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  1. Thread: The "AtLast" Lens

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    Focal Change

    Any one have any ideas on this? someone told me to look to Decot? Shooting glasses....I gotta think someone out there is eating some of those Focal Change frames. Gotta wonder why no one has tried...
  2. Thread: The "AtLast" Lens

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    Sorry for the Negative...

    :finger:

    I understand your questioning, but you still have to look through this thing.
    I am essentially emmetropic with my distance only contacts. AT 52 I figure I am about as good a subject as...
  3. Thread: The "AtLast" Lens

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    Focal Change

    Thanks for the fast reply...now to see if it is still made. As I recall it wasn't the cutest frame on the wall, but it is unique. Is anyone using this concept?
    I do look forward to transition lenses...
  4. Thread: The "AtLast" Lens

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    At last-ugggghhhhh!!!!

    The sales rep was by the other day. He told me that they were going to have a multifocal that depended on electrical current to change power. Does that sound cool or what?????

    Then he pulled out...
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    Color View

    I have been using colorview for several years now. They work fine.
    The problem is that the patient invariably wants to pass some test to fly planes, drive trains or join the Navy. None of which...
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    Lindberg

    I think that the phone number you were given had only 6 digits. That won't work in the USA.
    I have carried the frames for perhaps 20 years. They were quite exclusive, now they seem to sell to more...
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    ZEISS Counter Lens

    I absolutely hate to get back into this....no, there are no IZON experts. NO...the company won't tell you what the heck is up with the lens.
    BUT...day after day....I dispense these lenses to...
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    No less an authority?

    [quote=Barry Santini;210654]However, some of your offered explanations for why they are a success suggest a fundamental misunderstanding of the latest theories connected with neural processing.
    ...
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    Reply to questions

    I hope this answers some of your questions.
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    Izon Is Not Smoke And Mirrors

    OK...I can speak as an "optometrist" who has dispensed close to 500 of these lenses. Craig is an "optician" who seems to have a problem with the company and is venting on this forum. He has financial...
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    This is a real bag of worms...first find the best...

    This is a real bag of worms...first find the best price vendor...then find out the instrument that they use, then buy it on e-bay.
    Even your wonder $30/month price is usually for three to five...
  12. Thread: Optos Optomap

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    I do not disagree with you about the twelve year...

    I do not disagree with you about the twelve year old driving.
    what you still don't realize is the power of showing that lesion to the mother rather than just telling her what you saw. And it was so...
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    Many of the Rxs are for Single vision so there is...

    Many of the Rxs are for Single vision so there is no way to put the patient into a Zeiss to compare.
    My patient from Alaska only bought two pair of Single vision. His response was that the night...
  14. Thread: Optos Optomap

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    I unfortunately know that you are wrong. why?...

    I unfortunately know that you are wrong. why? Because for one year prior to "leasing" the Optomap, I did exactly what you say. I got a non Myd fundus camera. I did one thousand photos and made...
  15. Thread: Optos Optomap

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    This is interesting since I personally asked...

    This is interesting since I personally asked about buying the instrument and they refused. I would love to see the letter.
    That said, I must disagree with some of the comments.
    Many of the comments...
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    My revenues were up last year by many, many tens...

    My revenues were up last year by many, many tens of thousands of dollars.
    Selling a $600 lens and almost requiring a new frame because I want IZON to cut and edge it (and believe me, they use a...
  17. Thread: Armani

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    Armani

    I wouldn't exactly count Armani out of the optical business.
    The reason Luxottica is dropping the line is that Armani wants lots of money and fewer offices carrying the line. Does that sound like...
  18. Thread: SIZE LENS

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    I knew I could count on you to cheer me up. I...

    I knew I could count on you to cheer me up.
    I was not involved in recommending Lasik for this patient...I am just the one to pick up the pieces. And of course, you can't convince the patient that...
  19. Thread: SIZE LENS

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    I know that many of you out there are much...

    I know that many of you out there are much brighter than I am concerning optics. Here is the situation that I am sure you have encountered.
    Since I can prescribe, I have a slight edge on the...
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    Greetings from Houston: I too own an Accura...

    Greetings from Houston:
    I too own an Accura edger. I have not had your same problem. I will tell you that the more sophisticated these machines get, the more there is to go wrong, go wrong, go...
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    I wouldn't have the problem if I didn't think...

    I wouldn't have the problem if I didn't think they had a great line of frames.
    Every other company sends me a Tax exempt form every year to sign. Some do not, and still do not charge tax. But lets...
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    I spoke to them today and they gave me that same...

    I spoke to them today and they gave me that same excuse. Interestingly, they then faxed me a State of Texas sales tax exempt form.
    Now why would they have that?
    I am seriously considering turning...
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    Optiboarders are world wide. Here in the great...

    Optiboarders are world wide. Here in the great state of Texas, we do not pay sales tax on frames, and we don't charge it. Kind of nice don't you all think.
    The other day, another OD called to tell...
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    And they told me I was the only one that had non...

    And they told me I was the only one that had non adapts with these things.
    I am personally 5 tries...5 failures in trying to switch happy comfort patients to panamic. My last patient loves them,...
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