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      Marco - I hope you are joking with the 140




No. My monitor is calibrated for a luminance of 140 cd/m2. Honest. You may call the color management police on me, but they'll have to pry my mouse from my cold dead hands... :-)

      Different room lighting may be the reason I guess.




As long as you don't work in prepress, a dark work environment is overrated. As long as nothing in your field of view is brighter than the white of your monitor, and you don't face sunlit windows, or glare on your display from powerful light sources behind or above you, your eyes will adapt to the white point of the monitor.

Do not underestimate your visual system's capacity for chromatic adaptation. I don't advise luminances high enough to give you a suntan, but 140 or even 180 cd/m2 are not a problem in a work environment like the one I just described.

One warning, though: if your environment is dark, you should use lower luminances, otherwise you'll be blinded by the excessive difference between room lighting and the monitor's brightness. It will also tire you out. But under "normal" ambient conditions, a higher luminance is not at all detrimental.