Originally Posted by
DanLiv
Oh yes, true, I agree one can screw anything up easily. I was trying to explain why I believe polycarbonate is so (undeservedly) maligned in our industry. I believe it's the combination of 1) the prevalence of poly, 2) the desire for thin flat lenses, which pushed use of aspherics, and 3) the poorness of optical skill across our industry, specifically lack of understanding about aspheric design and fitting. Those three factors together mean there are a *a lot* of bad glasses being pumped out. When people look for a culprit in all the bad glasses, few opticians are going to blame their own lack of skill (it's not even really their fault, they are so woefully undertrained they don't even know that they don't know what they're doing.), and no retailers are going to abandon the cheap thin lenses making them profit hand-over-fist, so they wrongly blame the only thing left, the material.
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