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AlexiTQ

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May 22, 2016
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For those of you that are interested, here's a measurement report of my 12,9" iPad Pro display.

https://ufile.io/zgflq

Some notes:

Used Splashtop remote desktop to run DisplayCAL on macOS High Sierra (which is also why the display device is reported as EV2750)

ISO 2008 test chart. This is more challenging than what you're likely to see in reviews, however it's still a quick test. Because of time constraints I settled for this but a bigger/better test chart would, most likely, have highlighted more errors.

The test instrument is a ColorMunki Display (same as i1 DisplayPro, but slower) which is a couple of years old. It has not been calibrated.

I have assumed the iPad Pro uses WLED backlight, which is most likely the case but I can't know for certain.

As for the results you may note that the contrast ratio here is lower than in some reviews (like Anandtech). That's because they measure at maximum brightness. I've measured at 105 nits, which is rather bright in a dimly lit room.

The color temperature is too cool at 6900K. The relevant measurement here is "measured vs display profile". The "display profile" here is the sRGB target.

The iPad Pro looks to be targeted at a 2,2 gamma instead of the sRGB gamma function. It's a slight difference, but it is there.

Color accuracy is very good. About as good as it gets for a display without proper calibration.
 
I just did a comparison with the 2017 iPad Pro. I got the 2017 iPad Pro one day before the official release, which should make it about 1,5 years old compared to the 2018 iPad Pro. Here are the results:

https://ufile.io/02z5n

Now, this result really dropped my jaw to the floor. My 2017 iPad Pro has seen plenty of use, yet... the measurements are goddamn spot on. My Eizo EV2750 doesn't see this little drift from month to month, and the EV2750 is a very good display. What the measurements basically mean is that it's impossible to tell the displays apart, comparing them side by side (which I can also subjectively confirm).

This is actually insanely impressive. I had expected good results, but not this good.

It just goes to show that Apple don't **** around with their displays. I have to seriously re-evaluate their usefulness for professional use. Usually good initial measurements don't mean **** because the displays drift too much, but this show the iPad Pro's can be depended upon even after 1,5 years of use. That's amazing.
 
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