The CG effects in the darker scenes have clean lines and
excellent looking contrasting.
Not exact matches
Whites and blacks
look excellent, offering great
contrast and lifelike shadows.
Looks chic and edgy with those pants,
excellent contrast.
The black - and - white cinematography
looks terrific in HD, with
excellent contrast and natural film grain (there is a hardly noticeable, intermittent, translucent vertical band that occasionally appears on the right side of the frame, but most properly calibrated TVs won't even display it, so no worries).
Luckily, Anomaly 2
looks and sounds fantastic, with
excellent use of
contrasting colors and beautiful environments ranging from snowed out abandoned buildings, to a tropical forest filled with orange mechanized aliens.
Not having that extra boost to maximum brightness (which came at the cost of some color distortion) makes it difficult to
look at media or images on sunny days, and I especially missed the brightness boost while taking pictures out and about; that being said, AMOLED's
excellent contrast makes it so that reading isn't too much of a problem should the text clearly stand out anyway.
It's more or less the same issue of older Sony phones:
Look at it dead - on and the Alpha's display is just fine, with sufficient brightness, deep and lively colors, and
excellent contrast ratios — all of which are typical of Samsung's displays.
And it achieves this without any weird over-HDR effects, instead preserving an
excellent level of
contrast that keeps photos
looking reasonably lifelike.