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STOTTS. Light — for bright, changing and outdoor light
Who it's for · What's in it · What powers it · What it won't do · Who it isn't for
For bright, changing and outdoor light — everyday lenses that react to light, or prescription sun, chosen for the light you actually live in.
Lens technology: Nikon Lenswear. Configuration: STOTTS.
Who it's for
The day this configuration is built around.
- People outdoors a fair bit or most days who find bright light uncomfortable, squint or reach for non-prescription sunglasses
- People who move between indoors and outdoors a lot, or would like their everyday glasses to react to light
- Drivers troubled by bright daylight, low sun or glare off water, road or grass
- Not for anyone who is not outdoors much and untroubled by bright light — or who already wears prescription sunglasses they use
What's in this configuration
What we measure, decide and check.
- Your Lens Profile, checked against your prescription in practice
- Prescription validated — bring your current glasses
- The light layer chosen for the reason you gave us
- Reactive everyday lens or a dedicated sun pair — decided with you
- Driving check stated before the choice: behind a windscreen polarisation is 30%, not classed as polarised
- Colour and depth chosen in practice from what the design and index allow
- Frame dimensions and fitting heights measured for the design
- Coating chosen for a reason you gave us — polarised sun lenses take an anti-reflection coating on the back surface only
- Fitting review after you collect — adjusted or put right if needed
Your own Lens Profile lists only the parameters the design it names can actually take — a lens that has no near inset is never shown one. Source: Nikon Lenswear Dispensing Guide 2026.
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The lens technology underneath.
Transitions GEN S, Transitions XTRActive or Transitions XTRActive Polarized from Nikon Lenswear, or polarised prescription sun lenses — each named with its own reason.
Lens technology: Nikon Lenswear. Configuration: STOTTS.
The lens technology is Nikon Lenswear's and is available from other opticians. The configuration — assessment, measurements, design parameters and dispensing — is ours.
What it won't do
Said before you choose, not after.
Who it isn't for
When the profile says no.
- Prescription sunglasses You're not outdoors much and bright light doesn't trouble you.
How we decide
In practice, in this order.
- 01Decide between reactive everyday lenses and a dedicated sun pair
- 02Colour and depth from what the design and index allow
- 03Whether you drive, and what that means for polarisation behind a windscreen
A case, in outline
A varifocal wearer outdoors most days who squints or borrows non-prescription sunglasses, and drives into low sun. The profile names Light — with the option and its own reason — and states the windscreen fact before any choice.
An outline, not a promise: every configuration is confirmed against a prescription and measured in practice.
About the cost of a second pair
If it lives beside your everyday pair.
A complete second pair starts from £99 for single vision and £199 for a varifocal; members save 20% on complete eyewear and 50% on an additional complete pair within 90 days.
Light questions.
Prescription sunglasses or lenses that react to light?
It depends on where the light finds you. Indoors-and-out all day points at everyday lenses that react to light; long hours in real sun or glare off water, road or grass points at a polarised sun pair. Many people end up with both — decided with you.
Do reactive lenses work in the car?
The guide describes Transitions XTRActive as the darkest in the car and Transitions GEN S as fully clear indoors. For polarisation, the guide states that behind a windscreen efficiency is 30%, not classified as polarised — so the profile says that before the choice, not after.
Is this a coating or a lens?
A light layer — reactive lenses or a sun tint — on whatever lens design your everyday configuration calls for. The coating conversation is separate and has its own reason.
Your next step
Find out if this is your configuration.
Answer the Lens Profile questions about your day and it names the configuration your answers point to — Light or another — or says plainly that nothing needs to change. The configuration itself is assembled in practice.
A STOTTS. configuration describes what we measure, decide and check in practice around a lens; the lens technology is Nikon Lenswear's and is available from other opticians.