After the last sunglasses chat, I came across the Hobie Duo, a set of sunglasses which have magnetic snap on overfit lenses of different colours/light penetration.
I was intrigued by them, so ordered a set from the Hobie EU branch in Netherlands.
I got the frames with polarising Sightmaster2 (yellow, low light), plus Copper as well as Green Mirror (bright sw and fw) as extras. This was fairly expensive, but I will have 3 glasses for the price of one expensive pair like Costas, Smith, etc.
The frames are also Rx-able so I took them to Specsavers where I recently had my glasses upgraded to a new prescription.
I had some prescription lenses made to fit the Hobie frames for £40.
I had to pay Vat/Duty of £50 (website said tax free but that obviously didn't include vat/duty. - perhaps i can reclaim?).
When the sunglasses arrived, I was initially not too impressed, it looked cheapish and flimsy, but subsequently found out it's made of Ultem a new spaceage material which is super durable and super strong. It's growing on me.
If my prescription changes - pretty likely, as my left eye deteriorated by a full diopter in a few years, the right eye stayed the same - then I'll be able to change for a relatively small fee, rather than binning expensive prescription sunglasses.
I had a look through them today after getting the new prescription lenses and they are great for distance, not so great under say a foot 😪. Which means tying on flies will probably be best without them on!
I will test them out in earnest the next trip out, probably Wye in Oct, I will have the opportunity to compare against a few other glasses such as Costas, Smith (very good) and aussie Makos.
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I was intrigued by them, so ordered a set from the Hobie EU branch in Netherlands.
I got the frames with polarising Sightmaster2 (yellow, low light), plus Copper as well as Green Mirror (bright sw and fw) as extras. This was fairly expensive, but I will have 3 glasses for the price of one expensive pair like Costas, Smith, etc.
The frames are also Rx-able so I took them to Specsavers where I recently had my glasses upgraded to a new prescription.
I had some prescription lenses made to fit the Hobie frames for £40.
I had to pay Vat/Duty of £50 (website said tax free but that obviously didn't include vat/duty. - perhaps i can reclaim?).
When the sunglasses arrived, I was initially not too impressed, it looked cheapish and flimsy, but subsequently found out it's made of Ultem a new spaceage material which is super durable and super strong. It's growing on me.
If my prescription changes - pretty likely, as my left eye deteriorated by a full diopter in a few years, the right eye stayed the same - then I'll be able to change for a relatively small fee, rather than binning expensive prescription sunglasses.
I had a look through them today after getting the new prescription lenses and they are great for distance, not so great under say a foot 😪. Which means tying on flies will probably be best without them on!
I will test them out in earnest the next trip out, probably Wye in Oct, I will have the opportunity to compare against a few other glasses such as Costas, Smith (very good) and aussie Makos.
