Which prizm lens to see real color?

[KarlBlessing]

^ Was thinking the same as Slinky when I saw this get revised. That there exist grey bases which having tried them are the closest thing to neutral, but they also don't pop as much.

Also given how the technology seems to work, it doesn't seem to be strictly a color of the base. The polycarbonate they already use blocks out all light below 400nm (UV), and while the dyes they formulate into the plutonite can have their own color altering attribute just on the color itself. It seems like they found a way to come up with dyes that will block certain colors of the wavelength without necessarily just being a colored filter. Prizm Golf for example is a Rose base like Prizm Trail, but Prizm golf is designed to give more contrast to greens like grass etc, whereas Trail gives more contrast to reds and browns.

Nutshell, there seems to need to be some kind of tweak in what wavelengths makes it in stronger than the other for that "popping" prizm effect, so while a grey base is darker and keeps closer to neutral, it's still going to have some kind of alteration in order to cause that 'pop', the eyes just have an easier time automatically adjusting to grey. Just not as strong a contrast in that effect at that base.

Far as 'why prizm', I love that the company has paid that much attention on the way specific lens perceive the world in front and not just how they look from the other side. Plus I know what that much attention, if I were to get a specific type of prizm lens in the future, it should look the same as ones I got now. (ie: not just randomly changing base colors as manufacturing changes because they only cared about getting the front the way it is).

 

[slinky]

Very well put @KarlBlessing - you make a great point describing the filtering effect, such as is the crux of the Prizm Deep Water Polarized which is designed to specifically filter out hasher blue light above water.

 

[KarlBlessing]

Very well put @KarlBlessing - you make a great point describing the filtering effect, such as is the crux of the Prizm Deep Water Polarized which is designed to specifically filter out hasher blue light above water.

True, and I wouldn't have thought that DWP was a Rose base either, but it makes sense considering the way my Prizm Trail lens works, and how while it's not a polarizing lens, the reduction in blue seems to cut the appearance of haze and gives more punch to clouds in the sky as the blues are lessened, just not to the extreme that DWP does it.

But it seems that's the nature of the 'color popping' that people want, you're going to have to give up some normalcy or neutrality to get that effect. Fortunately I think after a period of use, things start to feel a bit more normalized to your brain, like with my Shallow Water Polarized lens, it's a brown base and definitely screams that on wear. But after a few weeks of using them, it doesn't even take a min outside to just perceive everything as a sort of "golden hour" environment without looking weird, though the reds and orange (ESPECIALLY hunter orange) pop insanely, you still kind of get used to it.