Extended Vision™ Readers
Readers with range. Pick yours.
Every lens has a clear lane running through it, and the shorter the range you ask for, the wider that lane gets. Here are four lenses, and the lane each one gives you.
Four ranges
Bring the range in, and the lane opens up.
The white shape is the lane you can actually see through. The bar underneath is how far it reaches. Read right to left and watch the lane widen as the range comes in.
What you can see
How much of the lens you use
The whole lens
14 to 16 inches
One distance
A drugstore reader
Comfortable, because there’s nothing else in the lens to find. Useless the moment you look up.
What you can see
How much of the lens you use
Widest
18 inches to 6 feet
For the desk
EV6
Phone, keyboard, monitor, the person across from you. Everything past six feet comes back to you as width.
Shop EV6What you can see
How much of the lens you use
Wide
20 inches to 20 feet
For the room
EV20
The page in your lap and the far wall of the kitchen. Ten times the reach, so less of it comes back as width.
Shop EV20What you can see
How much of the lens you use
Narrowest
Up close and true distance
For outside
EVinfinity
Down at your phone, up at the road, skipping the middle. Keeps the whole distance, so none of it comes back as width.
Shop EVinfinityThe lenses are drawn to show the relationship. The shape is right; your exact corridor depends on your prescription and your frame.
01
Every lens makes this trade. Ours makes it on purpose.
Reach and width are connected in any lens that focuses at more than one distance. The difference is that we ask which one you want first, and build to your answer.
02
Now you get to choose.
A standard progressive reader runs all the way out to the horizon whether you asked for it or not, and reaching that far takes the narrowest lane there is. You get to say how far you need instead.
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The distance you don’t need comes back as width.
If you’re at a desk you don’t need to see across the parking lot. Give that up and it returns as a wider corridor exactly where you’re looking. That’s EV6.
The same desk through two lenses. EV6 stops at six feet, and the width it saves shows up as corridor.
Same scene, two lenses
This is the difference, photographed.
Left is a standard progressive. The dashed outline is its corridor, the clear lane through the lens: a thin channel you have to aim your head down to find, with the monitor and the keyboard falling outside it.
Right is EV6. Same desk, same distance, nearly the whole lens usable, because it was never asked to reach past six feet. Everything it did not send down the road came back as width.
Both lenses made a trade. Only one of them asked you first.
The one exception
Outside, you want the whole distance.
Down at your phone, up at the road, out to the far end of the trail. That’s the one place worth keeping every inch of range, and it’s exactly why EVinfinity has the narrowest lane we make. Nothing is left over to come back as width.
Which is the point of asking. Indoors you get that width back. Outdoors you would rather have the distance.
Still deciding
There’s more than one way to explain this. Here are the others.
Tell us what you read at and how far you want to see.
That’s all we need. Every pair is cut to your measurements in California, one at a time, with a one year scratch warranty.