Garmin Etrex Legend GPS Receiver by Garmin
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Digital camera reviews of Garmin Etrex Legend GPS Receiver
Digital camera Review: Bare bones GPS with no feature improvements in last 5 years
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought an Etrex legend 4 years ago, for the last 18 months I've had intermittent problems with it not working.
Now it's dead.
Negatives:
Not very durable
Very poor reception under tree cover, Magellan is better here.
Bare bones map, for a good map you pay $100 more.
Minimum memory, only 8 MB, so if you do buy the map, you can only put
a small portion in at any given time.
Comes with a serial cable, most USB to serial adapters don't work
so if you don't have a serial port you have a problem.
If you're using it for geocaching, you can't mark which ones have been
found.
Also the screen shows the gc.com GCxxxxx code which isn't helpful.
You need to have a PDA or paper printout of all the caches prepared
ahead of time
Drilling down thru the menus to get to the trip computer page is a pain if there are several caches nearby & you'd like to see some info on each of them.
After 5+ years Garmin should improve the features,
they have done nothing.
Digital camera Review: Best Budget GPS...Bar None
Summary: 4 Stars
I recently returned from a 3 day backpacking trip with this unit after haveing used to on short hops since purchasing it a month ago. I remain impressed, and more so after each use.
The unit has little frills, but delivers on ease of operation and functionality. It never lost signal during my entire 3 day trip through the foothills of the Apalachian Mountains in NE Alabama. I simply mounted it on my backpack and forgot about it. Each night at camp, I would turn it off and then restart it the next morning. Once home, I has able to download my entire route to my computer for armchair viewing.
Would I like a color and topo maps...you bet...but for this price, you can't go wrong with this basic workhorse unit.
Digital camera Review: Best bang for the buck of any GPS!
Summary: 5 Stars
I just bought the Garmin eTrex Legend GPS unit, and can't believe all the features that came packed in this tiny unit! It is simply amazing...
The ease of use is the best thing about it. Anyone can operate it! It is real simple and straight forward to use. A lot of the other features are nice but might be a little overwhelming to some at first.
It does take a while to come on once you get put in the batteries and power it on the for the first time (it has to initialize and get all the satellite locations and coordinants). But then once it's up - that's it. It's ready to go. Any time afterwards if you turn it off and power it back up, it comes right up in about 15 seconds.
The map feature is great, but you have to zoom WAY far in to see your street at first. But again, it's a great feature and extremely handy so you can instantly know where you are. The downside to the maps is that all the "extras" they talk about (USA Topographical CD-ROM's, USA full detailed CD-ROM maps, etc...) are ***EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE***
Digital camera Review: Best bang for your buck!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Least expensive unit that you can download coordinates, pretty, too!!
My husband uses this in teaching classes.
Digital camera Review: Best bang for your bucks
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been using GPS for a long time, and had a Garmin 12, then an eTrex and now this Legend. After looking at all other units, including Magellan, The eTrex Legend is the best. The only other choice would be the eTrex Vista, but for the extra money you only get a compass (if you are moving you get it too with the Legend), a barometric altimeter (the Legend has a GPS altimeter, which has an error of around 10 meters) and more memory (24mb instead of 8mb). If you can connect to a computer or Palm device, then the 8 megabytes is enough for 1 or 2 day trips and the neccessary maps.