ASUS PA246Q - too bright on my eyes

Hi everyone,

I recently purchased the Asus pa246Q monitor. It looked pretty good for the costs.

However, i am just experiencing some technical issues (here's hoping its nothing major).

I find the screen unbearably BRIGHT on my eyes. To the point, I cannot look at it for too long (no more then 10 mins at a time). I've gone through all the processes of turning down brightness, contrast and also tried all the different default settings - with no luck! I've even run a spyder express 3 calibration on it, again no change.

I have a new graphics card ATI Radeon HD 5700 and running win 7 pro and plugged into the DVI slot. I've also tried the monitor on my parents ancient beast and it had similar results. Still too intense and bright.

Can someone please please please help. I really don't know what else to try?!

Eekthecat said:

Hi everyone,

I recently purchased the Asus pa246Q monitor. It looked pretty good for the costs.

However, i am just experiencing some technical issues (here's hoping its nothing major).

I find the screen unbearably BRIGHT on my eyes. To the point, I cannot look at it for too long (no more then 10 mins at a time). I've gone through all the processes of turning down brightness, contrast and also tried all the different default settings - with no luck! I've even run a spyder express 3 calibration on it, again no change.

I have a new graphics card ATI Radeon HD 5700 and running win 7 pro and plugged into the DVI slot. I've also tried the monitor on my parents ancient beast and it had similar results. Still too intense and bright.

Can someone please please please help. I really don't know what else to try?!

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First off - if you can't dial down a white page image to a brightness that doesn't hurt your eyes, then the problem lies most likely in your eye's tolerance to light intensity.

The typical brightness for photo calibrated displays is about 120-140 fL, which creates a rather bright image as compared to a piece of white typing paper under bright lighting. That's one of the problems with a backlit display - you're dealing with much higher brightness and contrast that you usually experience from anything printed.

If your spyder doesn't allow you to calibrate to a known brightness level, then the first thing you need to do is to set the brightness to something you can tolerate. But it sounds like you've already tried that, and the monitor is too bright even then.

The other possibility is that your monitor is just plain overbright. This is a design problem common with HDTVs - they have way too much brightness for most viewing tasks - and it may have made its way into your ASUS. If the reviews suggest that you can't dim it enough, the only solution is to buy a monitor with sufficient dimming range. As you might expect, one can boost contrast ratios by increasing brightness to a point...

The other possibility is to view your screen in a fairly bright room, so that the difference between your screen brightness and the room brightness isn't as great. Viewing an LCD in a dark room can be fatiguing solely because of the radical brightness difference.

Don't worry about your video card, the problem doesn't lie there.

mosswings said:

The other possibility is to view your screen in a fairly bright room, so that the difference between your screen brightness and the room brightness isn't as great. Viewing an LCD in a dark room can be fatiguing solely because of the radical brightness difference.

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There-in lies my first thought. Is the OP using the monitor in a pitch black room or what?

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Hello,

I too am having a serious problem getting a monitor that won't hurt my eyes, I've been using a Dell 2407 WFP for some years now and this monitor although pretty nice also has this known issue, that's why I'm trying to get a new one with less brightness.

It was ok before because I was using it in a very brightly lit room but now I've moved into a new place and room is a bit darker so I notice tired eyes after a while

I brought the Asus 278Q LED monitor only to find out that it's even much brighter than the Dell So I took it back.

Can someone please advise of a good 24" or 27" monitor in the 500€ range that has a good control of brightness without losing too much contrast or dark images ? I want to use it mainly to work images in photoshop and lightroom so S-IPS would be better.

Guys at the store offered me a HP ZR24w IPS but I've been reading reviews that this one is very bright also, so I'm not very keen on trying it.

Any advice really appreciated

HandsB said:

Hello,

I too am having a serious problem getting a monitor that won't hurt my eyes, I've been using a Dell 2407 WFP for some years now and this monitor although pretty nice also has this known issue, that's why I'm trying to get a new one with less brightness.

It was ok before because I was using it in a very brightly lit room but now I've moved into a new place and room is a bit darker so I notice tired eyes after a while

I brought the Asus 278Q LED monitor only to find out that it's even much brighter than the Dell So I took it back.

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Not the best image editing monitor in any case - 27" 1920x1080 and it uses a TN TFT panel.

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HandsB said:

Can someone please advise of a good 24" or 27" monitor in the 500€ range that has a good control of brightness without losing too much contrast or dark images ? I want to use it mainly to work images in photoshop and lightroom so S-IPS would be better.

Guys at the store offered me a HP ZR24w IPS but I've been reading reviews that this one is very bright also, so I'm not very keen on trying it.

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Look.... TFT Central was able to calibrate the ZR24w down to 120 cd/m2 white luminance with a black luminance of 0.18 cd/m2 and solid RGB values. Is 120 cd/m2 too bright?

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/hp_zr24w.htm

I would also expect the back light to dim a bit in the first year of use - not sure how much but I'd guess at least 10% if its' CCFL tubes are like the ones in my Dell 2209WA.

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As for other monitors, check out the reviews at TFT Central for the Hazro 27" models - HZ27WA and HZ27WC.

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews.htm
http://www.flatpanelshd.com/reviews.php
http://www.prad.de/new/monitore/testberichte.html

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