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Originally Posted by sirmaru
All the PW photos shown in this Forum were taken by amateurs. I'm sure Amazon uses high paid professioals with very expensive cameras and supplemental software similar to Photoshop.
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And part of the problem is amateur photos taken with cheap cameras in low-light tend to fail miserably at preserving the reality of the shot. So when my screen that looks fine is shot using my phone's camera, color distortion and other artifacts appear that I don't actually see in person. And the camera is at least partially at fault.
Oversaturation when you just have the screen is something I'd expect to see quite a bit with amateur cameras without any adjustments as well. The irony is that my favorite shot of the moon I've taken oversaturates the Moon so it doesn't appear natural, but it does reveal the real colors you could see of the Moon if it wasn't washed out in the sunlight.
So our amateur equipment in some cases is actually part of the problem. In some cases not. It's hard to tell which is which, and I don't want to get in the habit of questioning everything I see, but I tend to trust my eyes over amateur photography.
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Originally Posted by sirmaru
My Paperwhite looks fine to me but the photos I posted here turned lots of other folks off. Either my photo work was defective, the real life unit was better than the photo, or what pleases me may not please others.
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Do your photos actually match what you see? If so, then yes, there's definitely different bars being used on this forum. But if they don't match what you see (mine don't), then we get into the situation where other folks don't fully understand why we are satisfied with our screens.
Mine looks very similar to beninma's in person, which I find acceptable. Not everyone will accept the dark patches at the bottom.
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Originally Posted by MrDoug
I agree.. my Nook Glo in the dark is awesome.. PW terrible as stated previously..
Doug
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For those on the fence, it might help to articulate what about the two is different and makes you believe the Nook Glowlight is better. I made the comparison myself, and with my SO, and we both agreed that the PW is better. But I didn't think the Glowlight screen was bad either. I have articulated my thoughts on it before, but I think it might help some folks to understand your position better if they knew the why a bit better.
This last page is filled with a bit of "Nook is terrible" and "PW is terrible", but that isn't terribly constructive or helpful to someone trying to decide what to get.