Right you are, Charlie, and this was highlighted for me in Japan where
my wife was able to get a new pair of glasses with prescription
polycarbonate lenses for about $60 USD.
Here she is getting fitted with my old college roommate looking on:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pooroldpunch/4519554546/in/set-72157623496120867/
(OM-2n w/ OMZ 35/2)
The whole operation was slick; they had a variety of frames sitting
out for customers to look at and try on. Once my wife decided on
frames, the technician measured her eyesight using a super fancy
machine, and took the numbers and matched them to premade lenses,
which were then finished and installed in the frames. It took less
than an hour, and the results were great.
I wish they had an operation like that in the States!
> While on the topic of glasses; are they not the most over-priced thing on
> the market? I mean I can buy an iPod that has more computing power than that
> used for Apollo 11 to go to the moon for about $150. Yet my glasses made of
> two pieces of ground plastic/ glass (by a technique not much changed since
> Galileo was in the business) and some bent wire will run over $300. What
> gives?
>
> Charlie
>
>
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