Seafrogs Button Control Housing For iPhone 11/11 Pro Max

Peter Rowlands · Issue 123, Nov/Dec 2021 · pp. 37–38

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Products mentioned: Seafrogs Button Control Housing For iPhone 11/11 Pro Max, iPhone 11 Pro Max, Olympus OMD E-M1, Aquatica housing, Olympus 14-42mm lens, Nauticam WWL-1, Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor), Adobe Lightroom

Following on from my Smartphone housing review in UwP112 Jan/Feb 2020, avid readers will no doubt remember how I was ideally looking for a housing which would give me control over what I feel is a revolutionary capability - Panos or panoramas. Until recently nearly all housings controlled the Smartphone via Bluetooth which allowed stills and video shooting but presumably Apple, in particular, will not release the code to control the Pano function. I was delighted to find that after an extensive internet search such a housing now exists which allows access to all the iPhone camera functions, including Panos, using mechanical buttons rather than Bluetooth. Since my current iPhone is the 11 Pro Max, it was the Seafrogs Button Control Housing For iPhone 11/11 Pro Max which caught my attention and released my credit card details. Prices today are fluctuating like one way hot air balloons so y…

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