Vivitar’s Dive-Proof Camera: Nice idea - weak features March 12, 2007
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Fancy a digital camera that won’t drown on your next holiday? Vivitar has joined the slowly growing ranks of companies launching digital cameras that can be taken for a swim without washing away all your holiday snaps.
However, unlike those than can withstand a depth of 3-feet, the Vivicam 6200W claims it can dive with you to depths of 30-feet. It’s a 6-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom – the useless type of zoom – and no optical zoom – the useful type.
There’s a 2in LCD so you can see those shark teeth really clearly before “Chomp!”. It comes with 16Mb of internal memory and supports SD Cards up to 1Gb.
I like the rubber wet suit that clothes this little snapper but with no in-built flash – yes, no flash – you’ll be lucky to clear shots from anymore than a few feet under the surface. On a really sunny day. In very clear and calm waters. It costs around £130 and you can see full, yet short, feature list here. -Martin Lynch
Editor and Contributor | Martin Lynch
Contributor | Tamlin Magee
Comments
That camera clearly has a flash, have you even looked at the photos?
Specs from Vivitar's website:
Perhaps the reviewer had an early prototype model. Looks like there's a flash now :)
ViviCam 6200w
The waterproof ViviCam 6200w with built-in flash takes your photography to the next level, on both land and aquatic adventures.
* 6.0 Megapixels
* Rubber Armored
* Waterproof – 30 ft
* 2.0” Color LTPS
* 16 MB Built-in Memory
* Supports SD Cards to 1 GB
* PictBridge Support
* Flash - Built-in Multi Mode, Auto / On / Off