Monitors and Eye Strain

jorarulit

jorarulit

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hello bros

I was wondering - what are the best settings on the monitor to avoid eye strain?

like at what do you set your brightness and contrast, gamma and other things.

What additional lightning do you use, if any?

Good luck bros
 


If you're still using a CRT, increase the refresh rate past 80hz.
But for either CRT or LCD it helps to keep in a well lit enviroment with some lighting behind the screen to help prevent the whole tunnel vision effect that can cause strain.
 
For my main monitor I use a matte finish screen. A shiny glass screen just drives me fucking bananas even though the color is better.

I turn down the brightness and lower the contrast.
 
Where's the fan boys? Supposedly Mac font rendering (R) is to be superior to Windows (L) with less eye strain. YMMV

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Jizzlobber said:
Where's the fan boys? Supposedly Mac font rendering (R) is to be superior to Windows (L) with less eye strain. YMMV
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You're not seriously going there are you? (ie: buy a mac as a solution)

I'm on a mac, you can still get eye strain, has a bit to do with your work environment too.

PS: For windows users, if you're on an LCD monitor, double check to see if Cleartype has been enabled, and optimized to your taste.
 
Its not even trolling, Windows fonts hurt my eyes a lot faster than Mac fonts do.

I'm not even a Mac head. In fact, I would never recommend anyone buy a Mac and will never do so myself again. The font rendering in Mac OS is unquestionably better though.
 
Gunnar Optiks - Products.

make sure you have something to look at behind the monitor. Like, place your TV a behind your monitor so your eyes can adjust to something that's not a wall in front of your face. this nearly helped me a lot. I have a clock about 6-10 feet away from my computer (like behind them monitor, so when i go to check the time, i glance up and my eyes get a break etc.
 
kblessinggr said:
If you're still using a CRT, increase the refresh rate past 80hz.
But for either CRT or LCD it helps to keep in a well lit enviroment with some lighting behind the screen to help prevent the whole tunnel vision effect that can cause strain.
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I just relocated my lamp to the back of my monitor:



Any other suggestionz?
 
jorarulit said:
I just relocated my lamp to the back of my monitor:

Any other suggestionz?
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Yeah, that's pretty weak. The lamp shade helps I suppose, but you want reflected ambient light, not some harsh bright lamp right behind your screen. Use bounced reflected light off the walls and ceiling. Use upwards firing floor lamps and put them behind furniture and in corners. The room should have a nice warm glow about it all around you, not harsh spots of light.

You can pick up canister floor lights from Ikea or any decent lighting store for $10 ish. I just use cheap hooded swing arm desk lamps and point them away from me at the walls and ceiling. The amount of light they cast back is perfect. I can sit looking at my screens, with occasional breaks of course, for 12 to 16 hours a day.

Also, good quality calibrated screens and proper DVI signals will make things crisper. Feeding a VGA signal into an LCD doesn't look as good as DVI.
 
Fatbat said:
Yeah, that's pretty weak. The lamp shade helps I suppose, but you want reflected ambient light, not some harsh bright lamp right behind your screen. Use bounced reflected light off the walls and ceiling. Use upwards firing floor lamps and put them behind furniture and in corners. The room should have a nice warm glow about it all around you, not harsh spots of light.

You can pick up canister floor lights from Ikea or any decent lighting store for $10 ish. I just use cheap hooded swing arm desk lamps and point them away from me at the walls and ceiling. The amount of light they cast back is perfect. I can sit looking at my screens, with occasional breaks of course, for 12 to 16 hours a day.

Also, good quality calibrated screens and proper DVI signals will make things crisper. Feeding a VGA signal into an LCD doesn't look as good as DVI.
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Can you point me to the stuff you're talking about on amazon.com? I kinda get the overall picture of what the room is gonna look like when all lights are in place (sexy:338:), but not sure exactly what stuffz to use.
 
Fatbat said:
Yeah, that's pretty weak. The lamp shade helps I suppose, but you want reflected ambient light,
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Yea basically the same kind of shit you've seen for lighting behind TV screens and such, a wide-spread glow of sort that is basically supposed to help reduce the contrast between the screen brightness and the rest of the environment.
 
Refrozen said:
Its not even trolling, Windows fonts hurt my eyes a lot faster than Mac fonts do.

I'm not even a Mac head. In fact, I would never recommend anyone buy a Mac and will never do so myself again. The font rendering in Mac OS is unquestionably better though.
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There's always OSX x86, or load up Ubuntu with OSX rendering (can't remember where I've seen it done.)
 
i never, ever get eyestrain and i just attribute it to a couple simple things:

i make sure to blink as often as i would when not using a computer. "forgetting" to blink (as ridiculous as it sounds) is one of the main sources of eyestrain.

also make sure you look up and away from your monitors and *focus your eyes on something that is physically and optically farther away*. those of you that have your monitors against a wall (99% of the office photos i've seen on here) and suffer eyestrain/discomfort, i swear thats your problem..
 
Fatbat said:
I can sit looking at my screens, with occasional breaks of course, for 12 to 16 hours a day.
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same here, didn't want to quote your whole post..

i really don't have any of these problems, and i think good lighting/whats visually behind the monitors is the biggest factor.

i have this Progress Lighting Victorian Collection Pearl Nickel 2-light Semi-flushmount - P3327-06 at The Home Depot with two 100w reveal bulbs [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Lamps-48690-100-Watt-Reveal-Bulbs/dp/B000089DC9]Amazon.com: GE Lamps 48690 100-Watt A19 Reveal Bulbs, 4 Pack: Home Improvement[/ame] these seem to give the most daylight-like light of all the store-available bulbs i've tried. i know there are some higher end bulbs available online. anyone have any opinions on these? these reveal bulbs seem to burn out after about 500 hours, which isn't a big deal because they're cheap but it's annoying to change them every 4-5 weeks.
 
kblessinggr said:
There's always OSX x86, or load up Ubuntu with OSX rendering (can't remember where I've seen it done.)
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last i looked at the osx86 project (admittedly quite a while ago), the hardware support (specifically graphics acceleration) was terrible. is it any better now? with photoshop etc using hardware acceleration now thats an even bigger deal
 
high risk said:
last i looked at the osx86 project (admittedly quite a while ago), the hardware support (specifically graphics acceleration) was terrible. is it any better now? with photoshop etc using hardware acceleration now thats an even bigger deal
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Depends on what you're looking at ,there's a number of "hacks" out there not mentioned on the "official" page. Also far as hardware support goes, obviously you need hardware pretty close to that of the Macs.
 
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