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Plastic Hassle · Post by **Plastic Hassle** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:43 pm

Anyone here using an iMac? How the hell do you turn the brightness down? All my brightness settings are down to zero, I've even tried recalibrating the display and it's still burning the back of my skull. Apple Support just say "that's the way they're made now" WTF!

Broken Chip · Post by **Broken Chip** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:46 pm

Go into system preferences (on the dock), click displays, then turn down brightness. Simple

Plastic Hassle · Post by **Plastic Hassle** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:53 pm

Plastic Hassle wrote:All my brightness settings are down to zero

majais · Post by **majais** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:57 pm

get some sunglasses?

Broken Chip · Post by **Broken Chip** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:05 pm

Turning the brightness down to zero = no backlight and therefore a completely black screen. Not sure why it's not working. Maybe you have a problem with your OS.

Rokko · Post by **Rokko** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:05 pm

There should be brightness controls on the keyboard, normally f1 and f2. they should turn down the brightness right down till the screen is black

icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:03 am

My 12" powerbook attached to a 23" cinema display.

The powerbook screen will go all the way down until the screen is black. But the cinema display has always been too bright in a dimly lit room, even with it's brightness control turned down the whole way.

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:13 am

Perhaps go to a photography store or film lighting supply house and get some sheets of ND (neutral density) gel.

http://www.adorama.com/LLF171.html

These you could cut neatly with a craft knife and blu-tack or whatever to the front of your monitor. The more layers, the darker. It won't affect the colours of your monitor because neutral density is designed to be just that, cut the light evenly accross the spectrum.

HTH

Lux Libra · Post by **Lux Libra** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:12 am

get some sunglasses to get it

on a pc i would turn down brightness..............

you get it.

iivanov · Post by **iivanov** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:25 am

http://www.splasm.com/products/productbrightness.html

kramerica · Post by **kramerica** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:45 am

All your brightness belong to us.

Rogue Scrunt · Post by **Rogue Scrunt** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:06 am

tilt the monitor, so it is angled al the way to the rear.(pointing to the ceiling)

this helped me

Plastic Hassle · Post by **Plastic Hassle** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:33 am

My 12" powerbook attached to a 23" cinema display.

The powerbook screen will go all the way down until the screen is black. But the cinema display has always been too bright in a dimly lit room, even with it's brightness control turned down the whole way.

I've got a G4 Powerbook where the display can be turned all the way down to black but there definatley seems to be no way to do with the iMac 24". A major screw up by Apple I reckon.

However...

http://www.splasm.com/products/productbrightness.html

Works a treat. Many thank iivanov, cheers!

Brkhlk · Post by **Brkhlk** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:05 pm

the software and the keyboard buttons only control the brightness of the laptop screen, the signal that is sent trough the DVI output wont be altered.

i'd recommend a heathy dose of 15 minutes full brightness for a nice brown skin tone
though.

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