Fisher F-75
Street Price $1000
Number of Reviews: 49
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DigDug in California -
After searching and searching for a new detector I went with the new F75 LTD. But after recieving it I was disappointed with the overall quality of the unit. For $1200 bucks I expected a "Fisher", not "Fisher Price". The camo paint and thin LCD screen do look and feel cheap. Buyers remorse.
Oct 26, 2009
4 Yes
2 No
What a joke!
Mike Sleeter in GA -
I can't believe I spent $1000 on such a unstable and noisy piece of plastic. Im GLAD I didn't sell my old XLT! Don't have to believe it...go spend your $1000 and regret it yourself!
Oct 13, 2009
6 Yes
8 No
F75 with 5"DD coil - WOW
Severin A Eskeland in Akershus, Norway -
Over the last weeks I have been using the F75 with the 5" coil. The fact that I am picking older coins and jewelery on sites that are considered "hunted through" just goes to show the superb signal separation of this system. On these hunted through sites I am finding a lot of small coins and jewelery, but also larger coins that have been masked by nearby iron trash. I dig everything above 20. If the VDI is jumpy I use poinpoint to decide if I should dig or not: If the poinpoint indicates a round target, then it is probably a ferrous bottle cap, if the pinpoint signal is elongated or gives multiple targets then I dig it. In many of these latter instances I find trash and valuables in the same hole.
Sep 14, 2009
9 Yes
1 No
fisher f75
david in england -I recently purchased an f75, this machine is the business, set it correctly and the results are excellent ,it is also very sensitive to thin gold. I used it in a park full of bits of trash ten out of ten for difficulty and managed to retrieve coins, musket balls and bronze buckles using the visual and depth id just digging the deeper targets. No other of my many detector's I've used would perform like this, iron see through. I read a few people find it unstable(turn it down)for general detecting use de or pf modes, I use single tone or two tone, I also like all metal motion with visual id dig nothing under 20 you will not go far wrong, I've had mini musket balls at depths I know for a fact most detectors would not get near, the f75 does raise your eye brows in wonder. This machine can be very sparky but I like a machine which can be set beyond the boundrys of other machines, I can use it for hours without my arm falling off, battery life is also excellent.
Jul 27, 2009
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A YEAR AND A HALF AND STILL GOING STRONG
Mike southeast Idaho in Idaho USA -I now had this f75 for year and ahalf and it's still going strong. I wrote in a review back in oct of 07 and f75 was finding coins deep and it's still doing the job. I' ve working old 1890' to 1920s house with flood irrgated lawns and pullng coins out at the 12" to 14" range. yesterday 1919-s quarter dollar. Love this F75 going to buy 5"dd coil to see how it does.
Apr 08, 2009
8 Yes
2 No
F75 is the best!
Severin A Eskeland in Akershus, Norway -The Fisher F75 is the most ground breaking metal detector I have ever used. Low weight, rapid recovery rate and super sensitivity for deep coins and relics. Also it is super versatile with all the search coils that are available for it. I am really looking forward to testing the new 5”DD coil.
Mar 07, 2009
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0 No
The REAL Streak! Review.......
Streak! (not a cheap imitation) in Eastern Pa -Seems someone took the time to write a Review in My name, bashing the Fisher F75. Hope you rot in hell coward.
The REAL Scoop is that the F75 is the best machine I have ever used, bar none. Fantastic Ergonomics, GREAT battery life, and unequalled performance in iron. This machine has put a LOT of relics in my pouch. Despite complaints about build quality, I've pounded this machine in heavily wooded sites, with no failure at ALL, for over two years now. Thats more than I can say for a few other brands I've owned. I'd rate this machine 5 stars for performance alone, and another 5 stars for batt life and ergonomics.
Mar 01, 2009
18 Yes
4 No
Working with perfection
Jeb in North Wales, in the UK -Hi there,
For any one new to the F75, it may help if I just give you a few tips on using your F75 and if I can just describe the proceedures a bit it may help you gain a bit of the working insight to the Fisher F75.
I would never wish to advocate I am an expert with any detector, but I have used this Fantastic detector since they were first introduced, and if I can possibly help point people in the right direction, then I feel you can then expand on this info I'm setting out.
First, Ground balancing. This procedure is a very important issue to be taken seriously. You are advised to do it although the Auto "Fast Grab" procedure is adequate in most soils.
Rather than waste space in describing the fast Grab, please follow the manual steps on this. But can I just mention, that I Fast grab about every 20 minutes. Keep an eye on your "ground mineralization graph" on the right hand side of your meter console watch for any fluctuation in your Graph when GB` ing. Make a note at first what the readings tell you, what state the soil is when your GB`ing..
Once you have fast grabbed (GB).................Select your working s.
Assuming your wanting to search in the DISCRIM mode (on the left of the control panel)......
Set your sensitivity on say 75 to start. No particular reason just set 75 for now.
Then push the menu button again and select DISC LEVEL with the settings knob.. Set this at 4 .
Then push the Menu again and select notch with the settings knob.. Make sure this is ALWAYS on 1 .
(unless you want to delb into Notch procedure)
Press menu again & turn Settings knob again to," # of Tones."
This is all down to a matter of choice on this setting. When I first got the F75 used 3 and even 4 tone, but I soon found that although these modes give you the higher squeal on Silver, they can also give out ghost signals which can waste a lot of time looking for when really they are not there. So my advice is to use Primarily TWO TONE ,(2)or if you want to go into Zero discrim then Single tone is the better, but thats a whole different ball game strategy. DP (delta pitch) is not advised
Now press menu once more, and turn the setting knob till your in Process #.
Here you have 4 different search modes.
dE (default process)
JE (Jewelry process)
bc (bottle cap)
and finally, PF (plowed field)
Again these are modes which you personally will decide what YOU want and feel confident in.
Can I just say that it in general for UK soils, its better to Ignore bc mode, but again, thats just mine, and a few others opinion.
( De mode) is a General purpose mode basically.
(PF mode) is a very good and versatile mode for uneven ground and pasture.
(JE mode) is the Turbo of the F75. This is a VERY sensitive mode and is perfect for searching for the tiny stuff in. This detector eats Cut quarters and Tiny Gold nuggets for breakfast in this mode (if they are there ) Watch your sensitivity though in this mode . But, have it too high sometimes and you will have an adverse affect on this detector.` 50 `is average, in the JE mode, but you can always up it higher till it ceases to become stable, then, back it off a few turns till you can get a pretty good stability in the noises to be able you to recognize the "good signal " when you hear one.
Just a quick mention on the search swing on THIS detector. On most detectors it is always advised you search slowly. Now, not so with the F75. A quicker than the average swing is advised for this detector. This doesn't mean to say you should up your Step pace. Just your swing pace. 1 second per sweep is about right, from left to right.
Now going back to Sensitivity!
I always start as high as I can without Erratic gurgling and hurdy gurdying playing in my ears. Try to set the sensitivity so that you do not hear excessive noise. Tune the Sensitivity so that there's an even sounding or, just a tiny bit of noise in the back ground of your Ear phones.. SILENT running is NOT advised.
You may wish to go for maximum depth and start hunting in (motion)ALL METAL Mode.
This is an excellent mode to hunt in, as you get NO GROUND AFFECTS to contend with as you do in the Discrim modes.
Firstly switch over from the Discrim mode to the All metal mode on the right of your Screen.
Adjust the threshold to just audible. Then adjust the Audio pitch of your detector. I think mines at 5.
Drop down to SENSITIVITY now and start off at about 75.
Now Manually Ground balance the detector. If your not sure on this Follow the steps in your User manual to do it. You will soon get the hang of it and not have to use your Manual..
Then start Digging. If your not comfortable with Manually GB`ing then Fast grab procedure will be OK. Keep your ears open for the good target each way sounds and Dig nothing under 18. It will be rubbish. Coins etc will be up in the 40`s figures or roundabouts. OK I know cut quarters may be missed by ignoring anything under 23. But if Cut quarters and halves don't float your boat, there no problem. But if you want to detect cut quarters and halves, just dig from 18 and above, then you will almost certainly catch them in the 18 - 20 bracket. You'll soon get the hang of what figure not to dig under after a few digs. A lot of high squeals will be Iron up in the late 80's to 90, but as I said watch out for the figures in the Medium /High end bracket to be good targets.
I have added this paragraph on to my paragraphs also, as I think its a very important addition from a leading figure in the detecting world. I have included it because its another excellent way of working the F75.
"Put your Discrim mode on. Use PF mode, and sensitivity at around 80. Also stick your Discrimination on " 6 " and (Very important) stick your tones on MONO TONE (single tone).
When this set up is on it allows an excellent Iron see thru capability to be introduced on a site where it is littered with iron bits of junk and it masking the non ferrous targets.
Many detectors will shut down on these circumstances.
The F75 and the T2 are the only detectors available that will readily tackle this (pretty common) scenario with a good unmasking success rate. Now heres the gist of this.
With the F75 discrimination on 6, and Monotone,...... The moment you invoke a different tone, such as 2 tone or three tone or four tone, the Discrimination even though its on "6"....
Will BECOME instantly a discrimination of FIFTEEN by you switching the tones out from mono tone to any other.
The reason for this is any target that is between "6" and "15" will now audibly report as a LOW TONE(iron tone)
This is a Big problem for many reasons.
Any target that is ABOVE 15 might read a Higher tone(tone frequency depending on what tone option invoked)
Most people do not want to dig Iron, and most people will miss masked non ferrous targets when "monotone" IS NOT SELECTED So, mono tone is very very useful.
Do not dismiss it.
The T2 with a disc setting of "21" and mono tone will be a similar thing."
Anyway I hope this bit of info will help you to wards running your F75 in a pleasant and rewarding way.
There is much much more to the working of this F75 & I'm sure In fact I obviously know there are lots of things I have omitted to convey to this post but I can't discuss everything in one go, but this is just a few hints to help you get you up and started pretty quickly.
So that'll give you my best tips on how to use this Fabulous detector.
Ok, its Not built like a Minelab. But on sayiing that, its no where near as heavy as a Minelab. So you can't have your cake and eat it.
There has to be a compromise. If you want light well balanced detector, this IS IT ! If you want Depth, and Max Sensitivity, this detector has it all. Just treat it with respect, and don't sling it about or drop it if you can. It should repay your respect.
Its todays stealth bomber of the Detecting world.
The moaners! Well there's always a few in life.
Jan 10, 2009
50 Yes
30 No
F75 how to quite it down
ReidMan in USA -Ok I sell a lot of F75 everyone comes back for help with the chatter, everyone I look at has the same issue, they look at notch then turn the setting back to zero, well it doesn't go back to zero really you just notched in iron, if there is not a full slash over iron while looking at it in notch then you are accepting iron. This makes the detector a chatter box. To fix either do a factory reset, or turn notch up until there is a slash on the top part of iron push menu turn down so there is a slash on bottom part of iron push menu you have now blocked iron again and your detector will quite down. Also if you raise the discrimination setting above iron detector will get noisy so either lower the sensitivity or lower the discrimination and use the ID meter thats what its for. Like others have said if you are looking for your first detector don't buy this one, if you want a quite detector that picks up coins at 5" buy something else. If you want to dig buttons at 10" and know what you are doing this is for you.
Oct 14, 2008
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F75 detector review
h thomas in nottinghamshire united kingdom -Having used several detectors in the past, fisher 1266, whites xlt, fisher cz5, I have to say the F75 is very good. I liked the cz5 sounds and the speed with which it detected targets, but the fisher F75 goes deeper by at least 3 inches on victorian pennies, its simple to use, easy to program, picks up anything from shotgun percusion caps, roman bronzes to celtic quarter staters and more, how anyone could not use this machine is beyond belief as its so simple. If I had to pick fault it would be with the user manual it is not very informative in explaining the best way to set the detector up for maximum performance in different situations etc. The large search coil covers large areas in no time, but pinpointing can be difficult. The detector also likes hot rocks giving a signal that is borderline I've had hammered coins on edge give the same signal so if in doubt dig. Its easy to swing and I've used it for several hours at a time with little fatigue to my arm, build quality is as good or better than any other detector I've owned or seen, battery time is huge, I've used it for around 20 hours and its still on the full battery life mark. I would recommend this detector to both beginners and advanced, I've had it only 3 weeks it cost £600 and has nearly paid for itself with coins found, I've had several hammered several Roman and a beautiful celtic gold quarter stater, what more proof could I ask for, and I'm still getting used to what the detector is saying. When I go out with friends detecting they use top of the range whites and minelab, and at the end of the day my pouch is often more full than theres.
Oct 03, 2008
13 Yes
2 No