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Transition Gen S photochromic lenses now come in more colours including Sapphire, Emerald, Amethyst, Amber, Graphite Green, Brown, Grey & the latest addition, Ruby.
At Ilkeston Factory Specs Beautiful Affordable Eyewear we specialise in react to sun lenses. Starting with our affordable Sun-Light lenses for those on a budget and available in Grey and Brown right up to the branded market leaders, Transition TM* branded Essilor reactor lenses. These lenses aren't cheap, but they are unique!
The evolution of eyewear with Transitions® GEN S™, the new lens standard designed to adapt to your dynamic lifestyle. These innovative lenses respond to varying light conditions, ensuring optimal vision whether you're indoors or outdoors. Available in eight exclusive colors, including the vibrant Transitions® GEN S™ Ruby, each lens maintains true-to-tone clarity, providing a stylish complement to any outfit. Elevate your eyewear game with Transitions® GEN S™, where functionality meets fashion.
Widest range of colours
Transitions® GEN S™ is available in eight exclusive colours, including a brand-new addition: Transitions® GEN S™ Ruby. All colours have been optimised to be true to tone at all times, offering vibrant tints regardless of the light environment. While being fully clear indoors, and beautifully coloured outdoors, Transitions® GEN S™ provides endless possibilities of pairing to complement any look.
Transition XtraActive photochromic lenses that work behind the car windscreen now available in Graphite Green, Brown & Grey.
Featuring a Darker tint
This unique photochromic lens provides remarkable comfort to wearers in the brightest sun and hot conditions. When activated, Transitions XTRActive is our darkest Transitions lens in all conditions. In fact it reaches up to category 2 darkness, and offers full UV protection.
Visual comfort when driving
Modern windscreens block UV light. Transitions XTRActive seamlessly activates when driving to reduce sun glare. It does this by collecting extra energy in the lower end of the light spectrum.
Light protection
UVA and UVB light is 100% blocked, protecting wearers eyes at all times. Transitions XTRActive lenses blocks 88% of blue-violet light outdoors and
Transitions XTRActive
lenses are available in 3 iconic colours'
BROWN, GREY and GRAPHITE GREEN
Blue Light Protective lenses are available
Discover the impact of our increasing reliance on digital devices and how it affects eye health. Many of us experience symptoms of digital eye strain, such as dry eyes, headaches, and neck pain The good news is that blue light filter lenses can help alleviate these issues, making them a perfect choice for anyone who spends extensive time in front of screens. Protect your eyes and enhance your comfort with this essential addition to your daily routine!
Polarised lenses
Experience the ultimate in visual clarity with ourised Lenses. Designed to enhance your prescription eyewear, these lenses significantly improve visual acuity effectively blocking blinding glare from reflective surfaces like roads, water, ice, and snow. The unique filter in polarised lenses allows only vertical light rays to, drastically reducing glare and providing exceptional comfort in high-intensity sunlight. Upgrade your eyewear and enjoy a clearer, vibrant world around you.
Polarised lenses contain a unique filter that blocks horizontally reflected light rays. This property significantly reduces glare by only allowing the vertical light rays to pass through the lens. No other lenses or treatments can achieve the same glare reduction performance as polarised lenses. This gives exceptional visual comfort and provides the most comfortable vision in environments with high intensity sunlight and glare. Common sources of horizontal reflected light rays are water, snow, glass, and car bonnets.
Polarised lenses are best suited to wearers who spend a lot of their time outdoors, particularly around water or in intense sunlight. Fishing, sailing, driving, snow sports, and flying are all activities in which wearers will really see the benefit of polarised lenses.
Polarised lenses enhance the most important functions of prescription eyewear: improved visual acuity, and the ability to block blinding glare caused by reflective sunlight from sources such as roads, water, ice and snow. Natural unfiltered light is described as unpolarised, as the light rays travel in random directions. These light rays hit our lenses at all angles of incidence and can cause glare. This glare distorts objects and affects our colour perception. They are not just limited for outdoor use. Some of the worst blinding glare can come from driving on wet roads while the sun is shining. This is also some of the most dangerous glare for wearers and other road users. Polarised lenses eliminate nearly all glare associated with this environment resulting in much safer conditions behind the wheel. Anyone who is exposed to glare outdoors will benefit from polarised sun lenses. The UV protection of these lenses can be further enhanced with the addition of a high quality coating. Because of the horizontal light ray blocking property of polarised lenses, wearers may experience difficulties when viewing LCD screens such as car dashboards and ATM machines. This is because many of these items include a vertical polarisation which counteracts the horizontal filter of polarised lenses. It is normal and should not be a cause for concern.
About our Vari-focal & Bifocal Lenses:
Experience the world with clarity using our vari-focal lenses. Our eyes are essential in navigating the world around us, and perfect vision is key to a better life. As we age, many of us face the challenge of presbyopia, making it difficult to see nearby objects clearly. Vari-focal lenses utilizing varying degrees of advanced digital freeform technology, offer a precise solution that adapts to your unique optical needs, ensuring you can enjoy every moment with sharp, clear vision. At Ilkeston Factory Specs we offer a range of lenses specifically sourced to a range of prices from budget friendly, to the latest technology in Vari-focal lenses. Essilor Varilux lenses sit at the top of our tree.
Bronze:
Our lowest cost entry level option for those on a budget or where the price is the main factor. Not available with photochromic lenses but we can hard coat these lenses.
Silver:
Our recommended Silver digital best seller Vari-focal lenses are a digital design mid quality lens, offering good all round vision with a minimised outer distortion band at an affordable price. All coatings and photochromic options & thinner lenses are available.
Gold:
Our recommended Gold digital back surfaced vari-focal is designed using the latest technology and has an extra wide band of vision for Long Distance vision, intermediate vision and near reading vision with a minimum of outer distortion. This lens is ideal for wearers who have spent a fortune on high quality lenses like Varilux lenses and don't want to compromise, but do want to save on the cost of branded vari-focal lenses. We can add photochromic and many other coatings to these lenses and again, thinner lenses are available.
Platinum Individual Design:
Our top vari-focal lens individual digital design. This lens isn't the cheapest lens we sell, but the results really do speak for themselves. We recommend this type of vari-focal lens design when the wearer is accustomed to the higher end branded lenses like Zeiss & Varilux lenses etc. These lenses are known as "Individual Design" lenses and are individually designed for you, the frames used and many more detailed factors. Most wearers don't have experience of this type of lens quality due to the prohibitive price at high end opticians, but they may be affordable at Ilkeston Factory Specs.
All coatings, lens thinning and photochromic lenses available.
Varilux Essilor Brand:
Essilor is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of ophthalmic lenses, optical equipment, and instruments. It's known for its innovative lens technologies, including the first varifocal lens, Varilux, and brands like Crizal, Xperio, Optifog, and Transitions. Essilor is now part of EssilorLuxottica, a vertically integrated multinational holding company.
We offer a range of Varilux lenses for those who really want to push the boat out and experience this iconic varifocal brand where price isn't the deal breaker. These lenses demand their price tag with the reputation that all other lens manufacturers admire. Lens coatings, thinning & photochromic options available.
Bifocal Lenses:
We offer many types and shapes of Bifocal lenses, including D28mm & D25mm segment Bifocals & Round segment "less noticeable" bifocals. We also supply C seg bifocals and Executive (line straight across full width of the lenses) for those that need a wider band of near vision through their Bifocal lenses.
Essilor Occupational Office Readers:
WHAT ARE OCCUPATIONAL LENSES?
Occupational lenses are designed for working professionals who need glasses for near vision work, yet need the added flexibility and range to see things a bit further away than a normal reading distance. People, who develop presbyopia at around the age of 40, lose the ability to focus properly at multiple distances.
Reading glasses and even sophisticated progressive lenses come with limited options for mid and near range visual requirements. The solution to this unique visual requirement based on occupational/visual needs is a variable occupational lens.
At Ilkeston Factory Specs we can advise and supply a wide range of occupational lenses, simply call into store for more information.
