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?
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?
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.
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.
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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