Everything looks gorgeous and it's easy on the eyes
I bought it in 2018, but only recently I have found my 28" 4K is too small at 100% scaling. I think it is roughly the same distance away, but I'm not going to be uncomfortable, so I scale it to 125% now.
I've also found this more necessary later in the day vs when I just woke up.
One of my experiments was to get a pair of actual "computer glasses." If I sit at the perfect distance from the screen, they're fantastic. However, at that distance, even the top and bottom of the screen is enough of a difference that they are fuzzy. Apparently, the so-called "working distance" of the prescription is so narrow that even a couple of inches either way will ruin it. I don't want a laser-focused prescription that only works within an inch. Am I saying that right? Is "working distance" the distance at which the prescription works, or the distance between the near and far usable distance?
I want my single-distance prescription _tweaked_ to work _closer_. My current prescription does pretty well from about 2 feet to near infinity. I want the "center" of this workable range brought closer. I want the usable range of the prescription to be "in the room," say, 20 feet at the far end to whatever it works out to at the close end. I expect this will bring my screen into sharp focus, at the expense of, say, driving, where I could use a different pair. I just don't want to have to change glasses when I get up and get a cup of coffee. How can I explain this to an optometrist? Because I've failed about 3 times now, and have $1000 of worthless glasses to show for it.
Essentially, you just want to add a little bit of “plus” sphere to the first part of the prescription.
That’s essentially the ethos behind the article, btw. Computer glasses mosty add plus to the spherical part of your prescription.
All of this being said, if you’re older, you’re becoming presbyopic, whereby the intraocular lens has lost its elasticity and will no longer be able to change its shape to modulate focus. And thus prescriptions will almost never meet your demands, short of some major improvements in artificial lens implant technology which may be available in the next few years. Some currently available surgically implanted intraocular lenses do have some measure of this (Alcon panoptix, j&j symfony, to a lesser extent Alcon vivity/J&J tecnis), but you can’t cheat physics and will end up with aberrations that could frustrate you more than your current issues.
About the only catch is you need your pupil distance. I got it written down for me at a couple of eye exams, a Costco optician measured it using a gadget he had, and I measured it by a method I thought up myself - just look at something distant through binoculars and adjust until the image circles merge, then measure center-to-center on the eyepiece lenses. ALL the numbers ended up different. So I just kinda picked the average.
Not very scientific, but all three glasses are OK, and the ones I like best, I really wear them all the time now except for driving.
The way my eye doctor explained it, there's two compounding problems - we start losing the ability to focus up close in our 40s, and distance-vision glasses push the near focus point further out. Eventually the near point is close to or further than the distance to your monitor/laptop, and your eye muscles have to strain to be able to focus.
If anyone has recommendations for glasses online I’d appreciate hearing those. Warby Parker seems good, haven’t tried them. Zenni wasn’t bad, the glasses seem slightly off, it could be due to my self measurements.
But yes, getting dedicated glasses for the distance at which I use a computer screen was a complete game changer. No compromise, just good vision. With mail-order outfits (Zenni in my case) you can experiment... I ordered glasses weakened by -1, -1.25 and -1.5 diopters and just picked my favourites.
If you're 60+, the workaround is one to three smallish monitors, 24-26", arranged in an arc equidistant from the eyes, along with glasses focused at just that distance.
