Hello, hello friends, I'm Enchantment, a less important bad review digital lover, Tony's good sister.
During the past May Day holiday, I and a few friends of the company successfully exchanged the annual leave for a 12-day super long vacation, went to the Similan Liveaboard in Thailand to learn diving, and successfully passed the OW+AOW exam.
Of course, as a less important digital enthusiast and as a newcomer to diving, how to arm myself with technology is something I started thinking about a month before diving.
Diving is somewhat niche, but with the improvement of everyone's living standards, diving is no longer a high-end activity that is out of reach. And some good digital equipment will definitely allow ordinary people to enjoy diving and record good memories.
Based on my own experience and that of several colleagues, I can confidently evaluate several diving digital equipment.
#潜水表
I am wearing Huawei's new Huawei Watch Ultimate, which can be said responsibly, this is definitely a diving computer watch that is very suitable for ordinary people to buy (later replaced by a diving watch simplified), the first choice for outdoor enthusiasts!
Familiar people know that diving watches are considered professional equipment, like the SUUNTO series that divers wear most often, and it is almost difficult to take care of daily use, basically only diving.
I know someone is going to mention the Apple Watch Ultra, which supports both everyday and diving efforts.
To be honest, the Apple Watch dive software is a bit of a pitfall, not to mention that the dive modes it supports are not very complete.
But on the other hand, the Huawei watch, although the price is 5999, but the functions it has are definitely worth this price. Let's not expand in detail some of its functions that support two-way Beidou, outdoor adventure mode, and can detect electrocardiograms.
In terms of diving alone, its diving modes can be said to be many and complete, and a variety of data can be set to fully meet the needs of various dives. (All operations can be achieved by pressing buttons, not necessarily touching the screen, which is praised)
In the most basic recreational diving, there are also many subpages to meet different data monitoring needs.
My most common use is this interface, basically important data can be seen, dive depth, dive time, decompression time...
Then if I do something dangerous, such as rising too fast, the watch will make sounds and vibrations to alert me. ( Rise too fast, really easy headache after out of the water, and the risk of decompression sickness )
It also automatically turns on safety stop monitoring when doing 5 meters for 3 minutes (5 meters below sea level before leaving the water for 3 minutes to reduce the risk of decompression sickness).
Compare the values of Huawei watch and Songtuo table at 5 meters and 3 minutes
During the safe stay time, a person who is out of the 6-4 meter interval will also be alerted.
Sometimes the dive depth and time are longer, and its 5 meters 3 minutes will be extended to 5 meters 5 minutes, which is still more for safety considerations. The no-fly time after diving is also displayed.
Then these data are stored in the watch sports log or the mobile phone's Huawei sports and health APP, and can be replayed and shared after diving.
According to my actual measurements, its battery life is also much better than many diver's watches on the market.
Non-diving mode has more than 15 days of battery life, diving mode can have 10 hours of endurance, 1 day 4 diving two days without charging completely stress-free, and out of power, its charging speed is also barbaric, basically temporary charging 5 minutes is enough for a dive.
I remember my Thai guide found me underwater with the latest Huawei watch, he immediately gave me a "six" underwater, and immediately asked me the price after landing, and said that he also wanted to buy one.
It can be seen how widely the reputation of this watch has spread among professional divers, even foreigners know it~
Say more, if you do buy this watch to go diving, don't forget to turn on automatic dive monitoring here.
Don't be stupid like me, I manually turned on for 7 days, scolded for 7 days, and finally left only to find that it could be turned on automatically
If you ask me what I am not satisfied with this watch, yes, its appearance is not suitable for girls' daily use, the color matching is too straight for men, I really hope to come out with a new color...
#记录设备
Everyone spends a lot of money to dive, and it would be a pity if there was no equipment to record the good life. Our group is really talented.
GoPro11, insta360 X3, DIVEVOLK mobile phone diving shell have been brought with them.
Don't ask why no one brings a professional camera, you go to check the diving shell of the professional camera to know, the shell is more expensive than the machine is not a joke, generally this shell is quite large, not a diving professional, bring such a thing do not dare to let it go into the water
In general, GoPro11 is more suitable for people with relatively rich financial resources, basically the machine body plus the diving shell plus buoyancy rod about 3500 down.
Of course, the use experience is not to say, just hold up to shoot, several photo modes, video can be switched, except that there is basically no spray point except that it cannot be zoomed.
The only thing to be careful about is that many people's cheap buoyancy rods have very thin hand lanyards, and it is easy to fall off when pulling a large force, and both of us on board lost the GoPro in this way, and this piece cannot save money.
We also used the insta360 X3, how to say, it works, but it is not good, it is still used on land.
Its only advantage is that it can take panoramic photos, but it is easy to have seams, and the underwater shooting is not very clear, the focus is easy to paste, and the inside of the diving shell is easy to fog, which may be related to too much air in the equipment.
Later photos must also be opened and adjusted with the software of insta360, anyway, the operation is slightly complicated for Xiaobai. THE BIGGEST SURPRISE TO ME WAS THE DIVEVOLK MOBILE DIVING SHELL.
To be reasonable, how big are the camera parameters of our mobile phones now, and everyone does not know that such a good shooting equipment is not used, and I am unwilling to buy an action camera that is easy to eat ash.
I didn't expect to check, taking the phone 2 or 30 meters underwater and still using it normally, it's really not a simple thing. At 20 meters underwater, the pressure on the object is basically three times that on land.
Everyone should have bought a mobile phone waterproof bag by the sea, that thing is basically one or two meters can still be used, more than whether it is sealing, or the use of mobile phones has a serious impact.
After a search, the sealing problem of the mobile phone diving shell is easy to solve, but it does not support underwater touch at all, can not easily control the mobile phone, even lens switching, video photo switching can not be done, let alone zoom tuning parameters, the experience is extremely poor.
Fortunately, after looking around, the appearance of DIVEVOLK SeaTouch4 Max perfectly solved these problems.
It is particularly simple to use, through the model bracket to put the phone into a very strong case, with two screws on the top to crush the sealant ring.
Don't look at it is so simple, the official certification can meet the diving activities within 60m, my own measurement of 30m is definitely no pressure.
If you look closely, there is a layer of water film (liquid touch screen membrane set) on the front of the shell.
This layer of water film can clearly feel the thickness on normal land, and it is not very convenient to operate the mobile phone inside at this time. If you try hard, you can barely use it...
But once underwater, this layer of water film will be flattened to the surface of the mobile phone under the action of water pressure, and then touch the screen to control the mobile phone is much simpler, basically you can operate the mobile phone as you like.
The submersible joked that next time you can watch a movie in the sea.
This is the latest list of phones supported by SeaTouch4 Max on sale, and most mobile phones (especially Apple's entire series), except for those Android flagship phones that have recently released lens modules that are too heavy, can be supported.
And I, in the name of a bad review, just contacted the official and got a special diving shell, which has more space than the normal shell sold, and can put the recent Find X6 Pro in.
Let's take a look at some casual shooting results (we are not masters of photography, don't be too strict)...
At least I feel that the Find X6 Pro shot well, giving the phone underwater photography a hit. At this price, the most basic shell can be won within a thousand.
If you want to be a little more professional, adding red filters, wide-angle lenses, macro lenses, and even handheld mounts can be more expensive.
My opinion is that beginners, less than 50 dives, these do not need to be used, first train the top neutral buoyancy, stability is better than anything. But if you have experience, these will be explored slowly.
By the way, I'll give you one more software: Dive+ Dive.
Later God can ignore this software, you can just play Lightroom and PR. Why is this software so important to ordinary people?
Let's show you what the underwater photo looks like.
Because the ocean will filter out red light, in addition to professional dive cameras, other seabed photos are blue paste.
And "Dive+ Diving" can help Xiaobai pull the white balance of the photo or video back somewhat, and restore the original color of the seabed.
Of course, now because of the limitation of the number of software trials, it is generally cooler to buy a one-month membership.
Well, basically with these, diving digital equipment is a basic entry, I hope to help the majority of (potential) diving newcomers, you can also share good suggestions ~
Finally, I wish you all the chance to go Fun Dive!