So, I sold off my analogue scope and use an Agilent 3000X series now. With the very first screenshot I take, I notice that the grid isn't square - big deal?
I don't know. I'm used to a perfectly square graticule from the old Tektronix and I have this strange idea that curves don't 'look' as they're supposed to. For example a perfect sinusoid just looks...weird, like someone elongated the graph to emphasise or falsify data. The dimensions of the grid is ca 1.5x1.1 mm and I wonder why it isn't square. It probably doesn't matter much and it's just something I have to get used to.
I asked this
on the Agilent forum too, but the guy doesn't seem to understand me.
If you look at other brand's oscilloscopes, Rigol, older Tektronix and some Hameg have it square, R&S RTOs and all newer Agilents seem to have it rectangular. The grid of the 3000X is actually switched to a square shape when you change the into XY-mode, but according to the guy in the Agilent forum "nobody uses XY-mode anyway", which I think is a really dumb reasoning.
Enough of my talk, what do you think - should it be square like engineering paper or is this a blast from the past and cursors & auto-measurement readouts do the job today?