Release the Falcon

I first took delivery of a Falcon fitting set from Ocutech last summer and so was pleased to be able to offer an autofocusing telescope as an option when meeting a patient with quite specific visual needs, for whom magnification of multiple distances seemed necessary and where manual adjustment had been previously dismissed as too cumbersome.

The Falcon makes manual focusing obsolete. The system includes an autofocusing function not dissimilar to that in a modern digital camera device. The telescope is mounted on a metal frame and adjusted such that the eye piece is above the pupil (figure 1). This allows the wearer the option of normal viewing through the spectacle lens (figure 2) and telescopic viewing by a single tilt of the head downwards (figure 3), hence a bioptic viewing system. The eyepieces may be adjusted to correct ametropia of up to ±8.00DS, and further sphere power or a cylinder correction of up to -3.00DC may be ordered.