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iPad mini Washed out colours on iPad mini??
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Got to turn up the brightness. Display seems a little warmer and it ain't as bright.
It's true. I put it side by side with the iPad 3 as well as adjusting for different brightness... The color is very washed out.
Not arguing that. My comment was meant for the person that saying it has a low color gamut, unless you measure it (with proper equipment) one cannot make that claim as fact.
The contrast ratio generally has more to do with "vibrant" colors. At least when people that don't deal with reference/calibrated displays all day try to describe it.
Don't cop an attitude. My point was, don't go around saying something as fact, when you have nothing to back it up.
I will be surprised if the Mini does not come close to the Rec. 709 gamut points. Ever since the "new iPad" all of apples new products have had calibrations closer to Rec. 709.
What wouldn't surprise me is if the brightness (black level) is higher and contrast (white level) is lower. Providing less contrast ratio, which to the end user would provide less "pop", dingy/washed out looking colors. So while the display will still be accurate (ish), it won't look as good as the newer full size iPads.
Black level for comparison reasons (of course you can't actually take a reading) can be measured by eye. Just get a solid black image and display them on the iPads. Turn down the backlight (what apple calls brightness) on both to 0, and compare them side by side in a dark room. It should be very very easy to see which one has better black level.
Just an FYI Displaymate is a joke among the display calibration community.
Well well, what do you know;
http://www.displaymate.com/iPad_mini_ShootOut_1.htm#Table
"62 percent of Standard. Gamut Too Small" (compared to 86% for Nexus and 99% for iPad 3/4).
http://www.displaymate.com/iPad_mini_ShootOut_1.htm#Table
"62 percent of Standard. Gamut Too Small" (compared to 86% for Nexus and 99% for iPad 3/4).
Very unlikely that panel variance would account for more than very marginal shifts in gamut (which is influenced by backlighting).
And besides, the same could be said for all the other tested panels; or should we assume only the weakest Apple and strongest competitor panels were tested?
It's too bad that the Nexus ruined that potential advantage with god-awful calibration and the lack of true 24-bit color support. Having a wider gamut ultimately means nothing if you handicap it in other ways. It's really the Kindle HD that holds up best against the mini--calibration not quite as good but close enough so that the benefits of the wider gamut are realized.
True, but so could the Nexus and Kindle.
I doubt that Apple is sourcing a 100% gamut panel and a 62% gamut panel for the same product. It's much more likely that variance would be in black level, contrast ratio, and white point, and it'd be a fairly small variance, within 5% or so.