Our first experiences of viewing the Panasonic DT50 have been at exhibitions and conferences where lighting is far from ideal. Indeed, we even received the review sample on a bright spring day and on initial set up we knew, even then, that it would be capable of producing absolute stellar levels of viewing enjoyment in daytime use. The filter employed in the DT50 – viewing angles issue excepted – does an absolutely remarkable job of combating ambient light and black levels look deep and rich right up to the point when you turn the lights right down, where the truth reveals itself. In fact the DT50’s black level is very disappointing, on paper. We’re not in the routine habit of publishing minimum luminance readings for the very simple reason even a Klein: K-10 isn’t really capable of producing accurate results at very low levels, despite what some believe, but the blacks of the DT50 probably wouldn’t even trouble a meter costing less than £100 so we’ve no trouble in revealing the number of 0.23 cd/m2 or 0.0671 ftL, in old money.