Originally Posted by
Chris Ryser
Perfect advice Lab Insight......................................
We all know why somebody would like to have the thinnest appearing -10.00 or higher lens. Better cosmetic appearance.
During the 1960's and 1970's my old lab days we developed the most perfectly appearing hida bevel for high minus lenses that nobody ever picked up ever since, even if we could charge an extra $ 20.00, doing it manually in those days.
Instead of having a small protruding V bevel on the standard flat one, we made two grooves side by side into the flat bevel to create an inverted V towards the center of the lens and to hold the lens in the frame. This eliminated just about all reflections and looked many times better, either polished or not, and that is for better cosmetic appearance.
Any high minus lens user would probably pay a lot more for such a lens job these days, as no automatic bevel edger can make a job like this today and they are stuck in 40 a years old grinding technology with no research done on it.
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