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    Hoya Summit-Pro

    Hi everyone.

    I'm an optician. I could get some advice of you. Comfort and Summit-pro are regarded as similar level PALs in Korea. Someone told me the Comfort is better than Summit-Pro in overall vision.

    Do you think like above?

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    For those of you in the US, the HOYA Summit-Pro is known as the HOYA Summit ecp.

    I'm surprised that in Korea you consider Comfort a non-ashperic 25+ year old lens design to be equal to the Pro/ecp aspheric design that's about 5 years old??

    Other than they're both lenses, there doesn't seem to be any comparision.

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    Comfort was introduced in 1994. The ECP was an attempt by Hoya (7 years later) to match the success of Comfort's design and adaptation outside of Asia. The big problem w/ Hoya is that they design PALs for the Asian market and most of their PAL designs take into account the physiological differences between Asians and Anglos.

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    It's very true that Varilux Comfort was introduced in the US in the mid-90's, but this product was available elsewhere in the world much earlier (South Africa for example). The Comfort design is 25+ years old and it's a non-Aspheric progressive lens. Although it's a very forgiving product, Comfort is far from a modern lens design.

    The Comfort is best compared to the HOYA GP, a rather old and non-aspheric lens - Both the GP and Comfort are considered by many to be old technology. For practical purposes we really compare the (Aspheric) HOYA GP Wide with the (non-Aspheric) Varilux Comfort. The Summit Pro/ecp product is in a different catogory and compares with newer product such as Gradal Top/Panamic/Physio and more.

    The original questions came from a optician in Korea, I hope he appreciates Mr. BS Detector's answer that HOYA lenses are designed for the Asian market, i.e. asian eyes. The Summit Pro/ecp is sold around the world and does equally fine in non-Asian markets. The comment about "designed for the Asian market" is just silly.....
    Last edited by Bill Mahnke; 08-12-2006 at 08:26 AM.

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