Lens Technology & Product Information
Choosing the right lens is just as important as selecting the perfect frame. Different lens technologies and colours can enhance visual comfort, improve contrast, reduce glare, and optimise your vision for specific environments and activities.
New Zealand experiences some of the highest UV levels in the world, making quality UV protection important year-round, even on cloudy days.
All of our sunglasses provide 100% UV protection, blocking both UVA and UVB rays.
Long-term exposure to ultraviolet radiation can contribute to eye damage and visual discomfort. Wearing sunglasses with 100% UV protection helps safeguard your eyes while reducing eye strain in bright outdoor conditions.
Benefits:
• Blocks 100% of harmful UVA and UVB rays.
• Helps support long-term eye health.
• Reduces eye strain and squinting in bright sunlight.
• Essential for all outdoor activities.
Polarised Lenses
Polarised lenses are engineered to reduce intense reflected glare from flat surfaces such as roads, water, sand, and snow.
Unlike standard tinted lenses, polarised lenses contain a specialised filter that blocks horizontally reflected light, helping to improve visual comfort in highly reflective environments.
Benefits
• Significantly reduces reflected glare and water reflections
• Can improve visual clarity and perceived contrast.
• Enhances comfort during prolonged outdoor use.
• Helps reduce eye fatigue in bright conditions.
Ideal For
• Driving
• Fishing and boating
• Beach and coastal environments
• Water sports
• Everyday outdoor wear
Polarised vs Non-Polarised
Both polarised and non-polarised lenses can provide 100% UV protection. The key difference is that polarised lenses actively reduce glare, making them particularly beneficial in highly reflective environments.
Please note that polarised lenses may affect the visibility of certain digital screens, dashboards, and LCD displays depending on viewing angle.
Choosing Lens Colours
Lens colour affects visual comfort, contrast, and depth perception, but does not determine UV protection. All lens colours in our range provide 100% UV protection.
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Smoke (Grey) Lenses
Grey lenses reduce overall brightness while maintaining natural colour balance and true colour perception.
Benefits
• Provides accurate colour recognition.
• Reduces brightness without significantly altering colours.
• Minimises eye fatigue in bright sunlight.
• Offers balanced visual comfort across a wide range of conditions.
Ideal For
• Everyday use
• Driving
• Urban environments
• Bright sunny conditions
• General outdoor activities
• Best for offshore, deep-sea and bright open water sports and recreation
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Brown Lenses
Brown lenses enhance contrast and depth perception by filtering blue light and increasing visual definition.
Benefits
• Improves contrast and visual clarity.
• Enhances depth perception.
• Makes details appear sharper and more defined.
• Performs well in variable lighting conditions.
Ideal For
• Driving
• Golf
• Hiking and trail activities
• Outdoor recreation
• Partly cloudy and sunny conditions
• Best for low-light or low sight rivers and lake water sports and recreation
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Green (G15) Lenses
Green lenses provide an excellent balance between colour accuracy and contrast enhancement, offering comfortable all-day vision.
Benefits
• Enhances contrast while preserving natural colour perception.
• Reduces glare and eye strain.
• Performs well in both bright and moderate light conditions.
• Provides excellent visual comfort during extended wear.
Ideal For
• Everyday use
• Driving
• Outdoor sports
• Walking and hiking
• Mixed light conditions
• Traditional lens colour choice for pilots
• Best for shallow or in-shore water sports and recreation
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Yellow & Amber Lenses
Yellow and amber lenses enhance contrast and depth perception in lower-light conditions by filtering blue light and increasing visual definition.
Benefits
• Improves contrast and depth perception.
• Enhances visibility in low-light and overcast conditions.
• Helps distinguish terrain and obstacles more clearly.
• Increases visual sharpness in challenging light.
Ideal For
• Overcast weather
• Early morning and late afternoon use
• Cycling
• Trail activities
• Outdoor recreation
Mirrored Lenses
Mirrored lenses feature a reflective outer coating designed to reflect additional light away from the eyes.
Benefits
• Reduces glare in high-brightness environments.
• Helps minimise eye strain in intense sunlight.
• Provides additional comfort in highly reflective conditions.
• Suitable for prolonged outdoor exposure.
Ideal For
• Beach environments
• Boating and fishing
• Snow conditions
• High-altitude activities
• Bright summer days
Blue Light Glasses
Blue light filtering lenses are designed to filter a portion of blue-violet light emitted by digital screens and artificial lighting.
While blue light exposure from digital devices is significantly lower than exposure from natural sunlight, many wearers find blue light filtering lenses helpful for improving visual comfort during extended screen use.
Benefits
• Supports comfortable screen viewing.
• May help reduce visual fatigue associated with prolonged device use.
• Helps minimise screen reflections and glare.
• Suitable for work, study, and everyday digital activities.
Ideal For
• Office professionals
• Students
• Remote workers
• Gamers
• Anyone spending extended periods using digital devices