| Author | Message | ||
     Cowtownbueller |
Has anyone had any experience with amber glasses at night? I heard they make things look brighter at night. Not sure, but before I buy any I want to hear from yall. | ||
| Phonemanjustin |
I sometimes wear a cheap pair of amber shooting glasses at night it does make things sharper imo | ||
| Nevco1 |
Check your State Laws. Most do not permit any type of tinting at night, even the amber that I feel does help. | ||
| H_Man |
Amber lenses (esp. quality ones vs. cheap plastic) will intensify ambient light, focusing any available light and making things seem brighter. This is the reason why some binoculars have rose or amber coated objective lenses. But be careful. You will lose some amount of depth perception due to the loss of shadowing. It's not like you'll go tumbling down the stairs or fail to see how far to step down off the curb. But there is a slight loss of depth perception. H-man | ||
| Henrik |
Any kind of coloring in the lens itself will cut down on the actual amount of light reaching your retina (where light is registered). While some top notch binoculars use a coating to emphasize certain colors to extend usefulness of binoculars into dusk/dawn times, the coating will not help you see better in very low light conditions - such as at night  . I would personally not wear any kind of tinted eyewear at night. Henrik | ||
| Blake |
Thanks Henrik. Another moto myth exposed.  | ||
| Bomber |
H coloring cannot intensify light . . . as Henrik said in his non-grumpy post, they can emphasize certain colors . . . .. since they can't intensify one wavelength of light, they do that by decreasing the amount of light at other wavelengths . . . .this has the apparent effect of increasing the contrast, but does cut down on the overall amount of energy reaching you eyes | ||
| Court |
Someone call me when this topic evolves to "looking at the world through rose colored glasses". Meanwhile, I'll be breaking out the old textbooks and bongin up on the propogation characteristics of light in the visible spectrum. If there was an invisible Henrik in the woods, and no one could see him, would he still be grouchy? Life's fascinating | ||
| Court |
Uh...."bonging" should probably be "boning". . . . .Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude | ||
| Road_Thing |
"Bonging up"...that would explain your ravenous behavior at dinner...I thought I smelled something in your truck! r-t | ||
| H_Man |
Umm.... Not that I'm feeling defensive or anything but... Guess I should be more detailed in my posts. The apparent perception to the brain is one of intensified light. By using an amber lens, the longer wave lengths (i.e., infra-red) will be filtered. Thus your pupils will have more cone receptors (in addition to the rod receptors) "open". Amber lenses are used primarily on overcast days just for the purpose of aiding vission. There really isn't anything different between Henrik's response and mine. All coatings will reduce the amount of light waves to the retina. The total "white light is reduced. However, white light isn't always the best light for vision. Hence, the light bulb manufacturers now providing bulbs that then toward the shorter wave lengths (i.e., cool blue light & "soft light" bulbs). Bottom line for me, and what I tried to say initially, amber lenses are good for overcast conditions - though there is a slight drawback. No tinted lense is recommended for dusk, dawn or night conditions. H-man | ||
| Easy_rider |
No tinted lense is recommended for dusk, dawn or night conditions.} I want to second that. I wore a pair of amber lenses for about 3 rides. At dusk the red of the stop sign didn't stand out and I ran through an intersection. Fortunately it was in the boonies and noone else was around but I ditched the amber for a set of clear lenses. | ||
| Pangalactic |
I have a set of the high-definition yellow lenses for Oakley M-frames, and they are incredible at night. I don't know the scientific reason why, but they do add contract between varying shades of dark and darker, and still provide the bulletproof protection of Oakley's. They allow more than 99% of light transmission, so there is no real light loss, either. |
