Mottling is barely visible on my Eizo F76 (calibrated with Adobe gamma loader) too, but it's there.
Reason for me to suggest velvet was that I loaded the whole 1.7 Mb image into Photoshop and looked at it with 200% magnification. To me, it looks definately like some kind of fabric, and velvet was my first association. The dots are lined up in a curved (or maybe folding) pattern, and they are very uneven in size and brightness. Main point, I guess, is that the mottling is no kind of digital or optical artefact. :-) Jostein ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr E D F Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:29 PM Subject: Re: Sample images of Optio S revealed > I see no mottling on my monitor - SyncMaster 959NF. It's not jet black up in > the left hand top corner, but we don't know what the material is do we? > Black paper, cloth, velvet as suggested? The pictures are very good indeed.