kronin323
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The chrome looks cool, and I'll probably add one to my collection at some point. But here's some food for thought:
I've made the case in some other posts that, when selecting lenses, the base tint, light transmission %, and polar / non-polar should all be factors you consider before color. Long story short, unless you plan on them being shelf whores, you'll spend a lot more time looking through them than you or anybody else will spend looking at them, and those three factors make the biggest impact on what it's like to look through them.
I have a pair of violet polar custom cuts and, as stunning as they are to look at, they really aren't my favorite to look through, especially in the bright light where the violet looks the best from the outside. I don't have a pair of the new chrome, but it looks like they have the same base tint as violet (someone can correct me if I'm wrong...)
And what color is chrome, anyway? Silver? We may often perceive it as silver, but it's actually whatever color it's reflecting, like a mirror (and I mean real-chrome-made-of-chromium). Heck, even the base word, "chroma", means "color"...
So check out this pic I posted on the "what are you wearing" thread last weekend:
Ooops, wrong picture - I mean this one:
There we go...
With bright sunlight and my AWESOME hat keeping out any light leakage from getting behind the lenses, those things are PERFECT mirrors.
And what color are those lenses? Not chrome. Not even BIP. They are VR28 BIP, the most beautiful tint to look through, in my and many others' opinions.
So, I'm not saying not to get a set of chrome lenses; this is just food for thought...
I've made the case in some other posts that, when selecting lenses, the base tint, light transmission %, and polar / non-polar should all be factors you consider before color. Long story short, unless you plan on them being shelf whores, you'll spend a lot more time looking through them than you or anybody else will spend looking at them, and those three factors make the biggest impact on what it's like to look through them.
I have a pair of violet polar custom cuts and, as stunning as they are to look at, they really aren't my favorite to look through, especially in the bright light where the violet looks the best from the outside. I don't have a pair of the new chrome, but it looks like they have the same base tint as violet (someone can correct me if I'm wrong...)
And what color is chrome, anyway? Silver? We may often perceive it as silver, but it's actually whatever color it's reflecting, like a mirror (and I mean real-chrome-made-of-chromium). Heck, even the base word, "chroma", means "color"...
So check out this pic I posted on the "what are you wearing" thread last weekend:
Ooops, wrong picture - I mean this one:
There we go...
With bright sunlight and my AWESOME hat keeping out any light leakage from getting behind the lenses, those things are PERFECT mirrors.
And what color are those lenses? Not chrome. Not even BIP. They are VR28 BIP, the most beautiful tint to look through, in my and many others' opinions.
So, I'm not saying not to get a set of chrome lenses; this is just food for thought...
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