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Was thinking of upgrading my GPS and looking at this one http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-GPSMap-...1504098&sr=8-1 but was wondering if you can see the screen while wearing polarized sunglasses. I have an old Garmin C330 for the car/truck and the screen is all most black when wearing my sunglasses. Hoping maybe with newer units that problem has been corrected. If not maybe I will just go with the B/W unit.
Steve, I was at Kerr Res a while back and had the opportunity to look at a HB 997...I have transition glasses and they are not polarized lenses...I could not see any detail on the screen until I took my glasses off...It could be the transition lenses but I have heard others say the screens are hard to see with sunglasses..Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveJ
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Originally Posted by SteveJ
I can see my Lowrance better than the Humminbird sonar. But the Garmin 276C gps shows best for me with my (clip on) Polaroids. I also have tinted prescription glasses. No problem with any colors using these tinted glasses.
Find someone with color sonar/gps units and take a look with the Polaroids on. I believe different results come from different folks. Everybody sees things differently.
Tom
[QUOTE=Cane Pole;529173]I can see my Lowrance better than the Humminbird sonar. But the Garmin 276C gps shows best for me with my (clip on) Polaroids. I also have tinted prescription glasses. No problem with any colors using these tinted glasses.
Find someone with color sonar/gps units and take a look with the Polaroids on. I believe different results come from different folks. Everybody sees things differently.
Mine are prescription polarized sunglasses. Will see if I can find someone with one but I do know for a fact that my C330 is unreadable with those glasses. Of course in the car it is talking to me plus I don't have to look at it all the time like I do when getting from spot to spot on the lake.
[QUOTE=SteveJ;529186]How do you like the prescription poloroids? It is time for my eye exam. I been thinking about a pair for fishing. The clip on suck and the tint ones I have are not poloroid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cane Pole
How do you like the prescription poloroids? It is time for my eye exam. I been thinking about a pair for fishing. The clip on suck and the tint ones I have are not poloroid.
I really like them, mine came from Wal-mart. I have 2 pair, one I keep in the car for traveling and the other in my truck for fishing. I have the cord you loop around your neck on those so I don't lose them overboard. A friend and I were float fishing a fast moving creek one time and I got flipped overboard by a limb and lost a new pair of prescription sunglasses so I don't what that to happen again. Only way to go for me.
I have a 997C and I wear prescription polorized sunglasses. At certain angles the screen is hard to see, but after a while you adjust to this---sort of like adjusting to progressive lenses.
I can see my Lowrances with transitions and polarized over them. Now if I could just see my line.
I wore trifocals for years. I went to progressive 4 years ago. Took a while to get acclimated.Quote:
Originally Posted by rockmike
This is a rely I got over on walleye central. Don't need the land maps, may have to make at trip, like the 76 series, bigger screen. Colorado would be too much GPS.
Garmin has evolved in many ways including new displays. The old TFT, and QVGA displays that were the norm in handhelds and PDA's were of a courser resolution and often resulted in darkening with sunglass's.
The new VGA displays offer a sharper resolution that means smaller text is much more readable than on a QVGA display. Newer Garmin marine models offer VGA displays. The new models of handhelds offers a new transflective color TFT display.
If a handheld GPS unit is what you looking for, check out the new Colrado 400i, it offers a Transflective color TFT display. It is also preloaded with the newest version of Garmin Inland Lakes softwear, satellite imagery, and reads Lakemaster Hotmaps Garmin formatted chips. It uses SD cards. This is a very Kewl unit. It has a sister unit the Colorado 400t that is preloaded with TOPO maps, great for the hicker or hunter. Both can use lake maps SD's or topo maps, or street driving data cards....very versatile and extremely user friendly. A nice large display too. Take a peek. it's sweet.
http://www8.garmin.com/buzz/colorado/
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/alt-imag...ctImageRFLarge
Ed "Backwater Eddy" Carlson
You will always have trouble seeing LCD screens wearing polarized sunglasses. It is because the pixels are laid out in vertical lines. When you tilt your head the polarized filters out anything thats not in plane with your eyes.
Got my new GPSMap 76Cx yesterday and took it to my granddaughter's boyfriend and he transferred all my waypts to my new units, Garmin doesn't like mac's. Have not had it on the water yet but will pass on what I think I know so far. I took it out in the sunlight with my polarized sunglasses on and was able to read it as long as the angle was not too great. The screen is a little smaller than my 72. Also was able to pick up the satellites in the house with my metal roof, so a good RX. That's about all I know so far, guess it will take a few trips to learn it's use.
HI Steve,Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveJ
I don't like Mac's either (I Prefer Krystals). Had one. Couldn't get anything to work with it. Expensive thing for a computer too.
My son gave me a mac-mini for Christmas a couple of years ago and I like it much better than my old Dell, if I remember right had Win 98, except for the fact that not many other companies make any software for it. Very fast boot-up etc. I'm not very good on a puter but my granddaughter's boyfriend, Justin, is very good with them so I just get him to do my stuff, just need to get him to come up here and show me some stuff on my mac but you know how these young folk are, just too busy. Garmin does have a web-updater for mac now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cane Pole