Emilia 254

Emilia posing in the most beautiful glasses from my collection. The glasses come from Germany and they were the most recent of four glasses that once belonged to a very shortsighted German lady who had increase after increase in her prescription. She switched to blended myodisc (Lentilux) glasses in the early / mid 1980's, then back to the newly invented high index glasses in the late 1980's and finally back to these blended myodisc glasses by Flair in the early 1990's. Together, the four glasses span a period of 15 years in which her prescription changed from -11 to -14. The Flair glasses are nearly always featured in my photo shoots because of the beautiful frame and also because of the visual effects caused by the intricate Lentilux lenses. Seen "en face" there is no cut in effect and no power rings. This is the great attraction of blended myodisc glasses. When the vantage point changes, the central bowl with the high correction becomes gradually visible. Here a mild effect can be seen at the corner of the model's left eye. The transition between the central bowl and the surrounding positive carrier lens elongates the model's make-up in a subtle but unintended way.