Standard Lens Anatomy
BROWN GRADIENT LENS
The brown gradient lens is ideal for everyday use as well as most outdoor activities. It provides a shield for overhead light, while allowing greater visibility at the bottom of the lens, making the perfect for your everyday ventures in the world, whether it is day driving, strolling down the street, or bike riding.
GREY LENSES
The grey lenses absorb all colors equally, making them preserve the same color perception as without sunglasses. They are perfect in bright light conditions, they ensure maximum glare reduction, and are perfect for all outdoor sports in bright conditions, including golf, running, and cycling.
BROWN LENSES
The brown lenses ensure a superior visual definition. They increase contrast and enhance ground level contours in most light conditions.
CLEAR LENSES
With these lenses you get maximum light transmission, making you see the precise color values. Ideal for hazy or overcast weather, as well as dusk/dawn conditions and indoor use. Perfect for indoor sports like squash, tennis, handball, and futsal, and hunting in the early hours.
SILVER FLASH LENSES
The Silver Flash lenses are some of the darker lenses at Wiley X. The grey lenses are covered with a multi-coated Z-Oxide mirror, which all in all reduces glare, making them excellent on bright days. They absorb all colors equally, preserving the same color perception as without sunglasses.
LIGHT RUST LENSES
The light rust lenses filter out most blue light waves (HEV), which is the key component of glare and haze. They enhance contrast in medium to low light conditions, making them ideal for many outdoor and indoor activities, for instance: hunting, running, cycling, skiing, snowboarding, basketball, handball, and tennis.
YELLOW LENSES
The yellow lens is the best light enhancing lens tint. They filter out the blue light (HEV), which may cause glare, and they enhance contrast in low-light, foggy, or overcast conditions, making them perfect for hunting. Additionally, they are ideal for running, cycling, skiing, snowboarding, tennis, basketball, and handball.
VERMILLION LENSES
The vermillion lens performs best in medium to low light conditions. They increase contrast, as they block blue light (HEV), as well as they sharpen contrast and brightens targets, while simultaneously improving your visual depth perception. A comfortable lens for longer wearing times, making them ideal for cycling, hunting, and snow sports.
ORANGE LENS
The orange lens masters in sharpening contrast. It dampens the green colors, making them perfect on the range or out hunting. With these lenses, your optimal vision is ensured, when used in medium to low-light conditions.
PURPLE LENS
Purple lenses are best for use in medium to low-light conditions. The lens sharpens contrast and brightens targets, as the green color is dampened to the max, making them ideal for the range or any kind of hunting.
COPPER LENSES
The copper lens ensures you superior visual definition in bright sun conditions. They enhance contrast, making for instance orange clay pigeons appear more clearly.
— Light transmission is the light which reaches the eye after the lens has discarded / absorbed some of the light.
*The light transmisson varies +/- 3%, depending on the model.