Sunlens Options

At Insight Lenses, we offer a comprehensive range of sunlens solutions designed to combine visual comfort, UV protection and personal style. From everyday tinted lenses to advanced light-adaptive technologies, our sunlens options allow independent opticians to offer customers a choice of solutions tailored to their lifestyle, prescription and individual preferences.

Tints

Mirror Coatings

Sunfilter Advanced Photochromic

Sunfilter Xtra Active (X)

Transitions XTRActive Polarised

Polarised Lenses

Tints

Tints (illustrative only 85% abs)

Our range of lens tints allows independent opticians to offer customers a personalised combination of colour, appearance and light reduction.

Available in a variety of shades and densities, tinted lenses can be selected to suit individual preferences, outdoor activities and visual requirements.

Options include solid and graduated tints, offering flexibility for both prescription sunglasses and fashion eyewear.

Tints – Graduated series (illustrative only, 85%-25% abs)

Mirror Coatings

A distinctive finish for prescription sun lenses

Mirror lenses feature a reflective coating on the front surface, creating a contemporary appearance while reflecting some incoming light. Available in different colours, mirror finishes offer independent opticians a way to personalise prescription sunglasses and complement different frames.

Mirror coatings can be combined with compatible tinted or polarised sun lenses. The underlying tint and polarising filter determine much of the lens’s visual performance.

Key Benefits

Distinctive appearance: An eye-catching reflective finish for prescription sunglasses.
Personalisation: Mirror colour choices help wearers coordinate their lenses and frames.
Light reflection: The reflective surface can help reduce perceived brightness in strong sunlight, depending on the finished lens.
Versatility: Suitable for selected tinted or polarised lens combinations, subject to availability.
Added-value option: A premium cosmetic upgrade for independent opticians to offer customers.

Available Black, Purple, Grey, Blue, Gold, Silver, Green, Red, Pink, Champagne

Sunfilter Advanced Photochromic

Sunfilter is a new-generation coating-based photochromic lens designed to deliver rapid light adaptation, excellent visual comfort and reliable UV protection throughout the day.

Using advanced photochromic coating technology, Sunfilter lenses respond quickly to changing UV levels, darkening evenly in sunlight and returning rapidly towards their clear state indoors. This smooth transition provides convenient, comfortable vision for customers moving between different lighting environments.

Sunfilter also provides 100% UVA and UVB protection and helps reduce high-energy visible (HEV) blue light. Available in grey, brown, Green, Pink, Purple, and blue the technology can be combined with a wide range of lens materials, refractive indices and designs, including single vision and freeform options.

Key Benefits

Fast photochromic response:
Rapid darkening and fade-back for comfortable transitions between indoor and outdoor environments.
Uniform colour change: Consistent lens darkening, with performance designed to be less affected by lens thickness.
100% UVA and UVB protection: Helps protect the eyes from harmful ultraviolet radiation.
HEV blue light reduction: Provides additional filtering of high-energy visible blue light.
Excellent versatility: Available across a broad range of refractive indices and lens designs.
Colour choice: Available in grey, brown, green, pink, purple, and blue in all indices to 1.67, and grey and brown in 1.74 to suit individual preferences.
Everyday convenience: Reduces the need to switch between clear spectacles and sunglasses in changing light conditions.


Sunfilter Xtra Active (X)

All the same benefits of our Sunfiter lens, with the added benefit of working behind the windscreen of a car.

Key Benefits
Fast photochromic response: Rapid darkening and fade-back for comfortable transitions between indoor and outdoor environments, with the addition of working behind the windscreen of a car.
Uniform colour change: Consistent lens darkening, with performance designed to be less affected by lens thickness.
100% UVA and UVB protection: Helps protect the eyes from harmful ultraviolet radiation.
HEV blue light reduction: Provides additional filtering of high-energy visible blue light.
Excellent versatility: Available across a broad range of refractive indices and lens designs.
Colour choice: Available in grey, brown, green, pink, purple, and blue in all indices to 1.67, and grey and brown in 1.74 to suit individual preferences.
Everyday convenience: Reduces the need to switch between clear spectacles and sunglasses in changing light conditions.

Transitions XTRActive Polarised

Transitions XTRActive Polarised lenses combine advanced photochromic technology with dynamic polarisation, providing enhanced visual comfort, clarity and protection in changing light conditions.

Designed for customers who are particularly sensitive to bright light or frequently experience reflected glare, these lenses adapt automatically to their surroundings. They remain relatively clear indoors with a subtle protective tint, darken in bright light and develop polarising properties outdoors in sunlight.

Outdoors, the lenses can achieve up to 90% polarisation efficiency, helping reduce glare reflected from surfaces such as water, roads and snow. This supports clearer, more comfortable outdoor vision.

The lenses also darken behind a vehicle windscreen, although their polarising function does not activate in the same way inside the car. They block 100% of UVA and UVB rays and filter blue-violet light.

Key Benefits

Dynamic polarisation: Up to 90% polarisation efficiency outdoors to reduce reflected glare
Automatic light adaptation: Darkens in bright conditions and returns towards a clearer state indoors.
Enhanced visual clarity: Helps improve contrast, colour perception and definition in bright outdoor environments.
Activates in the car: Darkens behind a vehicle windscreen, but does not provide full outdoor polarisation in the car.
UV protection: Blocks 100% of UVA and UVB rays.
Blue-violet light filtering: Filters blue-violet light indoors and outdoors.
Outdoor comfort: Well suited to light-sensitive customers and those regularly exposed to reflective surfaces.
Everyday convenience: Combines photochromic and polarising benefits in one prescription lens.

Availability: 1.5 and 1.59 Grey only

Polarised Lenses

Polarised lenses offer an effective sunwear solution for customers who experience uncomfortable reflected glare. Unlike conventional tinted lenses, which primarily reduce overall brightness, polarised lenses incorporate a specialist filter that reduces horizontally polarised light reflected from surfaces such as roads, water and snow.

By controlling reflected glare, polarised lenses can improve visual comfort and help wearers see detail and contrast more clearly in bright outdoor conditions. They are particularly suitable for daytime driving, fishing, boating and a wide range of outdoor leisure activities. Available as prescription sunlenses, they offer independent opticians an attractive upgrade for customers seeking more than a standard sun tint.

Key Benefits

Polarised lenses help minimise distracting reflections from roads, water, snow and other shiny surfaces. They can reduce squinting and visual fatigue during prolonged exposure to bright sunlight, and by cutting glare they make contrast and fine detail easier to distinguish. A practical choice for daytime driving, fishing, boating and outdoor recreation, they can also be combined with your prescription for enhanced glare control. For anyone affected by reflected glare, they’re a useful alternative to conventional tinted sunglasses.

Ordering and dispensing support

Provide the full prescription, monocular pupillary distances and fitting heights, together with accurate frame measurements or a trace where required. For designs supporting position-of-wear personalisation, also supply the requested vertex distance, pantoscopic tilt, wrap angle and working distance. Confirm current material, coating, corridor and prescription availability with our team for the selected product.

At Insight Lenses, we work with you to select the right lens and manage expectations from the outset. Contact our team for product advice, fitting guidance and support with your next order.