Pink Eye...
I've been fighting an illness most of this week. I keep seeing a purplish-pink to pure pastel pink shading over everythng I view. At first it just flashes and then it turns totally pink for long periods.
Thank goodness it's not my body nor my eyes...it's my computer screen. A not totally uncommon occurance when something starts to go on the fritz with ones computer video system. It could possibly be the graphics card, but most probably it is my trusted and wonderful 19" Swedish monitor. For the first year that I had my computer I suffered through the use of the stock 15" screen that came with the computer. Yes, this was back in the dark ages of yore...my computer is that old. I thought that the box would go first but it just keeps plugging along.
I switched to the 19" monitor after I started flying a WWII flight simulator. The squinting to see the Focke-Wolfe 190's was killing my eyes. The 19" opened up a new world especially after I coupled it with a new Diamond Viper graphics card. Great viewing and really good for doing all the photographic work that I do.
But now the end is apparently near and I can't believe it but it is hard to find a new CRT monitor. The world has gone to flatscreen LCD. I'm not opposed to flatscreen nor LCD, it works for most people. However I have a corner computer desk unit so space is not a problem and I still think that CRT's have more vivid, deep colors for photography purposes.
One day during the week I went for several hours without a pink cast to my viewing and I thought that perhaps the monitor had found a cure for itself. But, alas, the pink is back and I'm afraid things are terminal. Julie has several old monitors at her office that I can use temporarily but decisions must be made.....
By the way, the pink effect has cast a new light on playing solitaire. With a pink overcast to the screen, reds are effectively cancelled out so a game is now much harder when one can't tell hearts and diamonds apart. Try it, it's very challenging.
I've been fighting an illness most of this week. I keep seeing a purplish-pink to pure pastel pink shading over everythng I view. At first it just flashes and then it turns totally pink for long periods.
Thank goodness it's not my body nor my eyes...it's my computer screen. A not totally uncommon occurance when something starts to go on the fritz with ones computer video system. It could possibly be the graphics card, but most probably it is my trusted and wonderful 19" Swedish monitor. For the first year that I had my computer I suffered through the use of the stock 15" screen that came with the computer. Yes, this was back in the dark ages of yore...my computer is that old. I thought that the box would go first but it just keeps plugging along.
I switched to the 19" monitor after I started flying a WWII flight simulator. The squinting to see the Focke-Wolfe 190's was killing my eyes. The 19" opened up a new world especially after I coupled it with a new Diamond Viper graphics card. Great viewing and really good for doing all the photographic work that I do.
But now the end is apparently near and I can't believe it but it is hard to find a new CRT monitor. The world has gone to flatscreen LCD. I'm not opposed to flatscreen nor LCD, it works for most people. However I have a corner computer desk unit so space is not a problem and I still think that CRT's have more vivid, deep colors for photography purposes.
One day during the week I went for several hours without a pink cast to my viewing and I thought that perhaps the monitor had found a cure for itself. But, alas, the pink is back and I'm afraid things are terminal. Julie has several old monitors at her office that I can use temporarily but decisions must be made.....
By the way, the pink effect has cast a new light on playing solitaire. With a pink overcast to the screen, reds are effectively cancelled out so a game is now much harder when one can't tell hearts and diamonds apart. Try it, it's very challenging.
