Space Encoder

[Pantster]

Not sold out in UK yet. I’m amazed

 

[XM-I]

My order has been delayed, fun.

 

[GT1977]

What is pretty cool and interesting is if you look closely at the lens, you can see where the original factory cutting/finishing was done and then where a separate tool has obviously been used to re-finish the new shape at the top - its flatter than the normal round finish. I’d say it validates that these lenses were originally cut for something else and then refinished into the new shape. I don’t have one of the Olympic Xeus models anymore but I wondered if these came from a lens similar to those before they were polished, cut and drilled?

 

[Shady Day]

What is pretty cool and interesting is if you look closely at the lens, you can see where the original factory cutting/finishing was done and then where a separate tool has obviously been used to re-finish the new shape at the top - its flatter than the normal round finish. I’d say it validates that these lenses were originally cut for something else and then refinished into the new shape. I don’t have one of the Olympic Xeus models anymore but I wondered if these came from a lens similar to those before they were polished, cut and drilled?

Nope not Xeus. Those were a two toned lens and no holes. These must have been encoder lenses of some type. Maybe the new squared or ellipse. I am guessing they miscut and messed up a bunch of these.

 

[XxRuMKaxX]

Nope not Xeus. Those were a two toned lens and no holes. These must have been encoder lenses of some type. Maybe the new squared or ellipse. I am guessing they miscut and messed up a bunch of these.

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I posted the article somewhere (to lazy to go find it) but it stated they were Kato lenses to start

 

[The Saint]

They should mess up more often.

 

[WildWires]

I posted the article somewhere (to lazy to go find it) but it stated they were Kato lenses to start

For some reason I thought all Encoder lens were cut from Kato lens molds? When I owned them both when they first came out I remember holding them up together and thinking that made logical sense, but I could be wrong too.

It made sense when they first came out because both frames offered the same lens colors- Prizm road, black, and sapphire.

 

[Shady Day]

Yes it would have been a kato lens meant to be cut for an encoder elliptical and accidentally turned into this Space Invader beauty!

 

[umd]

For some reason I thought all Encoder lens were cut from Kato lens molds? When I owned them both when they first came out I remember holding them up together and thinking that made logical sense, but I could be wrong too.

It made sense when they first came out because both frames offered the same lens colors- Prizm road, black, and sapphire.

I haven't been able to find out any more information about it but in an Oakley store the salesperson said that all of these glasses (encoder, kato, re:subzero, others?) are cut from the same basic lens, just in different places. He said it was called the lollipop.

 

[The Koonce]

Nope not Xeus. Those were a two toned lens and no holes. These must have been encoder lenses of some type. Maybe the new squared or ellipse. I am guessing they miscut and messed up a bunch of these.

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The more I see these cyclops Encoder, the more I want one.