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Lens Overview & Benefits
CAPTIVATE™ Lenses
No matter the lens tint you choose, a CAPTIVATE™ lens will ensure you a color perception like no other. Some CAPTIVATE™ lenses are also applied our polarized filter, which will eliminate any glare while ensuring you the CAPTIVATE™ technology's greater clarity, increased contrasts, and a better depth perception through vibrant details and intensified colors. A technology for you who refuses to settle with average but demands the best color experience.
CAPTIVATE™ Grey
If you want lenses that protect your eyes from the harsh sunrays, while preserving almost the same color values as without sunglasses, these lenses are a great choice. The lenses help light enter the eye uniformly by equalizing the visible light spectrum. In this way you get colors that are kept natural, except greens which are enhanced. A great choice for a natural looking color boost and even contrasts for everyday use.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Blue Light (HEV) protective
- Lens base color: Grey
- Light transmission: 17%*
CAPTIVATE™ Tungsten Mirror
These lenses are the master of providing optimal vision in all light conditions. Thanks to the CAPTIVATE™ technology, these lenses will heighten contrasts and enhance the colors of the world, which makes them the perfect choice for you who engage in activities in changing light conditions.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Blue Light (HEV) protective
- Lens base color: Grey
- Light transmission: 14%*
CAPTIVATE™ Polarized Black Mirror
Enhanced details with a natural color perception is the epitome of these lenses. They lightly equalize the light spectrum, which helps the light to enter the eye more uniformly. Additionally, the lenses will make you see the same color values as without sunglasses, giving you a natural look of the colors of the world colors. The added polarized filter eliminates high glare from water surfaces. A preferred choice for many who want natural looking color boost for everyday use.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Blue Light (HEV) protective
- Lens base color: Grey
- Light transmission: 13%*
CAPTIVATE™ Polarized Green Mirror
These lenses ensure high-performance on slightly cloudy/overcast days, as they minimize the blue light (HEV) reflected from white (lines on the road) and blue objects. Green, orange, and blue colors appear more vivid, and glare across reflective surfaces is reduced. Additionally, they improve your depth perception, so that underwater landscapes are highlighted.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Blue Light (HEV) protective
- Lens base color: Copper
- Light transmission: 12%*
CAPTIVATE™ Polarized Copper
These lenses distribute color evenly based on wavelength strength. They reduce blue light (HEV) to allow more saturation of colors in red, yellow, and green areas, and they define and intensify yellow shades. Additionally, they reduce glare across reflective surfaces, and highlight contrasts and colors.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Blue Light (HEV) protective
- Lens base color: Copper
- Light transmission: 17%*
CAPTIVATE™ Polarized Rose Gold Mirror
The lenses have a high-performance on slightly cloudy/overcast days, as well as they reduce orange and blue peaks, which allow greens and yellows to appear more vivid. Additionally, they reduce glare across reflective surfaces, and have an ideal visible light transmission % (VLT) for changing light conditions.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Blue Light (HEV) protective
- Lens base color: Green
- Light transmission: 13%*
CAPTIVATE™ Polarized Blue Mirror
With these lenses, the reflection of blue light (HEV) off water is reduced. Moreover, they equalize the visible light spectrum to help light enter the eye more uniformly. They keep most colors neutral, while enhancing greens, and they reduce glare across reflective surfaces.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Blue Light (HEV) protective
- Lens base color: Grey
- Light transmission: 11%*
CAPTIVATE™ Polarized Grey
The lenses equalize the visible light spectrum to help light enter the eye more uniformly. They keep most colors neutral while enhancing greens. They reduce glare across reflective surfaces, while contrasts and colors in outdoor environments are highlighted.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Blue Light (HEV) protective
- Lens base color: Grey
- Light transmission: 15%*
CAPTIVATE™ Polarized Bronze Mirror
With these lenses, colors are evenly distributed based on wavelength strength for increased contrasts and performance. Additionally, they reduce blue light (HEV) to allow more saturation of colors in red, yellow and green areas. They define and intensify yellow shades, and they reduce glare across reflective surfaces.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Blue Light (HEV) protective
- Lens base color: Copper
- Light transmission: 15%*
Polarized Lenses
Why choose polarized lenses? Because you want a distortion free vision. The lenses will eliminate the harsh glare from reflective surfaces, letting your eyes feel less strained, while also allowing you to see under the surface of the water. Filtering out the light allows you to perform at your max on those sunny days. See the world in all its bright clarity with polarized lenses.
Polarized Grey
With these polarized grey lenses, you are provided a better vision and your eyes are allowed to feel more comfortable and well rested. The lenses reduce glare, making it easier for you to see into the water. Additionally, they offer the greatest clarity, as well as they block blinding glare, while preserving sharpness. The lenses are ideal for activities during the first and last light of the day.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Lens base color: Grey
- Light transmission: 15%*
Polarized Platinum Flash
Polarized lenses provide you with a better vision and allow your eyes to feel more comfortable and well rested, and as polarized lenses also reduce glare, it is easier to see into water, making them perfect for watersports. On top of the green lenses, a multi-coat Z-Oxide mirror is placed, providing maximum glare reduction without distorting the colors.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Lens base color: Green
- Light transmission: 13%*
Standard Lenses
Standard lenses are for you who want uncompromising, high quality, protective lenses without the need of the polarized or CAPTIVATE™ filter. We have several different lens tints that will ensure your performance under different light conditions and in different environments.
Brown Gradient
The brown gradient lenses are ideal for everyday use as well as most outdoor activities. They provide a shield for overhead light, while allowing greater visibility at the bottom of the lens, making them perfect for your everyday ventures in the world.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Light transmission: 22%*
Grey
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 activities in bright conditions.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Light transmission: 15%*
Brown
The brown lenses ensure a superior visual definition. They increase contrasts and enhance ground level contours in most light conditions.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Light transmission: 16%*
Clear
With these clear 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.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Light transmission: 89%*
Light Rust
The light rust lenses filter out most blue light waves (HEV), which is the key component of glare and haze. They enhance contrasts in medium to low light conditions, making them ideal for many outdoor and indoor activities.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Light transmission: 52%*
Silver Flash
The Silver Flash lenses are some of the darker lenses at Wiley X. The lenses with the grey base color 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.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Lens base color: Grey
- Light transmission: 12%*
Photochromic Grey
The photochromic (light adjusting) lenses automatically adjust to the intensity of the UV light rays. In so, these lenses will change from being 81% clear, when there is no presence of UV light (indoors) to being a pair of sunglasses, when in direct UV light (outdoors).
If you want a pair of multifunctional glasses for all purposes, this is the lens type you want to go with.
- 100% UVA/UVB Protection
- Light transmission: 81% / 17%*
Yellow
Yellow lenses are the best light enhancing tint. They filter out the blue light (HEV), which may cause glare, and they enhance contrasts in low-light, foggy, or overcast conditions.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Light transmission: 82%*
Vermillion
The vermillion lenses perform best in medium to low light conditions. They increase contrasts, as they block blue light (HEV), as well as they sharpen contrasts and brighten targets, while simultaneously improving your visual depth perception. A pair of comfortable lenses for longer wearing times.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Light transmission: 45%*
Orange
The orange lenses master in sharpening contrasts, while they also dampen the green colors. With these lenses, your optimal vision is ensured, when used in medium to low-light conditions.
- 100% UVA/UVB protection
- Light transmission: 55%*
Purple
The purple lenses are the best tint to use in medium to low-light conditions. They sharpen contrasts and brighten targets, as the green color is dampened to the max.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Light transmission: 40%*
Copper
The copper lenses ensure you superior visual definition in bright sun conditions. They enhance contrasts, making for instance orange clay pigeons appear more clearly.
- 100% UVA/UVB protective
- Light transmission: 14%*
*The light transmission varies +/- 3%, depending on the model.