I think there is a unit error here. I believe that sunlight on white paper is about 1.6cd/cm^2, while consumer monitors are about 300cd/m^2 (meter not cm). Esse

I think there is a unit error here. I believe that sunlight on white paper is about 1.6cd/cm^2, while consumer monitors are about 300cd/m^2 (meter not cm). Essentially, you want the brightness to match the environment. http://www.infocomm.org/filestore/display_specs_and_human_vision_1_v3.pdf http://www.infocomm.org/filestore/display_specs_and_human_vi...