Mirrored polaroids?

[bonefish41]

POV Keys and Bahamas flats

I have the usual suspects: Brown, Yellow, Vermillion in my prescription all polaroid. But none are mirrored. What's the experience with polaroid with mirror for additional glare cut down?

[Joni]

Don't know about the glare cut down. I like them cause no one can tell where I am looking ;-)

[Colorado Cajun]

I like mirrored sun glassed except for the fact that I get a bad sunburn on my nose when I wear them.

[Fish Bones]

The mirror surface will not reduce glare. Only two things will reduce glare on lenses... a quality polarized filter and an anti reflective coating.

The key is to get a "quality" polarized filter... so you must get a quality sunglass. Cheep polarized sunglasses are polarized to some degree but not 100%. Go with a good brand name like Smith Action Optics, Bolle, Oakley, Maui Jim, Costa DelMar, etc...

Here is the easiest way to tell if the sunglasses you're looking at has a quality filter. Take two pair of the sunglasses. Hold one lens directly in front of the other. Rotate one sunglass until the lenses are perpendicular to each other. The less light you see, the better the polarizing filter. Some lenses will cause the light to completely go away and you cannot see through the two lenses.

Did this make any sense at all???

[Deuce 22]

Oakley's "mirroring" does help reduce glare in both polarized and non-polarized. It really is not a mirror in the traditional sense because we do not use chemicals. It is called Iridium and it is patented. It is actually a metal coating so thin you can see thru it. We get it on the lens by running a tremendous amount of electricity thru the special metals in a chamber. That it creates a fog in a chamber and collects on the front of the lens by a special method. We get different colors by the temp. and time we keep them in the chamber. It is like how a blow torch on metal shows different colors due to where the heat is. The other really neat thing is the iridium with the different colors actually does the fine tuning of light wave colors we want for a specific lens or a specific sport involved.

[bonefish41]

Guys and Gals:

I've been using non-mirrored prescription polaroids for over forty years my early CRs were so thick that they really did not need much tint...alot has evolved since in prescription polaroids notably poly carb and some extra high index but it's the mirror does it function or is it "cool hand" no eyes...specifically in tropical flats FLA BAH in june/july where there is high haze cloud cover but bright sun and super glare on the water...will the mirror on a polaroid prescription lens, assume high quality...reduce such glare augmenting the polaroid lens??

[Deuce 22]

Hey Bonefish,

Useing a high quality lens mirroring will help. Any time you reflect light off the front of the lens less glare the polarized filter will have to block because you now have less scattered light waves entering the lens itself. Also on the same note if you don't want the mirrored look make sure you have a good AR (anti-reflective) coating on the back side of the lens. That too will help a lot. This applies to Rx and non-Rx.

[bonefish41]

Originally Posted by Deuce 22

Hey Bonefish,

Useing a high quality lens mirroring will help. Any time you reflect light off the front of the lens less glare the polarized filter will have to block because you now have less scattered light waves entering the lens itself. Also on the same note if you don't want the mirrored look make sure you have a good AR (anti-reflective) coating on the back side of the lens. That too will help a lot. This applies to Rx and non-Rx.

It's function on the flats not form...so i am going to give it a try...thanks

[FISHN50]

What Colors are the best for the Flats???

[sandfly]

if you want to cut the glare more you need side shields and a shield on the nose piece. Like the mountaineers use. I used these for years on the salt. until I needed glasses. now I still use side shields but have to make a nose piece. i wear clip ons now.