A Simple Design & Function ... That Simply Works Well! April 26th, 2008

The Flip: Awesome Simplicity | Flip Video Camcorder: 60-Minutes (Black)

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highly recommended

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Camcorder is easy to use and takes good pictures. It is also fun. The only drawback I have found is that sometimes the battery compartment can open if you are trying to put the recorder into a tight container such as the soft pouch you can get for it.

A Simple Design & Function ... That Simply Works Well! April 26th, 2008

The White 60-minute Flip Video Camcorder is a really Fresh Idea, that fills the gap between
other camcorders, that cost over $250 dollars; as well as provide both a 'Day-Light' based reasonably Sharp Video & just ok Sound Samplings, that I would rate at close to 4-Stars.
Note: Please read all of the other Comment's posted by other Reviewers, about the Flip Video
Camcorder, they are all Very helpful. I bought the first Gen 60-minute model, without consulting any Reviews; and since then, there are a couple of Newer generation models, by Flip and RCA. This model cannot capture any video in settings where there isn't enough light!
As a Pro Photographer though, I do have some very good uses for the Flip, which I will post here.
Before I do, as I'm writing this post in April, 2008, the New gen models have Improved Functions and/or Updated their software. Also there has been some brand new releases of Low-Budget Video camcorders (sometimes referred to as the 'college-bound series), by manufacturers like Sharp, RCA, JVC and 3rd line manufacturers, that are just Below or just Above the $200 dollar mark. Also some Cell Phones are very capable of producing Higher-Quality Photographs & videos, as well. Here's some definite easy uses:

* Real Estate Sales or Buying
* Auto, Truck or Boat Buying or Sales (sell or buy junkers)
* Architectural building, archiving
* Art Collection (includes Playboys & other gentlemen mags, or is it rags?)
* Home or Office New Construction (document from the ground up)
* Home cleaning services (before & after the strippers have been there)
* Home, Roof, Driveway & Appliance repairs (don't let them cheat you!)
* Landscaping uses (find out just what the gardener has been up to)
* Medical case documentation (got a disability, need extra cash?)
* Birthday's, Anniversaries or celebrations (who was there & who wasn't)
* Home & Office Inventory, archiving
* Vacations (babes, babes, everywhere ... make it memorable for your Bros)
* Vacation Home Rentals (The ones that you absolutely Loved!)
* Arts & Crafts (includes lingerie & adult shops)
* Music or Art Festivals (extra points for Hula dancers!)
* Personal & Intimate situations (Get an 'A' for your Creativity)
* Spying (He isn't working late at the office or that's not hair gel from the gym, people!)
* Divorce court (I told you so!)

As a Mac user, I was disappointed in that there was some software Editing issues, but being resourceful, I was able to 'by-pass' them quickly. What I do like is HOW EASY it is to plug it immediately into your TV to watch your videos and/or to Email Apple QuickTime Movies.
I would definitely recommend the Extra (male-female) USB cable.
For Mac users, I have been using a Toast 8 Titanium extra Utility, "Motion Picture HD", that has worked very well, for my uses.
And the New Leopard 10.5.x OS, also has some great Video Editors.

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The Flip: Awesome Simplicity

I bought the Flip for my daughter who is studying animation. I thought it would be great to have something simple and light like a point-and-shoot camera, but with moving images. And that's exactly what this is. It takes great pictures even in low light and picks up sound perfectly. The only criticism would be the 2x zoom (we're used to more), and the fact that you should always carry spare batteries (it uses AAs and they run out in about 2 hours). I'm buying another one for myself!

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Simple, convenient, and great for the price!

We were looking for a camcorder to record every day events. Since we are planning to travel extensively during the next year, we wanted something handy. We looked for many camcorders in the market. Camcorders that record on DVs or DVDs are difficult to carry because you need to also carry many spare DVDs etc. So we started looking for a Hard Drive based camcorder. However, most good products started at $300 and above. Some cheaper models require memory cards which are expensive.

During all this confusing search, we came across Flip camcorder on amazon. It is one of the most hot selling products and we now know why. Ours came yesterday and within a day we have made several videos and even hosted a few on you tube. It is the most convenient thing you can buy. Extremely easy to use and great for the price. A friend of mine paid 100 bucks for the software that goes with his $300 camcroder while we got both the camcorder and the software for little over 100 bucks!

Flip is not for serious photographers or people interested in high resolution recording. That said, when I hooked up Flip with our TV, the contrast was great and the resolution was fine. It performs much better that camcorders that are almost twice the cost.

Major strengths -

- great for the price,
- very easy to use,
- hooks up to pc, mac, tv,
- free software,
- uses AA batteries that last a long time,
- hard drive records upto 1 hour of video,
- instantaneous uploading on youtube etc.,
- easy to carry (very lightweight),
- craftsmanship is nice, I hear some of the other inexpensive camcorders are made from cheap plastic,

Two big gripes-

- doesn't have optical zoom. Digital zoom is never a good idea.
- you cannot change the resolution.

That said, its great for the money and all our videos have come out well.

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