Plantaris

[lloydrose]

Played golf with a guy a few days back that had the matte vapor with prizm ruby RX lenses. They looked great!

 

[MicahS]

Gotta wonder if lux is purposely having oakley stick to boring lenses.

Where's the ruby, sapphire, jade, and 24k's versions... not like the frame isn't popular, why not offer some color pop options or heck at least give us replacement lenses of the current tints so we can easily swap in some fun tints!

Yeah Id think the Plantaris would be something your want to highlight with bold colorways

 

[IRON MAN]

From oakleyprivatecollection instagram account:

 

[Kingme]

Gotta wonder if lux is purposely having oakley stick to boring lenses.

Where's the ruby, sapphire, jade, and 24k's versions... not like the frame isn't popular, why not offer some color pop options or heck at least give us replacement lenses of the current tints so we can easily swap in some fun tints!

During our backroom tour this time around they mentioned certain color lenses are harder to make than others. They mentioned redish color lenses are the hardest to get right.

 

[lloydrose]

Finally my pair of Plantaris is out for delivery

 

[BoostBear]

During our backroom tour this time around they mentioned certain color lenses are harder to make than others. They mentioned redish color lenses are the hardest to get right.

I wonder if it's a difficulty in creating the pigments to make the lens base color, or if it's the process behind applying the iridium coating to the lenses. Since a lot of oakley lenses these days are kinda red in that they use rose bases?

I'd love crash course in understanding how the lenses are created. I recall years ago when prizm was about to come out, a rep at the local ski shop explained that a big reason he felt Oakley was making the change was due to the difficulty in the inconsistency of creating the lower light iridium lenses. Supposedly HI Yellow with the iridium was commonly failed lens, the HI Amber polarized lens was even worse.

He didn't get into details on if it was the due to the base being wrong hue or if it was the iridium not laying on evenly though... but when prizm came out and it was like the same lens with 3 different iridium colors and one without and then super dark one, it kinda made sense from a cost efficiency stand point that oakley was just trying to make things simple from their end.

 

[Kingme]

I wonder if it's a difficulty in creating the pigments to make the lens base color, or if it's the process behind applying the iridium coating to the lenses. Since a lot of oakley lenses these days are kinda red in that they use rose bases?

I'd love crash course in understanding how the lenses are created. I recall years ago when prizm was about to come out, a rep at the local ski shop explained that a big reason he felt Oakley was making the change was due to the difficulty in the inconsistency of creating the lower light iridium lenses. Supposedly HI Yellow with the iridium was commonly failed lens, the HI Amber polarized lens was even worse.

He didn't get into details on if it was the due to the base being wrong hue or if it was the iridium not laying on evenly though... but when prizm came out and it was like the same lens with 3 different iridium colors and one without and then super dark one, it kinda made sense from a cost efficiency stand point that oakley was just trying to make things simple from their end.

He mentioned some details but I don’t remember the specifics. I believe it had something to do with the heating process. Maybe someone else in our group remembers more details.

 

[narplife]

During our backroom tour this time around they mentioned certain color lenses are harder to make than others. They mentioned redish color lenses are the hardest to get right.

Feel like a lot of the prizm lenses are like solid mirror colors, which might flip-flop to another color when see from a side on view. Maybe some of yall agree that older lenses were more eye catching than the current lenses in terms of color variations you'd see in the iridium from a head on view.

Dunno if in the eyes of oakley that was something they were trying to 'fix' but I might just be tied up with nostalgia of the pre prizm lense colors that were drastically different from other options in the market at the time, but ascetically the newer lenses are kinda boring - with the exception of like special limited release pairs they seem to put a little extra effort in those drops and the lenses pop like the old days.

 

[AlanH]

Interesting combo, crystal with what looks like prizm maritime

 

[AlanH]

Not sure why O has such a hard time with certain colors

But I am glad for places like Linegear, Seek, SFX, Revant and Fuse for giving us so many options that O has either changed away from or more durable versions of some