Eye Strain (bit OT)

[Peter Wright]

Although I use glasses for long distance stuff like driving and watching TV, I don’t for reading or editing!

A larger monitor could help, but have you tried changing the resolution of your existing monitor? Sometimes it’s worth trading off a little screen capacity for larger detail. TFT should be less flickery than CRT, so you’re ok there.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Richard Bartlett]

In times past I’ve worked in a bunker on a shift pattern. The best way I found was to exercise the eyes whilst on the job. Adopt the use or regular eye exercises – perhaps whenever you are contemplating something – so you can use that time productively. Look away from the screen (if your room is small, imagine a spot behind the wall and attempt to focus on that imaginary spot in space). Otherwise crank open the blinds or curtains and have a good old gander outside your building – assuming you can do this. It needn’t take 10 seconds, I feel the frequency is more important than the time spent doing such a workout.

I think everyone gets a headache (at least once in a while) from prolonged work of almost any type. We are all different physiologically and as something approaching necrosis starts to make it’s mark. So an adjustment or the use of glasses for what was once called “VDU” purposes could suit you. If they are tinted – you’ll have to recalibrate your brain for color grading purposes! 😉

[Mike Kujbida]

I’ve been wearing glasses for over 40 years and progressive lenses for at least 10 years. They really weren’t an issue with CRTs (don’t know why but they weren’t). When I switched to LCDs (pair of 17″) though, I found that I had to increase the default print size. As I recall, this was a setting on my graphics card (text to medium instead of small or something like that).
We also just got new LCDs (again, 17″) as part of an office computer upgrade and I did the same thing to it.
My eyes just aren’t what they used to be 🙂
Peter’s suggestion about changing screen resolution is also a good one.

[Craig Townsend]

LCD screens really need to be run in whatever the native resolution is(varies according to size) or there is going to be blurriness due to scaling. My 19″ LCD monitor(my secondary is a CRT) runs at 1280×1024 natively. Changing the default text size can help a lot BUT it can also cause problems with the interfaces on some applications. Using a custom size increase of 10% seems to be a fairly decent compromise which most apps. can deal with.

Hi Mike. 🙂

Craig Townsend

[Edward Troxel]

You just can SEE my glasses! 🙂 (I wear contacts instead!)

And, yes, my eyes are sometimes tired after a long day of looking at a computer screen. Then again, my brain is usually tired by then too.

Edward Troxel

[Vegasarian]

mmmmm interesting! Perhaps I should just change my name to ermmm….Mr.Magoo?.