What luminance (brightnes) do you use on your monitor?

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For many years I have been using quite high luminance with my monitors. Lately looking online a lot of places advocate between 120 cd/m2 and seen some say 140 cd/m2. But this seems so low and dull to me and that is even at night with no lights on in my room.

I currently have mine calibrated nicely to about 180 cd/m2. Am I missing something, or is this all down to personal preference and as such there is no optimised sweet spot?

What do you guys have it set at?
 
Always used to be max, but this Dell is too bright. Dropped it down to 75%. The majority of users drop it to 50% :confused:
 
On my LG 29um65, I have brightness set to 10% which iirc is about 80-90 cd/m2. Couldn't go any higher due to eye strain on bright images and there is considerably less IPS glow at this brightness too. Coming from a brightness of 20+%, it seems really dull at first but you quickly adjust and much prefer it in the end I find.

Depends entirely on preference and room lighting though, my room is fairly bright, massive velux window beside my desk.
 
About 65% on a 24" Dell. I try to aim for on-screen white looking the same as a piece of paper held up next to it :)
 
Always just the bare minimum of 30-40. My monitors are pretty bright at night and during the day I don't have an issue. I used to use them at full brightness but it used to hurt my eyes.

It took a bit of time adjusting to a lower brightness but I just turned it down a point each few days so it wasn't a massive adjustment. Felt the same even though it wasn't as bright (settings-wise) as before.
 
Interesting. Such differences in results...

My monitor is set at 65% brightness now and 75% contrast, but mostly I have had the brightness 75% in the past with all my monitors. Obviously we cannot know what exact luminance each one of you actually have with those figures, but it is safe to say it is below 180 cd/m2 which is roughly what I use.

eddiew said:
About 65% on a 24" Dell. I try to aim for on-screen white looking the same as a piece of paper held up next to it :)
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Similar to me then :)

Nexus18 said:
On my LG 29um65, I have brightness set to 10% which iirc is about 80-90 cd/m2. Couldn't go any higher due to eye strain on bright images and there is considerably less IPS glow at this brightness too. Coming from a brightness of 20+%, it seems really dull at first but you quickly adjust and much prefer it in the end I find.

Depends entirely on preference and room lighting though, my room is fairly bright, massive velux window beside my desk.
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Damn dude, that must look so dull. I tried 120 cd/m2 and was like wtf... lol :p
 
I tend to hover around 50% to save my eyes. It looks nice at full whack, but after long sessions it gives me a headache.
 
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