Pinhole Glasses

If you have experienced a degrading in your vision and eye sight lately, but don't want to pay the hefty bill an optometrist charges for an examination and corrective lenses, then check out how pinhole glasses can benefit you.

Pinhole glasses work on the premise of reducing the amount of light entering your retina, thus limiting your field of vision. Once your field of vision is limited from the peripherals inward, you will notice a surprisingly dramatic increase in clarity of your vision. Pinhole glasses are similar to regular prescription glasses in their shape and structure, but are made of an opaque plastic rather than metal and specialized glass. The dense plastic that is used has several small holes drilled into the lenses area in order to help reduce the amount of light entering into your eyes, thus increasing the clarity of your vision. The best part aesthetically about pinhole glasses is the overall look and style behind them. More modern versions of the pinhole glasses can be fitted to mock the appearance of high standard sunglasses such as Oakleys. Other versions of the glasses can be made to hyperfocus on the holes drilled into the glasses to give an added talking piece type of style to them.

The average price for a pair of pinhole glasses ranges anywhere from about five bucks for fully functional, but not hole hidden glasses, to a little over thirty for those glasses that mock the appearance of high standard sunglasses. While some people may find pinhole glasses a little arbitrary, and too highly priced for those higher end pairs, when compared to the increase in vision of a designer pair of prescription eye glasses they are bargain material. Some people may even find that switching from their normal prescription eye glasses to pinhole glasses offers a more comfortable standard of increase in vision, both price-wise and physically.

The technology behind pinhole glasses dates back to early settlers of the Alaskan territory. Natives would use the bones of seals and walruses by hammering holes into them and holding the bones up to their face to help decrease the glare the sun produced from the snow to their eyes, while still allowing them to see. The natives found that not only did the drilled hole in the bone help to prevent snow blindness, it also increased their vision for many yards out, thus pinhole glasses were made.

Overall pinhole glasses are a great alternative to regular prescription glasses, and other methods of vision correction, so if you are looking for a cost efficient way to increase your vision, check out how pinhole glasses can benefit you.

Source of Information: http://www.myopia.org/pinholes.htm