Googles Pixel Now Primed For The Underwater | Daily Scuba News (W/ Shaun) By Simply Scuba

Greetings, my excellent friends, and thank you for joining me for another episode of daily scuba news today, will be another short and sweet story, but the subject is a very interesting one. So google have just released an update for their pixel phone range now, you're, probably thinking Sean. This isn't even news. Every phone gets an update every couple of months. Yes, of course you are right, but the pixel team have done something really cool in their latest updates, so the phone, the pixel phone now features custom integration that combines the pixel camera with a phone case that is made for divers and by divers. So you can now use your phone to take pictures and film underwater a lot clearer than ever before and a lot easier as well, so using the kraken universal smartphone, housing, you'll, have access to night sight, portrait mode motion, photos and, of course, videos.

The housing itself can be taken down to a depth of 80 meters, and it offers wide angle and macro shots. This housing does cost a lot. It's 325, Canadian, but just think of the implications. This software- and this case has for the scuba, diving world and this case also works for other smartphones. Yes, the pixel software and camera have been adapted to work 100 with the case, but if your phone has the same or similar dimensions to the pixel uh, your phone will work in the case.

You just need to download like a third-party app to get it, so you can actually connect to the case so rather than having multiple cameras, other lighting rigs and all that sort of thing you have your smartphone, which is connected to housing via Bluetooth, and you're, ready to rock and roll to take pictures and videos. Cameras on smartphones have come leaps and bounds over the years. My phone films 8k, which is better than the DSLR- that I'm filming this story on right now and depending on your phone, you can change all of your settings. Settings from your ISO. Your aperture focus points, you name it.

You can customize the hell out of your phone cameras for photos and videos, of course, depending on the make and model that you have. On a personal note, I actually think this is a great idea, it's still in the starting blocks, but this type of housing really is aimed potentially at younger, maybe more social media savvy people that use their phones for photography and full video. So it's kind of a natural step in the way we know record and take pictures nowadays and, let's be honest, this is where a lot of companies and future tech is heading towards, rather than using big rigs. You can just whack out your phone film adverts and take amazing pictures, fun facts completely, going off the script. I do believe it was at wolf of Wall Street.

There were a couple of shots in there that were actually filmed on an iPhone and that's a feature length movie, which is amazing. It literally just whacked out the film uh whacked out his phone recorded some bits, and that was it. So there were no setups. There was no external memories or anything for that. So yeah.

This really is the future. But what do you think about this? Would you buy a smartphone housing to go diving with your mobile phone? Would you trust yourself that you're not going to drop your phone and then that's it? Let's have a chin Wang about it in the comments below and that's it for today. Don't forget to get your questions in for ask march. Just use the hashtag ask mark um in your question, so we can find it. If you want the latest updates about our website and social pages, then you should definitely check out the deck stock podcast and the surface interval has also been turned into a podcast as well, which is actually pretty cool.

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