AxisGo is a &#39;pro-grade&#39; water housing for the Apple iPhone

There is a substantial leash option

6 days agopermalink

Georgeee

I hope future phone be wireless charged and competent sealed from water. No need for this kind of things

1 week agopermalink

dresner

Awesome but #FAIL. It's $199, which is not bad for what it is...however you have to buy a new one each time you upgrade your phone? It should be a universal housing for either regular or plus sizes, maybe some inserts?

1 week agopermalink

Bigsensorisbest

Can’t you keep using that phone for just photos when you move onto another contract phone?

1 week agopermalink

kelpdiver

the main reason it seems to upgrade these days is for the camera. It's not like the phone itself got any better.

1 week agopermalink

badi

Having an "other phone" for photos is just as cumbersome as having a dedicated camera (maybe cheaper because you have it already, but separate item to care and carry, etc), but as @kelpdiver mentioned, with the worse IQ - with a dedicated camera at least you have it for the better IQ.

1 week agopermalink

Try Kracken for more universal housings for smart phones

6 days agopermalink

Aroart

I think that could also be of great use in a walk around street photographer situation. You would be surprised how often you can get accidentally bumped in a busy city..

1 week agopermalink

mmarian

I wonder how do they make the touch screen of the phone to work through the glass? And the physical home button..

1 week agopermalink

User4286416121

Good question! They say full use but I wonder if that is one of the reasons for the one atm.limit (33ft.). Seems like it may be a delicate balancing act.

For simple snorkeling and such this is a reasonable price. I could see this fir general purposes. Course when you add lights and such it gets a bit more expensive. Where is the color/light drop off point?

Economies of scale compared to pro-housings that have to be camera specific. Use case for this is large enough to have a market. Course my phone cost less than this, but that is just me. Wonder if I will see these at resorts and such.

1 week agopermalink

McArchive

Does it work with Siri?

1 week agopermalink

Weldon Photos

Yes it does. You can even facetime or go Live on Instagram

6 days agopermalink

andyus08

if the whole purpose to get camera in water, I'd spend on gopro 7 black.

1 week agopermalink

tkbslc

was going to say the same.

1 week agopermalink

PentaxNick

Olympus Tough TG-6 if you want stills

1 week agopermalink

tkbslc

Hero 7 black takes pretty good stills actually. Has nice iPhone style processing. Of course it’s only UWA.

1 week agopermalink

Stanchung

what i've been looking for but mite expensive.

1 week agopermalink

DougDolde

Wow now you can take your iPhone with you in the bathtub

1 week agopermalink

amf1932

It's a shame that this housing only protects an iPhone to a depth of 33 feet. I'm a scuba diver that dives deeper than that.

1 week agopermalink

Most users will be tourist types who will go no deeper than 15' or so......fooling around in relatively shallow water on a nice day. I also see
a market for those on river rafting trips who don't want to soak the good camera.
How deep does the GoPro go? And of course, Ewa Marine makes a good line as well as Ikelite.....On up to the Stratospheric price level....

1 week ago*permalink

This looks sketchy. The screenpanel is probably paperthin and is pushing hard on the glass pane of the iphone at 10m. 10m rating means its probably ok to take a shower with the phone.

I take a Gopro down to 60m freedive. No prob for 3 years. I crushed a Nikon AW at 40m. This cam was rated at 18m.

Most visitors here in Hi surface snorkel and never dive. You see a lot of Gopro lookalikes. They die quickly. A Gopro is clumsy but the double sealing is rugged and works. Two watersealed housings are the way to go.

iphones dont do well with sand, salt and the saltplume.

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You make a good point. To use watches as an example? Dive watch may be rated to '200 meters water resistant'. But you'd be right in not wanting to go deeper than maybe 1/2 that.
I had fun a LONG time ago when they sold waterproof disposible FILM cameras. In the pool? fine. I free dove down to MAYBE 15 feet and it locked up due to compression.
I'd be OK with 1/2 the 'rating', but that's just me and I'm a thrill seeker. If I bricked a 1000$ phone under those conditions, I'd be really.......%^$#(*

1 week agopermalink

stupormundi

On camera housings you "normally" get "can't work the buttons any longer" quite a bit earlier than "housing goes plonk".

1 week agopermalink

@leonski:
Watches are pressuretested in an airchamber. They do not test capillary action, sepage, marginal seals. A watch rated for 30m is maybe showerproof for 1 min x10. A watch rated 200m is probably fit for intermittent dive use.

A fully sealed and 10 phone rated to a true 30m and wide angle lens and macro or a underwater drone following - instant buy.

1 week agopermalink

https://cds.cern.ch/record/1047068/files/p227.pdf

One way to do a full test on a watch is to pressurize with a radioactive gas present.
such gas will penetrate seals after a time. Maybe 20 minutes or 30 minutes?
Watches will have a finite leak rate generally measured in CCs per time unit.

Article is for use by those leak checking high vacuum systems.

For watches? Once the radioactive gas is introduced and pressurized, it will migrate into the watch.
When the chamber is evacuated, the radiation in the chamber will than be proportional to how much leaks OUT of the watch.
Iffy? We used just this technique when leak checking packages used for precision time keeping, which contained a small 'tuning fork' style quartz crystal.

1 week agopermalink

This is a well understood process with all the watchmaking in Switzerland since the late 40ies. Gas and liquids behave differently yet both can be tabulated into loss curves. The general rule is that watch seals leak. The leak-rate varies widly because of machining imperfections on the sealsurfaces of each individual watch housing, threadvariances and variance of each seal. I have two identical dive watches. One is a prototype with handlapped seals seats. This one is watertight beyond the depth I dive. The production watch is less so. The threaded, sealed bezel cap seal and shaft seal is almost ingress resistant. Individual double sealing is the way to go.

1 week agopermalink

In the semicondutor industry, from which I get my leak check background, we used about the smallest molecule we could find. HELIUM.
Seals were frequently One Time use....Nickel plated Silver? Its would crush and need to be replaced were it taken off for any reason.

I'll BET the hand finished watch you speak of was remarkable. Very difficult to due that 'in production' at a cost which most could actually afford.

As for double seals? In the Vacuum Industry, a similar technique was used. A double seal, of course, but the 'interior' of the seal was differentially pumped.
We'd also use other kinds of seals...tha name for which temporarily escapes me!

6 days agopermalink

Kracken go to scuba depths (and beyond) and are universal (blue tooth) enabled

6 days agopermalink

@leonski: It is a proto of a remake of the ancient Navy diver. Ugly little watch with giant screw on bezel 😏 and a wind-up 12h Swiss Nos complication and worn on the right hand. The smallest gas by atomic weight and electron cloud(1) would be hydrogen. I sometime engineer sealed assys preventing hydrogen diffusion into metals causing embrittlement in loadbearing structures. H2 is hard to contain. Helium is bigger and inert when diffusing into a lattice. Radioactive helium can give good indications of seal performance. I concur.

5 days agopermalink

Foskito

I have one of these for more than a year, old news.

1 week agopermalink

mxx

It costs the same as the class of smart phone I usually buy, but I guess in the Apple universe it is good value for money.

That said, it does seem very good quality and a versatile piece of kit which should help you produce quite interesting video/pictures.

1 week agopermalink

RAMillu

Insanely enough if you don count Chinese Brandless import this is on the cheap side of the scale. There are more companies who make these and they range from 150 to about 550 for a phone then again some of those companies make diving cases for dslrs that cost in the thousands

1 week agopermalink

kierenlon

water proof cases are always very expensive - probably due to being a bit niche. Modern camera phones are very capable and the shape doesn't change much so this vendor might be able to acheive economies of scale and reduce costs

1 week agopermalink

scrup

I was looking at a case for a canon powershot. Price was more than the camera. I just bought a fakepro for the once a year diving trip. Only 40 bucks and no dramas if it ever sank to the bottom of the see.

1 week agopermalink