X-Metal Iridium lenses better than regular models?

[Malco]

Hi,
I just got some half-x with the polarized iridium lenses and they are amazing (this is how you guys have been living all that time?). I wondered wether the lenses fitted to the X-Metal lineup are better than the ones in the jacket lineup for example.
Maybe I just had shot lenses in the one before who knows haha

 

[Msgt Oakley]

Hi,
I just got some half-x with the polarized iridium lenses and they are amazing (this is how you guys have been living all that time?). I wondered wether the lenses fitted to the X-Metal lineup are better than the ones in the jacket lineup for example.
Maybe I just had shot lenses in the one before who knows haha

Lenses are a matter of preference

 

[Malco]

But is there a quality difference? That was my question.

 

[andr3]

No, these are the same lenses cut into different shapes. (Oakley didn't produce every lens for every frame, though)

 

[Funky-Trixtar]

I think that Oakley lenses, aestheticly, still have the 'edge' on third party makers. But only on Ruby, Fire and a few other colours maybe. Although I think it does come down to being subjective: there isn't an objective view on preference!

Due to their technologies, the Iridium coating was a bit of a 'double edged sword', in so much as they would delaminate, losing the pure colour of the lens, ending with ugly chipping and or blistering. A problem which still haunts them to this day, yet, to my knowledge(if someone knows any different, please 'chime in')doesn't appear to be an issue for other manufacturer.