So how do I get my screen to look like the one garmin website?

You can't.

The screen you are viewing the website on is much, much more accurate at displaying colors than the screen on the Garmin device.

The screens on the Garmin devices are a special type that are readable without a backlight in bright sunlight. The compromise is that the color rendition accuracy is not good.

Your computer/phone screen requires a backlight (or is self illuminating with OLED). This means the power consumption is higher. These screens are also not bright enough to really compete with the sun.

Colors on computers are represented by numbers. The same numbers are being sent to your computer screen and the Garmin screen.

Thanks for replying.

I understand about the screen variants now, but its the difference to what you actually get, compared to the wildly advertised photos of colourful bright maps and highlighted graphs which is not only misleading but breaks advertising standards. Thats like selling a car which actually does 20 miles per gallon as doing 55mpg. They sucker you in and then real life sets in.

I like to see much more restricted colours, but brighter and have more vivid warnings and highlights. The colour screen on Lezyne units are mainly black and white but the colours are far brighter where they appear and maps easier to follow. Those are sun view.

For me the 1030 display is a disappointment for an expensive top of the range unit.

1838040 said:

I understand about the screen variants now, but its the difference to what you actually get, compared to the wildly advertised photos of colourful bright maps and highlighted graphs which is not only misleading but breaks advertising standards. Thats like selling a car which actually does 20 miles per gallon as doing 55mpg. They sucker you in and then real life sets in.

Well, not exactly.

I understand you not being happy with what you see compared to what you expected.

One problem is that every device like this (including the Lezyne) is going to have a mismatch (to varying degrees) between the colors on the actual device and how people's computer screens render them. So, unless you can get every manufacturer to alter the images they publish, no one company will do it.

But you can visibly see the difference between real life and ‘how computer screens have missmatch’ including the people who set the advertised colour saturation (Garmin). What I expected is what the company ( to varying degrees) puts in advertising.

1838040 said:

What I expected is what the company ( to varying degrees) puts in advertising.

I think you are suggesting Garmin is "enhancing" the image.

I don't think so. I've done many screen shots of the devices and the bitmaps "look better" on the computer screen.

If you compare Youtube shots (all I have to use) of the Lezyne against what the company shows on the website, the same sort of thing is happening there too.

You might be suggesting (it's not quite clear) that Garmin makes the copy "look worse" to match reality better. That wouldn't make much sense unless all companies did it.

• I too found the display difficult to see, especially the map while under some shade from trees, etc. I was also disappointed and very underwhelmed when turning it on for the first time. for me to see the map properly, again, while under shade, with sunglasses on, etc, I had to leave the backlight on always, at 100%. Is that what most users are doing, even when outdoors? this made it better but was draining the battery quickly.