Poll: Most Desired AR Lens Sizes

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Working with a local optometrist to see if AR Lens can be affordably sourced in the US.

If you come across a source for AR glass in sheets, please pass it on. From what I have read, it's easy to cut glass into circles. Hobby level quality circle glass cutters are quite affordable.

He is sourcing the material now but that is good to know. It may not be worth his time, but it could be worth mine.

19mm is most desired for owners of Olight S10/20! Stock lens is green… :open_mouth:

It may be possible to offer size to order. I have found a local source for 1.58MM thick 20x24 sheets of AR glass for a good price. Looking now at what it would take to efficiently cut. Found a super cool CO2 laser but its $3500! If the demand was there I could possibly justify it but I would need to sell around 2000 lens.

Coated glass can very a lot. You can measure how much light is reflected from it’s two surfaces with a camera that has a spot meter. Put the glass on black velvet outside in the shade where you can bounce light from the sky to the glass then to the meter. I have purchased “coated” glass for flashlights from 5 places. The best I have seen came from flashlightlens.com. You can also use multi-coated UV filters that are made for cameras such as the 58mm lens that the HD2010 uses as it’s hard to find. The biggest improvement over non-coated is seen in the largest lens lights.

If you can get reasonable cost and therefore prices, I think you could get a lot of business making custom sizes.

That would be a heck of a great service to be able to provide. Hope it works for you financially.

Based on the information in hand the cost is reasonable and I can offer a competitive price. I will need to do some testing as mentioned above to make sure the quality is on par. Also what kind of packaging will be needed to ship safely.

Jacob A60 49.7x1.9mm

I'd probably get a S10 lens too even though I'm not as bothered by the tint shift as others.

I’d like a good reliable source of good quality P60 drop-in 27mm x 2mm AR glass from a trusted supplier.
As to packaging, I’ve found the best to be protective film over the surface so I can place the lens without touching the surface. Then in plastic self seal bags, taped to stiff card then bubble wrap and into a postage envelope or card package, like DVD’s get posted in.

EDIT…………… Cancelled vote as I’m now sorted thanks to RaceR86 And I don’t want to skew the results.…………… EDIT

Just got my A60 in and, yes…it needs a lens…BAD!!

Waiting to hear from my optometrist friend, but most of the glass I am finding is 1.58MM. If I am able to offer this at all, it will be one thickness. I am not going to be able to stock a variety of different sheets. Diameter will be cut to order.

Very cool Mike, thanks, this could be SO helpful for our community!!

+1 I can’t find one for my A60 too.

Also the 68.5 mm for my X100. :slight_smile: