so, just how do you see our hobby? (literally)

[Bikeracer]

Went to a UK opticians once.  Pick out a frame she says. I put some on. No, she says, you have a long face, those dont look good.  Second frames on... Oh no you have a big nose, try these.

Is being insulted part of the service i wondered and decided i would rather leave without glasses but a modicum of my ego in tact, and thats when i discovered  the stand in the chemists with reading glasses and no one to tell you that you look like a goon.

I always wonder how you're supposed to look in the mirror at the opticians and decide on new frames when you can't focus without without your own glasses on.
For what they charge it's about time they had a machine that takes your photo and then superimposes the frames you're trying to choose onto the photo.

Allan

[Kipper]

I've been wearing specs/contacts for 50 years. I'm short sighted, but can do close up work/reading without. Easy to take specs off, but not so easy taking contacts out and replacing since changed to soft ones. My optician has a fancy camera device, so you can have a piccy took of you in your new specs, then look at it with your old ones on, so you can see shat you look like from various angles. Unfortunately, the poor lighting last time resulted in me buying frames that, to be honest, were a bit "girlie", as many modern frames tend to be!

[painbrook]

Went to a UK opticians once.  Pick out a frame she says. I put some on. No, she says, you have a long face, those dont look good.  Second frames on... Oh no you have a big nose, try these.

Is being insulted part of the service i wondered and decided i would rather leave without glasses but a modicum of my ego in tact, and thats when i discovered  the stand in the chemists with reading glasses and no one to tell you that you look like a goon.

I always wonder how you're supposed to look in the mirror at the opticians and decide on new frames when you can't focus without without your own glasses on.
For what they charge it's about time they had a machine that takes your photo and then superimposes the frames you're trying to choose onto the photo.

Allan

Allan are you telling us that your optician does'nt have one of those machine's . Cheers john.

[kevin141]

Glasses and magnifying glass,

Kevin141

[Kipper]

Should have gone to SpecSavers! There, someone had to say it.

[Sprintex]

Wouldn't go there if I were you, I've known quite a few people that have had problems with poor quality specs from there 


Paul

[longbridge]

I wear my prescription reading glasses for most things, for closeup work I wear stronger readers that I get from the elcheapo Dollars and Sense Shop for $4au a pair, for extreme closeup work I wear one of these magnifying thingys that you put on your head and lots of bright lights, regardless I still loose those rotten little coupling springs.

[jyoungs]

  Hi everyone, I have to use glasses to read small print but I find that a cheapo pair from boots plus a magnifier on a stand lets me see most things n gauge - the problem comes when I want to place any stock on the rails - its usually a bit hit and miss ! still I must say that without any glasses on everything I`ve done so far looks good!!!

[Lawrence]

Wouldn't go there if I were you, I've known quite a few people that have had problems with poor quality specs from there 


Paul

I think they are all equally as bad, Boots lost my prescription sunglasses last year and a few years ago the spec I got from Optical express kept falling apart.  Unless you are able to pay through the nose and go to an independent ophthalmic practice it seems we are stuck with mediocrity at best 

[painbrook]

Hi everyone, I have to use glasses to read small print but I find that a cheapo pair from boots plus a magnifier on a stand lets me see most things n gauge - the problem comes when I want to place any stock on the rails - its usually a bit hit and miss ! still I must say that without any glasses on everything I`ve done so far looks good!!!

Have you got one of these http://www.gaugemaster.com/item_details.asp?code=PESL-337, only £1.95 on amazon. Cheers john.

[Sprintex]

I think they are all equally as bad, Boots lost my prescription sunglasses last year and a few years ago the spec I got from Optical express kept falling apart.  Unless you are able to pay through the nose and go to an independent ophthalmic practice it seems we are stuck with mediocrity at best 

Seems you've just had bad luck mate 

I've had two pairs of glasses from Vision Express and I get my monthly contact lenses from them too, never a problem  The misses has had  a few pairs of glasses and prescription sunglasses from Boots and always been OK too 


Paul

[MinZaPint]

When I was a yoof)

What a memory!

[SymonC]

Wouldn't go there if I were you, I've known quite a few people that have had problems with poor quality specs from there 


Paul

All three members of my family get their glasses from Specsavers and have never had a problem and always received efficient and polite service.

[Newportnobby]

When I was a yoof)

What a memory!

:smiley-laughing:Things like that I can remember, but what happened yesterday....nah

[bluedepot]

i have got this eye condition.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratoconus

with contact lenses i see ok, just about well enough to drive.... i can't wear my contact lenses for more than 10 hours each day as they get uncomfortable, and glasses don't help me as it's the shape of the cornea that needs direct correction.

i suspect that one day i will have to scale up to OO or O gauge... or G.... but for now i stick with n gauge...


Tim