We are getting more excited about the upcoming Liquid Image VideoMask 310 every day! A great in-depth review of the Liquid Image VideoMask 310 just hit the press over at Scuba Diver Info! They took the 33ft rated scuba mask down to 90ft in 50 degree water – and the 310 rocked it!
Here’s a highlight from the review of the Liquid Image 310 Underwater Video Mask: “The mask part of the video mask is good enough to replace a conventional mask. And the camera part is well enough integrated so that you’re hardly aware of it. This makes the VideoMask much more than just a novelty. What it boils down to is that the Liquid Image VideoMask lets you shoot still underwater pictures and video without having to carry a camera. This means you have your hands free for other things and don’t have the added water resistance from holding a camera.”
Dive Cam Central will be accompanying Liquid Image at the First Annual Bay Area Dive Show April 17th-18th in San Jose California. We’ll be at booth #107 so make sure to stop by and check us out if you’re at the show!
Dave Etchells of Imaging Resource stopped by the Liquid Image booth at PMA 2009. Melanie Pearson gave him the lowdown on all the new under water video masks! Pretty informative, check it out.
CameraCyte stopped by the Liquid Image booth at PMA this week and had nothing but good things to say!
“One of the fun aspects of walking through trade shows is finding wacky products. That does not mean bad products, just ones that seems to come out of left field. This year’s winner is Liquid Image’s SCUBA Series HD320, a diving mask with a built-in digital camera.
Due in spring for an estimated cost of $250, the HD320 looks like a standard SCUBA mask with the camera molded into the top edge. As a former SCUBA instructor and underwater photographer, I was impressed with the design. Good down to 115 feet, you get 5-megapixel still images and 720p high-definition video. Large levers — good for use with diving gloves — on the top right corner of the mask trip the shutter or start and stop video. Colored LED light above your eye let you know if your are shooting still or movies. Your images are stored on a micro SD card and four AAA batteries power the whole thing.
Given the price and the challenges of shooting underwater, the camera has a fixed lens and fully-automatic controls. Its ISO has a limited range, 100 to 200, which to me seems too low for shooting underwater. But the mask does have attachment on either side for optional lights.
Resort divers are the most likely candidates for the HD320, but the person I met on the show floor said that serious underwater photographers might want it for a backup or as a way to take video recordings while using their more expensive still cameras. And I could see her point.”
Nice hands on of the new Liquid Image professional HD video scuba mask series! Video courtesy of Steve Garfield! Liquid Image / Visit SteveGarfield.com
