What are are your monitor brightness settings?

[FoulOnWhite]

Just interested to know what you guys have your brightness settings at. I know having the brightness can(apparently) cause health problems like eye strain and maybe others.

I have mine at 60% brightness and 70% contrast.

 

[AusWolf]

I just switched monitors, but have always had brightness at 100% for clearer whites. The only time I notice any eye strain is when I'm browsing the web, or editing documents for over several hours non-stop.

Contrast is at 75% at the moment (I have the same monitor as you - thanks for suggesting it in another thread, it's great ), but it can vary among different models.

 

[GerKNG]

up until white hurts my eyes and then a little bit back.
around ~70% brightness and stock 70% sharpness and contrast on both displays. (interestingly both are basically identically bright at the same settings)

 

[sLowEnd]

51% brightness, 75% contrast

I didn't spend a whole lot of time adjusting the brightness. I just quickly fiddled with the brightness until it was at a level I'm comfortable with.
The contrast for my monitor looks noticeably blown out at 80% or above, so I just settled on 75%, which is pretty close to the highest contrast I can set the monitor to without noticing anything glaringly wrong with the display's image.

 

[TheDeeGee]

I always have my brightness at 20%.

 

[TheLostSwede]

HDR 600 capable monitor and it's way too bright to use ay anything over 60% even without HDR turned on.

 

[Shihab]

25% brightness, 70% contrast. And I have an 8w lamp behind the monitor, for extra eye... care?

Do these figures mean anything though? Wouldn't make sense to compare my 250cd/m2 panel to your 400. And are scaling algorithms standardized to begin with?

On the topic of eye strain, I think the differential between monitor and ambience matters more than absolute brightness settings. Notebooks show this best; dim light for dark env, max brightness in the fluorescent hellscape that is your typical office.

 

[Space Lynx]

i rock 100% brightness on any monitor i use, mainly cause i had eye surgery that went wrong in 2015 and ever since then if my eye pupils don't become small everything looks blurry for me.

life is a bitch, but that's how it goes sometimes

side note, night time driving used to be easy for me, in fact i had enhanced night vision compared to most people, post surgery, im useless as fuck driving at night.

 

[P4-630]

I have mine on 75% brightness and 68% contrast.

 

[Sithaer]

90% brightness and 70% contrast, this feels comfortable for my eyes tho my eyes are also kind of ruined thanks to my damned high school and its crappy old neon lights and having to sit infront of old monitors in bad light conditions for years. 'I had perfect eyes before that, now I can hardly see anything w/o my glasses'

 

[gffermari]

Brightness 35%
Contrast 80%
Saturation 50%

Custom RGB temp at 100, 97, 95 respectively.

 

[Frag_Maniac]

Just interested to know what you guys have your brightness settings at. I know having the brightness can(apparently) cause health problems like eye strain and maybe others.

I have mine at 60% brightness and 70% contrast.
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That's not enough info to really compare display brightness settings. You really need to factor in type of panel, and also back light level as well. Even then, there's going to be variances from brand to brand and TV to Monitor (mine's a Panasonic TV) as the processing used can vary quite a bit. Most modern TVs now have a Game Mode, but can still use more processing even on that mode than a monitor.

Here's mine:

Panel - IPS
Brightness - 50
Contrast - 85
Back light - 40