Dive computers of the future?

[ScubaWithTurk]

You would need 16 sensors, one for each compartment.

Being a bit more serious, I personally need no more information than I'm already getting, just serve it up like my GPS for driving.

Some sweet female voice whispering in my ear: "You're ten minutes into deco, Hon. You best start up now or you'll be sucking a pony to get home..."

I am all for the soothing sweet sounds of a woman telling me it is time to ascend to my safety stop depth.

 

[tarponchik]

: paranoid: Now why would Suunto sell a $300 Zoop with compass when they can sell a $300 Zoop and a $100 SK7?

Don't ask me, I wouldn't know why Suunto is able to sell anything cause they are so overpriced. SK7 is actually $150.90 at Amazon. Maybe it is gold-plated?

 

[dmaziuk]

Don't ask me, I wouldn't know why Suunto is able to sell anything cause they are so overpriced. SK7 is actually $150.90 at Amazon. Maybe it is gold-plated?

Nah, just discontinued. This is fairly common with computer hardware at early stages of "discontinued". Late stages are e.g. NASA scouring fleebay for long-forgotten tape drives.

 

[tarponchik]

Nah, just discontinued. This is fairly common with computer hardware at early stages of "discontinued". Late stages are e.g. NASA scouring fleebay for long-forgotten tape drives.

Hmmmm...I thought the opposite is true. For example, I bought my 2nd Intova ISS2000 just for $47 cause it was already discontinued. But maybe Suunto is considered to be a Rolls Royce of scuba gear? The more people pay for their junk the happier they are.

 

[dmaziuk]

Maybe you can't fit a different compass in your suunto console? -- anyway, I've seen interesting prices on spamazon for all sorts of things... and then there were those $1,500 force fins on fleebay.

 

[tridacna]

Maybe you can't fit a different compass in your suunto console? -- anyway, I've seen interesting prices on spamazon for all sorts of things... and then there were those $1,500 force fins on fleebay.

Those fins are STILL on Fleabay!

 

[dmaziuk]

They should go very well with the $1,700 BCD.

 

[KaptaniDerya]

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[KeithG]

Adjust white balance much?

Never. I shoot with strobes.

 

[dmaziuk]

Never. I shoot with strobes.

-- not futzing with wet filters is another feature digital camera brought in.

A major feature of digital is lossless copying. That's not specific to digital cameras, of course. You can make any number of prints off one negative -- until it fades -- but you can't make a copy of the negative without some quality loss.