Question Budget --> Midrange --> High End Mask Feature Differences?

[Wibble]

The main requirements of a mask: that it fits comfortably and you can see through it.

This totally depends upon your face shape and people are different. Once you've found the mask that fits then buy a spare!

Price really doesn't come into it.

Also there's a ton of absolute BS spewed forth from the manufacturers, be that utra-mega-super-clear glass (in 10ft vis???), some stupid coatings, silly straps, whatever. Ignore that and get a mask that fits. And a spare.

 

[happy-diver]

I own and have tested so many brand new or one dive masks that I send them around the world to people

For free!

The twenty dollar mask, that looks the same as the one hundred and twenty dollar mask, is the same mask

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https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-diving-masks.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.search.0

Amazon.com.au : diving masks

Scuba diving masks | Diveinn

Find Fins, masks and snorkels with the best offers. Buy Masks for dive in diveinn

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[justinthedeeps]

Got some nice little masks in Asia from online shops for like $15 with good glass and silicone. Fit works, seems and dives the same as any mask.

Survives/passes the jet lighter defog routine. Maybe can't do that with some of the $300 coated/filter masks

 

[SeaLionScuba1987]

Masks that perform well typically are copied & made progressively cheaper. For example the TUSA Liberator took the market by storm in the 80’s with its crystal silicone skirt that fit so many so well. Copies are still made, sold retail for $16 or less, with thin straps, cheap buckles and brittle lens retaining rings that cannot be bought for replacement. Yet prescription lenses are still available in -, + and bifocal diopters so they still sell well. Few individual pieces of gear distinguish themselves so well for so long.