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V I T A L S T A T S

CINEMAQUATIC

ACTION SHOTS

Paralenz Dive Camera

€649 / paralenz.com

An under-sea snapper for
diving sorts: Paralenz goes
down, deeper and down
with its 4K water baby
● Depth perception
Taking your GoPro for a snorkelling
session? Pah! Oh, sure, your fancy
Hero 5 can capture 4K footage down
to 10m – but beside this dedicated
diving cam that’ll look like a leaky
shoe at the bottom of a pond. Clad
in military-grade aluminium, the
Paralenz Dive Camera can keep
shooting 200m deep without a
housing. And it’ll do so in 4K at 30fps.

● Deep blue see
While capturing hi-res crabs is a
fine achievement for a device as
big as a torch, you won’t be squids
in on YouTube if your colour palette’s
all off. Thankfully, this oceanic
snapper comes with in-built colour
correction, so your establishing
coral shot will look iridescent. Better
yet, fling the footage through your
presumably rugged smartphone
and the mobile app can overlay dive
log data onto your recordings.
● Gloved up?
If showing off to your dive school
pals is the aim, you’ll want to go deep
– which, unless you’re a mermaid,
means gearing up. Good job, then,
that the Dive Camera is equipped
with magnetic buttons that deliver
vibration feedback. It won’t cough
out at the first sign of fishy business
either: internal thermal foam
insulation helps keep battery
wastage in check, even when things Need a
get chilly, so you’ll get two hours profile video for
from the 1600mAh LiPo cell inside. film festivals? The
Paralenz 3rd Person
● Have a masked ball Viewer is an under-
Need to go hands-free for some sea selfie stick with
sea-floor searching? Useful T-rails flotation aids.
run along the camera’s length on
all sides of its cylindrical housing
for easy mounting to a multitude
of sub-aquatic accessories,
removing the need to screw
around (literally) with your
standard tripod hole. Lock it
in place with a click, before sticking
the bundled mount to your mask
to snap a diver’s-eye view of your
next tete-a-tete with a haddock.

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