At ZEISS, we believe that everyone deserves the clarity and comfort of optimal vision. Our comprehensive progressive lens portfolio empowers you to provide tailored solutions for every patient, meeting their diverse needs and budgets.
A Progressive Lens for Every Lifestyle
ZEISS SmartLife: Our premium progressive lens portfolio, ZEISS SmartLife offers unparalleled visual performance, especially for those who spend significant time on digital devices. It’s designed to seamlessly transition between near, intermediate, and far vision, reducing eye strain and fatigue.
ZEISS Light 2: A mid-range option that delivers excellent visual quality and comfort. ZEISS Light 2 is perfect for individuals who lead active lifestyles and require reliable vision throughout the day. It’s also ideal for first-time progressive lens wearers.
Specialized Progressive Lens Solutions for Specific Needs
In addition to our core progressive lens offerings, ZEISS provides specialized solutions, available in both progressive and single vision, for specific visual challenges:
ZEISS DriveSafe: Designed to enhance vision while driving, ZEISS DriveSafe Lenses reduce glare and improve contrast sensitivity.
ZEISS BlueGuard: Protects eyes from potentially harmful blue light emitted by digital devices. ZEISS BlueGuard Lenses let your patients see comfortably and look good without disturbing blue-purple reflections.
ZEISS PhotoFusion X: Light adaptive lenses that automatically adjust to changing light conditions, providing optimal vision both indoors and outdoors. ZEISS PhotoFusion X Lenses come standard with blue light and UV protection built-in.
ZEISS Officelens: Tailored for individuals who spend long hours working at computers. ZEISS Officelens is designed to reduce eye strain and improve focus.
The ZEISS Advantage
Precision Optics: ZEISS lenses are crafted with advanced optical technology to deliver sharp, clear vision.
Personalized Fit: We offer a range of fitting options to ensure optimal comfort and performance.
Cutting-Edge Technology: Our lenses incorporate innovative features like Digital Inside Technology® and FaceFit Technology® for enhanced visual experiences.
Uncompromising Quality: You can trust the ZEISS brand for unparalleled performance, durability, and clarity.
UV Protection: All ZEISS clear lenses come standard with sunglass-levelTM UV protection up to 400 nm, the same level of protection as premium sunglasses.
By providing a comprehensive range of progressive lens solutions, ZEISS empowers eye care professionals to offer their patients the best possible vision, regardless of the patients’ budget or lifestyle.
Continuing Education Opportunities with ZEISS
Designing a progressive portfolio for emerging to advanced presbyopes
ZEISS PhotoFusion X is a complete photochromic lens portfolio uniquely designed to satisfy your patients’ need for speed-to-clear with blue light and UV protection. ZEISS has re-engineered its photochromic system to deliver ground-breaking transition speeds, improved darkness, excellent UV and blue light protection and attractive colors – all with premium ZEISS quality. ZEISS launched this new photochromic lens at Vision Expo East in New York.
What makes it unique?
The cutting-edge photochromic technology that uses ZEISS BlueGuard as a base material and includes the sunglass-level UV protection of ZEISS UVProtect, give your patients protection both indoors and out. New ZEISS PhotoFusion X provides excellent blue light and UV protection in any environment.
A Completely New Photochromic System
The photochromic system in ZEISS PhotoFusion X lenses is much more efficient than with previous self-tinting lenses. It includes a new generation of specially developed and patented dyes in a robust and more open carrier matrix for faster transition, allowing them to be clearer indoors, darker outdoors, and quicker to react than previous generations.
Speed Matters
Patients frequently buy a range of prescription lenses: clear, sunglasses, and more recently, blue light protection glasses. However, having many prescription eyeglasses is pricey and can be an inconvenience to some.
When people are indoors, they typically want their lenses to be clear. When stepping outdoors, their eyes perceive light and glare, and they want sunglasses that provide comfortable protection.
Early generations of photochromic glasses were not dark enough or were too slow to clear when coming indoors. Slow fade-back speed is a visual inconvenience, as it’s difficult to see indoors with dark lenses, and in social situations it can be embarrassing.
Fast transition is important to patients:
For many patients, quick clearing indoors is the most important feature in photochromic lenses.[2]
Slow change from dark to light is the most common pain point for photochromic lens wearers.
“too slow to go clear” was the most cited technical performance reason for not purchasing photochromic lenses.[3]
In the same study, 100% of experienced photochromic lens wearers noted “clearing up fast inside” is an important characteristic, even more so than darkness or indoor clarity.
ZEISS collaborated with Colts Laboratories, an independent ophthalmic lens testing company in the USA, to measure the photochromic properties of PhotoFusion® X lenses and compare them to the latest lenses from other brands.
The Colt’s independent tests lead to the following conclusions:
PhotoFusion® X Grey is up to 1.5 times faster to clear than the most common photochromic brand’s latest generation grey(14) .
PhotoFusion® X Pro Grey is up to 4.5 times faster to clear than the most common photochromic brand´s latest generation grey., comparing average fade-back speed to an interpolated time to 80%T. [4]
PhotoFusion® X Brown was twice as fast as the same brand’s latest brown. [5]
Artificial Blue Light: A 21st-Century Problem
Modern artificial light sources such as LED lights and the usage of digital devices like computer screens, tablets, TVs and cell phones are increasing the eyes’ exposure to artificial blue light. While longer wavelength blue light, that that from the sun, can help us stay alert and awake, shorter wavelengths, like those from digital devices, can generate visual irritation and may even harm the eyes. In addition, blue light is thought to contribute to digital eye strain, causing symptoms like blurry vision and visual discomfort.[7]
Online concern is propelling blue light lens sales. People are looking for “blue light glasses” online at a greater rate than before. Google searches for blue light glasses have increased five-fold in two years (figure 1).[8] In 2020, the term (blue light glasses) outpaced photochromic lenses searches.
UV Radiation- A Hidden Danger for Our Eyes
UV radiation is not visible to the human eye but poses potential risks to eye health. Without protection, UV radiation may damage anterior ocular structures and the skin around the eyes.
Eyelids and periorbital skin:
UV induced eyelid damage is common. Experts usually recommend sunscreen on the eyelids to prevent damage, but people often do not take this safety measure because sunscreen can cause eye irritation.
UV radiation may cause several chronic skin conditions:
• Eyelid photo-aging, which makes the skin thicker and generates prominent wrinkles;
• Sebaceous gland damage;
• Skin cancer on the eyelid
Lens: As the eye ages, protective pigments in the lens are converted into pigments that react to UVR, further damaging lens proteins and the lens’s outer layer. When damage accumulates, the lens can develop a cataract, severely compromising vision.
Iris: Melanoma tumors are the most common cancer of the eye, and evidence suggests that UVR is one of its leading causes.[9]
Retina: In young people, some longer UVR wavelengths may reach the retina and cause photochemical damage.
Because of this ZEISS provides sunglass-level UV protection in all clear ZEISS lenses. ZEISS PhotoFusion X lenses provide sunglass-level UV protection up to 400 nm in both the clear and activated states. This protection is built into ZEISS BlueGuard materials. This means PhotoFusion® X lenses provide the same UV blocking as premium sunglasses.
Premium sunglasses typically offer full UV protection to 400 nm; however, people may not own a pair and often do not wear them on cloudy days. A Vision Council of America survey found only 21.2% always wear sunglasses when outdoors.[10]
PhotoFusion® X are everyday lenses, for use indoors and outdoors, so wearers have them on all the time, providing more reliable and consistent UV protection. As a result, PhotoFusion® X lenses may provide the average wearer better protection over time from UV radiation than sunglasses.
Fashionable Protection
Through its Sunlens Division, ZEISS supplies non-prescription sunglass lenses to many of the leading sunglass brands, giving ZEISS unique insights into popular sunglasses fashions and color choices.
ZEISS PhotoFusion X lenses are currently available in six colors including a classic sunglass grey, a fast Pro Grey, a warm sunglass brown, a fast Pro Brown, the pioneer grey-green and a vibrant blue. Utilize ZEISS PhotoFusion X lenses in the latest eyewear trends for fashionable and functional styles.
The Best Overall Photochromic Lens Technology
There are many photochromic lens choices available to eye care professionals. Amongst this field of products, ZEISS PhotoFusion X provides the best total package of performance and protection when viewed across the variables that eyeglass wearers most value. Faster fade-back to clear, providing sunglass level darkness outdoors, higher indoor and outdoor blue light protection, sunglass-level UV protection and excellent clarity indoors.
Key Benefits
Outdoors, ZEISS PhotoFusion X lenses are performance optimized self-tinting lenses that provide glare, blue light and UV protection.
• Sunglass-level (Cat 3) darkness outside
• UV Protection to 400 nm
• Excellent blue light blocking
• New and improved color hues
Indoors, PhotoFusion® X provides blue light protection and clarity.
• Excellent blue light protection indoors (blocks up to 50% of potentially harmful blue light).
Photofusion® X provides ground-breaking transition speeds.
• Speed-to-clear – up to 4.5 times (450%) faster than the most common photochromic brand´s latest generation, and up to 47% faster than previous PhotoFusion® lenses.[4], [12]
• Speed-to-dark – up to 75% faster than previous PhotoFusion® lenses(15), achieving over 70% absorption in as little as 15 seconds and full sunglass-level (cat 3) darkness in as little as 27 seconds.[13]
At ZEISS we believe that since photochromic lenses are used all day and, in all environments, they should offer high level protection in both environments. Wearers want to protect their eyes and vision no matter if they are exposed to artificial blue light indoors or solar radiation while spending time outdoors. ZEISS PhotoFusion X does just this.
To learn more about ZEISS PhotoFusion X click here or ask your ZEISS Business Development Representative for more information.
[2] Photochromic Lens Wearer Study in the UK (n=232) in 2021 external institute).
[3] External Eyeglass Wearer Studies (n=105), DE, 2012
[4] Testing by independent testing laboratory in USA in 2021-22 according to requirement in ISO 8980-3. Based on the average speed (%T/min) of fadeback from fully activated state to the interpolated time to 80%T at 23C in 1.50 index HC only form (CR607 version of comparison brand).
[5] Analyses by Technology and Innovation, Carl Zeiss Vision GmbH, Aus 2021. Based on the average speed (%T/min) of fadback from fully activated state to 80%T at 23C in 1.50 index HC only form, comparison brand CR607 version.
[6] Testing by independent testing laboratory in USA according to requirement in ISO 8980-3. Based on the average speed (%T/min) of fade-back from fully activated state to 80%T at 23°C in 1.5 index (CR607) HC only form.
[7] Rosenfield M. (2011). Computer vision syndrome: a review of ocular causes and potential treatments. Ophtalmic Physiol Opt., (5):502-15.
[8] Google trends weekly result for country selection Worldwide from 1/1/2018 to 12/31/2020 for the terms “blue light glasses”, “photochromic glasses”, “transitions”, “Transitions glasses” and “uv glasses”, Data analysis as of July 2021.
[9] Jovanovic P, Mihajlovic M, Djordjevic-Jocic J, Vlajkovic S, Cekic S, Stefanovic V. Ocular melanoma: an overview of the current status. Int J Clin Exp Pathol. 2013;6(7):1230-1244. Published 2013 Jun 15.
[10] Vision Council of America, UV Eye Protection Study, 2018. 1.5
[11] Testing according to requirement in ISO 8980-3. Based on the average speed (%T/min) of fadeback from fully activated state to 80%T at 23°C in 1.5 index (CR607) HC only form.
[12] Analyses by Technology and Innovation, Carl Zeiss Vision GmbH, Aus 2021 in accordance to ISO 8980-3. Based on the average speed (%T/min) of activation from from clear state to 30%T at 23C in grey polycarbonate HC only form.
[13] Analyses by Technology and Innovation, Carl Zeiss Vision GmbH, Aus 2021 in accordance to ISO 8980-3. PhotoFusion X Grey at 23°C, 1.6 index with HC
(14) Testing by independent testing laboratory in USA in 2021-22 according to requirement in ISO 8980-3. Based on the average speed (%T/min) of fadeback from fully activated state to the interpolated time to 80%T at 23C in 1.50 index HC only form (CR607 version of comparison brand).
(15) Testing by independent laboratory in USA in 2021-22 according to requirement in ISO 8980-3. Based on the average speed (%T/min) of activation from clear state to an interpolated time to 30%T at 23C in grey polycarbonate HC only form.
In January 2019, Dr. Chatwani opened her brand new location for Tri-City Optometry in Fremont, CA after working in her original location for over 13 years. Her new practice reflects her modern vision of serving patients in Silicon Valley with an innovative, technology-driven practice and an exclusive partnership with ZEISS.
“I wanted to offer the latest technology, and chose a partner that also wanted the best for me as an independent practice, so I chose ZEISS. ZEISS has over 170 years of expertise in precision optics. My patients are getting the best lenses and technology available and with ZEISS equipment, and I know they’ll get a full ‘ZEISS Experience’ from the start of their exam through to the selection of their lenses and eyeglasses.”
Built with the end-to-end patient experience in mind, the new office offers an inviting and distinctive space. Most notably, there is no reception desk. Instead, you find a welcoming “Community Table” where patients are greeted by a Tri-City Optometry team member, complete with iPad-based check-in.
“We wanted to design the office with best possible experience for a patient. Every patient is greeted eye-to-eye and with a smile when they enter the practice. By design, we don’t have a formal reception desk. As a result, phone calls are never answered in the optical and paperwork is completely out of sight. The staff is trained to keep 100% of their focus on every patient that walks through the door.”
The well thought out patient experience continues down to the staff uniforms of matching scrubs, music in the optical, scent branding, and name tags with a modern design which adds a level of trust and professionalism. The attention to design detail continues with consideration of the flow of the patient journey through the office.
The sensory experience continues with bright white frame boards and specialized retail lighting, with a carefully chosen frame selection that offers an inviting shopping experience, allowing patients to want to stay and browse at ease. In addition to the inviting optical space there is a high-tech ZEISS equipped pre-test room, a room for vision therapy and an esthetician room for personalized patient services such as threading and brow waxing. Dr. Chatwani shares,
“We thought patients would appreciate the extra services related to the eyes and it again adds another convenience for them to get it done all in one place.”
Tri-City Optometry has grown organically over the years, which has relied heavily on word of mouth and recommendations from happy patients to family and friends.
“I’ve always had a passion for this industry and truly want to help every patient see better so they can live their best lives. I think people remain loyal when they know they are getting specialized care and that the doctors and staff really do care about the people they are serving.”
Tri-City Optometry also uses social media with a more organic approach to help them market the practice and their services.
“Being active on social media has allowed us increased communication to current patients while reaching new ones. This lends itself to building lasting relationships and an ongoing community around our practice.”
In addition to working in the office, Dr. Chatwani has served as an eye doctor to the Oakland Athletics and enjoys seeing the players at the office, attending Spring Training, as well having a further reach with the local community.
