Reddit mentions: The best optometry books

I'm in the same position as you are my friend. I have plenty of books I'm reading upon, but the best book I can refer to you is...

https://www.amazon.com/Optician-Training-Manual-David-McCleary/dp/0615193811/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1502143251&sr=8-3&keywords=abo+exam

& LaramyK online as well as quizlet.com has a bunch of study guides and practice tests people have made. check it out, I'm on the same boat as you dude, shit is tough. A lot of material to cover. Good luck!

Here is the required book from my Cls class, but I havn't used it so i dont know if it is good or not. Also this one was written by my professor who is pretty good.

The Bennett Book is amazing for a Contact Lens Manual as stated here. I have been using it at school for a few semesters now. Also, the Will's Eye manual is quite nice to have in clinic when you see that nutso thing that you have no idea what it is. For Pediatrics, I would suggest a book by Scheimann. He is lecturing to us now, and he is pretty damn good at what he does.

It's been awhile since I studied this. I found the book Contrast Sensitivity of the Human Eye and Its Effects on Image Quality very useful at the time, but it might be outdated. Unfortunately I don't have it with me here right now, so I'll go from memory on the topic.

To answer your question, "how many FPS can your eye see" depends on what you mean by "can see". For example, I recall experiments that were something along the line of a black screen where a white image was flashed in a single frame and viewers signaled if they were aware that an image had been shown. (Obviously there would be a reaction lag, but that is largely irrelevant to the study.) I recall that people could detect the single image up to more than 200 FPS.

But is that "seeing" it? They couldn't describe the image, just that there was a flash, IIRC.

Another study I recall (not in this book, I don't think) was evaluation of whether people could notice the difference between videos at different frame rates, obviously with some controls using the same frame rate to detect a false positive rate. I believe they used a high frame rate as the reference, and varied they lower one to higher and higher rates.

I believe that there were responses better than guessing of statistical significance somewhere up to the 60 FPS range, but that most people fell off around the 30 FPS range, meaning beyond that most people can't see any difference of the higher rate. (Of course this will depend on content of the video, and I do not recall the details of the different content tests.)

I know this can't settle anything and I wish I had the references in front of me, but it's been a decade since I did projects where this was relevant.

For an overview of the field targeted for those in an assistant or even admin role, I would recommend The Ophthalmic Assistant by Stein. It's reasonably thorough - should cover almost anything you'll be asked by people. It's also an easy read IMO :)

http://www.amazon.com/Geometrical-Visual-Optics-Second-Edition/dp/0071790829

This one. It is most excellent.

This is a classic and very easy read:

https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Art-Prescribing-Glasses-Spectacle/dp/0937404667

Both eyes are correctable to 20/20? Since you seem to be asking for a reference text, our collage felt as though Griffin was the Bible of binocular vision anomalies.

Do you have any ophthalmic optics training, or are you just planning on winging it?

System for Ophthalmic Dispensing 3rd edition is the standard for optical training. It's called the blue bible. Once you learn everything in it, then you have the basic knowledge of being an optician.

I did. Would this help? https://www.amazon.com/dp/1721756035