Help with first pair of glasses

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@Dewey_Finn

Another (relatively) cheap option; if there’s a Warby-Parker store near you, you can get eyeglasses with progressive lenses for $295. And a qualified person will do the measuring and fitting.

None terribly close, but might be worth a drive when I go for them a year from now. How is their corridor? That seems to be the only really useful difference between the cheaper and more expensive options from what I am seeing.

@BippityBoppityBoo

Check out the “Mutifunctional lens” on this Costco website page. It has a very large and wide functional area for computer use, with smaller close (keyboard) and smaller distance, so like progressives but adapted for computer/viewing.

Thanks. It looks like I am going to stick with single-distance glasses from Zenni, but in a year from now I will go to progressives (likely) and probably get them from a more expensive shop. Does Costco also have the issue with a narrow corridor?

@Dewey_Finn

What pupillary distance was used for the Zenni prescription? And how did you measure for the temple arm length? Sorry, but the idea of going online for your very first pair of eyeglasses (progressives, even!) amazes me.

I used 64 for the PD on the glasses I got from Zenni. The optometrist said it was closer to 66, but I am a little questioning of that measurement. For the frame width, i said, “I have a big head, what is the largest they have?” The biggest ones I saw were the low end of medium (136 mm), so I had to get those. The temple arm length was whatever came with that (145 mm). The optometrist said that both those measurements worked well for me. So, that was lucky.

@Pork_Rind

If you have frames you like (read: bought cheap somewhere else) you can have the shop put their lenses in them. At least every place I’ve gone would do that.

Oooooooh, that is a good idea. Right now I am using frameless, so not sure that would work, but I could try doing that.