Lens Options

For Discontinued Styles and

Materials

 

Discontinued Lens Styles 

CRT Trifocal: A 60%-70% intermediate power executive style trifocal with a 14mm wide intermediate field.
Replacement Option: Acclaim 61™ trifocal with 61% intermediate power CR39 trifocal 70% intermediate trifocal in glass.
Source: X-Cel Optical

FD Trifocal: Executive bifocal with a D28 located 11mm down in the near, 60% intermediate power in CR39.
Replacement Option: Acclaim 61™ trifocal with 61% intermediate power in CR39
Source: X-Cel Optical

Over View Progressive: A progressive lens with an Ultex type upper segment in CR39.
Replacement Option: Occupational flat top lenses in widths of 25mm, 28mm & 35mm in CR39 & glass.
Source:
    DD25 from Sola in CR39
    DD25 from V.E... & X-Cel Optical in glass.
    DD28 from Younger & X-Cel Optical in CR39
    DD28 from V.E. & X-Cel Optical in glass
    DD35 from V.E.. & X-Cel Optical in CR39 & glass

Plastic Double Executive: An occupational lens with upper and lower add powers.
Replacement Option: DD35 segments in CR39 or glass
Source: DD35 from V.E.. & X-Cel Optical in CR39 & glass

Glass Double Executive: An occupational lens with upper and lower add powers.
Replacement Option: DD35 segments in CR39 or glass
Source: DD35 from V.E.. & X-Cel Optical in CR39 & glass

Plastic Flat Top 28 Lenticular: Designed for cataract & other high plus RX needs.
Replacement Option: Smaller flat top widths of 22mm & 25 mm’s are still available along with a round 22mm all in CR39. All of these along with the SV are slowly disappearing and becoming more difficult to source.
Source: SV & RD22 from Air-O-Lite, Bristol & Sola

Glass Lenticular: Designed for cataract & other high plus RX needs.
Replacement Option: Smaller flat top widths of 22mm & 25 mm’s are still available along with a round 22mm all in CR39. All of these along with the SV are slowly disappearing and becoming more difficult to source.
Source:
    SV & RD22 from Essilor
    SV, RD22 & FT22 from Signet Armorlite & AO Sola
    Blended Myo-Disc: Designed for extreme high minus RX needs, has blended  carrier.
Replacement Option: Custom made Myo-disc or double Myo-disc custom made in the lab or going to higher index materials with heavy roll on edges.
Source: Epic Labs

Ultex: Round 40mm segments in glass.
Replacement Option: Round 40mm in CR39
Source: Younger

Prism Segs: Glass ribbon style bifocals with base-in prism in the segments.
Replacement Option: De-centering a FT35, 45 or executive segment to create a “base in” prism in the near reading zone, how ever this only works if the distance Rx is extremely low.
Source: Check with your wholesale lab.
Custom made segments can be made from a SV lens and bonded on Press-On prism may also be an option.
Source: Epic Labs, Signet: 3M Press-On Optics

 Discontinued Colors-Plastic

Full Spectrum: A lens designed to transmit the full spectrum of light, especially UV & near IR.
Replacement Option: Standard crown glass, it actually transmits more of a “Full Spectrum” of light than any “Full Spectrum” lens ever made.
Source: VE & X-Cel Optical

PLS: A filtering amber colored lens designed to filter out all UV & blue light up to 500nm.
Replacement Option: Blue blocking dyes can achieve similar color and filtering. Many glass colors filter blue light but won’t match in color. CPF lenses are excellent blue blockers and come in several colors. The 550 being very close to the PLS color, and are photochromic. Most tint suppliers carry these in one or more colors.
Source: X-Cel Optical-Glass filtering lens options & Polarized CPF lenses, Winchester Optical-CPF lenses

Splits: Three Transitions lens colors that changed from one color to another.
Replacement Option: By adding a tint to a photochromic gray or brown lens. You can create many different color combinations, but all change to the base color outdoors.
Source: Aris Trivex, Transitions hard resin and mid-index lenses from X-Cel are all tint-able.

XTRActive Gray and Green:
Replacement Option: By adding a tint to a photochromic gray or brown lens. You can create many different color combinations, but all change to the base color outdoors.
Source: Aris Trivex, Transitions hard resin and mid-index lenses from X-Cel are all tint-able.

 Discontinued Colors-Polycarbonate

Pre-tinted Colors: Aegis and others
Replacement Option: A pre-tinted gray is still available from X-Cel and Carl Zeiss. Otherwise the NXT lenses come in a variety of both fixed tint colors and photochromics.

 Discontinued Colors-Glass 

Thin & Dark Brown: The brown, equivalent to the Thin & Dark Gray by Corning.
Replacement Option: Photo Brown Extra (PBX) in glass. In resin V.E., X-Cel Optical.

Photo Gray II: The predecessor to PGX, was darker indoors and outdoors than PGX and Thin & Dark Gray
Replacement Option: No equivalent product available

Therminon & Unisol: Light aqua colored glass that offered reduced IR transmittance.
Replacement Option: No glass equivalent product available, achieve aqua color by tinting or coating

Rose 3: The darkest of the three rose (pink) colors
Replacement Options: Tinted plastic Lenses

Photo Sun II Multi focal: A homochromatic gray color, which goes from 60% to 80% color density.

Replacement Options: Polarized photochromatic lenses
Source: X-Cel Optical

Yellow Multi focal: Shooter or Canary Yellow, an extreme UV & blue blocker with a high ABBE value
Replacement Options:
Laminated yellow over a clear crown glass
Source: X-Cel Optical

Green 4 & 5 Didymium: Welding shades used for gas welding on aluminum.
Replacement Option: Welding helmets and goggles supplied from a welding supply company.