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Of course if you're in a completely dark room any LCD is going to be bright. But in that scenario you can't use an eink screen either. The point is if there is
by read_if_gay_ 6y ago
Of course if you're in a completely dark room any LCD is going to be bright. But in that scenario you can't use an eink screen either. The point is if there is some light, you can probably find a brightness setting such that your LCD is emitting about as much light as an eink display will reflect, making them (at least subjectively to me) equivalent.
- contravariant 6y agoNot really, I can read a book using the light of my phone displaying a black screen at minimum brightness. Now OLED _might_ be able to fix things, but manufacturers don't provide low brightness settings for most screens at the moment (even though anything with a LED backlight could have almost arbitrarily low brightness), so I'm not particularly optimistic. The example from that one guy that made a fake painting by matching light levels to a white wall was pretty convincing though, so I think it can be done it just isn't for some reason.
- gnicholas 6y agoFYI on iOS you can use the accessibility settings (via the zoom filter, with zoom turned off and darkness turned to max) to lower the brightness beyond the normal limit. I have this setting tied to triple-clicking the sleep button, so I can activate it easily in the morning or late at night.
- gazzini 6y agoThank you so much for this comment. I can’t believe I didn’t know this, I’ve been inverting my colors & sometimes wearing cheap, non-polarized sunglasses at night — no more! I had to fiddle with the settings quite a bit to get a 1x zoom w/ the filter, though.
- gnicholas 6y agoThis is a very little-known feature. I work in accessibility and have had an iPhone since day 1. But the only reason I know about this very well-hidden trick is that an Apple employee told me!
- johnsoft 6y ago>that one guy that made a fake painting by matching light levels to a white wall Do you happen to have a link to this? I remember reading the original post years ago, but I didn't save it and could never find it again.
- contravariant 6y agoI had to search for a bit but I managed to find it: https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels It's been referenced on HN a few times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.claybavor.com%2F&sort=byPopularity&type=all https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- johnsoft 6y agoThat's the one, thanks!
- kevinmchugh 6y agoI can turn my eink book on with enough backlight to read it and my wife next to me in bed won't notice. Even in total darkness. I haven't managed that with my phone at any brightness