Making the correct choice on base color
The selection of which lens tone to decide on will rely very a lot in your native climate situations and the color of the water. Nonetheless, it is very important recognise that it’s finally a private selection, as color notion varies from individual to individual.
Nonetheless, if you’re not sure which lens tint to decide on, we advocate brown, rose or violet base colors the place the climate situations are variable or the place further distinction and color enhancement is desired, and smoke (gray) lenses the place the situations are shiny and sunny.
Making the correct choice generally is a troublesome name as usually we encounter all types of climate and lighting situations all year long.
Having a second set of lenses to deal with completely different climate situations will be very helpful. You should purchase a second set of ZEISS lenses / alternative lenses direct from our webshop if wanted.
The connection of base color with mirror coatings
Folks generally confuse the bottom color with the color of mirror coatings. These are various things. For instance, when you have a blue mirror coating, this doesn’t imply that you’ve got a blue tinted lens or blue base color. It means that there’s a blue colored coating that has been utilized on prime of the bottom color.
A great instance is the Hurricane with Gun Blue lenses, pictured above. The bottom color of the Gun Blue lenses is gray with a blue mirror coating layer utilized on prime.
Are there any advantages of Mirror coatings?
Surprisingly, there are fairly just a few advantages along with fashion and aesthetics. Taking the Hurricane with Gun Blue lenses for instance, the gray lens tint will give the wearer a real and impartial color illustration, and the blue mirror coating will mirror blue gentle away from the attention. In a shiny ocean setting the place blue is in all places, this helps to stability the general gentle spectrum and offers higher visible acuity.
Equally, a crimson mirror coating will mirror crimson gentle, and a inexperienced mirror coating will mirror inexperienced gentle. So it is best to select a mirror coating that’s appropriate for the setting that you’re more than likely to put on your sun shades in.
There are different advantages of mirror coatings. Importantly for watersports , they cut back glare (along with the discount of glare gained from polarisation), and this additional reduces eye pressure.
We set out a collection of decisions for various climate and water situations beneath:
