When reading prescription, how do read Jibberish to order glasses online?(lemmy.world)

Simplest case is you are farsighted. So your lenses are magnifiers. You move them away from a printed page til the magnification is at maximum. The distance to the page is the focal length. Diopter is 1/FL in meters, so eg. 50cm FL is 2.0 diopter. Negative diopters, astigmatism corrections etc are more complicated.

It looks like you can also test your own vision with a phone app and simple device:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/in-the-era-of-warby-parker-measure-your-own-eyeglass-prescription-at-home/

Idk anything about that though.

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over_clox@lemmy.worldOP

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3 months ago

Seems neat I guess. I just wonder why the hell I can’t just go in with my old prescription, tell them straight up that this is perfectly fine, I just need new lenses that ain’t all scratched up…

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solrize@lemmy.world

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3 months ago

That’s easiest I guess. Just find out your prescription when you get tested. Yes a lot of the industry is bogus, but then a lot of the world in general is bogus. Part of being an independent and flexible person is being able to find ways around bogosity.

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