Near vision · over 40
Is Your Near Vision Fading?
Presbyopia starts around 40. The lens inside the eye stiffens and stops refocusing up close, so menus, labels and your phone go soft. Most people put it down to tiredness or bad light. See what is really happening, check yourself in under two minutes, and find out which lenses fit your life.
Wearing distance glasses? Hold your phone at arm's length and tilt your head back. If that helps, read on.
Step one
See What Your Eyes Are Doing
At 52, most people can no longer focus on text closer than about 53 cm.
Now with lenses
A simulation, not a measurement. Your own near point depends on your prescription and the light.
Step two
Four Quick Questions
Indicative only. This is not an eye examination or a diagnosis.
Are you over 40?
Do you hold your phone or a menu further away than you used to?
Do you struggle to read in dim light, such as a restaurant?
Do you take your glasses off, or push them up, to read?
Reading test
Hold your phone at normal reading distance, about 40 cm. Take off reading glasses if you wear them. Tap the smallest line you can read comfortably.
Phone brightness and screen size change what you can read here, which is exactly why a proper test matters.
Your result
This is not an eye examination or a diagnosis. Only a sight test with a registered optometrist can confirm your prescription.
Step three
Tell Us About You
Six taps. Skip any you like; whatever you answer shapes your summary.
Age band
Current eyewear
Daily screen time
Work
Hobbies pick up to two
Biggest frustration
Step four
Your Summary
Writing your summary…
Shafik Haji, EYE Opticians
This is not an eye examination or a diagnosis. Only a sight test with a registered optometrist can confirm your prescription.
What is happening
Not Tired. Not the Lighting
From around 40 the lens inside the eye loses its flexibility. Your distance prescription stays right, but it becomes slightly too strong for reading. Dim light makes the pupil open wider, which makes the blur worse. That is why the restaurant menu is the first thing to go.
Freeform varifocals are surfaced digitally to your prescription, your frame and how you hold your head, so the clear zone is wide where you need it rather than a narrow corridor.
Edgbaston & Barnt Green
Fitted by Hand
An enhanced eye examination measures exactly where your near point sits. Then we fit the lens and frame to you, not the other way round.