"David Nadlinger" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 3/12/11 11:07 PM, spir wrote: >> Another obvious remark (not from me, read on the web) is that what is >> good for paper is not good for screens; because they are light sources. >> Reading text on white backgroung is like staring at an intensely >> luminous sky, without moving your sight: doesn't this hurt you? > > Only if you have turned up the brightness/backlight of your monitor way > too high. >
I have the same effect as him, but my monitor is so dark that when I look at an image or video that has low lighting (such as any typical night-time scene in hollywood movies, or any low-lit room in an FPS) I can barely see anything at all. My monitor is so dark that a large square of 0x252525 is barely distinguishable from a large 0x000000 square right next to it. And my contrast isn't too high: Any lower is noticably overly-dark and overly-washed-out. And, of course, pure-white on pure-black doesn't give me any bloom.
