SeaLife Unveils Six-Inch Vast Angle Dome Lens for the SportDiver Smartphone Housing

SeaLife is unveiling various thrilling new choices at this yr’s DEMA Present in New Orleans. Probably the most substantial amongst a number of new merchandise designed for his or her SportDiver smartphone housing is the brand new six-inch Vast Angle Dome Lens. SeaLife says the brand new dome, which options high-grade acrylic optics, delivers wonderful edge-to-edge sharpness, promising high-quality wide-angle photos, together with over-unders.

In response to SeaLife, the dome will increase the sphere of view of your cellphone’s digital camera lens by 43%. As an illustration, when used with the 24mm efficient “Ultrawide” lens of the iPhone 15 Professional, you get a 15.6mm efficient focal size, sufficient to suit reefscapes, huge animals, and wrecks into the body. The brand new moist lens, which weighs 17.4oz (493g), merely press-fits onto the SportDiver housing’s rounded rectangle lens port. There’s an included lanyard to make sure that you received’t lose the lens ought to it by chance get indifferent.

Out there in January 2024, the six-inch Vast Angle Dome Lens will retail for $200.

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SeaLife® Introduces New 6”/15cm Vast Angle Dome Lens for SportDiver Smartphone Housing

MOORESTOWN, NJ – SeaLife, the main maker of underwater imaging gear, has launched a brand new Vast Angle Dome Lens for his or her widespread SportDiver underwater smartphone housing that will increase the cellphone’s digital camera lens field-of view by 43% and permits photographers to get nearer to the topic whereas becoming every thing into the picture body.

The brand new dome lens mounts on to the SportDiver housing’s lens port with none lens adapter. The 0.65x dome lens requires no talent, coaching, or adjustment; merely mount it and shoot. Break up pictures that cut up the topside view with the undersea view are particularly straightforward. There’s a security lanyard included to maintain the lens with the housing ought to it get got rid of.

The 6” Vast Angle Dome Lens design makes use of high-grade acrylic optics organized in a 2-element/2- group array that delivers crisp edge-to-edge sharpness. “This can be a very versatile lens that considerably improves the cellphone lens’ efficiency and permits for some inventive underwater photos and video” says Bjorn Harms, SeaLife’s Vice President of Product Improvement.

The lens has a 15.6mm film-equivalent efficient focal size when used, for instance, with the SeaLife SportDiver and the iPhone 15 Professional’s 24mm “Ultrawide” digital camera lens. The lens is waterproof to 130ft/40m and is positively buoyant. The brand new 6”/15cm Dome Lens matches all SeaLife SportDiver housings.

The lens features a rotatable sunshade constructed across the optics to assist management stray daylight. The brand new lens is a “moist lens” and simply attaches and removes underwater, the interior lens chambers are air-filled, and the lens is due to this fact buoyant. A lanyard is included and prevents the lens from by chance detaching when bumped or in rougher water situations. The 6”/15cm Dome Lens weighs 17.4 ounces (493 grams).

The 6”/15cm Dome Lens will likely be accessible in January 2024: