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I feel like something has changed in Australia. I've worn glasses a long time and remember them always costing a few hundred dollars per pair. A few months ago

I feel like something has changed in Australia. I've worn glasses a long time and remember them always costing a few hundred dollars per pair. A few months ago I went into Specsavers and was able to buy glasses for under $50 per pair. My prescription hasn't changed but the prices definitely have.

amygdyl 8y ago
$50 - - $1000 is some range.. Is the $50 for off the shelf long sight and the thousand dollars for a myopic wearer, with high refractive index aspherics, advanced coatings, and a fashionable marque of manufacture? I have become familiar with such deltas as I qualified, in the UK. Edit to add : I dare imagine, without basis in learning, it is possible that the future will be printed fresnel lenses. I decided to reprise my photography hobby thanks to the fresnel telephotos recently sold by Nikon. But I also imagine that, once sufficiently good inexpensive printed optics become available, the possibility for multi element corrective eyewear, will be a new market entirely. Even projected reality , without any augmentation, would attract me right now. Ag least in the design of my minds eye.