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Isn't Transitions wholly owned by Essilor now?

The thing is... I know a lab that does Prestige lenses, but I know for a fact that they don't do any dual surfacing whatsoever. But I was told by another lab that does Surmount that they always...

I thought that Prestige and Surmount were the same design, but Prestige was backside surfaced while Surmount was dual surfaced? Is that wrong?

I have to say I agree. I've used Essilor branded lenses, Shamir, Seiko, Zeiss, Nikon, and Hoya, and recently Hoya lenses seem the easiest. That's not to say that they're the best, just the easiest to...

I have another question about Choice Plus. Is it based on anything? Like the GT2-3D is, presumably, a GT2 design converted to be used on freeform generators with single vision lens blanks, but...

I can't speak for everyone else, but understanding how each lens functions in reality is exactly what I'm trying to do. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a third party research group (or even a...

Thanks sharpstick, that was helpful. Somewhat separately, does anyone know exactly where Zeiss's Choice lens series sit?

Does anyone have any information on the durability and general performance (ie: crazing, scratch resistance, longevity, easy-to-clean, cosmetics) of FYI branded coatings in comparison to Essilar,...

I've been told that a spherical front, backside progressive is functionally identical to a progressive where both sides are surfaced for everything but moderate to high plus powers. Is this true?

Here's my understanding of what Essilor calls "digital", gained directly from an Essilor lab person:

1) Older (mostly no longer sold) Conventional Essilor Progressive: A lens where the front...

Assuming that it is a problem with the lenses and not their eyes, I've always found the "smudge" problem to be very fine crazing of the AR. Usually a pressure craze, so it really does look a lot like...

I haven't had a chance to do a "look see" side by side comparison yet, but I think that the residual yellow might be more prominent in certain indexes. Or maybe that's just a side effect of having a...

*nods* The first thing our most experienced (ie, oldest;)) optician said when she saw her first pair of trans/grey/7 was "they're yellow". No customer has complained about that - so far anyway - so...

Well, had someone come back with Trans 7 Grey for an adjustment. I honest to goodness thought they were a 90-96% grey tint until they finally lightened. Very dark:). They took approximately 8 minutes...

We haven't had much "darkness" feedback on Trans 7 yet, but for Trans 6 we had a lot of people who said "they're not dark enough" and a few people who said, "they're way too dark, and I don't like...

I've asked a large number of labs about this. I was told no almost universally, but one of the Zeiss labs was willing to give it a shot on their own photochromic lenses. They would only do a light...

We've done quite a few of them - 10 to 20 a week or so since they came out. Sold almost no sunglasses in the past 2 months, but lots of transitions.

Few bits of customer feedback:
1) Most people...

Thanks sharpstick:). Your replies have been very helpful to me, especially with new products that we hadn't sold before.

I've been asking everyone I can what *their* particular progressive looks...

I actually tried to do that... but I couldn't find anyone in her area that I wanted to send her to. The nearest ones I could find that had good reviews were in Texas and Kansas, and "that's just too...

So, first a little bit of backstory.

About a year ago my mom had a retinal detachment. When she phoned her optometrist over and over again, over the course of 4 days with the very, very obvious...

I spend a lot of time putting lenses into frames, and there is a huge difference between a XXX dollar frame and a XXX dollar frame. There is no difference in quality between a XXX dollar frame and a...

Does the Surmount work well for myops? People say great things about it, but I've heard those in the context of using the lens for hypers.

We sell Essilor lenses as well, and we're going to keep selling them for various reasons. Here's my guess as to what Essilor lens goes into each of those categories:

Hyperops: ??? (Comfort 360...

I agree with the rest of your post (at least until printer tech improves a bit), but these two points I take issue with.

1) We carry lots of high end frames like the latest Tom Ford frames among...

I have a not quite off topic question: has anyone started 3D printing their own frames in-store?

I have this vision of the not too distant future:

Step 1) You measure a person's face with...