Re:The New iPad's Screen Under the Microscope
by ajross on Friday March 16, 2012 @12:10PM
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There's a big spread to visual accuity. There are two big factors: receptor density on the retina and near-field focus ability. The former doesn't vary too much I'm told, but the latter can be 3-4x better in some people than others. I can focus reliably on a high contrast object at about 6" or so. Some people can apparently do it at 3-4". And of course it gets worse as we age. Far sighted adults have trouble reading at arms length, even.
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Re:The New iPad's Screen Under the Microscope
by hahainternet on Friday March 16, 2012 @02:37PM
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I can certainly believe that. I'm a long way from perfect sighted, but I am apparently close to the average once corrected. The fact remains though that the pixel density is comparable to phones released a couple of years ago, and the distance between 'retina' and 'non-retina' is mere inches.
It is the old audiophile argument I guess, we'll never know for sure without double blind testing. I would like to give that a trial, sit people at 10" from a black mask screen with a small rectangle in it, display a pure white image at the lowest brightness and see what people report.
Re:The New iPad's Screen Under the Microscope
by vibrunazo on Friday March 16, 2012 @10:15PM
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Gizmodo just made a simple blind test. Not a fully controlled double blind test, but still interesting:
http://gizmodo.com/5894094/we-people-an-ipad-2-told-them-it-...