Why are my glasses reflecting green?

The green reflection is most likely caused by the anti-reflection (AR) coating on your glasses. It’s designed to work best when light is coming directly at your eyes/glasses, but will look green when seeing light coming in from an angle. Magnesium Fluoride is a pretty common AR coating.

Why do I see strange colors with my new glasses?

When you do see strange colors with your glasses you experience chromatic aberrations. This is often described as a blue glow around objects. When the Abbe value is lower with thinner lenses (higher index) or Polycarbonate chromatic aberrations become more likely.

How can I tell if my glasses have anti-reflective coating?

Look at the backside surface of your glasses, if they reflect the light in a color like green, gold, purple or blue, then you have the coating. If the colors reflected are the same color as the original light, then your lenses do not have AR coating.

Should I get anti-reflective coating on my glasses?

AR coatings virtually eliminate all reflections from the front and back surfaces of your lenses. Without bothersome reflections, more light is able to pass through your lenses which optimizes your vision. Most people agree that anti-reflective coatings on their glasses are definitely worth the added cost.

Does computer glasses reflect green light?

Anti glare lenses reduce reflections from the lens surface making them clearer and invisible. The green color is the wavelength of light reflected from the surface, all the other colors are not reflected but pass through the lens.

Why do my glasses look green when I turn them on?

The green reflection is most likely caused by the anti-reflection (AR) coating on your glasses. It’s designed to work best when light is coming directly at your eyes/glasses, but will look green when seeing light coming in from an angle. Magnesium Fluoride is a pretty common AR coating.

Why do my glasses make my glasses look reflective?

Most likely your glasses have an antireflection coating to reduce the amount of light which is reflected by the glasses.

Why do my glasses have a coating on the inside?

The exact source of the problem doesn’t really matter. misanthropicsarah: the main purpose of the coating is to reduce reflections for other people looking at you, so they can see your eyes instead of a blank square of reflected light. Any change in your own vision is a secondary effect.

What is the purpose of anti-reflective coating on glasses?

A common problem with prescription glasses and sunglasses is called back-glare. This is light that hits the back of the lenses and bounces into the eyes. The purpose of an anti-reflective (AR) coating is to reduce these reflections off the lenses. In bad cases, you can actually see the reflection of your eye in the lens.