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Photo enthusiasts who also love underwater creatures will have more reasons to dive into the sea if they bring the new Sealife DC800 underwater camera. Touting an ergonomic design, large shutter button and well-spaced buttons, the DC800 offers users with an easy to use and easy to handle camera. When you’re underwater, having this kind of camera would certainly enhance your diving experience, as you won’t have to worry about damaging it.

The DC800 boasts a wide-angle optical lens with 4x optical zoom, auto focus of up to 2-inches and it even has a video mode, so users are not limited to documenting their experiences in still images but on digital video as well. Sealife has also included five unique underwater modes into the DC800. The sea mode allows for taking sharp colorful pictures regardless of the color of the water the user is diving into, two external flash modes, external flash auto mode and the external flash manual mode for the more advanced users.

And now for the skinny on the DC800, take a gander at the following features; 2.7-inch LCD, 20X zoom which is a combination of 4x optical and 5x digital zoom, auto focus to 2-inches, fast shutter response, support for SD and SDHC card up to 4GB, 22 land modes, 640 x 480 video mode with sound and of course the camera was depth tested at 60m (just under 200 feet).

The Sealife DC800 is available now at dive and photos shops for a retail price of $549.

Product [Sealife] Via [Imaging Resource]