Quote:
Originally Posted by EricGagne
Since this is the first time I ever hold/use/see an eReader I find the screen doesn't reflect light as much as paper does and the characters aren't as black, they're more "grayish". When I read about 8 gray scales in the specs I thought these were selectable and that I had a choice of how light/dark the letters would appear but I don't see it anywhere in the menu so I can only assume that it has 8 levels of gray when displaying pictures. All this makes it another good reason to keep it since, according to others, the contrast is better on the 300 than the 505.
|
No, the contrast is identical between the two machines. Contrast is a measure of the "difference" between the screen background and "black" characters. Those are identical in the 300 and the 505. The 300 displays more "dots per inch" (200 vs. 167), but the actual "colour" of the background and the "black" characters is the same.
As you rightly surmise, the number of grey-scales is simply a count of the number of "levels of grey" between "black" and "white".