Liquid Image video camera goggles get upgraded specs, Japanese release
By Vladislav Savov 
posted Jul 9th 2009 7:15AM
posted Jul 9th 2009 7:15AM
[Via Akihabara News]
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I would use those to mimic FPS gameplay.
Underwater POV pr0n.
Yeah, but it upload direct to YouTube?
It not matter, you have computer.
Nothing matter anymore when lose grammar
Making underwater porno has never been easier to make!
This would actually be pretty useful for me. I was snorkeling on tuesday and had my camera in an underwater housing and it was quite cumbersome and slowed me down quite a bit. I was actually wishing for something that could take video/pictures of what I was looking at handsfree.
Unfortunately, the 10m limitation and the awkward aesthetics are a major downside. 10m makes it pretty much useless for Scuba.
It probably doesn't have enough light-sensitivity anyway to use it at more depth, from the sound of it it's just your common aiptek thingy inside a divingmask, but correct me if I'm wrong.
We know what you were looking at ~_^
@Wwhat: When you're diving in the tropics, there's almost as much light at 100 feet as there is at 5 feet. The visibility and clarity of the water in many parts of the world is ridiculous.
Jon, you have no clue what you are talking about and never scuba dive., Wwhat is right, U usually need very strong flash for underwater photography regardless how clear the water this. This is not related only to the light but also color shift underwater. It will work without flash or strong light beam.
What I don't like on this camera is the fact that it's hooked to your mask. Yes it might look great idea, but you always have to look the same direction. If you are underwater, your body moves, you need to look other way...... Video from this will be all over the place.
Housing with external flash or sealife sealed camera is the best (prepare to pay a lot of cash), if you cannot afford it, there are few very cheap camera which can go up to 30 feet - something like this will work for all your fun including shallow dives http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/product.asp?product=1363
@JimboJones:
Actually I am a scuba diver and have taken thousands of underwater photos all over New York, Pennsylvania, and Ontario - all without flash. Depending on the water and weather conditions, I've gotten quality pictures without flash as deep as 70 feet in the St. Lawrence - and I've seen a large number of strobe-less pictures taken in places like Bonaire and the Caymans far deeper than that.
Here is an untouched picture I took at 60 feet in a quarry in Pennsylvania with a 2.3 megapixel Canon Elph:
http://i30.tinypic.com/wlqb6o.jpg
And here's one a buddy of mine took in Bonaire at 75 feet just last month:
http://i29.tinypic.com/11aabh1.jpg
And beyond that, there are often great opportunities for pictures and video in the 30-foot range, but the dive plan calls for the dive to get much deeper. Obviously the camera needs to be able to withstand the 4 atmospheres of pressure at 100 feet in order to come along for the ride and take pictures under the 2 atmospheres of pressure at 33 feet.
I also have a great, great full-length video of a dive I did on the Keystorm. We got to 110' on that dive, and the video looked great all the way down and all the way up, with no supplemental lighting at all, using a cheap P&S camera and waterproof housing.
So the video mask is an awesome idea for a scuba diver, even if they only want video 10 meters and above - but the video unit must be able to withstand deeper pressures as well.
Those are some nice pics, Jon.
Yet I'd use these googles for looking at something other than fish, if you catch my drift.
"When you're diving in the tropics, there's almost as much light at 100 feet as there is at 5 feet"
No, not really. I don't care if you're diving in a swimming pool, the color red doesn't exist at 100 feet. Yellow, on the other hand, is quite clear. Your camera is doing some hard work at depth that your eyes are unaware of. Don't confuse what you think is "bright" and "good viability". They are two VERY different things at depth.
Pretty cool to see they're furthering the development of this I would get if I dived/snorkelled more often. Though I would've like to have heard the depth-limit, Cos you know it's kinda important for a underwater camera.
I can't wait to see the video from the first one of these they pull from a tiger shark stomach.
What, no HD?
Would be awesome if it had a max depth of 30 or so meters instead of 10.
They would find a pretty good market among scuba divers, where recreational depths are generally about 100 feet or less. 30 just isn't enough.
Yes finally I can create my bathtub masterpiece in first person view......
Well, it's only about $150. I'm sure it will go deeper than 30 feet, they just can't say it will for warranty reasons. For that price, I'd take it down to 100 feet and just see what happens :P
Those crazy Japanese... Always trying to make everything about robots. Now you can take pictures of the fish reacting to seeing your sweet Optimus Prime swim-mask.
Yeah! Finally! Underwater Pr0n...or is that prawn? LOL!
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Thanks / Chadical
Ha! Saw this (or something almost identical) in SkyMall this past weekend and thought it friggin dumb. Seeing it here on legitimate (?) interwebs makes it seem not so stupid.
I could imagine these being very useful for non-aquatic applications .. such as at the next WTO riot, for example.