Silver Fox
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Anyone get an F5 yet? I'm dying for reviews. Might get one. N/T
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Hi Ezrider: It looks like this detector could be the cat's meow, dig? 8)EZrider said:Ed, i bet in your hands it would be beond steller. I think it has everything your looking for.
You're right, EZ, Cabela's is a clearer photo and the zoom is almost ideal except for some reason, after I zoomed the image, I tried to magnify it with my browser's magnifying feature which zooms from -50% to +400% but it wouldn't magnify the image further than Cabela's zoom!EZrider said:Ed, i took a look at it on Cabelas website "zoom feature". It has the zinc and dime mark. Although i understand what your saying about the pre 82s and dimes. Ill tell you this though. If the VID is on the money like my 75. The pre 82s will read 70-72 and dimes will read in the 75-80s depending on if its clad or silver. One thing i did or didnt notice is that if it is a single tone machine, much like the delta pitch on mine.
EZrider said:So far from what i have gathered is that the F5 has diffrent tones. The discrimination is like that of the 75, it will go up to 65 "zinc". I don't know if its independent of the notch. I think its going to be one nice machine in the right hands. Although the F70 that just came out if going to kill it somewhat. I really don't see to much in the way of a review as the F5 has a small target audience. I wouldn't expect to get to much out of Fisher atm because of there transition and the fact dealers do not have this machine on stock yet.
Silver Fox said:Hi Ezrider: It looks like this detector could be the cat's meow, dig? 8)EZrider said:Ed, i bet in your hands it would be beond steller. I think it has everything your looking for.
Your message just reminded me that I want to call Fisher and speak to someone about a couple of features that I deem important but the only large photo of the display found on some websites lacks clarity and I'm referring to the icon for a dime which the display doesn't seem to show. Fisher put too much emphasis on the lower targets when it should be concentrating on the coins that we usually find. Such as separation between pre-1982 cents and dimes as my old Teknetics Mark I Ltd was able to do.
I just passed on a Minelab X-Terra 70 at a great price 'cause something came up but I was leaning towards the F5 because of all of those knobs allowing flexibility plus the newness of digital electronics. It could turn out to the best of both worlds. I wonder what's holding it up since it was supposed to be released in March. Perhaps they're still working out the bugs, if any.
Good to hear from you man, take it EZ!
Edward