Our website has been rebuilt from the ground up. Here is what is new, how the free, member and subscriber tiers work, and how to activate your account if you already get the magazine.
Welcome to the new NZ Optics website. The site you are reading has been rebuilt from the ground up. It is faster, easier to read, and carries a searchable archive of close to 6,000 articles going back over a decade along with a new friendly AI assistant, Alfred Eye. If you bookmarked a piece in the past, that link still works, so the reference you saved is where you left it.
This is the first stage, not the finished article with further developments planned over the coming months. The print magazine, meanwhile, is not going anywhere. It stays at the centre of what we do and will continue arriving on your desk as it always has.
About NZ Optics
NZ Optics is the publication for New Zealand's ophthalmic community, published by Old Butcher Holdings Ltd. We write for the people who work in eyecare: optometrists, ophthalmologists, dispensing opticians, practice managers and researchers, and the technicians and nurses alongside them, in New Zealand and across the Tasman.
The work runs to 11 print issues a year and an annual wallplanner, two monthly e-newsletters, the Optical Information Guide (OIG) supplier directory, an events calendar and a classifieds board. The new site is designed to make this more accessible across all your devices.
How access works
There are three ways to read NZ Optics online.
Free Registration costs nothing. Register and you can read our news and the large majority of our articles, sign up for the e-newsletters, and use the events calendar.
Digital Online is $40 a year (plus GST). It adds the full digital edition of the magazine and our subscriber-only articles, read on any device without receiving a physical copy of the magazine.
Print & Digital is $99 a year (plus GST) for delivery within New Zealand, with overseas and multi-copy rates listed separately. You get the 11 print issues and the wallplanner posted to you, plus all of the digital access that comes with Digital Online.
You can compare the plans and sign up at nzoptics.co.nz/subscribe.
Already get the magazine? Activate your account
If you already subscribe to the print magazine, you do not need to buy anything. Your subscription includes full digital access. You just need to claim the account we have set up against the email address we hold for you.