Modern lens materials can now reduce the thickness and weight of your lenses whatever your prescription. Special coatings also help to reduce unwanted glare and reflections.

Thinner lenses are made from materials which have a higher refractive index than standard glass or plastic. This means that less lens thickness is needed to achieve the same focusing properties. Modern aspheric designs also mean that the curvature of a lens will be flatter to give a better cosmetic appearance.

There are now many brand name ophthalmic lenses. Some of the manufacturers are well known in the photographic world; NIKON, KODAK, HOYA, ESSILOR and ZEISS. We can supply all these leading brands as well as generic alternatives. We also have a computer-modem link to a leading lens manufacturer which enables us to order custom surfaced lenses, ensuring the lens you get is a lens of the optimum thickness for your frames.

Progressive Lenses
Progressive lenses, often called Varifocal lenses, enable clear vision at all distances where a different prescription is required for distance and near vision. Unlike bifocals they have no line to interfere with vision or to give away the fact that you need reading spectacles. Progressive lenses have continued to improve in design over the years to reduce the initial distortion that some people experience with this type of lens and to make them far easier to adapt to. There are nowadays many different designs of progressive lenses, different visual tasks or occupations may be better suited to a particular type of lens. Professional help and advise is the only way to ensure that the right lens is matched to your requirements.

We are now able to offer the very latest IMPRESSIONS® which is the tailored progressive. It is calculated and surfaced individually for you. This ensures that each and every lens retains perfect properties. It is slim, light and elegant, and gives the maximum width reading area combined with near distortion free distance vision, even for those unable to wear progressive lenses in the past.

So sure are we of the unrivalled performance of this lens, we offer a full satisfaction guarantee, promising to exchange any Rodenstock Progressive lens for bifocal or single vision alternatives should you find them not entirely to your liking.
Our professional dispensing service ensures that whatever your prescription and lifestyle needs, we will advise you of ALL the options available to you and provide expert advice to tailor lens options to your needs and budget.

Many opticians may promote a fast ONE-HOUR service. We have our own laboratory and can produce spectacles well within an hour, but in most cases this is not appropriate. We prefer to offer a wider choice of lens options and if this means ordering in materials which may take a day or two extra we feel the end result justifies it.