New 360 degree Underwater Camera, a Small Fortune
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Paradise Taveuni, Taveuni Island, Fiji
The Endless Acquisitions of Scuba Businesses
Sharks Continue to be the Movie Villains
Retire in Margaritaville?
Hugyfot Case Makes GoPro Serious
Belize, Utila, Palau, Komodo, Bonaire
Son of Australian Underwater Legend Sues
Don’t be a Diving Heart Attack Victim
Shooting RAW on your iPhone
Tropical Ice
Surely Not Another Scuba Kickstarter?
Fancy Buying a Dive Resort Operation in the Sun?
That Kosrae Dive Resort Lottery Winner
Why Don’t Some Divers Drop Weights in an Emergency?
More on those Disappearing Warships
Great White v Orcas? Orcas Win
Diving in Sri Lanka is Not All Bad
Fire Aboard a Red Sea Liveaboard
New 360 degree Underwater Camera, a Small Fortune
How Safe to Fly After Diving? At Last, Some Empirical Evidence
Flotsam & Jetsam
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from the June, 2017 issue of Undercurrent
You might be familiar with those 360° view videos frequently used by real estate agents to give you virtual tours of properties. The VSN Mobil V360 HD Camera Kit sells for $449, but is only water-resistant to 3 feet deep. Some enterprising engineers have found a way to clamp together a cluster of POV cameras like the GoPro for a similar effect.
The Boxfish 360 is a professional-quality 360° underwater camera with large digital sensors. Its "eyes" are three large cameras that the company claims gives the sensor an area almost five times that of those six-action-camera rigs you might have seen. This results in sharper images shooting up to 5K ultra high-definition with better color rendition.
It has a 90-minute battery that takes only minutes change along with the camera's memory cards. The Boxfish 360 can also record data from the dive, such as the depth it recorded at. It's designed to work with the Boxfish ROV.
For around $15,000, they're yours. www.boxfishresearch.com
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