[filmscanners] Re: Cleaning your monitor...

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> Robert writes:
>
>
>>In other words, if you don't need it you can
>>as well destroy it.
>>
>
> Yes.  And similarly, if you have light shining onto your monitor in the
> first place, there is a problem with your work area.  That might be okay for
> ordinary office work, but not for working on photographs.  Typically a
> monitor used for photographic work will be in very low light or darkness,
> and any nearby work areas will be lit with color-corrected illumination and
> will be a neutral gray.  You can't afford to have anything skewing your
> perception when you are adjusting photographs.
>
> I always work in near darkness, with only a tiny desk lamp nearby to provide
> minimal light for seeing things other than the monitor screens.
>


Yes, this is exactly the same lighting I both take and view photographs
in.  Near darkness, with a small desk lamp to the side. ;-)

Oddly, they all come out looking very similar looking... Dark.

Art


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