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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: my eyes are killing me...
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Date: 27 Jul 90 07:44:28 GMT
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Steve Coile asks about eye problems caused by long usage of computer
monitors...
 
The issue of "emissions" from computer monitors has been going on for
a long time, and probably won't be settled any time soon.. but the kinds
of eyestrain symptoms Steve described aren't likely due to any emissions
anyway...
 
The biggest problem is the relatively close distance between the monitor
and your eyes.  It strains the muscles in the eye to keep focussed on
a plane at the distance of a typical computer monitor for long periods of
time.. (it's a lot easier on the eye when it's focussed at "infinity", or
far away...)
 
Add to that the fine detail of a high-resolution screen and the fact that
most activity of the eyes is reading text (involving a lot of "start and
stop" movement of the eyes, and the parallax adjustments needed to keep
both eyes focussed on the same spot), and you get some pretty amazing
eyestrain...
 
One thing that can help is to move the monitor as far away from your eyes
as is practical...  another solution is to obtain special eyeglasses which
re-focus the eyes at a much farther "virtual" distance.  Ask an optometrist
about these...
 
BobR