[sdiy] eyesight - was: TriggerIdiot

[Roman Sowa]

That is so sad true. In the past electronics was about pen+paper and 
soldering fumes. Today I spend long hours a day before monitor screen. 
This damn thing is even hard-mounted in the center of my view in working 
area.
Long gone are the times when I could clearly read 0603 markings with 
naked eye.
Although I try to quickly shift focus as you say, the view doesn't 
really change, it's like those "focus-free" cheap cameras, but usable 
range is only from 30 to 100cm.

So kids, do not believe that soldering fumes are bad for your health. 
What is really bad is those damn computers, but without them I'd have to 
write this in hundreds of letters and go to the post office.

Roman

W dniu 2015-09-24 o 11:30, Mattias Rickardsson pisze:
> 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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