The precision ground and highly polished glass B&L Kalichrome C lens is a yellow high contrast lens free of waves or any other defects that could distort vision or cause eye strain. The B&L Kalichrome lenses are famous worldwide for their ability to intensify and enhance the visual spectrum, and sporting enthusiasts and pilots everywhere swear by these glasses when in difficult visibility situations. If you've never worn a pair of Ray-Ban Kalichrome yellow lens sunglasses then you just won't realize how much objects seem to leap out at you in any light situation, providing a degree of visual acuity that is really unsurpassed by any other optical quality sunglasses lens. The B&L Kalichrome lens actually intensifies light and increases contrast, not to mention they look cool. The shooter style of sunglasses in which the Kalichrome lenses are usually found is similar to the aviator but sits a bit higher up on the face, and the area between the lens is smaller and separated by a circular ring that aficionados call the bullet hole. Vintage Ray-Ban outdoorsman Kalichrome shooter sunglasses typically have cable temples to provide a secure fit to go along with their cool utilitarian look. Frequently, the Kalichrome yellow lens shooters will frequently be the highly desirable B&L Ray-Bay gold filled frames that will be marked Ray-Ban B&L 1/20 10k GF or 1/10 12k GF impressed in the metal on top of the nose bridge. B&L refers to this style and lens as "Gradient Density Sunglasses" and notes in their period product literature from the 1970's that "these lenses have been filled with a metallic coating to obtain a vertical density gradation. This coating is hard and durable and, with reasonable care, lenses will remain in good condition." Since we have access to period B&L Ray-Ban product information and research, we also thought it relevant to pass on B&L's recommendation that you "make sure that this sun glass is properly aligned horizontally before your eyes, so that equal densities are encountered by both eyes."

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