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Two Sapphire Fenix 6 Pro’s, backlight / contrast issues

GaryMort
over 5 years ago

I bought two fenix 6’s today, both are the Carbon grey DLC coated with sapphire glass.

Have a look at these photos, my wife's is on the left hand side and mine the right. Her looks very yellow compared to mine which looks far crisper and sharper. Both have backlight set to 50%. 

Any thoughts on if there’s a setting other than backlight that could cause this before I go back to the shop where I bought them?

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Tiberiu

    I have Sapphire and I would go with that again. I did compare mine with a Pro I saw in a store the other day. The difference was exactly as with your pictures. I don't like the blueish color. My Sapphire is set to 100% (gesture) and I think it works at looks good that way. Enjoy.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Hawk

    @Peter H:  It's very hard to decide. Thanks for this comment, this may do the difference to go with Sapphire.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Tiberiu

    I went for a F6X Sapphire. I'd rather have more reflections that this atrocious blueish backlight. Anyway I already did some trailmarathons with mine and never had any problems wit reading the screens, rain or strong sunlight. Also the gunmetal gray bezel looks better imo.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Every single Sapphire based Fenix 6 I have seen has the blue backlight. The three Fenix 6XPS that I have come across are as white as it gets in comparison. 

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to NYanakiev7

    Maybe no ARC on the 6 as opposed to the 6X?

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    I just bought Fenix 6 Sapphire Titanium S/N 63N22 and I feel like I'm looking through a piece of rice paper with washed colors, but after looking at some of the pictures in this thread i have become uncertain as i think some of them are worse than what i have

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Tiberiu

    Are you OK with an unprotected Gorilla Glass? If not, you will probably want a screen protector. But screen protectors usually add some reflections. So, in this case, the Gorilla glass might still have fewer reflections than the sapphire glass, but the difference would be lower. I guess you would not put a screen protector on the sapphire glass…

    How do you feel about potential scratches on bezel? I generally don't like scratches that are too much apparent. For ordinary black-painted bezels, scratches are quite likely and they will be likely quite noticable. This is not good. You can however buy watches with a silver bezel (scratches are still likely, but much less noticable) or a DLC bezel (scratches are much less likely). Well, DLC bezel is there for some sapphire variants. Silver bezel might be however present just in the basic model – at least I have seen this with the 6S.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I think it looks fine - as in I don't think anything's wrong with it. Here's what I have. 100% backlight sitting by window on cloudy day. 

     

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to v6ak
    v6ak said:
    . I guess you would not put a screen protector on the sapphire glass…

    Let me quote my post from a thread regarding sapphire glass scratches. I scratched my 6x sapphire

    Quote:

    "Polaris said:
    I first recommend to you is to try the toothpaste, that maybe help for a minor scratch.
    Absolutely not. I tried to polish my F6X Sapphire with a toothpaste and not only did I not get rid of the original scratch but also ended up with horrible swirls/mini scratches (like on a paint of an old car) visible under strong sunlight. Look at my post below. The Sapphire screens are treated with some kind of a anti reflection layer that scratches very easily. Unless the sapphire screen scratched from the toothpaste. The only solution is to polish it off completely to get to the sapphire screen. "
     
    End of quote.
    Luckily I got mine replaced and immediately put a screen protector on it. So I ended up paying extra 100$ for a "scratch resistant" screen that scratches more easily that a gorilla glass one (who cares if its actually the AR coating scratching and not the glass itself) and still had to put a protector on it.  The sapphire glass on the F6 is a joke, definately not worth paying extra for it, unless you really care to have the black backlight, becasue it seems that it appears only in the sapphire units. Its a shame, bc apart from that I am really satisfied with the watch. 
  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

    All of the sapphire screens have anti reflective coating, as far as I am aware, whether 6 or 6x.