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26th August 2018, 11:20 | #1 |
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I've owned my Lagoon '75 for some 12 years now. Thing is, I'm colour blind and when I first saw the car, I thought it a lovely colour - grey with a very slight hint of green .
I have since been advised by folk that my '75 looks quite different to the way I see it and so, for the first time ever, being colour blind has irritated me - I would love to see how my car looks to everyone else. I can see most colours without issue, and the world in general seems a colourful place. I would never know I had an issue with colour if it weren't for 3 things:
So, with all that in mind I decided to try out a pair of colour correcting glasses. They're supposed to correct colour blindness for 80 - 90% of folk, but are pretty expensive for something that I've always thought to be more akin to those "X-ray specs" you could order from the back of comics when I was a kid! Anyhow, the ones I looked at had a "no nonsense" 30 day return period, so with nothing to lose (I hope), I spent the required £48 on a set of clip on lenses for my current glasses. The clip ons arrived yesterday, and appear to be a quality product. Very well made and quite expensive looking. I tried them on, and instantly noticed that reds were redder, blues where brighter etc. Nice, but no new colours popped out . So, I went outside to look at my Baby and wow, she was really quite colourfull. The grey was gone, replaced by what I'd describe as a deep shade of turquoise (but what do I know). Yayyy . Thing is though, as lovely as it looked, there wasn't even a hint of green in the colour and, when asked to describe the colour of my car, green tends to be the first thing most folk say. I tried one of those on-line colour site tests, and without the glasses my sight was categorised as "Protan". With the glasses it came out as "Deuteran". It seems I have swapped one type of colour blindness for another . I shall be returning the glasses in the next day or so, but in the meantime, I just might pop into our local snooker club in search of that elusive brown ball (if it really exists). Cliff
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26th August 2018, 11:28 | #2 |
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Same as me red/green colour blind.
The speedo on my people carrier is an red/orange needle when lit against a green background and I in certain light I cannot distinguish where the needle is. Stubs |
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Apparently it's quite common amongst men, less so in women. Frustrating.
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Hey Cliff, I see a green revolving car under your screen name. I only see turquoise when I see your car, which if anything, is more blue than green.
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Hi Cliff, yep, your avatar is a mid to deep green, and your sig piccie is a lovely blue shade of turquoise
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Where did you get the clip-on lenses from?
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