Iphone 5's 40% better color saturation..

[Railgun]

And if nothing else, here's the draw: the default color calibration profile is the same as the sRGB profile. Meaning... you actually don't need to calibrate this screen.

If anyone cares at all, of course you do.

Just because it has the profile, it doesn't mean the display will be accurate. No two monitors will be 100% accurate to each other nor to the profile out of the box.

 

[runawayprisoner]

If anyone cares at all, of course you do.

Just because it has the profile, it doesn't mean the display will be accurate. No two monitors will be 100% accurate to each other nor to the profile out of the box.

If you have ever worked with any MacBook at all, you'll realize how valuable that is.

Up to the rMBP, not a single MacBook Apple has ever released would look right with the sRGB profile. None. ALL of them have access to the sRGB profile. That's nothing new. But they don't look right with the profile selected.

Once you install BootCamp on them, the difference really shows. You always have to calibrate BootCamp rigorously in order to make it look the same as OS X. Otherwise, it always looks like the screen has a hazy blue tint. Even calibration doesn't make it 100% the same as OS X side... and that's to say nothing about being accurate elsewhere.

Even under Mac OS X, when an application requests the sRGB profile, old MacBook screens will "crap out" and look very blue. If you value color uniformity, you'd appreciate the rMBP.

IPS seals the rest of the deal.

 

[MrX8503]

All that aside, the bottom line is simple: the iPhone 5 is over-saturated compared to the majority of displays (TN and IPS) that I have seen my photos on. I'm not printing my iPhone photos for a gallery viewing or anything, haha...they're mostly for family, Facebook, Twitter, forums, etc., just stuff that's viewed online on normal monitors.

We can get nit-picky about going nuts on calibration and whatnot, but that's missing the point - the point is that the iPhone 5's screen is over-vivid compared to regular computer monitors, so you end up with a duller image on a computer than you do on the phone. My 4S isn't a 1:1 match, but I get a much better idea of what the picture will look like to the average user than I did on my 5. For example, I'd get an awesome-looking sunset tweaked out in Camera+ on my iPhone 5, post it online, and it'd look...dull. So I'd have to over-saturate it on the camera and then upload it in order for it to look good.

That's all. I think the screen looks great - really bright, really vivid, just kind of a bummer for getting a fairly good idea of how a photo will look on a regular computer. It'd be great if they could tie in a calibration system for the iPhone, I'd totally snag that!

You have the wrong thinking. The general public's monitors are wrong, not the iPhone.

What you have to do is get the most color accurate display and calibrate it. That is your base level to adhere to. If you're over saturating to make it look good on TN panels, you're not working with accurate colors.

 

[Kaido]

You have the wrong thinking. The general public's monitors are wrong, not the iPhone.

What you have to do is get the most color accurate display and calibrate it. That is your base level to adhere to. If you're over saturating to make it look good on TN panels, you're not working with accurate colors.

I think the point of the iPhone's camera is to look good on the general public's displays, wouldn't you agree? :biggrin: I see your point about color accuracy, but what I'm saying is that the reality is that that's how the entire world's displays are. Right now the iPhone 5's picture is over-saturated compared to the 30 million displays sitting at people's desks.

Anyway, I'm back on my 4S. Happy there for now 😉

 

[MrX8503]

Have you read the article from Anand on the iPhone 5's display? It's a quantum leap ahead the iPhone 4. The 5 isn't over saturated, the 4 was just under saturated.

I've never heard of a color pro working outside of color accuracy. You use color accuracy as your base and you stick to it.

 

[runawayprisoner]

I don't think that's how the entire world's displays are...

If you've ever seen Samsung displays... they are over-saturated.

HDTVs? Also over-saturated. Especially OLED.

We've crossed that color threshold a while ago, and I think most displays on the market now, at least where the iPhone 5 is widely available, do have the color saturation to match the iPhone 5. It's the iPhone 4S and below that don't have the color gamut to cover more intense colors.

As an aside, the Galaxy S III screen is even more saturated... and I haven't seen anyone complain about that.