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Casio announces waterproof 360° camera

Casio has announced a 360° camera that has a detachable lens unit featuring a 1.35mm lens that offers a fisheye capture equivalent to a 13.4mm lens on a full frame camera. The Casio EX-FR200 offers 4 capture modes: A 180° 3888 x 3888px fisheye spherical view, an unwrapped 360° 7456x1864 panorama, a super-wide 208° image or, when two lenses are combined back to back, full 360°. It also captures 4K video at 30fps in 180° mode and the camera is waterproof to around 3m (IPX8).

Distribution plans outside of Japan are uncertain, but Casio say that the unit will start shipping in mid September. Casio’s original press release is in Japanese, but a version is available via Google translate.