Question about 1970s/80s tints

[bsst]

I used to not have an automatic lens dipper, so I used to make interns stand there and dip tint gradients by hand.

I don't know how much time I spent over the years trying to match a one lens only grey 3 to a three year old lens.

[Chris Ryser]

We sold a ton of tints, in fact nearly every job that went out the door was tinted.

Lens tinting became the greatest single return on investment that an optical shop could purchase. At $10.00 - $15.00 a pair and $0.10 in cost it was a license to print money.

Yes indeed, those were the good old days.

....................and most probably these good old days will never come back.

Most of the younger opticians have probably no idea about tinting and order everything from the outside at high prices.

AR coating is the in thing and you can not do it yourself, unless you have won the big lottery in the millions, but then you probably just retire.