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Night vision article

Postby Felix » Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:22 pm

We had a bit of a discussion on here a couple of months ago about the merits or otherwise of blue tinged light, and it got me thinking. So I did some searching and found this article. It is adapted from an airforce report, so not surprisingly it has a pilot bent, but interesting all the same.

Also, I found this article discussing changes to the eyes function as we age.

There were a few other articles I found that discussed how certain colours of light affected certain populations of people, such as blue light intolerance and so forth. I didn't bookmark them unfortunately, but there certainly can be some physical differences to how we respond to light and how certain light can affect our vision and depth perception. But usually the percentage of affected people is less than a few percent for the range of different conditions that may exist.

I thought I'd post these so I don't lose the links, and so that others can have a read. 8)
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Postby HemiDuty » Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:29 pm

I think we may have found our resident google-nerd.

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Postby Felix » Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:38 pm

Guilty as charged...I am just amazed I haven't been "promoted" to "Team Nerd" yet... :?
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Postby Neka79 » Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:03 pm

Felix wrote:Guilty as charged...I am just amazed I haven't been "promoted" to "Team Nerd" yet... :?

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Postby RG » Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:11 pm

So what is the conclusion?? I mean the vision thing, not the nerd thing. :roll:
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Postby Felix » Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:35 pm

The first article has a list of recommendations for people flying night missions, I guess you could adapt that as much as possible. Most of it is as relevant to driving or riding. Click the link and scroll to the end :wink:
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Postby Barrabob » Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:10 am

I reckon the standard halogens are better than the blue ones and i drive mostly night 4 nites a week for the last 15 years in 12 hour shifts, maybe if you pay a gizzilion bucks for something made for a high spec bmw or something it might be better.

tried the blue ones because they where packaged better and i was poping headlights every six to 8 weeks in the cab but went back to the others because i could see better with them.
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Postby seraph » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:19 am

Can someone summarise the article for me?I haven't slept much for a week... -J.
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