SeaLife Micro 2.0 16MP 1080p FHD Underwater Wi-Fi Digital Camera, 32GB Internal Memory, 200' Depth Rating

Wi-Fi only works with their app... you can’t connect a computer to download the pictures! Poor design

I bought this camera for my husband for a trip to Hawaii. We used it on numerous snorkeling trips. We love the ease of setup and the ability to use it to take both photos and video underwater. The SeaLife app makes it super easy to download photos to your smartphone or tablet via wifi. Great purchase!

I bought this for a diving trip in Roatan, Honduras last week, and overall I'm quite pleased. Taking pictures with the Micro 2.0 is a pleasure. I took about 1500 photos with it over the course of the week, getting to know the camera and trying different settings. It's a very capable little device, and easy to operate while diving.Taking pictures with the Micro 2.0 is a pleasure. The "piano key" interface is easy to operate under water, or really any time it isn't plugged in. It can be mildly inconvenient when plugged in to external power on land, since the power cable protrudes where you would like to have the heel of your hand. This is entirely forgivable, however, given how easy it is to operate and modify settings under water if you so desire. A few intuitive button presses gets you to the setting you want fairly quickly.With the current firmware, retrieving the photos is still a bit inconvenient. The current version of the Android application has issues on Android 6. A new version is available from tech support which addresses some of the worst issues with the Play Store version, but still doesn't give full access to the camera contents from my Nexus 6. That said, my tablet running an older version of Android provided tolerable access on the road. Currently, though, that tablet is my only functional means of getting photos off the camera.Linux users may be interested to note that although the Micro 2.0 appears to have a Busybox-based Linux OS, its storage is not accessible as a USB mass storage device. Although it does work in Windows, under Linux the USB storage interface presents a SCSI block device which cannot be mounted when plugged in to a Linux laptop or desktop. I have no idea if the mass storage interface works with Mac OS. SeaLife tech support indicates that work on this problem is ongoing. If I get a working firmware update for this problem I will update this review. It would probably become my preferred way to download photos, rather than using the WiFi interface and an Android device.The Micro 2.0 also has some odd behaviors relating to charging and power consumption. When fully charged, I was able to get four dives of shutter-bug time with juice to spare. However, downloading the pictures over WiFi drains the battery pretty badly even with the camera plugged in and set to "external power". Most unfortunately, even after the download is complete and WiFi is turned back off, it seems that the camera doesn't actually start charging the battery unless you remember to turn it off, turn it back on, and choose "charge" mode rather than "external power". That resulted in a couple mornings when I started diving with a very low battery even though the camera had been plugged in all night.

I have been using the SeaLife camera for a little over a year. I have taken a few hundred photos with the SeaLife camera while scuba diving on the reefs off of the Island of Bonaire. Currently the camera is dead since it cannot be charged.In the product description the camera is described as having a "water proof USB connection". The USB connection of the first camera I had failed, even though I tried to carefully use the USB connection cover. After a few months the camera would not connect properly to my Windows computer. It appears as an "unknown USB device". I sent the camera back to SeaLife. They got my photos off the camera and replaced it with a SeaLife camera that supported both USB and WiFi. The USB connection on this camera also failed.SeaLife has a WiFi app for the Android phone that allowed me to connect to the camera and download my photos. Then from the phone I could download the photos to my computer for editing. This is an awkward process. The camera would be easier if the USB connection actually worked reliably.The WiFi connection between the camera and the Android phone app is buggy and it generally took several tries to get the connection to work properly. Selecting and downloading photos is awkward and sometimes failed in the middle of downloading a large set of photos.Even with these quirks, I could have lived with the SeaLife camera. However, on my last trip to Bonaire, the camera would not fully charge. Nor would the camera work with power from USB. When I unplugged the USB and tried to get the camera to use its WiFi connection, it turned itself off. In short, the camera is dead. As I noted, this is a second camera I got from the factory and it is less than a year old.Even if the SeaLife camera were reliable and worked properly (which it doesn't), it has problems for anything but a casual underwater photographer.I got a SeaLife 1200 lumen "dragon" LED light to go with the camera. This light is OK for video, but it is not great for any photo that is not a closeup. For example, I wanted to take a photo of a coral formation from a couple of feet away. The light is not powerful enough to illuminate the subject to show true color. What is needed is a flash, but this is not an option with the SeaLife.At this point I've given up on SeaLife. I suppose that I could try sending the camera back to the factory again, but after having two cameras fail in less than a year, I don't think that they make a reliable product. And then there is the fact that there's no flash option. Rather than trying to get the SeaLife camera to work I'm going to buy a Cannon camera with an underwater housing and a flash. This is 3 to 4 times more expensive than the SeaLife camera, but this camera is not only reliable but it will allow me to take better photos.

Love this camera, so easy to use. I own several other SeaLife cameras and this one takes great photos and super sharp HD video underwater. Very pleased so far. Attached are some of my photos. The camera is sealed so it cannot ever leak, and the wifi app works really well.

Purchased the camera last summer for a dive trip to Nassau and the camera worked ok. We used it a few times and didn’t have any real issues with it. This week we charged the camera and took it to Cozumel. The camera was dead. Charged it again and it quit charging. Had to wiggle the adaptor and stop when the little light came on. It eventually indicated full but died within 5 minutes. Same thing next 2 days. Wonderful dive trip with no photos.

It works. You can come away with some nice pics. Price is right. Company has great customer support.Here is a pic i took few months ago with camera in Cayman. I did have the optional strobe as well. Enough said.

I've always bought sealife cameras and was really keen to buy this as I can finally say goodbye to underwater housingsIt's rubberized casing looks like it will stand up to the riggers of scuba diving.However the part of the camera where you fasten the strap is made from brittle plastic. Unlike my other sealife which is made from sturdy metal. Which allowed me to use a chunky strap with bcd clip. if the plastic breaks on the micro you've lost the camera!Because of this I am scoring it 4strars

Im Juli bei Amazon gekauft, vor 14 Tagen zum tauchen dabei gehabt. Bereits am dritten Tauchgang funktioniert die Kamera nicht mehr: Wassereinbruch. Schade. Dabei hatte ich darauf vertraut, dass eine gekapselte Kamera sicherer ist, als die Kombination gopro und gopro 60m Gehäuse. Nun werde ich doch wieder auf meine go pro umsteigen.Tadellos ist der Service von Amazon: Direkt im Urlaub schrieb ich Amazon an und zwei Tage später erhielt ich die Rücksendung Zusage mit Paketkleber.Sehr beeindruckend, sehr kundenorientiert, ich mag das.

Nach langer Recherche und Vergleich habe ich mich für diese Kamera entschieden.Sie ist ideal für Unterwasseraufnahmen und bietet einem Taucher durch die einfache Bedienung einen entspannten Tauchgang ohne viel an der Kamera hantieren zu müssen.

Habe die Sealife für den Tauchurlaub gekauft, da ich lieber eine "richtige" Tauchkamera habe als eine "normale" im Gehäuse. Leider hatte ich bereits beim ersten Tauchgang einen Wassereinbruch.Immerhin klappte Rücksendung und Erstattung bei Amazon problemlos.

Gute Kamera, bisher keine Probleme nach 4 Tauchgaengen im Salzwasser. Sehr pflegeleicht und Fotos und Videos in guter Qualitaet, kann mich nicht beschweren.