What does Smart Screen do for you?

..it displays the target based on conductivity and ferrous content. This means that screen is an X/Y or 2D display. Conductivity is in the X axis and ferrous Y. So that the higher the target is conductive the higher up on the display the crosshairs will be. The more Ferrous metal content the farther left on the screen the crosshairs will display. This taking into fact that you are fairly centered.
To wit silver is usually top right on the screen (high conductive low ferrous) and say a small nail is usually high and far left. A nickel is low conductive so the crosshairs are low towards but not on the bottom an and about mid screen.

What can it do for you...well...you can discriminate like you never could before. The target i.d. is accurate like nothing I have seen before....in most cases. As always if in heavy trash the target can be off a little.
I had mine at the beach for about 9 hours this weekend....holy smokes...you can knock out whatever it is you don't want and not worry that you will loose another close target. Pulltabs are a bit different....if you kick them all out I will loose some rings...but I only taught it to kick out the ones I see the most and go with that. You can teach this thing to see such a narrow group of targets...it is amazing.
Now....I can see from a short time of using it that I would not run a tight discrimination screen as you can still loose some to masking. But this is where you can run the screen in different levels of iro mask and dig according to audio and smart screen indications...between the two it is very accurate....not perfect..but impressive.
The smart screen to me is a world ahead of even the DTI meter...but I found it easy to get used to.
I think the tones are the hardest...my take is it sounds like someone playing the flute...and you can get several notes as you scan the target depending on conditions...such as not being centered on the target or multiple targets.
I will not try to play expert as I have only used it for the past 4 days...but i spent probably 9 hours at the beach. No real greta finds but I was practicing anyway.
To give an example of accurate tone/visual i.d.....I had a deep target that sounded and on the screen appeared to be a pulltab...heck I will dig to see if it still is accurate at depth. At ten inches up popped the pulltab.
I was dead on accurate at I.D. on coins..zincs I just left after awhile as they were just annoying...clads I dug for fun....pulled a few at 8 inches and had plenty more depth to go.
Even when I came across steel pieces like small rivets...I could see on the screen they were far right edge mid way down....no jewelry over in that range..or any coins I knew of...and it is just above bottlecaps. Dig it anyway...would have normally left it...sure enough at 7 inches out came a small steel bushing.
Well....enough....I hope someone else will say more...I was not sold on the Explorer when I bought it. I just wanted to prove to myself weather it was what they say it was. Well.....my take on it is....WOW. Scott {Maine} Posted on Coinist's Metal Detecting Forum 1/29/2001