It's a natural part of aging. By 40, many people lose their ability to focus on objects at close range. The restaurant menu, newspaper print, directions on a label--all become blurry when the condition, known as presbyopia, sets in. The good news is that presbyopia, or farsightedness, is easily corrected with reading glasses, bifocals, and magnification devices.

Many of the vision enhancing products we offer are available in several magnification strengths. A 1.5 designation, for instance, means the lens will magnify an object to 150% of its original size, 2.0 to 200%, etc. Our chart below offers examples of type as it would appear with different levels of magnification.

Newspaper type (Not Magnified)	2.25X	3X
4X	6X	8X

The illustrations shown above are examples of type as it would appear with different levels of magnification.

To select a product that is right for you, look at this page to determine which level of magnification suits your needs. For best results, print this page and look at it in different kinds of lighting -- both indoors and outdoors.