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Originally Posted by snipenekkid
My interest in them was peaked when viewing the marketing photo's showing very white backgrounds on the devices. After viewing the Sony devices in person I now see those photo's were either photoshop enhanced or taken under extremely bright lighting conditions with studio strobes or speedlights to enhance the contrast enough to make the image appear to have a white background.
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The temperature of a speedlight or a studio strobe is quite high and will wash out 20% gray. In fact, they are calibrated using a 20% as "white" and therefore the ads will make them look white in the background. Making a photo look exactly like real life is nearly impossible. Bringing the background back up to 20% gray will, in fact muddy the entire picture up to the point that it looks like crap. As, you've said, you have looked at a Sony, and have seen the actual irl product.
I can only say that from my experience, the 20% gray background tends to just fade away after you have used the device for long enough. With the new Kindle 2, there have been some complaints aobut the level of contrast with the words, which can ceratinly be annoying. I haven't noticed any problems with mine, however.