AO PRO Easy

[Sandy]

Can anyone tells me more about this lens? The article at http://www.optometry.co.uk/files/ea2...ms20031212.pdf said that it can be used for shallow frames. I'd like to know minimum fitting height requirement which is not indicated in this article.

[rinselberg]

Hello Sandy.

Since I'm not an optician (just one of the ever-increasing number of eye patients that have been showing up here, of late) I cannot advise you on the sagacity of your interest in this particular lens. But I can offer you some links to information that is publicly available on the Internet.

... 18 mm minimum fitting height

credit: http://www.sola.com/professionals/aoeasy.shtml

AO Easy is available in CR-39 or hard-resin clear, Transitions Gray, and Transitions Brown; polycarbonate clear and Transitions Gray; 1.6 high index clear and HD 1.67 clear and HD 1.67 Transitions Gray. You may want to confirm this yourself from the following web page - I'm having some difficulty reading it myself, probably because I have an old out-of-date Mac computer system.

http://www.sola.com/professionals/aoeasy.shtml

The "HD" in HD 1.67 is for "High Definition". This means that when the lens is selected in this (1.67 index) material, it is made to your prescription using a special "free-form" manufacturing technology. The objective is to provide a lens that comes as close as possible to your exact prescription, without the same compromises or approximations that would come into play if one of the other lens materials were selected. The HD 1.67 and HD 1.67 Transitions Gray lenses are packaged with the SOLA Teflon AR coating. SOLAOne is the other AO/SOLA progressive lens that is available in HD 1.67 format.

http://www.sola.com/professionals/hdtechnology.shtml

If you refer back to that first (AO Easy) web page that I referenced, I think you will see that the HD format can be made to a somewhat wider range of prescriptions, vs. the other materials.

You can download a fairly up-to-date compilation of AO lens specifications using the following link; the document is in PDF format:

http://www.sola.com/professionals/pdf/AO%20Product%20Info12.pdf

That's some EIGHT MegaBytes of document, so if you are on a low-speed (dialup) Internet connection, you would have to let it finish downloading in the background or while you're on a coffee break (probably a long coffee break) before you could see it.

If you would like to research some of the other AO/SOLA lenses online, here's a good web page to start from:

http://www.sola.com/professionals/index.shtml

rinselberg™ - good posts for your good times

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[Sandy]

Thanks.

[Bobie]

AO Easy

AO Easy is the best PALs of AO , that use Free Form Technology but not outstanding like Varilux Ipseo.
This lens can compare with Hoyalux iD and SolaOne.