Tinted goggles?

I have clear, yellow tint and black tint goggles. I haven't used the black in a long time, the clear are best for the indoor pool and I use the yellow in OWS. The yellow is enough tint to cut the glare without making it hard to sight, the gray tint is a bit too dark and makes it harder to sight. I would likely use the gray tint if I trained in an outdoor pool where sighting was not as important.

The yellow goggles I have are aquashpere, I am happy with them and recommend them. 

I have both blue tinted and clear goggles in my bag all the time.  I wear the tinted pairs most of the time, but will use the clear for early morning races where visibility would be a problem in the low light.

The only downside with the clear lenses has been races where the last leg of the swim is back towards the beach directly into the rising sun.

Mark

I'd practice with your clear goggles in an indoor pool once or twice.  It won't be much different but it can't hurt to make sure the clear ones are fitting right and you know what to expect.

To the OP, I have clear- and black-tinted AquaSpheres.  Just tried the tinted in the outdoor pool and loved them.  It was a cloudy day but there was still a bit of glare (I live in CO, where there's almost always glare).  I did an early morning OWS with blue-tinted and they worked great.  I lost them, though, so that's why I now have the ones I have (couldn't find any blue at local store and needed them right away).  Going to try the black ones at an OWS this weekend to see how I like them.  If they're too dark, I'll probably go back to blue.

I have the Kayenne Smoke tinted goggles, use them both indoor and outdoor, they worked really well on the last outdoor race, very bright sun, I had no issues.

The lake was kind of poor visibility so I couldn't see the black swim lines on the bottom anyway :-)

They work well in the pool also, so as an all rounder I use these, I also have a pair of speedo's with really dark tints and almost mirror reflection on the outside, they are much darker than the Aquasphere ones and don't get used much at all since I started using the Kayenne goggles.

Aquasphere do their adult Kayenne and Kaiman in small fit sizes as well as the regular ones.  Haven't seen the small fit in the store, but just noticed they have them on their site.

I'm not sure you can get "too dark" when the sun is in your line of sight. Ok, a welder's mask might be pushing it but I'm not confident that would work too well at keeping water out anyway. Smoke seems to be the best option and they typically aren't so dark you can't swim indoors or on a cloudy day with them as well. Not a fan of yellow as a lot of buoys out there tend to be orange and yellow and it can make it hard to distinguish between the two if used on the same course. 

What brand?

Originally posted by simpsonbo WTF Those are kid sized? They look huge... Wear Swedes... look fast...

Exact pair I have in the picture....best ones yet!!!

I have a pair of clear and tinted.  I bring both with me every time I swim.  The tinted work really well in the outdoor pool that I swim in.

For races I figure out where the sun is going to be and determine if I need the tint.  I prefer clear for most races just cuz I like to see better.