My monitor is a 30 inch Nec. I am being fitted soon for computer glasses. I just had bilateral cataract surgery so all my old glasses are wrong. I am curious about what the ideal distance my eyes should be from the screen. An online search is useless...recommended distance from 20 to 30 inches. My rough go at figuring out what is most comfortable for me is from 28 to 30 inches. Less than 28 inches and I can't really see the whole width of the monitor without moving my head from side to side. I'd love some feedback from others about what distance you used if you got prescription computer glasses. Please include screen size if you answer. Thanks!
The answer, IMO, is to sit comfortably at your work-station. Adjust your distance to the monitor plane so that it feels right to you and you can look from corner to corner with comfortable head / eye movement. When you’ve found that spot, look straight ahead w/o moving anything and have someone measure from the plane of your eyes to the plane of the monitor. Take that distance measurement to the eye doc and when he/she’s writing Rx for regular vision, have them calculate the Rx for your “computer glasses.”
I too had cataract surgery on both eyes a couple of years ago. Changed my life. (And like you changed all my glasses!)
I wear progressives and for everything but reading for hours on end, or working at the computer, they are great. BUT, when editing on the computer having some decent size lenses Rx-ed for your comfortable viewing distance is a real game changer.
Just for fun here, I’ll post something I did “between surgeries.” I had a 3 week gap between one eye surgery and the next. One of the weird things was that after about a week, I would close the new “good eye” and look out of the bad eye. I was dumbfounded with the difference. I went around opening and closing one eye and then the other enjoying the radical difference in color perception. Then it dawned on me that this was temporary and I wanted to capture the “difference” in some concrete way that I could show the surgeon to thank him for what he does for people in terms of colors “coming back.” So, long story short, I did a side by side of one of the prominent color test print files. And through opening and closing eyes, I created what it looked like through the “good eye” and the “bad eye.”
Here it is! Cataracts (for me at least, put a coffee-stained tint on everything - that of course we can’t “see” when we’re in that condition. Left is the normal view w/ good eye, right is the “unfixed eye.”
Good luck w/ the computer glasses!
Rand
