[sdiy] eyesight - was: TriggerIdiot

[Mattias Rickardsson]

Glaring at a computer screen all day (or attending to many other
"modern" "activities") makes the focusing muscles less flexible than
they should be. This inflexibility adds to the more natural problems
that most people get when getting older. Many of us probably keep
eye-focus at almost exactly the same distance (or two distances - the
computer screen and the cellphone) for more than 50% of the daytime,
which is kind of scary.

They say that it's good to exercise your eyes several times a day by
quickly shifting focus between close objects, far objects and things
inbetween for a little while. Having access to window instead of just
adjacent walls in sight should be positive in this regard.

/mr  -  with annoyingly bad near-sight capabilities these days,
especially on one eye  o_O

On 24 September 2015 at 09:37, Rick Jansen <rick.jansen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> You are right of course. +3 glasses are not something you should wear if you don't need them normally. It's not comfortable at all, and only sensible for (very) short periods, when you would need some magnification. As I said, the depth of vision is very short, things are only sharp 20-30 cm, and you must not even try to look at anything else than your work when wearing these.
>
> It is só comforting I'm not alone with this.  *sobs*
>
> rick
>
>> On 23 Sep 2015, at 14:05, Anwander, Florian <fanwander at mnet-online.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> and another comment about eyesight
>>
>>> Am 22.09.2015 um 22:34 schrieb Rick Jansen:
>>> But for finnicky handiwork like this, a pair of +3 glasses is a relief! Glad I thought of that.
>> Don't do this. My ophthalmologist told me that this is not good, because usually the real degradation of the eyes is much lower, and with too strong glasses the eyes will become lazy.
>> His recommendation was: make the lights over the workplace much brighter. Avoid shading the devices you are working on. I installed kitchen lamps under the shelfs which surround my workbench. Similar like these:
>> http://www.ikea.com/ms/media/seorange/20131/201311_Integrated_lighting_Kitchen.jpg
>> It helped a lot.
>>
>> Florian
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