SeaLife SL321 ECOshot Shock Resistant Digital Sports Camera is Built to Survive

SeaLife, a company known for its range of underwater cameras, have just released their SL321 ECOshot Sports Digital Camera that is as happy on land as it is in water and which has been designed from the outset to survive more than its fair share of knocks and scrapes.

Ideal for those looking for a digital camera that can accompany them anywhere, Sealife’s ECOshot Sports Digital Camera is a seriously tough cookie. Not only can it survive emersion to depths of 75 feet (23 meters), making it ideal for scuba divers looking to capture the highlights of their dives, but it can also survive impacts equivalent to the device being dropped from a height of 6ft onto solid, unforgiving surfaces.

Unequivocally as at home on terra firma as it is in the water, the ECOshot is not only built to endure but it has some particularly handy functions crammed into its rubber armoured shell such as a feature called SPY mode, which will automatically capture a series of imagery at set time intervals – which, for example, is great for leaving the camera in a particular location (either on land or in water) to capture wildlife that would otherwise remain elusive in your presence.

Sporting a 6 mega pixel CCD sensor, the ECOshot, which is powered by two AA batteries, comes with a 2” colour LCD TFT display, an integral flash with land and water based flash photography modes, an array of land and sea exposure/ focus range settings, 4X digital zoom and video capture capabilities offering 24fps at (an admittedly somewhat uninspiring) 320 x 240 resolution. And, incidentally, it will also serve as a webcam.

It’s impressive stuff, certainly, though, having crammed in such a broad range of features into the device we cannot help but wonder why the ECOshot is supplied with a meagre 14MB on onboard memory – which, thankfully, can be supplemented with use of an SD card.

Designed for the outdoor types amongst you, from surfers to snowboarders, scuba divers to hikers, the SeaLife ECOshot Sports Digital Camera retails for around $230.