 Poster: A snowHead
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I have skied for years using contacts and goggles / sunnies, but I now wear varifocal glasses and vision with contacts for reading piste maps, menus etc is getting worse (as I don't have varifocal contacts and they aint that good from what I hear. I'm coming around to the idea of skiing in glasses with a visor helmet.
Generally what are people experience with them?
Also I'm looking at a couple of discounted Cairn one's. One had magnetic interchange between cat 3 and cat 1, the other a photo chromatic visor that changes in similar range. the magnetic sounds good, but then probably a PITA to carry a spare lense just in case the light levels changes (which they frequently do) - with contacts I used my low light goggles and then popped on a pair of sunglasses when the sun came out.
thoughts and experiences welcome...
Thanks
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Fri 30-11-18 15:11; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I find varifocal contacts not bad - I wouldn't choose to sit for hours reading a book with small print, but fine for Menus. I'm not very good at piste maps whatever eye wear I'm in - in my own area I know my way around and in other places I generally try to ski with someone who does! I use different contacts in each eye - my weaker eye has the closer focus lens. It works pretty well. Might be worth trying.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| pam w wrote: |
| I find varifocal contacts not bad - I wouldn't choose to sit for hours reading a book with small print, but fine for Menus. I'm not very good at piste maps whatever eye wear I'm in - in my own area I know my way around and in other places I generally try to ski with someone who does! I use different contacts in each eye - my weaker eye has the closer focus lens. It works pretty well. Might be worth trying. |
No, quite happy with glasses for general use and regular contacts for occasional use for sports etc.
..now back to visor helmets........
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I've an Alpina. Field of view is great. Compared to goggles it is noisier and colder around the eyes. Have a bag to carry it in when you're not wearing it to help prevent scratches.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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when skiing I sometimes wear a pair of varifocal sunglasses that I got in a 2-4-1 deal from Specsavers. If it's poor light I wear my regular varifocals under yellow goggles.
I'm sure the on-piste fashion police think I look like a douche in the sunnies, but at least I can see.
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Try the ones at Decathlon. Great value and I'm generally impressed - no goggles to forget, drop. Only hassle is if the visor does really fog up and you want to clear you have to take your helmet off rather just the goggles. Just lifting the visor is easier than trying to get goggles to stay on the top of some helmets.
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No, quite happy with glasses for general use and regular contacts for occasional use for sports etc.
..now back to visor helmets........
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That's a rude response, sunshine. If you only wanted to know about visor helmets, that what you should have asked. Are you going to rubbish the input from @marodo2712 about wearing specs under goggles, too?
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Not sure whatI searched on but it only brought up one old thread. Thanks Altis.
Reading the odd thread, I’m thinking photochromatic rather than changeable visors is the way to go. Less faff and avoids the where do I carry a visor problem. Sunnies in the jacket pocket fro lunch time.
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I found out that quite a lot of the visor helmets the visor never actually cleared my glasses. When putting it up and down, so you ended up having to hold specs with 1 hand while moving visor with other.
The decathlon. One was the only. One I found both comfortable & cleared my specs. So I can put it up & down no problem without having to even slow down
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| pam w wrote: |
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No, quite happy with glasses for general use and regular contacts for occasional use for sports etc.
..now back to visor helmets........
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That's a rude response, sunshine. If you only wanted to know about visor helmets, that what you should have asked. Are you going to rubbish the input from @marodo2712 about wearing specs under goggles, too? |
No offence intended, just wanting to keep the thread on track. 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Which decathlon ones do you have @jonny996 and @dw832. The 550 ones looks good and seems to have a double lens which will help with anti fog. The 350 has both light and darker lenses, but they appear to be single layer from the pictures?
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@t4tomo, if the decathlon range is 350, 450 or 550, then I have the 550. It was best fit for me. It comes with sunshine visor as standard but you can get yellow low light visor for £20
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