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Originally Posted by Justice Strike
this picture most clearly shows what i was expecting, against what i got.
i was expecting some glare, but the amount i got was far more then i would have expected from epaper devices. When i was in the metro the prs600 was ok btw. It's just that when i'm in a well lit room, or a room where the light is coming from above (in my environment it's virtually any room) that the screen gets much glare. |
How far's the light from the reader in that photo? Seriously - that's messed up, and nothing like what I've seen either in direct sunlight or elsewhere. Are there perhaps a batch of defective PRS-600's, or are all the people who are having glare issues reading them with an reflector bulb lamp hanging over their shoulders?
As I said before in this thread, I've played with one outside, inside (fluorescent tubes in their usual banks with the plastic diffusor grids, compact flourescent lamps in the usual floor-lamps), and in vehicles... and the only times I had issues with glare was when I either had the sun behind me, or when I had a lamp over my shoulder pointing directly at the screen instead of at an angle.
Or do the covers for these cases make that big a difference, perhaps? Those things do block out some of the ambient light from the side which could otherwise cause glare. I notice you've got the cover on the PRS-505, which undoubtedly helps cut down on some of the light which otherwise would be reflecting from the side. Is everyone who's had issues with the PRS-600 using it without a case, or with? Again, there's that question about reading environment I posed.
As noted by the previous poster, the glare is at its worst in marginal lighting conditions, where any point source will glare badly... or if you've got a light source pointed directly at the screen, which caused even the PRS-505 above to glare some (which is about the same amount of glare that I saw when I was playing with one of these outside).