Apple has lately guess large on each filmmaking and diving, including a cinematic mode to their iPhones, ProRes video recording on professional fashions and partnering with Huish Open air on an Oceanic Plus app that added dive laptop performance to the Apple Watch Extremely, which I examined out throughout a day of diving final yr. Now, Huish Open air is bringing its dive laptop performance to the iPhone with the brand new Oceanic Plus Dive Case, which additionally permits divers to make use of their iPhones for underwater photograph and video.
The case helps each iPhone beginning with the second-gen iPhone SE and past. It is rated to 60 meters (196 toes) and is roofed in common mounting factors so as to add any photograph or video equipment. These mounting factors do not assist triggering images strobe lighting — solely video lights with their very own built-in energy supply.
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The case has depth and temperature sensors that present information wanted for the iPhone’s Oceanic Plus app to operate as a dive laptop. The dive information could be displayed alongside the preview picture for images and videography. As with the Apple Watch Extremely, there isn’t any air integration function.
The housing has its personal battery, which Huish Open air says gives a “full week of diving” and recharges in 45 minutes by way of USB-C. Nevertheless, it is not consumer replaceable.
Just like the Oceanic Plus app did for the Apple Watch Extremely, the Oceanic Plus Dive Housing can flip an iPhone right into a dive laptop.
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As with the Apple Watch Extremely, you will have the subscription-based Oceanic Plus app to make the most of the dive laptop options for scuba. The identical subscription covers each gadgets, even when operating them on the identical time.
Photographs and movies taken through the dive might be rounded up and included within the post-dive logbook entry stored by the app, together with information about when and at what depth the images had been taken. The app additionally consists of built-in coloration correction filters.
The Oceanic Plus Dive case prices $490 and is obtainable to preorder now. When you plan on utilizing the app’s dive laptop capabilities, that’ll additionally require a subscription to the Oceanic Plus app, which prices $10 monthly or $80 per yr. The price of the case and app subscription collectively add as much as about the price of a fundamental standalone dive laptop.
A snorkeler makes use of the Oceanic Plus Dive Housing to {photograph} a shark.
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When you plan on solely snorkeling or taking images with the dive case, you will not want a subscription to the app, however there should still be extra inexpensive methods to maintain your cellphone dry at depth.
I stay up for diving with this case and offering a extra detailed evaluate sooner or later.