monitor brightness and your eyes

[John Grandy]

Does monitor brightness have a correlation to long-term health of one's eyes
? Is this on a person-by-person basis ? Is it as simple as adjusting to
one's comfort ? Or is it better to try and get used to a brighter (dimmer)
monitor ? Any objective way to measure brightness ?

Thanks.

 

[JS]

Monitor brightness is basically subjective, however a person who works on
documents with a white background and black text all day long may benefit by
lowering the brightness. Conversely if you are predominantly working with
graphics, games, photos and video you may find that a higher brightness
setting works best. In addition factors like ambient room lighting, CRT and
LCD display differences have an effect. I would think that comfort after
long term daily use is an important factor.

For more info:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=monitor+brightness+eye+strain&btnG=Search

Also:
Nokia Monitor Test
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Other-VIDEO-Tools/Nokia-Monitor-Test.shtml

JS

 

[Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]]

I would experiment with different brightness levels to find what _feels_
the best to you and your vision.

Additionally, adjusting font sizes and resolution have long term comfort
benefits which should translate into less eye strain... for example the
font sizes in the windows screen properties and knowing and using the
font zoom settings in your browser and other apps.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

 

[Guest]

For viewing any pc monitor screen,youre best bet is to install microsoft
"Clear
Type" utility.The web installation guides you thru v. easily,you can also
download
the control-panel version.Either way,its a must for the eyes,also,microsoft
had/
has alot of great reviews for this software...

 

[Lady Dungeness]

I don't know anything about the science/medical aspects. I do know
that my eyes feel less strain when I tweak the color settings. I like
to use a very pale pale green or ivory color as background, on all
apps, including word processing. Not as much glare. Plus, it easy to
see "hidden" objects like graphics and icons that have been set to be
transparent. Of course, I don't print the colors out.

Lady D

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:02:02 -0700, "John Grandy"

 

[Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]]

Agree 100% with Lady D...

desktop/properties/appearance/color... has "Silver" which is easy and helps.

Personally, I miss the "Arizona" and similar color schemes in Win9x...
anyone know how to find and load these under XP?

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

 

[Bob I]

Display Properties, Appearance, SET "Windows and buttons" to "Windows
Classic style" and then Change the "Color scheme" to "Desert" or other.

 

[Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]]

"Windows Classic style" <<

Thanks, that's a great tip, ...but, note that when you do that the font
size options below that revert from three choices to only "normal"

I need to run 1280x1024 on a 19" crt, and while that setting meets my
resolution needs such as image manipulation, the number of font size
issues under the single classic setting, especially within apps facing
my aging eyes finally drove me over to the XP side.

Since there are only three color options under XP, I was hoping that
there might be some registry color files which might add some more to
the xp list.

It is possible to manually manipulate colors individually, but I have
also had some experiences where doing so would sometimes render text and
features invisible down the line somewhere, so, I've avoided it since.

Thanks again... the quest continues,
Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

 

[Bob I]

In line.

Thanks, that's a great tip, ...but, note that when you do that the font
size options below that revert from three choices to only "normal"

Seems the "Lilac" gets 2.

I need to run 1280x1024 on a 19" crt, and while that setting meets my
resolution needs such as image manipulation, the number of font size
issues under the single classic setting, especially within apps facing
my aging eyes finally drove me over to the XP side.

Since there are only three color options under XP, I was hoping that
there might be some registry color files which might add some more to
the xp list.

It is possible to manually manipulate colors individually, but I have
also had some experiences where doing so would sometimes render text and
features invisible down the line somewhere, so, I've avoided it since.

Thanks again... the quest continues,
Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]