Buying good quality glasses

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• • QuadraPatty
    February 26, 2010
    7 posts
  • Does anyone know of a good place to buy good quality transitional glasses? Thanks for any help!

• • slabo
    March 8, 2010
    57 posts
  • What are transitional glasses?

• • DaMiao
    March 8, 2010
    61 posts
  • There is place to buy top of the line glasses on Hui Guo Lu near the intersection of Tuo Dong Lu. It's 1 block north of the Bank Hotel. They carry Transitions brand lens as well as premium frames.

• • Ouyang
    March 8, 2010
    118 posts
  • Transition lenses are glasses that act like sunglasses outside, and regular glasses inside. They adjust the darkness of the lenses to the amount of sunlight.

• • QuadraPatty
    March 16, 2010
    7 posts
  • Thank you DaMiao. I will try to find the above address and check them out.

    Transitional glasses nowadays mean that if you look out the top of your glasses you can see far away clearly; if you look through the bottom part of your glasses you can see small print; and if you look through the middle of the glasses you see mid range. When you look at someone wearing these glasses you have no idea that the glasses can do all that because they are "transitional" and you don't see any lines!

    And my glasses also have the option of turning dark in the sunshine,as Ouyang describes.

• • DaMiao
    March 17, 2010
    61 posts
  • Hi QuadraPatty,
    We call those lenses "progressive" back home, becuse the lenses progresively change from top to bottom. I have a pair myself. The Transitions(tm) that they sell there darken as they are exposed to sunlight.They said they were able to do both of these types of lenses there. Just get to the Bsnk Hotel and your almost there.

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