New Humminbird fish finders

I was at west marine the other day buying some goop, and I just happened to go through the fish finder section.

I must say these devices are improving at an extremely rapid pace.  I am not a big fan of Humminbird but I was VERY impressed with this unit



it is the 383c combo fishfinder GPS.  The graphics were extremely sharp (320v x 240h) and the colors very clean.

If it performs half as well as it looks, then it would be a great unit.  I've seen it as low as $345 on the web.  How cheap is that!

Too bad I don't have the scratch...

MolBasser

I'm totally taken with some of the new color sonar units.  And I can't believe how quickly the prices are falling.  My only real reservation is that I've heard that the color screens are difficult to read in sunlight.

Anybody here have experience with the color units on a yak?


Randy

color also will use power faster.  on a normal electronic device, the screen is the main battery consumer, and color consumes more.

with the sonar in play, it may be that the screen is a smaller total factor, thus jumping to a color display does not cost you that much
more battery time.

J