[Tig] eyesight- lenses

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Oct 5, 2006, at 10:32 , pmendelson wrote:

> Rob,
>
>
> I've been wearing them for over 10 years now.  Any good lens  
> professional or
> ophthalmologist will tell you that they are not for everyone.  They  
> can take
> quite a while to get used to, and some people never do.
> In my case, it took about a week, but the results have been great.
> Computer viewing distance, however, can fall into a nether region  
> that you
> can't seem to optimize without craning your neck. But, since there  
> is no
> hard boundary, there will be a sweet spot.  The question is where  
> that sweet
> spot will fall relative to the position of your neck. Luckily, the  
> gradient
> can be adjusted up or down at the time the lenses are ground.  In  
> my case,
> the second iteration was the charm.

thank you, what was the difference between the first and second  
iteration?
If I still have to crane my neck  (Bob Crane was unfortunately  
murdered) then
why should I change-- I mean this:  for closuep reading I have no  
problem if
i just move my lenses out of the way.   But for medium distance small  
font reading,
man, it's like misery, I have to lean in or back way off and then the  
font's too small
anyway.   For ordinary viewing, at optimum monitor distance for a  
colorist, all is
perfect.   For a distance roughly halfway to my eyes, like an Apple  
Cinema Display
at about 35-40" with small fonts, it's a real problem.  will there be  
a sweet spot in this
case, or should I just crane and realize it's a symptom of eye muscle  
ineptitude?

thanks
Rob