anti-glare computer glasses

[Tim Hole]

I don't wear corrective glasses or lenses but am finding problems with eye strain sittin at computer all day. I noticed that you can buy ant-glare glasses...has anyone used them?

Also I notice that they also are slightly tinted pink and am worried about this affecting judgement in gradin...any thoughts?

 

[Charles Angus]

I don't think anti-glare glasses will help you with eye strain from computer use, which usually results from your eyes being forced to focus close to you for an extended period. If I understand correctly, infinity focus is relaxed and close focus requires your eye muscles to work.

The solution to eye strain is to take frequent breaks, get up, walk around, allow your eyes to relax. Even closing your eyes for 30 seconds every half an hour can help a lot.

Also, if you are having glare on your grading monitor, that is going to throw off your grade a LOT.

 

[JosephArthur]

Something someone did was edit in a dark room with an 18% grey painted in the editing studio. Then it was expanded to the studio editing theatre .

 

[JosephArthur]

This will help on the eyes and to not be "comfortable" with the basic surroundings of your office. So the focus can be more on the editing of work rather than the complimentary colors of your surrounding area. I dont know if that is true in every setting. But the 18% Grey seems to be impartial to me as a color.

 

[Tim Hole]

Thanks for the input. It occured to me today the problem isn't really 'on the ranch' in the editing suites, the problem is in my office at home. I have a dual monitor set up for scriptwriting. One in Portrait mode for Final Draft and one landscape for research. I think it has only been since I installed windows 7 and lost direct control of my Nvidia control panel for calibrating that the problem started. The card I have only has one DVI and one VGA plug, its the standard monitor that is causing the problems i think.

I am at the point where I am turning the brightness down to zero on both just to be able to work stare at the white pages of the screen for longer than 3 hours. I guess regular breaks and diffusion blinds on the windows are a good first step.

 

[Andy Jarosz]

Some screenwriting software has a "night" mode that makes it much easier on the eyes. You might find some word processing software that has the same feature.

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

There's also the 20/20 rule. Every 20 minutes look away from the monitor for 20 seconds.