2007WFP: What is your brightness level?

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I just received mine yesterday and so am still feeling it out for settings, but the brightness level has me confused. I'm not seeing any light bleeding out of the edges, just trying to understand the ramifications of this setting.

For people who even bother to fuss with settings, is it common to leave it at the default of 50? (Let's assume here that you haven't adjusted brightness in your video card properties.)

I've read elsewhere that PVA's tend to be brighter and almost certainly need to be turned down, but mine is S-IPS.

Right now, I have it at 35 or 40, but I'm not at all sure about that, since colors vary dramatically with brightness, black levels in videos may be affected as well (I've noticed LCDs don't quite compare to CRTs in this department), and you have to account for both day and night use.

Is there a happy medium? Let me guess: 50?
 
Mine was at 50 and had been since June. I just dropped it down to 40 after thinking about it for a minute though. Day and Night use is irrelevant since I have my window covered because the sun shines too bright in this room of my house. I HAVE to play games and use the computer in the dark. I like it that way.
 
I feel your pain man the 2007WFP is like staring into the sun i use these custom setting that really work good keeps the eye strain off, and not sacrafice that much image quality try it out and tell me how it is.

2007WFP Brightness: 50
Color Temp: Blue
Mode: Desktop

Nvidia Color Controll:
"Web Surfing Profile"
Brightness: 81%
Contrast: 69%
Gamma: 1.00
Digital Vibrance Off

"Gaming Profile"
Brightness: 90%
Contrast: 84%
Gamma: 1.00
Digital Vibrance Off

If you dont like using your g-card adjustments i find the Brightness @ 30% on the 2007WFP is good
 
Leave monitor brightness and contrast at 50 and adjust through veido card. You cannot just adjust brightness alone, but must adjust along with gamma and contrast to properly achieve comfortable display and proper color rendering. Takes work...always takes me a week of fine tooling till I get it "just right."

You want your monitor display to be just like reading a magazine under comfortable light.
 
Who knew that this could be so complex?

BadDog, you don't mean to say that the monitor has a contrast adjustment, did you? I haven't run into it yet if it does.

[Edit: I finally found some decent online documentation, dated early in the year, and see that Contrast is not for DVI, which is what I'm using. Interesting.]

I do notice my ATI properties has Desktop brightness as well as Game Gamma adjustments (RGB), so I'll look into that as well, though I don't see a contrast there, either.

mista ting, thanks. I'm sure ATI can do profiles (perhaps with ATI Tray Tools), but I haven't looked into that yet.

There's also the mysterious "image modes" (gaming, multimedia, desktop) which don't seem to do anything for me that I've noticed.
 
I would disagree and say turn it down on the monitor first because that actually turns down the backlight and will both lower power consumption and extend the life of your backlight.

I only have 1707fp right now, but my brightness is at 12%. I find it way too bright at 50%.

Also if you turn down the backlight, any bleed will become less obvious.
 
That's a good point, but to be able to go down to 10 or 12 like has been mentioned here must be only for certain types, perhaps PVA and not S-IPS, because if I try that certain things start to disappear, like the gray gradation seen on this board (gray becomes black). I assume that doesn't disappear for you.
 
rseiler said:
Who knew that this could be so complex?

BadDog, you don't mean to say that the monitor has a contrast adjustment, did you? I haven't run into it yet if it does.

[Edit: I finally found some decent online documentation, dated early in the year, and see that Contrast is not for DVI, which is what I'm using. Interesting.]
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It's like I have NO clue how anyone can control their brightness if they cannot control their contrast. If you lower brightness then you are going to have to lower contrast or all your mid-tones is going to get washed out, especially gray's.

I already have my brightness set on a 2007 that came today (IPS thank you GOD) and this fourm appears very soft and comfortable to my eyes and all the gray tones still very visible. Why anyone fools with DVI for anything other than movies is beyond me!
 
BadDog said:
It's like I have NO clue how anyone can control their brightness if they cannot control their contrast. If you lower brightness then you are going to have to lower contrast or all your mid-tones is going to get washed out, especially gray's.

I already have my brightness set on a 2007 that came today (IPS thank you GOD) and this fourm appears very soft and comfortable to my eyes and all the gray tones still very visible. Why anyone fools with DVI for anything other than movies is beyond me!
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When you turn down the backlight, everything goes down together. At least it does on the monitor I have tried. (PVA and TN).

I would use the backlight to get to the brightness you want, then I would use the graphics card drivers for fine tuning gamma, contrast if you feel it is necessary. Having contrast on the monitor seems a very trivial reason for me to switch to VGA. DVI all the way.
 
Here is my internet/office settings that works very well in giving soft tones for eye relief:

color_settings.jpg



Of course I have a custom setting just for movies, and another for photo editing. This is card/monitor specific so don't hold your breath it will be useful on your end.
 
I left mine at the default 50 and then let my Spyder 2 colorimeter adjust the gamma on my videocard to compensate and get the right level. Doesn't look too bright to me now..
 
rseiler said:
Do any of these settings help towards getting blacks blacker in videos?
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For movies I have concluded setting the above settings as follows:

Brightness: 98%
Contrast: 86%
Gama: 0.97

This gave me good black with reasonable gray color tracking.
 
That's very encouraging.

While I realize there's a lot of variability in this, I encourage anyone who's done the same for ATI (what I have) to post their values for these settings.
 
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