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Ordering Varifocals
Ordering Varifocals
Varifocals are manufactured to house three prescriptions in one lens. They are Distance Vision, Intermediate Vision (Computer / VDU / Music) and Reading. They appear just like Single Vision Vision lenses but do a lot more!
When ordering Varifocals your Pupillary Distance (PD) is very important as the centres of the lenses must be in front of the centre of your pupils. We recommend that you obtain your PD from your Optician for these lenses or alternatively use our SpecSuperstore ruler to measure your own PD. Please see our section on How to Measure your PD on how to do this.
You will need to give individual measurements for each eye for Varifocals and this can be entered into our Additional Information box on the site when ordering. Please enter your Right eye Measurement and Left eye measurement in this box.
Alternatively if you have an old pair of Varifocals that you were happy with simply send them to us with an order form (available online) with your name, address, telephone number and your prescription and we will be able to obtain the correct distance from your old lenses to fit into your new glasses.
We supply Standard Varifocals (Which have a standard reading and VDU area), Ultrawide Varifocals (Which have a 30% wider reading and VDU area) and SuperWide Varifocals (Which have a very large reading and VDU area).
Our varifocal lenses supplied by default are from Essilor - the world's leading luxury lens manufacturer.
So depending on how much Reading or VDU / Music tasks you are doing a day please select the appropriate lens you require. Varifocals that have a standard reading area require you to follow or scan from left to right more the page or whatever you are looking at more than Wide or SuperWide Varifocals.
Then simply decide if you require or to have you lenses made thinner or choose from our range of coatings or tints to personalise your lenses further.
If you are unsure of anything then please email us or give us a call for assistance.
Below shows the difference between single vision reading glasses, bifocals and varifocals. As you can see Varilux lenses allow you to see things at all distances.
Single Vision Reading Lenses
At SpecSuperstore we supply three easy to choose types of Varifocal lenses: Standard width Varifocals, Ultrawidewidth Varifocals and Superwide width Varifocals.
The difference between the three different types are the clear areas of vision within the lenses. Varifocals produce distorted areas due to the way they are manufactured. These distorted areas encroach parts of the distance, intermediate and reading ares of the lenses when viewing through them.
With all Varifocals the viewer will have to move their head in order to view the corresponding areas they wish to see through the lenses. If a broad page is being viewed then the patient will have to move their head from left to right following the text as the clear areas of vision are adjacent to the distorted areas. Patients will also have to move their head vertically in order to see the different distances they wish to see ie: distance, intermediate or reading.
Below are illustrations of the different types of lenses and how the different types of Varifocal lenses give greater clear areas of vision when viewing through them.
Standard Varifocals:
