iPad mini I like rMini color/gamut better than Air's!

[Young Turk]

We do, they're iPhone 5/5S/5Cs. Apple chose not to spend the extra $5 to give the Retina Mini that same quality display.

My iPhone 5S (Space Grey/32 gb/Verizon) has the most beautiful display I've ever seen.

 

[FrankB1191]

I may try an Air if I can snag one on Black Friday.. The difference between the rMini and One is just too obvious now. As a sidenote, I looked at the Jag pic on the rMini first and figured that it was supposed to be orange-red.

Either way, I have a newfound appreciation for my One's screen 🙂

I googled up a red Jaguar pic, and it was very close between the Air and the HTC. The Air's larger display seemed to reveal more detail, so I wouldn't worry about its screen compared to the HTC. 😉

 

[ada-lovelace]

Saw this review, thought I share it ....

Website:
http://www.iclarified.com/35866/ret...ent-significantly-outperformed-by-competitors

 

[Señor]

Me too. It just looks more natural.

 

[Beta Particle]

The mini is around 60% sRGB, the Air is around 110% sRGB.

100% sRGB is considered ideal, with truest to life colours.

Actually, 100% sRGB is far from ideal - we can see a much wider range of color than that.

The issue is that with these being low power devices, they are not color managed.
Most content for the web is designed with sRGB as the target, so 100% sRGB is "accurate" for the web.

However, there are many more colors outside of the sRGB gamut which our eyes can see.
If you had today's iPad with a display which showed "200% sRGB" then color would look extremely over-saturated.

But if your software supported color management (Firefox is the only fully color managed browser) then any content designed for the web in sRGB would look exactly the same as a display limited to 100% sRGB.
So what would the point be? Well the display would have the ability to go far beyond sRGB where appropriate. E.g. When displaying Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB images.

I don't understand all of this. If anything the ipad retina and ipad air suffer extreme color inconsistencies. Blue looks purple. My ipad 2 and original ipad mini were spot on color wise but my ipad 3 and ipad air look terribly purple where its supposed to be blue. My new ipad mini retina shows the correct colors. Have people gotten so used to the incorrect colors of the retina ipad that they are expecting it to be incorrect now on the retina mini? I too favor the natural correct colors of the mini retina over the ipad air. Seems to me the gamut on the air is defective.

Actually, this is a very common problem, going back to when LCDs were just approaching sRGB gamuts themselves.

The short version is: the Air is actually displaying the correct color.
While the Mini has a smaller gamut and less accurate color than the Air, blue is shifted way off towards cyan, so it actually looks bluer than it is meant to, but not as rich.

The solution for this is time. It just looks wrong because it's not what you are used to.
Spend a while with a 100% sRGB display and then go back to something with a smaller gamut. It no longer looks like the older display is correct.

Well it's not very scientific but here is a shot of what I see. The ipad mini retina is on top and the ipad air on bottom. The ipad mini retina is an exact match although it does look washed out in the photo, perhaps the angle but you can see what the air does to the color, it blows it out over vibrant.

There are a number of issues with this comparison - the main one though, is that you are relying on the device's cameras to deliver accurate color, which they most certainly do not.
If the photograph itself is not true-to-life, then you cannot judge the displays based on that image.


As for the Air vs the Mini... I sold my iPad 3 a couple of months ago, intending on buying a Surface Pro 2. That did not work out, actually because they did not update the display from the original and do not have 100% sRGB coverage. I don't consider that acceptable for a $900 device.

After having a couple of months without a mobile device at all, just my desktop PC, I'm re-evaluating what I want from a tablet.

I think I actually want the smaller size of the Mini rather than the Air, and as a much cheaper device, I'm willing to overlook that problem - I'll just sell it for the inevitable model with an updated display next year.
Both the Air and Mini have 20-30% less RAM available than my old iPad 3 due to the switch to 64-bit anyway, so I would be replacing either one next year regardless.

And hopefully next year we will see a Surface tablet from Microsoft with an 8" 1920x1440 4:3 display and an Intel CPU. That's what I really want my next tablet to be.
If Apple had not reduced the weight and size of the iPad so much with the Air, and Microsoft had not flubbed with the display and battery life on the Pro 2, I would probably have made the switch to that already.

 

[PanAm-L1011]

Got rMini and LOVE its color reproduction! It looks to my eyes more like a fine printed photography/art book rather than an oversaturated neon toy that Air is. (I did compare them in the store before getting my rMini.)

I don't care about those 63% vs 100% gamut numbers, the rMini screen looks just totally natural. For example, the photo of a green leaf with droplets at http://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/features/ looks very life-like on rMini, vs oversaturated neon greens on Air.

Same with, for example, the green on On/Off switches - I hate this "WTF?! Are they trying to burn the retina in my eyeballs?" green on my iPhone and on Air, but on rMini it looks like a 'normal green'.

All this hysteria about rMini gamut is totally ridiculous.

Now if you excuse me, I'll return to kissing and hugging my little friend. 😀

Well good for you! Do you want a cookie?

 

[Ieo]

Part of the problem is the semantics of the words "average person". Not too many people want to admit they're average.

I see similarities between gadget people and coffee/wine/foodie people - I can guaran-damn-tee you that more than half that claim to have some heightened sense of whatever and can detect minute differences in color saturation/flavor/whatever are actually 100% full of ****. They just want to feel important.

It's always great to catch people in the act. Either contradicting somebody else with better credentials, or plagiarizing somebody else and just spouting off whatever they think they're supposed to be experiencing...it's pretty funny.

Long story short, most people will never notice. The only people that WILL are professionals who are exposed to higher quality daily OR the lucky few with a heightened sense. The majority will never notice, and will only say something after reading crap like this.

 

[ZBoater]

...The only people that WILL are professionals who are exposed to higher quality daily OR the lucky few with a heightened sense...

And we are so fortunate to have so many of them as Macrumors regulars... 😛