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I wear glasses. I did old school photography as a module throughout university. Multiple times a week I was in a dark room under red lights for a couple of hou
by illwrks 4y ago
I wear glasses.
I did old school photography as a module throughout university. Multiple times a week I was in a dark room under red lights for a couple of hours at a time. I remember the first few weeks my eyes muscles were extremely fatigued because of it.
However during those few years even though my time in front of a computer screen went way up my vision did not deteriorate as expected by my optometrist.
When I switched to digital cameras and was no longer in the darkroom then my deterioration was back on track.
I've alway wondered if the darkroom was a positive thing for my eyesight...
- plugin-baby 4y agoMaybe you were younger back then.
- illwrks 4y agoMaybe :(
- yetihehe 4y agoMybe, maybe not. I had bad eyesight since childhood, everyone believed to be "because of screen time". But since then I have even more screen time and I have the same prescription since 20yr.
- lm28469 4y agoWouldn't kids eye sights be more susceptible to damage because their eyes are still developing ?
- actionfromafar 4y agoThe latest finding is kids need UV light so their eyes don't grow deformed during formative years.
- hnews_account_1 4y agoSo they say but tons of adults get glasses only later in life. I’ve been using computers since I was maybe 12 years old (very early 2000s). I finally had to get glasses when I was 25. Even then it was just a -0.50 correction. It deteriorated further after that.
- yetihehe 4y agoMaybe, but for me it's inherited, my father had almost the same exact deterioration (-5) and with similar start age and it then stopped, now it's slowly going back to 0, he had to reduce his prescription to -3.
- mywittyname 4y agoOur eyes stop growing at some point during our youth. It is when our eyes grow too long that we develop myopia. The reason your eye sight is consistent is because your eyes are the longest they will ever be. As we age, our lenses harden, we lose the ability to focus, and sometimes our eyes shrink. In myopic people, these process will result in an "improvement" in their eye sight, while people with good eyesight will develop hyperopia when these processes happen. I believe the latest research points to lack of outdoor activities as the source of myopia in children. UV light appears to play a part in regulating the growth of our eyes, preventing them from growing too long.
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