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Post by tp555 on Sept 23, 2007 5:53:08 GMT -5
What good are amber lenses? Nightime or dark days? Can't see what good they'd do on normal sunny days.
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Post by earlwb on Sept 23, 2007 8:01:04 GMT -5
They are popular for turn signal indicators on various motor vehicles.
Sort of a light yellow or yellowish warning indicator.
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Post by 90GTVert on Sept 23, 2007 8:32:16 GMT -5
I was thinking he meant the amber lenses for helmets or goggles. Amber lenses for eyewear are supposed to enhance contrast and improve depth perception in low light. They are not intended for night time driving or bright daylight driving.
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Post by tp555 on Sept 23, 2007 17:18:43 GMT -5
I was referring to eyeware.Thanks.
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Post by astrowolf67 on Sept 23, 2007 20:15:51 GMT -5
I use to wear them all the time when I was driving over the road. In sunlight, they provided great contrast, and made everything very clear. Overcast days were the same. They really helped during rain, and even helped to see better in heavy fog. I would say I used them for about 10-11 years every day. The last year of wearing them, I was having headaches everyday, only during the day. On a hunch, I bought a pair of regular smoke tinted polarized glasses, and tried them for a while. The headaches stopped. I still use them when traveling during rain and fog, but, only during those times. Others experiences may be different, but based soley on my own, I don't recommend them to anyone.
David
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Post by 90GTVert on Sept 23, 2007 20:43:42 GMT -5
On a semi-realted note, that's why you used to see amber fog lights. I don't see those around much these days though.
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Post by Dennis D on Sept 28, 2007 22:58:39 GMT -5
Yellow or amber glasses are recommended for people developing macular degeneration... especially dry macular degeneration, because the intense blue in natural bright light is supposed to accelerate the disease, The yellow lenses are blue blocking, so I wear them a lot.... but am becoming less convinced than I used to be that they are any more effective for protecting my eyes than any good quality smoke sunglasses with UV protection. I was diagnosed with macular degeneration in '94 and it really hasn't gotten much worse since then.
Yellow lenses are great for both cutting through haze, and for eliminating reflections on the water in bright sunlight, so if you're a fisherman, you can see fish that are near the surface much better.
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Post by rerun2 on Sept 28, 2007 23:56:40 GMT -5
I remember the amber glasses being sold under the "Blue Blocker" name years ago on infomercials, I never tried them, the smokey ray-bans did fine by me, but it is nice to know that those things were actually 'worth something'!
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Post by "Big Guy" on Dec 2, 2007 1:42:52 GMT -5
Blublocker sunglasses were very good at all the things listed in this topic, however, the company suffered a few class-action law suits from people who "Lost their Green" and nearly went out of business.
Extended use of amber lenses causes some problem with the eyes that causes you to see green as blue. It actually happened to me on a road trip to CA, but was temporary.
You can still buy them at blublocker.com, but I don't recommend them. I'm not sure of what exactly happens when you loose your green, but it doesn't seem natural to me, and it can't be good if they lost so many lawsuits.
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Post by newc77 on Dec 2, 2007 8:40:20 GMT -5
I have used Amber lenses for years in the car and now on our scoots. They do seen to enhance vision and block glare. For me they even worked at night if they were high quality and there was road or light glare. I do wear glasses for far sighted and never experienced any loss of green. But that's me personally.
Tom
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