eot

Banned
There's definitely many truths in what you say.
The other day a friend sent me this picture of plants vs zombie, to show me how it looked because he found the game really pretty :



I replied that it could be pretty but the chromatic aberration was ruining it. He didn't understand because he couldn't see any chromatic aberration, and even when I told him specific stuff on the picture to look at, like the plants on the wall on the left, he still couldn't see it, I had to zoom the picture a lot and show him zoomed in areas for him to finally see the colors. And even after seeing it like this, he still can't see it on the normal fullscreen size picture, and it drives me crazy.

It really makes me sad because, it's an obvious example of something that is there, the aberration is on the picture, it's there, it's not in my head, I'm not imagining it, but somehow, people don't see it while I instantly noticed it when opening the picture and I thought it looked awful.
When I look at this picture, it looks obviously off, wrong, almost like some sort of double vision / astigmatism, you can see that the grass on the wall look all wrong and kind of doubled / blurry, with iridescence all over the image. And it makes me sad because it's a good example of how it is in real life too, stuff is there, but people don't see it and will tell you it's in your head, while it's actually there. It feels a bit like being in a nightmare where only you are aware of something, it's awful.
It was already annoying dealing with stuff like this in video games, but now that it affects my real life too, my vision, people not seeing stuff like this is even more frustrating than ever for me, because it affects my life.

Yeah this picture is a good example. Those vines have a lot of high frequency detail, so the effect gets applied over the whole area, not just the edges, and blurs the shit out of it. Bloodborne has a lot of that too. I think they're also applying it more strongly at the edges of the screen in that screenshot.

As for the glasses, do you wear big ones? Maybe smaller ones that don't have as much peripheral vision would help?
 

Larxia

Member
Yeah this picture is a good example. Those vines have a lot of high frequency detail, so the effect gets applied over the whole area, not just the edges, and blurs the shit out of it. Bloodborne has a lot of that too. I think they're also applying it more strongly at the edges of the screen in that screenshot.

As for the glasses, do you wear big ones? Maybe smaller ones that don't have as much peripheral vision would help?
Not super big. I tried different lenses, even small round ones because it was the most recommened thing for that, but I don't really notice any improvement with smaller lenses. The only thing that changes is that, like you said there isn't as much peripheral vision so instead of having more aberration / distortions on the peripheral areas, you just don't have correction anymore, but the lens part still look the same for me.
 
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LucyJayne

Neo Member
I'm so glad I've found this thread! I'm having the same issue, I picked my new glasses up on Monday (03/02) and I still haven't got used to them.
I've been wearing glasses almost 20 years and when I've always had a new pair I would notice the difference but then it would settle down after a day or two.

I have the chromatic aberration which is more noticeable when I'm looking at something with a light behind it.
I'm also having distortion which is making me feel quite dizzy. Nobody I speak to understands what I'm talking about and keep telling me to take them back to the opticians.
When I look out the top of my glasses and down everything seems to squash, it's really hard to describe. If I look side to side out the top then everything slants one way and then the other.

I had similar issues with my last pair but thought the dizziness was due to low vit b12 levels and just ignored it. I must have gotten used to it after a month or two.

My mom has stronger glasses than me, we're both short sighted, she has no issues like this.
It's definitely my glasses and not my eyes. My sunglasses don't seem to be so bad
🤷‍♀

I'm back to wearing my old pair and am taking them back tomorrow.
I have 2 young children so i can't be feeling like I'm going to fall over all of the time and for over £200 I want them to be working properly
 
Well, if you play a game that has chromatic abberation you have like, double the effect.
I'm joking, I don't know anything about glasses. But I imagine it's a problem for you
 
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Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
I'm so glad I've found this thread! I'm having the same issue, I picked my new glasses up on Monday (03/02) and I still haven't got used to them.
I've been wearing glasses almost 20 years and when I've always had a new pair I would notice the difference but then it would settle down after a day or two.

I have the chromatic aberration which is more noticeable when I'm looking at something with a light behind it.
I'm also having distortion which is making me feel quite dizzy. Nobody I speak to understands what I'm talking about and keep telling me to take them back to the opticians.
When I look out the top of my glasses and down everything seems to squash, it's really hard to describe. If I look side to side out the top then everything slants one way and then the other.

I had similar issues with my last pair but thought the dizziness was due to low vit b12 levels and just ignored it. I must have gotten used to it after a month or two.

My mom has stronger glasses than me, we're both short sighted, she has no issues like this.
It's definitely my glasses and not my eyes. My sunglasses don't seem to be so bad
🤷‍♀️

I'm back to wearing my old pair and am taking them back tomorrow.
I have 2 young children so i can't be feeling like I'm going to fall over all of the time and for over £200 I want them to be working properly
Do you have similar issues when wearing contacts?
 

Larxia

Member
I'm back to wearing my old pair and am taking them back tomorrow.
Now that you noticed issues like chromatic aberration and distortions, are you fully comfortable when going back to your old pair? You can't see any of these problems in that old pair?
That's really my problem, I changed the lenses on my glasses instead of getting a full new pair, so I couldn't go back to the previous one to check if indeed I couldn't see any of it. I never noticed it before, but I wonder if I could have noticed it on my older pair after having noticed these problems on new glasses.
 

Kamina

Golden Boy
I always hated wearing glasses, from the first day on.
Looked stupid with them, they felt awkward, and they caused viasual glitches.
My solution: contact lenses. Haven't worn glasses in years.
 
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bati

Member
Ye
I always hated wearing glasses, from the first day on.
Looked stupid with them, they felt awkward, and they caused viasuak glitches.
My solution: contact lenses. Haven't worn glasses in years.

Yep, switched last year, one of the best decisions I made.
 

Larxia

Member
I always hated wearing glasses, from the first day on.
Looked stupid with them, they felt awkward, and they caused viasual glitches.
My solution: contact lenses. Haven't worn glasses in years.
And you wear only contacts? No glasses at all?
What contacts do you wear? You can keep them all day comfortably?
 

Kamina

Golden Boy
And you wear only contacts? No glasses at all?
What contacts do you wear? You can keep them all day comfortably?

Yes, only contact lenses.
They are month lenses, which need to be replaced every other month or so. (I dont change them as often as they say at the optician)
Over night you put them into the liquid to remain hydrated and soft. You usually notice that they need to be changed if they become dry in your eyes in the evenings.
The type i wear is of an extra soft kind.

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Larxia

Member
Yes, only contact lenses.
They are month lenses, which need to be replaced every other month or so. (I dont change them as often as they say at the optician)
Over night you put them into the liquid to remain hydrated and soft. You usually notice that they need to be changed if they become dry in your eyes in the evenings.
The type i wear is of an extra soft kind.

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I wear monthly too, I tried tons of different brands but they all make my eyes feel very tired, to the point where I don't even enjoy playing games or watching stuff with them, I don' t feel focused, my eyes always feel very "heavy" and tired, it's super annoying... If at least I could wear contacts without issues then my glasses wouldn't be such a problem.
 

Son Tofu

Banned
how about some lasik?
Don't do it! Every single person I know IRL has had some sort of issue with that. It took one friend almost a decade before he started to have problems, but he absolutely regrets the procedure now.

OP, how many hours a day do you look at a computer screen? I used to have a few eye issues with my glasses as well. Then someone suggested I try that blue light filter on my lenses and my issues cleared up.
 
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Kamina

Golden Boy
I wear monthly too, I tried tons of different brands but they all make my eyes feel very tired, to the point where I don't even enjoy playing games or watching stuff with them, I don' t feel focused, my eyes always feel very "heavy" and tired, it's super annoying... If at least I could wear contacts without issues then my glasses wouldn't be such a problem.
Not everyone is reacting well to them. I have heard similar stories from other people. Maybe you should consider having an eye surgery?
 
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NeoIkaruGAF

Gold Member
"Adjustment period" is such BS. I've been wearing vision aids for almost 30 years now. There is no change in distortion and its perception over time. When I got my latest prescription I immediately experienced very heavy barrel distortion, and it's not even peripheral - I can notice distortion when I look at the halfway point between the center of the lens and the frame. With that prescription I can see like a fucking eagle in the very center of the lens, but telling if a wall or any other line is straight can be a chore if my eyes stray even a little from the center. Been wearing that prescription since 2014. NO "adjustment". The distortion is always there.

Distortion could mean that your prescription is too strong.
If you suffer from constant/recurring headaches while wearing your glasses, chances are your prescription is too strong, too.

There is probably no way to avoid some degree of distortion if your myopia is medium/severe. It's just the nature of optics. Contacts avoid this problem by being right upon your cornea, but they can cause different problems. I wore contacts for years. In the end my eyes got extremely dry and when I spotted a capillary in my eye that wasn't there before, I stopped wearing contacts everyday (an eye doctor confirmed that it could be a sign of ischemia, ie lack of oxygen leading to your body making new blood vessels to compensate. Problem is, new blood vessels in your eyes can be a disaster if they grow on your cornea, which must be completely transparent to work as intended. Luckily this vessel isn't on my cornea, but it never went away).
These days I only wear contacts on special occasions. I also have a lot of trouble focusing on a single point while wearing contacts, and I get easily blinded by direct light. It's hard to explain to people who never experienced it.

I've read a lot on refractive errors and defective vision (yeah, including unorthodox stuff). I have myopia and astigmatism. I have experienced that vision can change a lot during the day. Your glasses/contacts can give you the most perfect vision today, and a splitting headache tomorrow. Toric contacts (for astigmatism) can be a nightmare some days because astigmatism can undergo slight changes. It has an axis, but it's rarely as fixed as an optometrist would have you believe. My vision is quite complex, too - my right eye is very blurry at short distances while my left eye allows me to read quite easily, but this reverses at about 40-50cm from my eyes when suddenly I can see much better with my right eye, while the left eye gets blurrier. Still, there's mornings when my right eye is almost normal at reading distance.

Don't forget that the way optometrists and eye doctors measure your refractive error easily leads to wrong prescriptions. You'll mostly use your glasses in daylight or well-lit environments, but they'll measure your vision in a dark room with pure black letters against a bright white background. They'll also measure your vision one eye at a time, but I have experienced time and time again that while a lens can give me better vision in a single eye, when both eyes work together that same lens can be less than optimal. Binocular vision makes a lot of compensation systems kick in in your brain to get the best results it can with your eyes's visual acuity, so what works with one eye closed can be a problem when both eyes are open.

My suggestion would be to get a 20/20 prescription or very slightly less, and not an iota more than that. More sharpness is nice, but it can come at a price. Optometrists will often try and give you that little bit of extra visual acuity so your glasses will often make you see better than 20/20.
Also, if you can read and type comfortably without your glasses, don't wear them. It sounds like bogus science advice, I know, but you shouldn't wear vision correction when you don't need it.
 

Son Tofu

Banned
Op, before you decide or surgery or something, it might be worth it to go and do an overall health assessment. You could potentially have an underlying health issue that is manifesting itself with your eyes.

I think Diabetes can cause some of the issues you're talking about.
 
Well I would love if it was like but it's really not, these issues are always there even with whatever can be considered as " appropriate lenses", seems like it's just how glasses are...
My monitor basically looks curved like an old CRT monitor
I think there must be something wrong with the prescription if it causes a flat lcd monitor to look curved like a crt.
It feels a bit like being in a nightmare where only you are aware of something, it's awful.


 
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