What are the differences in quality of eyeglass coatings?

[Alisha]

What are the differences in quality of eyeglass coatings?

[Port Alto]

Mostly how durable it is, how it look ie colour of residual reflection, how easy it is to wipe and how much it smudges. Some claim to enhance vision by filtering particular light ( typically blue). They all work on same principle and do the same job. Cosmetics apart most of big makes will have similar products under different name and premium price offering to enhance ease of use and durability. Cheap no names tend to be a lot more difficult to clean and much softer ie scratching fast. Peeling and craze of coatings nowadays thing of the past on all but cheapest offerings.

[Crestone]

Eyeglass lens coatings offer protection, comfort and a better appearance at the same time. Optimum surface coatings turn eyeglass lenses into individual masterpieces that are perfectly suited to their owners and their owners' requirements. The hard coating. In the hectic pace of everyday life, sometimes glasses end up lens-down on the table. For this reason, your glasses should in particular offer long-lasting protection against scratching of the eyeglass lenses.Therefore, when buying glasses, it is highly important to think about the quality and lifetime of the hard varnish coating. The more active you are, the more important is the protection of your eyeglass lenses. Antireflective coating.Seeing well and looking good is what antireflective coating for eyeglass lenses is all about. This is because eyeglass lenses without an antireflective coating produce light reflections or mirroring effects that are distracting both for the wearer and the person he or she is talking to: firstly through the eyeglass lens into the eye of the glasses wearer and secondly on the eyeglass lens for the observer. Both are equally distracting.Particularly glasses wearers who spend a lot of time in face-to-face conversations and/or drive a lot should select the best possible antireflective coating.Clean Coat coating.Clean Coat and antistatic coatings such as those integrated in the high-end LotuTec coating from ZEISS make eyeglass lenses antistatic and hydrophobic.