Vital stats Paralenz Dive Camera Shooting’s better down where it’s wetter

Paralenz Dive Camera

An under-sea snapper for diving sorts: Paralenz goes down, deeper and down with its 4K water baby ● Depth perception Taking your Gopro for a snorkelling session? Pah! Oh, sure, your fancy Hero 5 can capture 4K footage down to 10m – but beside this dedicated diving cam that’ll look like a leaky shoe at the bottom of a pond. Clad in military-grade aluminium, the Paralenz Dive Camera can keep shooting 200m deep without a housing. And it’ll do so in 4K at 30fps.

● Deep blue see While capturing hi-res crabs is a fine achievement for a device as big as a torch, you won’t be squids in on Youtube if your colour palette’s all off. Thankfully, this oceanic snapper comes with in-built colour correction, so your establishing coral shot will look iridescent. Better yet, fling the footage through your presumably rugged smartphone and the mobile app can overlay dive log data onto your recordings.

Gloved up?

● If showing off to your dive school pals is the aim, you’ll want to go deep – which, unless you’re a mermaid, means gearing up. Good job, then, that the Dive Camera is equipped with magnetic buttons that deliver vibration feedback. It won’t cough out at the first sign of fishy business either: internal thermal foam insulation helps keep battery wastage in check, even when things get chilly, so you’ll get two hours from the 1600mah Lipo cell inside.

● Have a masked ball Need to go hands-free for some sea-floor searching? Useful T-rails run along the camera’s length on all sides of its cylindrical housing for easy mounting to a multitude of sub-aquatic accessories, removing the need to screw around (literally) with your standard tripod hole. Lock it in place with a click, before sticking the bundled mount to your mask to snap a diver’s-eye view of your next tete-a-tete with a haddock.