Nikon Optical Canada Launches New Era of Progressive Lenses – Z SERIES PROGRESSIVES

Monday, September 30 2024 | 08 h 20 min | News

Nikon Optical Canada announces the launch of new Z SERIES PROGRESSIVES, inspired by Nikon’s camera lens contrast assessment method.

For the first time, Nikon Lenswear merges this proprietary contrast evaluation method with its deep understanding of human vision to create an innovative design system for progressive lenses.

According to Nikon’s study, 80%* of progressive lens wearers are dissatisfied with the vision experience of their current lenses even with the correct prescription. They encounter the struggle of trying to see at a near and intermediate distance. Z SERIES PROGRESSIVES, offers a portfolio of progressive lenses, meticulously designed to optimize the visual field in the corridor.

Progressive lens designs have always focused on improving the width of the visual field, but now, thanks to Z-Contrast Technology, Z SERIES PROGRESSIVES bring the proximal zone higher up where the wearer needs it most. The proximal zone is used for all tasks within arm’s reach but, it is located in the lower part of the corridor which makes it less accessible. When looking through the corridor, the eyes capture lateral aberrations and power changes thus, resulting in a loss of sharpness and reduced contrasts.

With Z-Contrast Technology the heightened contrast transmission in the progression zone enhances the clarity of the clear vision area, enabling wearers to enjoy a broader focal range for close-up tasks. This offers patients greater vision freedom and seamless clarity with greater precision of contrast.

Z SERIES PROGRESSIVES are available as of September 30th 2024 in SeeMax Ultimate Z and Presio Power Z. In addition, Seemax Ultimate Z also offers Personalized Contrasts Perception. Thanks to this additional measurement, the progression zone is personalized to improve the contrast performance while suppressing lens aberrations making the vision experience more personalized and unique to the wearer.

For more information about the new Z SERIES PROGRESSIVES, visit the Nikon Lenswear website or contact your Nikon Business Development Partner.

References:

* 1 Pain points faced by existing progressive lens wearers from the Quantitative Acceptability Study of New Progressive Lens Concept, Aug 2023 – in Japan, UK, Canada, France, and China, (n=500)

2 Question: Please indicate your level of dissatisfaction with the glasses you are currently using on a scale from «Not at all dissatisfied (1 point)» to «Very dissatisfied (10 points)» with respect to the problems that occur despite the use of glasses with progressive lenses. The percentages referred to the proportion of wearers out of 500 who have given a score of 3 or higher for the listed problem.

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