Picture taken yesterday right before the camera could focus and adjust the light. Hard to capture with a camera, but in reality it's sometimes pretty dark above the OBC:
Speedometer and rev-counter (+ needles) readable ? Yes.
Comfortable to read (especially with sun glasses) ? No.
You won't see such poor readability of instrument dials happening on modern cars of BMW's competitors (Porsche, Audi, Mercedes, etc.).
I asked my dealer to report this issue to BMW. He did and BMW replied to him that I wasn't the first to point it out - BMW knows about it.
BMW should address this, definitely.