flip video ultra series camcorder 60 minutes orangeA couple reviews
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Great toy and it's idiot-proof!
I am a reluctant gadget lover. I enjoy technology that makes my life simpler and gadgets that look cool, are highly portable and deliver on the "simplify my life" philosophy. And I am reasonably tech-savvy. I was quick to embrace digital cameras and digital photography. I take hundreds of pictures a month and catalog them carefully. However, I have never gotten into video - camcorders are too bulky and complicated for me. My husband has some cool Sony camcorder that supposedly does great things but I have never been tempted to use it once. But I love the idea of video. So, after reading all of the reviews of the Flip Video Ultra here and elsewhere, I decided that this company may have accomplished what I have been looking for in a video recorder. I just got my Flip yesterday and it is EVERYTHING I had hoped for and more!
I bought the Orange Flip - it's compact, light and pretty! I took a few test videos and I thought the quality was impressive for the price of the device. It couldn't have been easier to download the videos to my laptop and e-mailing the clips was a snap. I hate reading manuals and generally require a little hand-holding when it comes to learning the ins-and-outs on operating a new gadget but this is idiot-proof! No instructions necessary! A minute spent with the Quick Start Guide included with the recorder was all I needed. They even include 2 AA batteries in the package so you are good to go in less than 5 minutes. Less than 10 minutes after I opened the package, I had already e-mailed a wonderful 30 second clip of my daughter singing a nursery rhyme to her grandparents. Yay!
The only downside to the Flip is the lack of SD card expansion but I can't imagine shooting more than 60-80 minutes of video with it at a time. I am so thrilled with this purchase and I think I'm going to buy a couple more as Christmas gifts.
Flip over the Flip
I would have video taped this review on this new digital cam, but I had no one else to hold the cam!
I am so happy with the Flip video cam I needed to say this as soon as I could.This is the easiest, smallest , one touch video cam in the world. My seven year old niece can do this and i can not thank Amazon enough!
Look I am not a technical person, but this is a simple one touch recording system....I can even do it!
No buying a million different tapes/disks for the unit that will go out of style next week. It works on two AA batteries, not a large battery the size of a brick or a nickle battery that is so small, but you have to charge for six hours.
The Flip is small enough to fit in a pocket or purse. The instruction for using this cam is so easy a five year old can do this. It has an hour long recording time..and It downloads with its own connection of the USB port on the cam itself (no extra wires), right to your computer or flash drive for blogs, You Tube and Emails.
OK, I am raving!!!! I know this! and Under #200, most any family can afford this for Christmas...and will rave too!
CMON think of all the old bulky movie cam recorders you have around the house with weird and odd shapes film sizes> This cam saves your movies to your computer system so simply its a snap
I am AMAZED and 100% satisfied with this purchase,
This little camcorder is seriously worth the money. I have had all sizes of camcorders and currently own a Mini-DV camcorder, too. Here's why I adore this little thing:
1. It's little. It stores in a cellphone pouch and stays in my purse. Therefore, I have it when I need it.
2. It's easy to use. You turn it on and hit the red button. That's it. It has a little zoom capability, not a lot. I wish there were a little more zoom, but I can live with it.
3. To get the video onto my computer, I flip the little USB arm out from the side of the camera and plug it in. Awesome. It even comes with software for both a PC and a Mac that works pretty darned well.
4. Sturdy - so far. Like I said, it stays in my purse PLUS my kiddo uses this to shoot video of all kinds of crazy things and this little camcorder is still working great.
5. No fuss. It records 60-minutes. I thought that would be cutting it close as far as record time goes but I've not reached the limit yet. I tend to download my videos about once a week so I imagine if you left them on there for a long time they would build up. I take this to my son's sporting events to capture quick little videos to send to family. A hour has been plenty of time for me.
6. I'm mostly surprised by the quality of the video. I was truly surprised. I expected it to be better than a cellphone video of course but didn't expect it to be this good.
I'm more than pleased and if I ever accidentally break this one, I'll surely get another. Great value.
It's good "gadget-level" video
I bought the Flip Ultra a few days ago, and I haven't been able to put it down. Like most parents, I have a miniDV camcorder, but I haven't been using it to take as many movies of my kids as I should have, so I bought this to keep on me at (almost) all times. Here is what I have found so far:
Pros: It's truly pocket sized. It starts up in seconds, and operation could not be any simpler. The video seems slightly better than the movie mode on my digital camera, and the sound is better. Because it's cheap (I paid sixty bucks), I'm not worried about damaging it, and as long as you are somewhat aware that there is a lens, there is not much to break anyway. The software, once it's working, is also very simple, and yes, the program outputs normal *.avi files. Indoor light makes acceptable videos. Schoolroom lighting was perfect. Outdoors, when the sun was low in the sky, I got a lot of washout (to be fair, it would have been tough for any camera).
Cons: It's hard to make a non-shaky video. There is no Electronic Image Stabilization or anything like it, and the thing is so light that it's tough to hold it steady. That little screen on the back is your only indicator of whether or not you are holding it steady. There is no memory card slot, just internal memory.
I had some annoying problems with the software, which is built in to the camera. The first time you plug it in, it installs onto the computer. It immediately recognized that there was an update available, so I downloaded that and installed it. The problem came when the computer wanted to update the camera - my camera was filled with video, so it said it would do it later. Fine. I removed my files, fired the program back up - and it installed the update to the camera. Then I was barraged with requests to reinstall the update - constantly - when the camera was plugged into the computer. I had to uninstall the software and reinstall from the camera. Now, it still wants to re-install the program when it gets plugged in, but it only asks once now, and I can live with that little annoyance.
So know what you are getting - your normal camcorder will take better videos, but you probably won't have it in your pocket when something spontaneous happens.
flip video ultra series camcorder 60 minutes orange
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