So, I'm new to purchasing a Casio G-Shock watch for myself and have a few questions.. mainly about the back lights the watches have for now.
How does it work?
Does it have accelerometers so that it turns on the back light for a few seconds every time the watch faces up?
Does it self-disable when battery is low?
Since these watches are solar powered, then the more light they get in the day, the more backlight time they can give?
I like watches with tritium gas tubes (like Ball, Luminox) because I don't need to hit a button to make it light up in the dark, as you would with a most digital watches and cellphones. Non-radioactive lumes don't last long enough.
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"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRoIi...eature=related" That's an LED light in that video. Typically LED lights use......... Well, you guessed it! LEDs. They are usually brighter than EL backlights, but they shine in from the sides.
I don't have the time to post pictures now, but EL backlights light up the entire panel, making for easier reading.
The "Super illuminator" is just a fancy name for a backlight in general, I think.
An "afterglow" is the glowing of the panel after you have pressed the light button and the light has gone off. I can't imagine why anyone would need that. Never in my life have I been able to make use of this "feature".
An "auto" backlight allows you to activate the backlight simply by tilting your wrist towards you, like when you are reading the watch. It may come in useful for some, but personally I find that they activate themselves way too easily and frequently than I would need.
I've used digital watches without backlights, with vintage lightbulbs, with LEDs and with EL backlights and I have to say that EL backlights are my top choice, hands down.
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Does it have accelerometers so that it turns on the back light for a few seconds every time the watch faces up?
Does it self-disable when battery is low?
Since these watches are solar powered, then the more light they get in the day, the more backlight time they can give?
I like watches with tritium gas tubes (like Ball, Luminox) because I don't need to hit a button to make it light up in the dark, as you would with a most digital watches and cellphones. Non-radioactive lumes don't last long enough.
Does G-Shock's Auto EL give you the same no-hands-see-time-in-darkness capability as tritium?
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"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRoIi...eature=related" That's an LED light in that video. Typically LED lights use......... Well, you guessed it! LEDs. They are usually brighter than EL backlights, but they shine in from the sides.
I don't have the time to post pictures now, but EL backlights light up the entire panel, making for easier reading.
The "Super illuminator" is just a fancy name for a backlight in general, I think.
An "afterglow" is the glowing of the panel after you have pressed the light button and the light has gone off. I can't imagine why anyone would need that. Never in my life have I been able to make use of this "feature".
An "auto" backlight allows you to activate the backlight simply by tilting your wrist towards you, like when you are reading the watch. It may come in useful for some, but personally I find that they activate themselves way too easily and frequently than I would need.
I've used digital watches without backlights, with vintage lightbulbs, with LEDs and with EL backlights and I have to say that EL backlights are my top choice, hands down.
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