Now a little about me, I like non standard lighting, Infrared, Ultraviolet, 3d effects obtained via visual hacks and the like. This has caused me to buy a few different pieces of eyewear in the past, ranging from protective to retro. In my old job I used to have to wear green laser safety eyewear as to not burn out my retinas. I have a picture of myself somewhere wearing them, but dont ask me where as I have no idea. One set of eyewear I intend to make/obtain sometime are a set of steampunk/cyberpunk styled goggles with some R72 or equiv glass (its a near infrared filter that lets a bit of red through, and our eyes are slightly sensitive around that end.) But that is not the eyewear that is being talked about here today. Today its two pieces, one Orange, the other Red and Blue.
Now onto the orange eyewear I own is technically for protection from UV light and increased visibilty of fluorescence of various items/fluids. If you’ve ever watched CSI or any of the other forensic/crime tv shows (I know I’ve seen them on NCIS), you probably will of seen them before. And here they are. [Put Image Here] These lovely glasses were purchsed from Crime Scene Evidence Files (specifically here,) and are now also avaliable in yellow and red (these will have to be purchased at some point in the future.) They fit as comfortably as any of these protective wrap around eyewear usually does, and tints everything nice and orange. They do filter out the excess blue light from UV light sources and make things that faintly fluorece stand out more clearly. I cant tell you how well they filter out uv light from getting to your eyes, but based on the fact they fluorece strongly when UV light is applied to them, I have to assume they are pretty good at absorbing it. They also have one of those little certification stickers on them, so im pretty sure there up to spec.
The other glasses that are being covered today are red and blue as in Anaglyphic 3D. In particular Anaglyph Pro X Glasses (purchased from 3Dstereo.com.) [Insert Picture Here] You may ask why I would purchase said glasses, and its for multiple reasons. One of my hobbies is photography, particualry more non standard stuff, like infrared, ultraviolet and 3d (whose lens which I shall write something on at a later date) and at some point I’ll add bandpass false color infrared to the list. Another is the z-buffer driver hooks that nvidia and iz3d have released to convert 3d programs (such as games) into anaglyphic 3d. And yet another is Ive been meaning to get some old 3d movies to watch. Now these glasses are more like sunglasses than the protective UV glasses mentioned before and as such are alot easier to wear from a comfort point of view for long durations. On the other hand your utterly screwing with your eyes and that can get pretty uncomfortable after awhile, with your vision flickering between red/blue/purpley mix. If youve ever used the cardboard red/blue ones you may of gotten with a magazine/book as a kid you will know the effect that they give. So theres not really that much to say about them beyond that. My personal preference on 3d images is still the cross eyed variety as I can do that without hassle or strain. But these make viewing anaglyphs a hell of alot easier than the cheap hacked together red and blue celophane glasses I was using before.
August 8th, 2008 | Cool Things