Test your monitor's brightness/contrast.

[notfred]

You should be able to tell the difference between all the sections on this image.

If you can't you should adjsut your monitor's settings (or get a new monitor). I can tell them all apart, on my Apple LCD, but haven't tried the PC w/ thhe 19" Viewsonic CRT on it yet.

I wonder how many people have thier monitors at the correct brightness...

 

[fatbaby]

correct brightness for what?

i have my monitor tweaked so that i can see clearly in the dark in CS

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: fatbaby
correct brightness for what?

For being able to see all the details in pictures displayed on screen.

 

[Jzero]

Pretty good. I used a popular home-theater calibration disc to set the brightness on my monitor.

 

[UglyCasanova]

I can, though just barely on the first and last 2.

 

[BigFatCow]

i can see all of them perfect...

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: dparker
I can, though just barely on the first and last 2.

 

[silverpig]

I used to have a program that came with this translucent strip that you'd put on your monitor. You'd adjust one slider after another until everything looked right in the tests. It came with my creative geforce 256 DDR IIRC.

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Originally posted by: Jzero
Pretty good. I used a popular home-theater calibration disc to set the brightness on my monitor.

AVIA? i need to find a "friend" with a copy of that....

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n

Originally posted by: Jzero
Pretty good. I used a popular home-theater calibration disc to set the brightness on my monitor.

AVIA? i need to find a "friend" with a copy of that....

Haha
I can't remember the name of it actually....borrowed it from my brother.
Besides, after the comment you made in another thread about Penny Arcade not being funny.....

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n

Originally posted by: Jzero
Pretty good. I used a popular home-theater calibration disc to set the brightness on my monitor.

AVIA? i need to find a "friend" with a copy of that....

Haha
I can't remember the name of it actually....borrowed it from my brother.
Besides, after the comment you made in another thread about Penny Arcade not being funny.....

 

[Supermercado]

Wow. I was pretty close, actually. Upped my brightness a few notches. Now I'm really close. Thanks.

 

[joemamma]

i can see them all...although i always believed that i had the brightness on my monitor turned way down cos i like it darker

 

[Darein]

I can see them all clearly. Do I win a cookie?

 

[dawks]

I cant make out the last 4-5.. the blacks.. its been bothering me for a while..

#333333 doesnt look any different then 000000...

Anyway to fix this? I have brightness set where its good for me.. and contrast at full.. I lowered contrast still didnt help.. increased and decreased brightness.. is there somthing else?

btw, I have a 17" Sony Trinitron

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: DaZ
I cant make out the last 4-5.. the blacks.. its been bothering me for a while..

#333333 doesnt look any different then 000000...

Anyway to fix this? I have brightness set where its good for me.. and contrast at full.. I lowered contrast still didnt help.. increased and decreased brightness.. is there somthing else?

btw, I have a 17" Sony Trinitron

It might jsut be that the monitor is old and worn out. In that case, time for a new monitor. How old is it?

 

[dawks]

Almost 4 years.. I doubt thats the problem.

It still reproduces colors much brighter and more vibrantly then most others I've seen..

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: DaZ
I cant make out the last 4-5.. the blacks.. its been bothering me for a while..

#333333 doesnt look any different then 000000...

Anyway to fix this? I have brightness set where its good for me.. and contrast at full.. I lowered contrast still didnt help.. increased and decreased brightness.. is there somthing else?

btw, I have a 17" Sony Trinitron

I had this problem on my Samsung 955df. The black wasn't really black, but more of a really dark gray. You couldn't tell the difference in the darks. I got a 900nf and it is worlds better. My laptop has the best screen ever though: 15" UXGA with Ultrasharp at 1600x1200. It is nice .

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: DaZ
Almost 4 years.. I doubt thats the problem.

It still reproduces colors much brighter and more vibrantly then most others I've seen..

I had a 5 year old Sony that I though tlooked pretty good until I bought a new Viewsonic and put them next to each other. I couldn't beleive how HORRIBLE the old Sony looked next to it.

 

[ElFenix]

dpreview's little chart huh?

i can see between A-B, if thats what you want to know. its not a big difference but its there.

 

[Yomicron]

Originally posted by: DaZ
I cant make out the last 4-5.. the blacks.. its been bothering me for a while..

#333333 doesnt look any different then 000000...

Anyway to fix this? I have brightness set where its good for me.. and contrast at full.. I lowered contrast still didnt help.. increased and decreased brightness.. is there somthing else?

btw, I have a 17" Sony Trinitron

Download the Nokia Monitor Test, it has instructions and helps you adjust a bunch of different settings

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: DaZ
Almost 4 years.. I doubt thats the problem.

CRTs wear out. the electrons eat away at the mask or grille.

 

[Eli]

I can make out A and B okay, but U through Z are all just black.

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

I had a 5 year old Sony that I though tlooked pretty good until I bought a new Viewsonic and put them next to each other. I couldn't beleive how HORRIBLE the old Sony looked next to it.

It must not have been a new Trinitron. My friend bought a Flat Viewsonic the other day from CompUSA. It looks like sh1t. I didn't have the heart to tell him because he paid almost $400 for it.

 

[CraigRT]

Y and Z look the same... not really surprising.