A few years ago I had to get trifocals and simply can't work with high monitors anymore. I was killing my neck cocking me head back to see the timeline and bin text.
So I removed my desktop and used an old custom one that I cut so that there is a shelf that is 3" lower than my desktop at about 24" away for my monitors (now my iMac). Now I look down at the edit monitor and up at the main client monitor mounted on the wall about 4 feet in front of me.
I also have some basic document storage boxes that I use to raise everything up when I want to work standing up.
Benny Christensen
Producers Playhouse
Oklahoma City
405-858-0700
"Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?" - Redd Foxx
On May 16, 2014, at 4:50 AM, John Moore bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I looked up an OSHA guideline for Video Display Terminal in the workspace and it suggests a distance of 18 to 24 inches from the computer screen to the viewer. I seem to find most facilities I work in the monitors are a little further than arms length away which in my case puts them approximately 30 inches away. OSHA also suggests that the top line of the computer display should be at the eye height of the operator. I usually find monitors a little higher than this. I recently got a new prescription for my progressive lens and they work better than my 7 year old pair but I'm afraid I will still battle with monitors too high in many edit bays. I'm considering a fixed lens for computer work which many people use. I'll be going back to the optometrist for a consultation on the computer glasses. Like I previously said my typical monitor distance for the dual computer screens is approx 30 inches and then the program monitor is usually slightly further away, approximately 10 inches further.I would appreciate if some of the other L2 members could give me the dimensions in their bays for the distance from their eyes to the computer screens, scope if different than the computer screens and distance to the program monitor. I want to make sure my distances aren't too anecdotal so I can tell the optometrist the specs range I might be dealing with as I leap from bay to bay. TIA
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