Customers find these reading glasses to be of good quality, comfortable, and worth their price, particularly noting they work well for computer and reading tasks. The multifocus feature receives mixed feedback – while some praise its amazing performance, others mention the lenses have some distortion. Durability is also mixed, with some finding them sturdy while others report them breaking within a week. The clarity receives mixed reviews, with customers noting excellent vision at a range of distances but everything being blurry at distance.
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11 reviews for Foster Grant Men’s Braydon Multifocus Reading Glasses
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MM –
Great Glasses
Foster Grants are the way to go. Comfortable, durable, and magnification is correct.
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Heather –
Love the Multifocal
OMG – these are the best. I love the multifocal soooo much more than normal readers.
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DH –
does the job
I spend a lot of my workday continually alternating from looking down at a laptop screen (where I need the magnification), then looking across the table (no magnification required) at a client/coworker/boss.The old on-again off-again routine of regular single-strength readers was beyond annoying, so decided to try a progressive reader.I didn’t want to shell out big bucks for a prescription pair, so gave these a try.Overall I’m very pleased. They’re quite sturdy, without being bulky – they don’t look or feel ‘cheap’. The arms are spring-loaded so are forgiving when taking them on and off. The progressive lens works quite well for me, to the point I rarely take them off during the work day. For extended periods of reading or computer use I still prefer a regular single-strength reader, but these are now my ‘go to’ glasses at the office.They do tend to smear and smudge, needs a lot of wiping and cleaning compared to my (significantly more expensive) single-strength pair. As others have mentioned, there is a subtle but noticeable rose-colored tint to these lenses – which doesn’t bother me too much and isn’t noticeable when actually wearing them.All in all, they’re good for the price. I’d even pay a little more for a better lens coating option (hydrophobic / oleophobic).
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Marco A. Zamora –
MUCH better than multifocus prescription glasses
I need reading glasses to work (for presbyopia), and need stronger correction for closer work, not as much for looking at the computer monitor, and almost none for looking at my colleagues, whiteboards or projector screens when in meeting rooms.I tried with several multifocus prescription glasses, and they all had weird aberrations, had too strong correction at the top, and a tiny size for the closer reading area bottom, tiny both vertically and horizontally: if I held a book in my hand, the reading area didn’t even cover the width of a paperback page. (I find it idiotic to design prescription glasses in a way that you have to move your head or book to be able to read it.)After I threw all those (expensive) glasses away, but before going back to swapping two reading glasses perched at the tip of my nose, I decided to give the Foster Grant multifocus readers a try. For the price, I didn’t expect much.I was blown away: these glasses are much better optically than all the $400+ fancy-coating prescription glasses I’ve bought, the multifocus does not have dizzy aberrations, the three correction zones go all the width from once side to the other, and vertically they’re high enough to be useful. Plus the top correction works great for looking at whiteboards without having to push down my glasses.The frames are too weak for the kind of heavy use I give them: I’ve broken two at the hinge in a year and a half. Nevertheless, the price can’t be beat and I’m willing to keep extra pairs hanging around in case I break or forget them. The fragility would knock off a star in the rating, but the price puts it back up again.I dread the day they stop making these; when the time comes, I think I’ll have to order enough pairs to last 20+ more years.
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Midwest Hacker –
Multi focus??? I don’t see that at all in mine. Work as standard readers but no multi focus to me.
I have progressives and bi-focals. My prescriptions are fresh and work as advertised. I see NO multi-focus through these at all. They work as readers but that’s it. Your luck may be better. With this brand name I expected better.
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Daniel F. –
My first negative review.
I’d rarely feel compelled to write a review. I think acknowledgment of a good product or service is well worthwhile but negative reviews, I find, are often born out of personal opinion. This product is different – for me they are unusable although I decided to wear them for this review so I can explain to you the problem.As soon as they arrived I was impressed that they looked as I expected, so from that perspective I was happy. They appear well built, and not at all flimsy. Things changed immediately I put them on. At first I thought it was a bad case of dirty lenses so I inspected them and they were completely clean, as you would expect with brand new. I put them back on and it was like there were finger prints on the lenses, you know, the kind which cause that ‘foggy’ and “blurry” effect. So, my wife tried them and got the exactly the same.It turned out to be a severe case of eye/face reflection from the back of the lenses. Yes, the twinkle in my eye was creating a haze-like effect throughout the field of vision. It is much worse as I look down at my keyboard while typing, slightly less so as I look at the bright monitor. At longer ranges I constantly want to take them off to ‘clean them”. I have had several people try them and all report the same effect. I even offered them to a colleague for free who graciously declined once he had tried them.Either way, I purchased these on the basis that multi-focus lenses should theoretically negate, to some extent, the need for head-tilting or constant removal to adjust to different fields of focus. These glasses don’t satisfy this and however noble the attempt to produce a more ’rounded’ lens they overlooked this key element during testing. As a glasses wearer I have worn various makes, styles and lens types over the years and never have I had such a bad lens reflection as with these. I will be returning them for a refund!
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M. Hernandez –
Muy buen producto, El multi enfoque esta exactamente al nivel que yo necesito para poder manejar y ver el tablero sin problemas
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k van tine –
doesn’t work, poor quality – dealer won’t refund return will cost you 1/3 value
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carlos a. –
Excelente producto!
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DANIEL CARRILLO –
Es grato usarlos, cumplieron las expectativas, son de muy buena calidad, precio – beneficio justo.
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Alan –
I also wish I could order a pair with 0 distance help for distance at the top. Would be great if I glanced over at the TV while reading or on the computer and could see properly. Otherwise great glasses. I like the way the arms are attached to the frame on this model. The last pair broke at the weld. Let me know when O distance is available and I’ll order another pair immediately.
MM –
Great Glasses
Foster Grants are the way to go. Comfortable, durable, and magnification is correct.
Heather –
Love the Multifocal
OMG – these are the best. I love the multifocal soooo much more than normal readers.
DH –
does the job
I spend a lot of my workday continually alternating from looking down at a laptop screen (where I need the magnification), then looking across the table (no magnification required) at a client/coworker/boss.The old on-again off-again routine of regular single-strength readers was beyond annoying, so decided to try a progressive reader.I didn’t want to shell out big bucks for a prescription pair, so gave these a try.Overall I’m very pleased. They’re quite sturdy, without being bulky – they don’t look or feel ‘cheap’. The arms are spring-loaded so are forgiving when taking them on and off. The progressive lens works quite well for me, to the point I rarely take them off during the work day. For extended periods of reading or computer use I still prefer a regular single-strength reader, but these are now my ‘go to’ glasses at the office.They do tend to smear and smudge, needs a lot of wiping and cleaning compared to my (significantly more expensive) single-strength pair. As others have mentioned, there is a subtle but noticeable rose-colored tint to these lenses – which doesn’t bother me too much and isn’t noticeable when actually wearing them.All in all, they’re good for the price. I’d even pay a little more for a better lens coating option (hydrophobic / oleophobic).
Marco A. Zamora –
MUCH better than multifocus prescription glasses
I need reading glasses to work (for presbyopia), and need stronger correction for closer work, not as much for looking at the computer monitor, and almost none for looking at my colleagues, whiteboards or projector screens when in meeting rooms.I tried with several multifocus prescription glasses, and they all had weird aberrations, had too strong correction at the top, and a tiny size for the closer reading area bottom, tiny both vertically and horizontally: if I held a book in my hand, the reading area didn’t even cover the width of a paperback page. (I find it idiotic to design prescription glasses in a way that you have to move your head or book to be able to read it.)After I threw all those (expensive) glasses away, but before going back to swapping two reading glasses perched at the tip of my nose, I decided to give the Foster Grant multifocus readers a try. For the price, I didn’t expect much.I was blown away: these glasses are much better optically than all the $400+ fancy-coating prescription glasses I’ve bought, the multifocus does not have dizzy aberrations, the three correction zones go all the width from once side to the other, and vertically they’re high enough to be useful. Plus the top correction works great for looking at whiteboards without having to push down my glasses.The frames are too weak for the kind of heavy use I give them: I’ve broken two at the hinge in a year and a half. Nevertheless, the price can’t be beat and I’m willing to keep extra pairs hanging around in case I break or forget them. The fragility would knock off a star in the rating, but the price puts it back up again.I dread the day they stop making these; when the time comes, I think I’ll have to order enough pairs to last 20+ more years.
Midwest Hacker –
Multi focus??? I don’t see that at all in mine. Work as standard readers but no multi focus to me.
I have progressives and bi-focals. My prescriptions are fresh and work as advertised. I see NO multi-focus through these at all. They work as readers but that’s it. Your luck may be better. With this brand name I expected better.
Daniel F. –
My first negative review.
I’d rarely feel compelled to write a review. I think acknowledgment of a good product or service is well worthwhile but negative reviews, I find, are often born out of personal opinion. This product is different – for me they are unusable although I decided to wear them for this review so I can explain to you the problem.As soon as they arrived I was impressed that they looked as I expected, so from that perspective I was happy. They appear well built, and not at all flimsy. Things changed immediately I put them on. At first I thought it was a bad case of dirty lenses so I inspected them and they were completely clean, as you would expect with brand new. I put them back on and it was like there were finger prints on the lenses, you know, the kind which cause that ‘foggy’ and “blurry” effect. So, my wife tried them and got the exactly the same.It turned out to be a severe case of eye/face reflection from the back of the lenses. Yes, the twinkle in my eye was creating a haze-like effect throughout the field of vision. It is much worse as I look down at my keyboard while typing, slightly less so as I look at the bright monitor. At longer ranges I constantly want to take them off to ‘clean them”. I have had several people try them and all report the same effect. I even offered them to a colleague for free who graciously declined once he had tried them.Either way, I purchased these on the basis that multi-focus lenses should theoretically negate, to some extent, the need for head-tilting or constant removal to adjust to different fields of focus. These glasses don’t satisfy this and however noble the attempt to produce a more ’rounded’ lens they overlooked this key element during testing. As a glasses wearer I have worn various makes, styles and lens types over the years and never have I had such a bad lens reflection as with these. I will be returning them for a refund!
M. Hernandez –
Muy buen producto, El multi enfoque esta exactamente al nivel que yo necesito para poder manejar y ver el tablero sin problemas
k van tine –
doesn’t work, poor quality – dealer won’t refund return will cost you 1/3 value
carlos a. –
Excelente producto!
DANIEL CARRILLO –
Es grato usarlos, cumplieron las expectativas, son de muy buena calidad, precio – beneficio justo.
Alan –
I also wish I could order a pair with 0 distance help for distance at the top. Would be great if I glanced over at the TV while reading or on the computer and could see properly. Otherwise great glasses. I like the way the arms are attached to the frame on this model. The last pair broke at the weld. Let me know when O distance is available and I’ll order another pair immediately.