Sealife SL321 ECOshot 6.0MP Digital Camera with 4x Digital Zoom (Rated to 75') with 1 GB SD Card

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• ASIN: B000OFXU4Y
• Item model number: SL321
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,268 in Camera & Photo (See Bestsellers in Camera & Photo)

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• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

Product Description
SeaLife ECOshot SL321 is the world's first truly waterproof and shockproof digital sports camera, compact and action-ready. Depth tested waterproof to 75 feet, rubber armored for a sure grip and shockproof tested up to 6 ft / 2 m.Let your creativity shine with the SPY mode. SPY mode lets the camera do all the work - it takes continuous pictures at set time intervals. Capture those impossible pictures when you can't get close to the subject. The ECOshot also includes the popular land and sea modes for bright, colorful images on land or underwater. The ECOshot is designed for the active outdoor and watersports enthusiast, from Boating, fishing, kayaking, surfing and snorkeling.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars love going underwater, not a fan of the optics, September 8, 2007

By	B. Curry (Lima, Peru) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchased this camera to head out into the ocean and take pictures of friends surfing and the occasional underwater shot. Why did I choose this camera over the other water-proof cameras out there? Because you can take it more than 3 m (10 ft) below the surface without having to worry about it flooding. Its great to know that I can head down past the 20 m (75 ft) and shoot, if I want to go that low. The others just don't provide that option. As for the fact that it is shock-resistant, that sounds great but I've not dropped it yet to try that feature out (and hope to never truly test it).

What I'm not such a big fan of is the quality of pictures that it takes - especially when you zoom in or crop. The zoom is a digital zoom which means you sacrifice some picture quality as it zooms. The optics of the front lens tend to really blur out the details when you zoom in and this camera shouldn't be used if you plan to crop and resize your photos.

As a pure P&S camera, its below average in terms of picture quality. Where this camera makes up for it is the fact that it truly is water-proof and that reason alone brings it up to an average rating (3 stars) for me.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Under water digital camera, May 16, 2007

By	C. Gerdes (St. Peters, MO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Love this camera! Went on a cruise three days after I recieved the camera so I didn't have a lot of time to practice with the under water features so I generally used all the default setting. Very easy to use and takes great pictures above water and under water. I did a lot of research on the net prior to buying the camera and read a lot of great stuff on this so I thought I'd try it, glad I did!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice waterproof and shockproof camera, August 23, 2007

By	ohle "ohle" (Cambridge, MA USA) - See all my reviews

I really like the Sealife ECOshot. This camera met the description and my first pictures came out nicely. Of course it has only digital zoom so for non-water-related pictures in safe surrounding ;-) I still prefer a camera with optical zoom but to be honest I was surprised by the good quality of even these pictures. In general I think it's just great not to have to worry about water or what you might bang the thing on when you're for example kayaking.