Yes, the "blue" of sunlight is comparative. Those who work with photography (or videography) thinks of it as blue because that's what it is compared to incandescent - even the big halogen incandescents we used to use in studios - just like fluorescents were bright green.
It's amazing how our brains adapt so well, establishing a "white reference" to the dominant illumination making it tough to see what havoc that light might be playing on our color vision. I have a hard time seeing the red on gray on the buttons too, and my color vision is considered entirely "normal" - so don't feel too bad. There just isn't enough contrast to make it easy without pouring a lot of light on the panel. Like you, I've pretty well memorized the red legends. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- Dave G4AON wrote: > > I guess what I am suggesting is that some of the modern blue LEDs can be > awful to look at, while I like the older blue displays, I personally > wouldn't expend any time or money changing the K2 illumination to blue. I have monochrome vision and a decreased sensitivity at short wavelengths [poor choice of parents and grandparents :-) ] Most blues are indistinguishable from black for me. I'm pretty happy with my K3 display which is highly readable. I have a hard time seeing the numeric legends on the key pad, my wife tells me they are dark red on a dark gray key, but I've figured out the keypad by position just fine. OTOH, my total cholesterol is 105, the "good" is high, the "bad" is low, the result of very good choice of parents. Life is sort of a crap shoot, and I'll stick with the stock K3 display. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2009 Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2009 - www.cqp.org ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
