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Originally Posted by sirmaru
It seems the same folks keep getting bad units for PW 2012, PW 2013, HD 2012 and HD 2013. Yet, other folks never get a bad unit.
The odds against this type of chance occurrence must be huge.
It would be like someone buying a new car every year and getting a lemon three years in a row.
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That picture was taken in complete darkness with the screen on full brightness.
No wonder it looks like crap. Even my own KPW1 (2012) that looks just fine in any circumstance I care to use it in looks crap when taking pictures like that.
I use a camera that has Carl Zeiss lenses attached to it; that's some serious stuff with regard to lens quality; there's nothing better. (At least in my opinion; except maybe Leica, if you want to pay an extra €2500 for a lens to get that 0.1% image improvement.) I can only say that even the Zeiss lenses can't handle a Kindle at full brightness in a dark room. Even a Kindle on full brightness in a normal room already is a challenge.
The contrast is just too great. It creates monstrous color fringing, mostly around the letters; some lenses fringe green, others purple, and some both; purple on top, green on the bottom of the screen.
As long as I take a picture in normal lighting conditions with the screen set to a normal setting suited for normal reading, it just looks... normal. At least to me.
This is my Kindle in a room with normal lighting, front-light set to 13 or thereabout
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http://members.home.nl/katsunami/mis...n/_0012037.JPG
To me, this just looks fine, and I have no trouble reading on it like that for hours. Sometimes I set it a notch brighter, sometimes a notch lower, depending on how I like it better that day and how my eyes feel. (PS: It looks like have actually focused on the Kindle logo instead of on the text
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This is the Kindle in a fully dark room, with the setting around 15:
http://members.home.nl/katsunami/mis...f/_0012046.JPG
I think it still looks OK.
(You know, it's damn hard to manual focus a lens in complete darkenss, looking into a bright light like that.)
This is the KPW in a fuly dark room at setting 24. Meet the fringe-fest:
http://members.home.nl/katsunami/mis...f/_0012049.JPG
If you read like that, in complete darkness and with the Kindle on full brightness, you should have your sanity checked. It burns your freaking eyes out. (And your brains too probably.)