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The display dimming controls allow a full range of dimming of this screen for use in low light, color managed conditions as well, plus the bonus of an “off” setting at the bottom of the dimming scale, to turn the screen’s backlight completely off, for conditions such as a long, overnight session of moving files to another drive. This is not the brightest display on the market, but it is still bright enough for all reasonable uses.
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The Retina display can produce luminance levels as high as 280 candelas per meter squared. This produces the highest quality screen I have ever seen on a laptop but the high drain, custom batteries will not be inexpensive to replace, when the time comes.
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Apple’s solution to this is to build a series of custom sized battery cells into the ultra-thin body to provide for the higher energy uses of this amazing display.
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In addition to the increased pixel count of the Retina screen, these two factors (resolution, viewing angle) are the top two reasons the computer uses more juice. The flip side of this coin is increased battery drain to display this wide, even view of the screen. The answer to this conundrum is to use a proper IPS screen which shows similar color and brightness at a wide range of viewing angles. And are colors exactly as seen on screen? Even to a second viewer, who is reviewing your images with you, and is a bit to your left or right. Are the shadows in the image file actually as seen, or are they a bit more open, or a bit more clogged, as seen when your head is a bit higher or lower in relation to the screen. This technique has its drawbacks, however, and means that users can never quite trust the brightness and shadow detail of an image on a laptop display. Many laptops reduce energy usage and extend battery life by focussing most of their light output in a narrow cone in front of the screen, amplifying the brightness for viewers directly in front of the display. Note the second reflection in the Unibody screen, caused by the extra layer of glass. Again, clicking on the image can provide a more detailed view of the image. The image below shows the reduced reflectance of the Retina display on the left, compared to an older Unibody MBP screen on the right. The Retina display uses low reflectance glass, plus one less layer of glass than earlier MacBook screens, reducing this issue without resorting to a matte surface. While a matte surface helps spread such reflections around and remove their sharp edges, it reduces the contrast of the scene in the process. The gloss screen on recent Apple displays has been an issue for some people, especially for mobile use, where uncontrolled lighting may mean distracting reflections on screen.
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Retina Display Gamut Earlier Unibody MacBook Pro Gamut
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In addition to increasing the gamut from earlier devices, emulating sRGB in hardware means that non-color managed applications, browsers, and video players will show more reasonable color even without the ability to use a profile. This offers a number of advantages not just over smaller gamut displays, but to a lesser degree over wide gamut displays as well. While this issue had been improved substantially in the more recent MacBook Pro models, the Retina display now offers a very close replication of sRGB on screen. Click on the image to see full size, for comparison of what Retina resolution can add to an image.Įarlier MacBooks and other Apple laptops had a sub-sRGB color space that was not only smaller, but twisted in a way that offset the primary colors from their ideal hues. The image below shows a standard resolution app on the left (current version of Photoshop CS6) versus a Retina resolution app (Apple’s Preview Utility).
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Video is certainly the second area where the Retina display will excel, and versions of the more popular video editing tools for the Mac should be forthcoming to utilize this display to its fullest. In the meantime, the sharper text is a joy to behold, and will reduce eyestrain, even if it has no direct effect on photography or video work.
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While Adobe has not yet released an update to Photoshop to take advantage of this higher resolution, they did demo an unreleased version at the WWDC keynote where the Retina MBP was announced, so we should be able to take advantage of this resolution soon at least in Photoshop CS6 no guarantees about CS5 and earlier. The Retina resolution of the new display is certainly its top feature, and in use this is the first thing you notice about the display. The material below draws on my previous analysis, plus further information about calibration of the Retina display. I have been asked to put together an overview of my observations on the Retina Display MacBook Pro, as related to photography, and specifically to display calibration.