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Just got out my trusty tape

LogoMotives — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:38:30 -0800

Just got out my trusty tape measure and I’m 20.5” from my 17” PowerBook.

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Well, now I am about 24”

fontplayer — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:30:51 -0800

Well, now I am about 24” away from my 24”iMac

24”-30” from a 20”

enrico_limcaco — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:09:01 -0800

24”-30” from a 20” (1600 x 1200) and 13” (1280 x 800) (Macbook).

Time to move up to a 24” I think!

I’m between 18” - 20”

mtzjjorge — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:11:45 -0800

I’m between 18” - 20” away from mu monitor. A while ago I was having problems with my neck and back and so I raised my monitor with some of those old stock-super-tick-heavy-books we used to get on the mail. So now my monitor is eye level and all my aches and pains are gone. I now look straight at the monitor, seat straighter and I do recommend people to try it.
Jorge

I’m usually at arm’s

The Don Killuminati — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:05:10 -0800

I’m usually at arm’s length from any of the three computers I work at daily. Though as the week wears on they tend to get a little further away and a little higher.
For some reason, I have found that having a very small desk light near the monitor tends to really soften the harsh contrast of the screen.

It took me a couple of weeks

dezcom — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:37:33 -0800

It took me a couple of weeks to get used to my blended trifocals but now I like them bigtime.

ChrisL

PS: Nick, they are not even rectangular so I loose on the cool designer look :-)

I have three pairs of

Nick Shinn — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:34:30 -0800

I have three pairs of single-vision glasses.
“Out-and-about” for long distance, “reading” for close (reading), and a pair I just keep at the computer for 20”—25”, because there is a gap between the other two. Actually, I have another pair of prescription-sports glasses that I keep in my sports bag. If I was a real designer, I might even have yet another pair with tiny rectangular frames for business events so that I look cool like a designer is supposed to, but that’s just like bifocals, which I don’t get.

>> Will, I did the same

will powers — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:05:14 -0800

>> Will, I did the same thing. Mine are bifocal on the bottom and trifocal on the top. I look at the computer screen with my trifocals and my bifocals for reading and writing as I work. I love them. I can’t see any distance in them, of course.

I think single-vision lenses tuned to my distance from the monitor are far better than bi- or trifocal lenses. This way I devote all my lens space to the project on the monitor. & since I’m setting books, that means I must also have constant reference to a ms or a set of proofs lying right in front of me. So all is in the same plane when I look.

When I want to look out the window to read placards in protest marches going up the street to the state capitol I must put my bi-focals on.

powers

At home: 17” ¨PowerBook

sim — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:11:15 -0800

At home: 17” ¨PowerBook G4 and at my office 23” flatscreen Mac Cinema display at about enough distance to see what I’m working on.
;^)

I had my monitors built into

smongey — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:55:54 -0800

I had my monitors built into the inside of my eyelids. So about 1-3 mm. It makes it convenient for working when I’m sleeping.

31-26” (I shift in my seat

Chris Rugen — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:15:44 -0800

31-26” (I shift in my seat a lot) from a 20” Apple cinema display when I’m at either of my desks. The rest of the time I’m considerably closer to my 17” Apple laptops.

Will, I did the same thing.

Sharon Van Lieu — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:06:43 -0800

Will, I did the same thing. Mine are bifocal on the bottom and trifocal on the top. I look at the computer screen with my trifocals and my bifocals for reading and writing as I work. I love them. I can’t see any distance in them, of course.

One of the best things I

will powers — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:23:16 -0800

One of the best things I ever did was to get a set of glasses just for working on the computer. At around age 50 I got bifocals, and immediately I began to have discomfort when working at a computer.

One day I was talking with an airlines ticket agent [before we made our reservations via computers] and she said “hold on, honey, I’m just back from lunch and I gotta get my computer glasses on.” I right away forgot about the tix and asked her about this. She said her eye doc had prescribed single-vision lenses for looking at the monitor at work.

I went to my eye doc next day and got just that. Right away the discomfort across my shoulders went away. The main problem with this is that I cannot see much beyond my arm’s length. If I forget to take them off when I leave my office, I often walk past other staff members and have no idea who they are unless I see and hear them frequently and know their general shapes and sounds. That’s a problem in a building with a couple hundred employees.

At the office, looking at a 19” monitor [I forget what make it is], I wear the glasses against my head. Right now, at home working ob a 17” Macintosh laptop, I have to shove them down my nose to see better.

If bifocals bother you when looking at a monitor, get single-vision lenses just for looking at the monitor.

powers

24 inches from my macbook.

HaleyFiege — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:58:10 -0800

24 inches from my macbook. And 9 feet when i’m working on the 8 foot wide projector screen.

At home, 18 inches from a

Ricardo Cordoba — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:31:58 -0800

At home, 18 inches from a tiny clamshell iBook...

Work is another story.

How close are you?

Nick Shinn — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:06:37 -0800

I work 21” from eyeball to monitor screen—a 24” iMac— at the closest point (24” to the corner).