A/R on crown glass lenses

[DragonLensmanWV]

Since we are on the subject: when you have a bright light shining in your face, is that glare? or is that reflection? Well of course it is glare.

Now when you shine that light on a smooth surface.....does it reflect or does it glare? Well of course it reflects.

Now when you look out across the water, or the horizon, what you see, is that reflections or glare?

So when you put a anti reflective coating on a surface to reduce the reflections why do so many people call the anti reflective actions/properties, glare? Because they feel the leftover reflection is glaring back at them? Then you have a poor anti reflective coating.

Just wondering why we in the business use those two terms in the same sentence and they both seem to be so opposite of each other.


Now here is something that should be simple for some........why is it the spell check button on this site does not work......or am I just special? Look I know I can spell well and I sure could use it.

If you use Firefox, you can use it's built-in spellchecker.

[DragonLensmanWV]

Interference-based coatings were invented in November 1935 by Alexander Smakula, who was working for the Carl Zeiss optics company. Anti-reflection coatings were a German military secret until the early stages of World War II.^[1] Katharine Burr Blodgett and Irving Langmuir developed organic anti-reflection coatings in the late 1930s.

From wiki.