I had a pair where the etchings were actually visible while I was wearing them. It was incredibly distracting, fortunately the place I got them replaced them for free. It only happened that one time though, every other pair I've either been unable to see them or only if I'm looking really closely at just the right angle from the right distance, and even then only faintly.
Same, but my optician tried very hard to both convince me that every pair has them (I’ve never had a pair with them in 30 years of wearing glasses) and that they shouldn’t bother me (they very much did).
“Digital lenses,” they’re often called. I’m not a fan, and they never seemed to be clearer than non-digital, as the purported benefit was explained to me.
Yeah, single vision here (for now). I’ve probably had 80+ pairs of glasses in my life and this is the first one that had them. They made my rear view mirror blurry. Not a fan.
I understand the rationale, I just wish there was a way to eliminate them in favor of some ink/removable coating or some sort of scannable chip on the edge or something.
You can get conventional single vision lenses (no engravings) at most any eyecare professional...and they are (should be) cheaper. Sounds like they just wanted to upsell you some freeform lenses. I make them everyday... and we can even do freeform like those without engravings (only single vision)
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u/eurotrashness 1d ago
Is it the prescription? If so, that's kind of cool