Yeah, I still have the cheapies, which will likely accompany me to the "rougher" fishing adventures. The Costa's will be everyday use, driving, and fishing bigger water. Trying to train myself into putting them into their case instead of tossing them on the seat next to me. And between taking care of them and them being glass, I hope they don't scratch as quickly as most of my glasses.
I did get a croakie. It's an adjustment but I think I can do it.
Also a little worried about glass fogging up when the weather gets cold. But in the summer here it's fine.
To be clear, amber polarized glasses do make the world look freakin awesome. Like HD. But cheapie amber polarized glasses did too. These are just a touch more awesome. IMO, not $200 more awesome, but that's up to the individual I suppose.
I haven't been fishing in them yet but did check glare reduction on a pond and on car hoods. I was real curious on how much of an improvement they'd be over the old glasses. Had em both on my face, flipped up and down between them. Costa's were better at glare reduction. But overall it's just "tighter". If I tilt my head even just a little bit it's like whoa, glare comes back full force. So, great, if you are looking at a horizontal surface and you hold your head straight.
With the old ones, at max, the glare reduction isn't quite as much, but they offer some glare reduction at greater angles. You lose it more gradually as you tilt more, and you still get some effect until your head is full sideways.
The Costa's are tight enough that ripples look noticably weird, as that little angle is enough to change from awesome polarization to virtually no polarization.
Just found it interesting. They are a little more plugged into the supply chain of things. Well, at least the business guys were, I guess it's probably more about the type of people I was with more than the fact that they were Swiss.
