Product Review-Salt Life Sport Optics
One of the most important and useful tools I use every day while fishing and honestly just about every day of my life are my sunglasses. I mean really think about it, how many times you have walked out the door and immediately it hit you “need my sunglasses”! Or even worse, head out fishing/hunting before the sun comes up, but when it comes up it hits you “oh no, I forgot my sunglasses”! That’s a long day no one wants to go through and yes we’ve all done it! This really shows how important a high quality pair of sunglasses is for any outdoor sport or better everyday life!
I’ve found a company that makes one of the finest pairs of sunglasses on the market today and you would not think at first it would come from the company that makes them. Salt Life has introduced a line of Sport optics (Sunglasses) that are like no other on the market, yet reasonably priced for the quality pair of sunglasses your getting. I know what you’re thinking; how and why are they better than most others on the market?
-Salt Life Optics use ZEISS lenses, for over 160 years ZEISS has been the world’s leading brand in precision optics. Like NASA, Google Earth, Nobel Prize winners and Hollywood producers, outdoor lovers who wear Salt Life sunglasses can also enjoy the high quality of ZEISS lenses, the pioneers in precision optics. ZEISS lenses are used by Hasselblad and Leica, the makers of the finest cameras in the world. ZEISS lenses are being used in the James Webb Space Telescope which is going to replace the Hubble Space telescope in the next few decades. The scope and Binocular of choice for the avid Hunter and outdoorsman is ZEISS. So the ZEISS brand is a house-hold name amongst the American Sportsman.
-Frames made in Italy NOT China with premium TR90 material. TR90 is a composite material that is lighter and stronger than most of Salt Life Optic competitors; you can feel the difference with their Italian made frames and the competitors.
-PPC: all Salt Life Optics lenses are made of Polarized Polycarbonate injected material that is lightweight, offers crystal clear vision, 100% UV protection and is scratch/impact resistant.
-Anti-Reflective AR5: Carl Zeiss invented AR technology; Salt Life’s five layers AR coating reduces glare and bounce back. It’s the best I ever tried and I’ve tried a lot of sunglasses!
-Ri-Pel: this proprietary technology repels water, dirt, oil and dust. It gives the lens a Rain-X effect so water, sun tan lotion and/or bug spray will be repelled off the lens and makes for easier cleaning. Ri-Pel is a permanent repellent coating.
-True Color Recognition: ZEISS formulated our exclusive tints to allow colors to be seen naturally. Other lenses distort the color spectrum blocking reds and yellows so after hours of wearing the user may develop headaches.
-Salt Life Optic Coatings: all our coatings are vacuum sealed on so they are permanent and will not delaminate when exposed to salt water or extreme weather conditions. Many of Salt Life’s competitors use a dipping process to apply their coatings and in time will delaminate.
-RX lenses: prescription lenses are available. Salt Life is using a ZEISS lab with the latest technology so that the user enjoys the special tints and coatings ZEISS has created for Salt Life Optics. They offer single vision, progressive and reader lenses.
I really could not believe my eyes, literally, the first time I put on a pair of Salt Life sunglasses, crystal clear is an understatement; for the first time really true color hues but with great UV protection!
A few weeks ago I was fishing off the beach a few miles, it was a flat calm day with lots of clouds with sun peaking through every once in a while. The kind of day when there is a really bad glare on the water, yet the water was super clear. A large barracuda rolled up beside the boat, I could see it very easily and when I said to my custom “wow look at that large barracuda” he could not see it?!?! I took off my pair of Salt Life sunglasses and handed them to him (my customer) he could not believe the large barracuda just beside the boat!!! The two things that blew my mind were that I could not see the barracuda without my Salt Life sunglasses and that he could not see the barracuda with the well known fishing brand sunglasses he was wearing before he put mine on.
Do yourself one favor go at least try on a pair of Salt Life Sunglasses, compare them to the brand you use now. I sure you’ll be amazed by the difference in many aspects of the Salt Life optics to the ones you wear now. Welcome to Salt Life Optics the way sunglasses should be made!
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