Polarized glasses?

[wirehair]

Can you buy Polarized fishing glasses with different degrees of Polarization?

[J Castwell]

It's a screen. Blocks rays in one direction.

[DG]

Based on my somewhat rusty memory of optics, the short answer is no. However, you CAN get polarized glasses in various colors, including amber, which increases contrast and lets in quite a bit of available light, if you need them for lower-light conditions.

Take even a cheap pair of polarized glasses, hold one lens at 90 degrees to another polarized lens, and you can see why it is an all-or-nothing sort of property.

[ducksterman]

Check these....

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/v...zed+Sunglasses

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/s...ll&author=&fid

I think what came out was that all polarization is not the same....

Note the length of those threads...here we go....

[ausable_ny]

It's a screen. Blocks rays in one direction.

Blocks the horizontal

[Gemrod]

I was in on the earlier thread icw polarization. My doc told me polarization is just that polarization. No difference between a high dollar pair and my $1.99 slip in's. I believed that. I have to eat crow on this one though. I recently discovered the "Polarized" $1.99 slip in's are very hard to find. It's tricky but the slip in's at Wal-Mart and Walgreens look exackery the same as the old....but are NOT polarized. I picked up a pair from the bottom of the rack....$1.99 and then a pair from the top. Amazing difference. Sooooo....even tho polarized is polarized...as was explained in the other threads....the quality of the "optics" is amazingly different. Now.....I was at San Juan and found some Fitovers that fit well over my glasses...the Aviators. Bought a pair of amber and gray. Dogs chewed up the grey ones. Ordered from Cabelas and quite pleased. Turns out comes with a chart and I bought two sizes too big per holding my glasses on the chart. However, am extremely pleased with them and would not get the smaller size anyway.....now that I know them.

$49 at Cabelas online.

Gemrod

[J Castwell]

Competitor brand is Cocoons.

[Rick Z]

Polarization is polarization. The optics that go with it can vary greatly.

Rick

[Big Bad Wulff]

Polarization is polarization. But the lenses that sandwich the polarized sheeting IS important. Cheap lenses are cheap lenses too!

If you get cheap lenses there will be distortion in your vision and possibly a ton of eyestrain to go with it. Induced prism or induced astigmatic correction is not fun to live with.

Good lenses are good lenses. Period!

Doing what we do for a living, Rick and I can agree that cheap crap is just that. That doesn't mean to go out and spend $400 on glasses either. Just buy good, quality stuff. If you are wanting a good frame, polarized lenses and progessive bifocals that may well set you back $400, but..........

It's very much the same as buying fly rods. YOu can spend $20.00 on crap and you can spend $1,2000 on something too. I'm sure we all have plenty of $100-150 rods that are quite simply awesome.
Well I did buy some closeout Orvis rods for $29.00 that are my 'go-to' rods but that is few and far between! Wish I'd have bought 10 of them when I had the chance!!

[Mato Kuwapi]

The only way to change the degree of polarization is to tilt your head, but it can be done.