007 Vacay Away; Leave the Walther PPK Behind; Licensed to Film

Imagine your fave MI6 operative taking his beloved family away on a summer vacation. Certainly, Mrs. 007 would insist on Bond, James Bond leaving all of his Q-provided gadgets and gizmos at the “office.” How would this secret agent man record all of the cherished memories featuring his family enjoying their getaway? Well, with a family that’s as equally outgoing as the father, only a camera that can record in 360-degrees would be adequate for capturing every nuance of a once-in-a-lifetime vacation. Enter the Kodak PIXPRO SP360 4K Action Camera Premier Kit camera package.

For less than the price of replacing an ejection seat in a Aston Martin DB5, this Kodak PIXPRO is a steal at $79.99. Equipped with a single 8.2mm equivalence f/2.8 lens that is recorded by a 12MP sensor, this tiny palm-sized action camera is able to effortlessly capture 8MP still photos and 4K UHD videos featuring a crazy 235-degree field of view inside a 360-degree sphere.

Controlling this dinky dynamo can be accomplished with three different interfaces: direct button pushing on the camera’s interface, remote control with an optionally-purchased disc-shaped RR-BK01 wrist-worn unit, and through a freely downloadable App for both Android and iOS smartphones. After just one session of trying to operate the ridiculously small triangle-shaped buttons on the SP360 camera and you will smartly move to the App for all of your future recording.

A Camera that can Handle Any Vacation Odd Job

Protecting and supporting this PIXPRO camera are a wide assortment of housings, mounts, and clips that are included inside the Premier Kit package. Kodak (OK, the Kodak name and logo are officially licensed by JK Imaging, Ltd for the manufacturing and sale of this product) has even thrown a small wrench into the box for assembling all of housings and clips.

While tethering the PIXPRO to your preferred sporting equipment is fairly straightforward using all of these hardware accessories, employing the App for controlling the camera is a different story. For example, you will not be able to start the App unless you grant permission for enabling complete access to precise GPS location services on your smartphone. Failing to provide this location permission will cause the App to abort.

Once you’ve scaled this hurdle, you must return to the camera for activating its WiFi Access Point by pressing a couple of those irritatingly small triangular buttons to begin wireless broadcasting. Returning to your smartphone, enable WiFi and scan for the PIXPRO SP360 4K Access Point, enter the Kodak-provided password, and wait for the connection between App and camera. You are now ready to take stunning spherical photographs and panoramic video with the SP360 4K.

[Please note: The photograph mode is restricted to capturing only spherical images.]

When the vacation is over and 007 has returned to a life of crime-fighting, the precious moments recorded with the Kodak SP360 4K will be worth more than all of the gold in Fort Knox.

Enjoy.

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