My LAK-12 has had a tinted canopy for 10 years and I love it. It was
custom blown instead of being factory molded, resulting in excellent
optics. Can fly w/o sunglasses and keeps the cockpit cooler.

Note: when circling in thermal with other pilots, they report that they
can't see into my canopy, to see if I'm looking at them. To them it's like
trying to see inside the windows of a tinted glass automobile. I open the sliding vent and wave.