Experiments are reported on the speed and accuracy with which young adult male subjects can read photographic reproductions of instrument dials as a function of the brightness of the dial markings. A brightness range of 0.005 to 6.0 foot-lamberts was used. Both for time and for error frequency scores a critical brightness level was found at approximately 0.02 foot-lamberts. At brightnesses below this level performance was increasingly impaired; above this level increases in brightness produced little or no improvement in visual performance.
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