SHOOTING SUNGLASSES - SHOOTING PRESCRIPTION SUNGLASSES

Eyewear and sunglasses shown are suitable for shooting; lenses have been specifically selected on their high contrasting properties. The eyewear and sunglasses have been specially selected on their merits for shooting ensuring good ventilation, secure fit, and lightweight components.

Note: Oakley shooting specific lenses are not to be used for general purposes, due to their colour perception being lifted for shooting

Oakley Sunglasses

Oakley sunglasses are Extreme eyewears best seller, constantly pushing the boundaries of sunglasses Oakley always remain number 1 in the UK.

A major breakthrough came with their patented HDO (High Definition Optics), a process that produces distortion free wrap around lenses for all of their sunglasses. The result, every pair of Oakley shades delivers perfect vision at any angle. Prescription glasses wearers will be pleased to know Oakley sunglasses are available with Oakley prescription lenses using the same technology (see section on Oakley prescription sunglasses below)

Why is this important? Every sports person requires good peripheral vision, golf players will use the bottom part of the lenses for driving and putting whilst cycling enthusiasts will keep an eye on the terrain using the peripheral lower edges the lenses. What Oakley sunglasses ensure is that whenever your line of sight moves away from the centre of the lens your vision is still maintained with no distortion, something cheaper shades don’t do as they incorporate distortion and can even make objects appear as though they’ve moved when the reality is they haven’t!

Oakley sunglasses are a sports eyewear essential, setting the standards in sports glasses for other manufacturers to follow.

The advantages of Oakley Sunglasses soon became noticed by the designer sunglasses market, and as a result Oakley has developed fashionable lifestyle sunglasses to sit along side their sports glasses, check out Oakley uniquely Women sunglasses and Oakley wires.

Oakley prescription sunglasses

The concept for Oakley prescription sunglasses is simple, you get all the benefits of the non prescription shades added with your prescription. This means their patented HDO ensures any distortion normally associated with wrap around prescription sports glasses is neutralised giving you great peripheral vision. Oakley prescription lenses are made on an 8-base curve (wrap around lenses) so the shape and feel of the frame is maintained. Almost every frame is available directly from Oakley as prescription sunglasses, with some of the sports specific sunglasses allowing you to buy different coloured lenses in prescription and interchange them in the same frame, Flak Jacket, Flack Jacket XLJ, New Jawbone, Radar.

For prescription sunglasses there are some great lenses to keep in mind, VR28 Black Iridium, VR28 Black Iridium Polarised (worn by all the extreme eyewear team!), Gold Iridium, Gold Iridium Polairsed, and Bronze Polairsed. All these prescription lenses provide great contrast in low light and protection from glare on bright days, enabling good vision in a wide variety of light conditions.

You will find leading athletes supporting the Oakley brand such as Pro Skier Grete Eliassen and Lance Armstrong. Limited Edition Oakley Sunglasses are even released in their honor and to celebrate their achievements, with money from sales going to good causes. Limited editions are available in prescription.

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Rudy Project Sunglasses

Starting up in 1985 Rudy Project Sunglasses and Prescription Glasses were established to design and manufacture sport performance eyewear for athletes, including Prescription Rudy Project Sunglasses.

With their detail to perfection in both visual quality and craftsmanship the brand soon became one of the best selling eyewear in the sport sector. Rudy Project continues to evolve, putting their revenue into developing new manufacturing techniques and materials to improve its wearer’s comfort and visual clarity.

Rudy Project ensures all their sunglasses give outstanding visual and clarity performance, using wrap-around lenses that have been optically corrected to filter out any peripheral distortion.

If its sports dedicated eyewear or sunglasses you are searching for then look no further!

Performance Inserts – An additional benefit for prescription glasses wearers. Rudy Project has developed an optical insert for almost everyone of their sunglasses. The insert is fitted with your prescription and cleverly sits inside the sunglasses. The prescription insert becomes part of the Rudy Project eyewear leaving the fit perfect.

If you are interested in Rudy Project prescription sunglasses enter your prescription into the pop-down menus provided at the bottom of our home page, the extreme-eyewear website will filter through all our stock showing you only what’s available in your prescription, making your options clear.

Need help? See our guide, ordering your prescription sunglasses, located in the top toolbar under, prescription eyewear online explained