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All iPads iPad Air vs iPad mini retina screen wash
- Thread starter mystikjoe
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When the iPad 3 and iPhone 5 came out last year, they made a point to mention that the screen has much higher color saturation. No mention of that this time. The color gamut is just not the same as the full size iPad. The tests will be published. The headlines will be written. And then all the nay sayers can shut up and accept the fact that the minis retina display is inferior. While most won't care, those who edit photos and care about accurate colors will. Because bumping up the color on a photo on an ipad mini will result in over saturation on every other new retina device and mac. The full size retina iPad has an amazing and great color reproduction.
They probably did it to keep the battery life up to par. Next year there will be a retina mini and Phil schiller's slide will once again read 40% greater color saturation. Just like it did with the iPad 3 and iPhone 5.
They probably did it to keep the battery life up to par. Next year there will be a retina mini and Phil schiller's slide will once again read 40% greater color saturation. Just like it did with the iPad 3 and iPhone 5.
Interesting....you might want to check out h00ligan's post in this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1670847/
-Kevin
Downloaded and installed successfully yesterday. I haven't had any issues yet with watching pieces of movies via Netflix on the rMini.
What's weird is on the new rMini, in Skyfall, Bond is a small asian man?
Should I return it?
-Kevin
Heck no, you're one of the lucky ones that got an rMini with the proper gamut...
Just got my Mini R today, and when i was restoring my apps/books etc onto it i thought the screen looked a wee bit washed out. But I use my ipad in one place, on my couch, 99.999% of the time. I was doing the restore by my PC. I got my old ipad and put it next to the mini and the screens look nearly identical. It was just the location.
Mini retina screen looks great. Looks even sharper than the ipad 4 screen.
Mini retina screen looks great. Looks even sharper than the ipad 4 screen.
If your old ipad was an ipad 1, 2 or ipad mini 1st generation, that's not saying much...
it's an ipad 4 (see the last line of my previous post)
The ipad mini screen is cooler, like how my ipad 3 was compared to my ipad 4. ipad 4 has a lot more red in it. I think the mini is more accurate, it'll just take me a day or two to get used to it, like last time.
It didn't. The iPad 3 reproduced 99% of the standard sRGB color space, whereas the iPad Air reproduces 108%, therefore the iPad 3 produced a more accurate image with less oversaturation.
I have a 128GB Space Gray iPad Mini and the first thing I noticed is that the colors are not nearly as saturated as they were in my iPad 3. It's almost like the gamma is too low. Black levels are not very good. So I'm assuming I have an LG display...
I agree. It was / is my first impression - I got the mini about 2 hours ago. I have had an iPad air for 13 days and right now I don't know what the fuss about the mini is. 'At the moment' I'm keeping the air....
Back to screen. The screen is def better colour wise on the air...
Well, after getting the rMini on launch day, I picked up an Air last night. No doubt that the rMini is less vibrant than the Air. Although after using them back and forth (setting the Air up)....I have to say overall I prefer the rMini to the Air's colors. In too many cases things on the Air look fluorescent, almost too saturated. It really only matters if you have both and are using both of them (or if you need color accuracy on the rMini, which I'm guessing is less accurate, much like the original).
Not sure if it's something Apple can fix via software, even if they can, not sure they would.
-Kevin
Not sure if it's something Apple can fix via software, even if they can, not sure they would.
-Kevin
Wait, so anyone who knows or cares about something that you don't know or care about is insane? Seriously, is your world view that tiny?
Feel free to stop by my photo retouching studio in NYC anytime and I'll introduce you to 50 very sane people who know all about color gamut.
Oh, and those 50 people would also call anyone who spends their free time on internet forum chatting about iPads quite insane.
The world is full of people who think long and hard about things you don't, so you don't have to. Kinda nice like that. Calling people outside your little realm insane is rocking the karma boat.
You are judging it based on photos of digital content - it is completely artificial. The iPad Air is most likely displaying it closer to how it was originally intended on the designers color calibrated monitor.
A better comparison would be looking at two identical photographs (And preferably having a color calibrated monitor in the shot as well.
But I think that is just too much work for something that really doesn't matter - you either like the size of the Air or the size of the Mini. Or both. Slightly better colors aren't going to change the size difference.
That is absolutely true. I think we're forgetting how much of a success the first iPad mini was despite it being non-Retina. Now that the display is Retina and the speed has been increased, I can't imagine gamut becoming an issue with those who wants to upgrade or buy a Christmas present.
100x this.
Is the iPad mini with Retina display a significant upgrade to the original iPad mini? 100% yes.
That's all I need to know as someone whose biggest desire for the original mini was for a Retina display.
I agree that Apple shouldn't place the iPad mini as an equal to the iPad Air if the color gamut is not the same, but as long as the gamut is not worse than the original mini, I'm satisfied with this upgrade.
Remember, Apple never promised to put the gamut on par with the iPad Air. They simply said the iPad mini has now gained a Retina display. No false advertising there.