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[LucasFilms]

What do you think of Lunor acetate frames? Worth the price?

My eyewear shop is asking 400 euros for frame and prescription lenses (less than 2 diopters, so cheap lenses)

 

[coolarrow]

Looking for a good quality, but affordably priced, rounder frame that is plastic and 54 or 55 lens width. I was recommended this because I have high index RX(-6.00ish). Plastic or similar would mask the thickness of my lenses from the side (or so I am told). I've mainly been wearing rectangular wide ones and wand to get away from similar.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Looking for a good quality, but affordably priced, rounder frame that is plastic and 54 or 55 lens width. I was recommended this because I have high index RX(-6.00ish). Plastic or similar would mask the thickness of my lenses from the side (or so I am told). I've mainly been wearing rectangular wide ones and wand to get away from similar.

My script is stronger.
With acetate I have found round plastic lenses work best with the highest density lenses you can get.

I’ve also got a spare pair by Allied Metalworks in titanium with plastic lenses which don’t present any problems neither pair make it look like I’m wearing thick lenses.

 

[LucasFilms]

My script is stronger.
With acetate I have found round plastic lenses work best with the highest density lenses you can get.

I’ve also got a spare pair by Allied Metalworks in titanium with plastic lenses which don’t present any problems neither pair make it look like I’m wearing thick lenses.

Which titanium frame by Allied Metalworks are you using?

Thanks!

 

[coolarrow]

My script is stronger.
With acetate I have found round plastic lenses work best with the highest density lenses you can get.

I’ve also got a spare pair by Allied Metalworks in titanium with plastic lenses which don’t present any problems neither pair make it look like I’m wearing thick lenses.

Thanks!

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Which titanium frame by Allied Metalworks are you using?

Thanks!

Basically my spare pair 5 years old in excellent condition and my script has not changed.

 

[LucasFilms]

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Basically my spare pair 5 years old in excellent condition and my script has not changed.

Those glasses look really nice. I am going to check if there is a retailer in Spain.

 

[LucasFilms]

I finally decided to buy this frame from Dita instead of the Mykitas. I liked the simplicity and fit of this design:

ARTOA.82 Optical

Blending a lightweight build with a vintage shape, ARTOA.82 introduces an alluring optical frame perfect for daily wear. The temple of ARTOA.82 initiates with a delicate structure, seamlessly transitioning into a more pronounced form towards the rear, thus harmonizing with the frame's weightless...

dita.com

My prescription lenses were easier to fit and adjust on the Dita frame...


I still like the look of the surgical steel Mykita frames but do not really see the point of having to fit the prescription lenses on that slot metal Mykita frames have... the eyewear shop recommended really expensive lenses (harder lenses they said) to fit on the Mykita frame and the price would have been like x2.... ridiculous...

However other eyewear shop told me they could fit cheaper lenses on the Mykita metal frame.. so at this point I dont really know what to think about it...

 

[vegancrabcakes]

I finally decided to buy this frame from Dita instead of the Mykitas. I liked the simplicity and fit of this design:

ARTOA.82 Optical

Blending a lightweight build with a vintage shape, ARTOA.82 introduces an alluring optical frame perfect for daily wear. The temple of ARTOA.82 initiates with a delicate structure, seamlessly transitioning into a more pronounced form towards the rear, thus harmonizing with the frame's weightless...

dita.com

My prescription lenses were easier to fit and adjust on the Dita frame...


I still like the look of the surgical steel Mykita frames but do not really see the point of having to fit the prescription lenses on that slot metal Mykita frames have... the eyewear shop recommended really expensive lenses (harder lenses they said) to fit on the Mykita frame and the price would have been like x2.... ridiculous...

However other eyewear shop told me they could fit cheaper lenses on the Mykita metal frame.. so at this point I dont really know what to think about it...

Great choice, Dita frames have never disappointed in my experience. Incredible lightness and craftsmanship. To me they feel a bit more solid than Mykitas/IC Berlin.

 

[coolarrow]

^^^Congrats on those Dita frames. I also went with titanium.

Ended up getting these Lindbergs. They fit my face the best. Also, wanted to go to with the Zeiss lenses but did not get the thinnest. Went slightly thicker ones, but still Zeiss. Fingers xrossed that they turn out alright. Getting them around thanksgiving.

Lindberg NOW 6529

LINDBERG’s N.O.W collection is combining the remarkably thin composite front and ultra-lightweight titanium temples into a minimalistic design.

www.mottoptical.com

 

[LucasFilms]

Great choice, Dita frames have never disappointed in my experience. Incredible lightness and craftsmanship. To me they feel a bit more solid than Mykitas/IC Berlin.

The temples of the Dita frame are really comfortable. it's a titanium frame made in Japan.

In my opinion, the Japanese pay a lot of attention to how the temples fit, their lenght and the temple tips (how they fall lightly instead of being very curved or quite bent). For instance, Masunaga temple tips are quite unique as well, the comfort, the details etc

 

[LucasFilms]

^^^Congrats on those Dita frames. I also went with titanium.

Ended up getting these Lindbergs. They fit my face the best. Also, wanted to go to with the Zeiss lenses but did not get the thinnest. Went slightly thicker ones, but still Zeiss. Fingers xrossed that they turn out alright. Getting them around thanksgiving.

Lindberg NOW 6529

LINDBERG’s N.O.W collection is combining the remarkably thin composite front and ultra-lightweight titanium temples into a minimalistic design.

www.mottoptical.com

Lindberg is high on my shopping list too. It's great Lindberg frames can be customised.

As for lenses, 2 years ago my Zeiss lenses cost 100 euros for both. Now 2 Zeiss lenses are more expensive.. and eyewear shops try to sell the new Zeiss lenses that apparently provide the same visual experience all over the lens (the optician quoted 145 euros per lens, so almost 300 for both). With this lenses if one looks up, down or to the sides, just moving the eyes, with the head still, the visual experience would be exactly the same, no alterations at all no matter what your prescription is...

Maybe the upgrade makes sense for some prescriptions.. but mine is not that high to pay 3 times the normal price for lenses...

 

[coolarrow]

Lindberg is high on my shopping list too. It's great Lindberg frames can be customised.

As for lenses, 2 years ago my Zeiss lenses cost 100 euros for both. Now 2 Zeiss lenses are more expensive.. and eyewear shops try to sell the new Zeiss lenses that apparently provide the same visual experience all over the lens (the optician quoted 145 euros per lens, so almost 300 for both). With this lenses if one looks up, down or to the sides, just moving the eyes, with the head still, the visual experience would be exactly the same, no alterations at all no matter what your prescription is...

Maybe the upgrade makes sense for some prescriptions.. but mine is not that high to pay 3 times the normal price for lenses...

Sounds like you're overseas. Prices seem low for the Zeiss lenses over there. I made it a point to go to an "independent optometry" shop to stick it to Luxottica. That said, I still paid way too much on these glasses. Now, a friend of mine tells me that Lenscrafters (luxotica owned) has several sales throughout the year. 50% off lenses and even stackable student discounts and others.

I keep telling myself that this is something I'll use everyday and maybe make me look good, lol.

 

[LucasFilms]

Sounds like you're overseas. Prices seem low for the Zeiss lenses over there. I made it a point to go to an "independent optometry" shop to stick it to Luxottica. That said, I still paid way too much on these glasses. Now, a friend of mine tells me that Lenscrafters (luxotica owned) has several sales throughout the year. 50% off lenses and even stackable student discounts and others.

I keep telling myself that this is something I'll use everyday and maybe make me look good, lol.

I'm in Spain, and here eyewear shops try to rip customers off either on frames or lenses, so the combination of both prices almost always comes to a similar number if one gets both in the same shop.

However, after shopping around a lot I have found out certain eyewear shops (mostly big chains) that, as you say, make discounts on lenses several times per year, and also offer further discounts if one buys more than one pair of lenses. So I bought a few frames just to store them and will buy the prescription lenses in the future when there is a discount.

Anyway, my feeling is prices for eyewear will keep going up because eyewear became just another fashion accessory and also people spend more and more time with screens and over time need several glasses (to read, to work with screens at a certain distance, and just generally for any other activity). Over times, as sight gets worse and one needs several glasses, lenses get more expensive too and one needs to get more frames fitted with lenses... so I am planning ahead.. maybe too much haha

So it's best to get bargains either on frames or lenses individually when the opportunity comes up...

As for frames, after talking to many owners of eyewear shops, they are as baffled as me about the strategy of manufacturers: some acetate colours sell really well, and certain frames sell pretty well, and still manufacturers stop producing them, and embrace something new, maybe due to a new fashion... and actually some of the best frames I have had (and lost, or accidentally damaged, or just worn out over time) are no longer produced even though the design was pretty classical.

 

[LucasFilms]

Update in case anyone is reading from Spain: just got a pair of Zeiss lenses at Óptica Universitaria for 100 euros.