Results 1 to 6 of 6

Thread: Enchroma Eneffective?

  1. #1
    What's up? drk's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Ohio
    Occupation
    Optometrist
    Posts
    9,385

    Enchroma Eneffective?

    https://phys.org/news/2018-10-scient...a-glasses.html


    (P.S. Want to feel like the dumbest kid in the class? Hit this link: https://phys.org/journals/optics-express/page3.html)

  2. #2
    Master OptiBoarder OptiBoard Silver Supporter Barry Santini's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2000
    Location
    Seaford, NY USA
    Occupation
    Dispensing Optician
    Posts
    6,008
    Old news. And incorrect news when Enchroma is presented properly.

    Enchroma’s proprietary filter does not fix or correct color deficiency, aka blindness.

    What it does do is help the eye’s red-green color receptors fire in a manner that mimics how “normal” colorvision receptors work, and thereby will increase the saturation of anything greater than low saturation colors.

    Enchroma enhances the color experience, not unlike any sunglass that claims the same, although the amount and degree varies.

    It does not increase or restore color discrimination, which is what any traditional evaluation modality is testing for.

    Hope this helps.

    B

  3. #3
    What's up? drk's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Ohio
    Occupation
    Optometrist
    Posts
    9,385
    Yes, it helps.

    I'm not straining under the illusion that Enchroma et al can provide normal color vision.

    I think what I remember we talked about here (I should look it up) is that they either a.) "dumb down" the rest of the spectrum relative to the weaker areas, or

    b.) put some kind of absorbtive bumper rails on the bandwidths so there's less color confusion...(?)


    "Enhancing the color experience" is just markety fluff nonsense. I would like to understand it fully. But color vision is complex, man.

  4. #4
    What's up? drk's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Ohio
    Occupation
    Optometrist
    Posts
    9,385
    I will say Safilo's Chroma Pop was a Chroma Flop when I put them on. Sure, they were nice and all...

  5. #5
    Eyes eastward... Uilleann's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2007
    Location
    Utah
    Occupation
    Dispensing Optician
    Posts
    3,237
    ChromaPop is indeed silly marketing fluff to sell more lenses. I've never seen, nor even heard of a single case where any human being's actual visual acuity, or measured color perception was in any way truly, measurably, meaningfully improved.

    But the marketing sells lenses for Safilo, science be damned, so... *shrug*??

  6. #6
    What's up? drk's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Ohio
    Occupation
    Optometrist
    Posts
    9,385

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Similar Threads

  1. ISO Lab with ability to do Enchroma or the like for Rx lenses
    By jonah in forum General Optics and Eyecare Discussion Forum
    Replies: 4
    Last Post: 11-02-2022, 11:12 AM

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •