[Elecraft] Blue Displays and Visual Acuity [END of Thread]

[Steve Ellington]

How's display color off topic?
Steve Ellington
N4LQ at carolina.rr.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft" <eric at elecraft.com>
To: <JimMiller at STL-OnLine.Net>
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Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Blue Displays and Visual Acuity [END of Thread]


> We're drifting pretty far OT. Let' s end this thread for now.
>
> 73,
>
> Eric  WA6HHQ
> Elecraft list moderator
> _..._
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Jim Miller KG0KP" <JimMiller at STL-OnLine.Net>
> Date: Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009 12:52 pm
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Blue Displays and Visual Acuity
> To: <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>
> Anybody remember the first CRT computer terminals?  They used GREEN
> characters.  Later amber was prettier, but the green ones were first, 
> maybe
> for a reason.
>
> 73, de Jim KG0KP
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brendan Minish" <ei6iz.brendan at gmail.com>
> To: <gdaught6 at stanford.edu>
> Cc: <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Blue Displays and Visual Acuity
>
>
>> On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 12:24 -0700, gdaught6 at stanford.edu wrote:
>> Alan wrote...
>> If I recall correctly, the human eye is most sensitive in the
>> yellow-green part of the
>> spectrum... 565 nanometers is the peak, but that doesn't necessarily mean
>> "greatest
>> visual acuity" I guess.
>
>> As someone with short sight I find that yellow - green is much clearer
> and sharper at a distance than blue or red.
>
>> This makes some sense since the refractive index of my glasses (&
> Eyeballs) as well as the sensitivity to light is based on the middle of
> the the visual spectrum
>
>> If you want Blue because it looks pretty, then go for it but it's not
> 'better'.
>
>> 73
> Brendan EI6IZ
>
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