Flip Ultra Series Camcorder, 60-Minutes (Black) OLD MODEL
List Price: $149.99
Details
- Built-in software lets you away e-mail videos, upload to YouTube and AOL, and capture still photos from video
- Holds 60 minutes of full VGA-trait video on 2GB of built-in memory; no tapes or additional memory cards required
- Candid to use, pocket-sized camcorder with one-touch recording and digital zoom
Description
The Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder is a different new way to shoot and share videos. Its portable, simple-to-use design makes it incredibly tractable to create high quality home movies. The camcorder's built-in software provides a within easy reach, seamless way to save and share memories: email videos, skip town custom movies, capture still photos from video clips, and upload videos completely to popular video-sharing sites, including AOL Video and YouTube. Flip Video Ultra is the ideal, affordable preference for capturing everyday moments that happen anywhere, and sharing them with family and friends everywhere. This next-creation version of the original Flip Video line features a new sleeker design, stock no-glare LCD screen, and improved video and audio quality. Flip Video Ultra comes with a TV connector telegraph, wrist strap, soft carrying case, two AA batteries, and a testy start guide. Specs: Flip Video Ultra incorporates 2GB of built-in flash tribute which holds up to 60 minutes of 30-frame per second full VGA-supremacy MPEG-4 video. Compatible with Windows XP SP2 and Vista; Macintosh OS X 10.3.9 or later. Computer bond via integrated USB Port.Customer Reviews
Severe way to make home movieI use this foremost to make short clips that I upload to youtube. It fits in your bundle, purse, or even your shirt pocket. It's nice to have this around when something intersting or ugent is happent, like a burglary or assult. And kind of makes you an amateur reporter. I'd talk to restaurant owners and stow away managers about how they run the shop, and some crazy fans after a sports event. Tolerably sweet camera, video quality is averge, it's not high definition, but who undeniably needs HD, it's such a bandwidth killer anyway.
Keeping it homely
This made a matchless gift for our daughter-in-law who has three children under the age of 5. As you can imagine, her primary desideratum in a video camera was to keep it simple. She needed something she could grab on the fly and not have to look for parts or cables, let alone find a mini-reel or a DVD that is not recorded on. The other important part was that it would provide the quality videos that we all want our blood recordings to be.
I have now watched her use this camera at several family events - including a just out pre-school graduation event. One of the things that is interesting watching her use the camera is to see how lightweight it is, both in allowing her to curb it up above everyone's heads and how long she can hold it there. It is also interesting that she could review what was actually being recoded without doubt and easily. These qualities make this video camera series infinitely preferable to our much older and clunkier Sony DCR-HC52 MiniDV Handycam Camcorder & 40x Visual Zoom Carl Zeiss Lens. I have been reluctant to give up the Carl Zeiss lens and have been looking for a inferior merchandise camera that may not be of equal quality but is much easier to use for those times when I need a video camera in a ado. It's hard to match the picture quality of any Carl Zeiss lens but I extremity something faster and easier.
There are also a lot fewer buttons on this video camera which makes it much more alcohol friendly. My family members are notorious button pushers who iron buttons that look right rather than check the manual to find out how to do things.
This Flip camera has been a brilliant addition to our family's taping needs.
Terrifying!!!
I had the flip camera for one whole week, then it stopped working. As a substitute for of writing my husband a note for our wedding day, I recorded a video for him. We used the flip camera on our honeymoon for pictures of our flounder and all our excursions. I get home to upload the videos and it won't even turn on. I've tried everything. This is a awesome product. I got new batteries and followed advice from their support, but now because of this video camera, we've down the drain important videos from our wedding day and honeymoon.
Very Informal and Cheap
It takes skilful quality video for 100 dollars.
It has about 3 buttons so it's ridiculously easy. The pattern is simple and intuitive. It's not trying to do a ton of stuff, so it's very simple and easy to use. There is the power, set down, play, and delete - that's it!
The battery, if you use alkaline, lasts about 1.5 hours, so I NEVER sit with the videos on the flip using the play button. It's bad enough when I'm just TAKING the videos! If you get lithium batteries, it will last several hours, and is a lot greater.
The USB arm is cute, but hard to get in places like the back of your computer tower.
Occasionally it will crap out on me and the wall will look gray and black and funny because it froze. It has recovered and works illustrious 98% of the time. I think it's done that to me maybe 3 or 4 times and I've owned it for a year or so. If you mark time a while and then turn it back on, it is usually fine.
You can have it surprisingly far away from the action, and it will pick up the audio only fine and the things pretty far away still look good and not ridiculously far in another place. (I'm talking family parties etc, it does a good job capturing everybody nicely).
It can abide up on it's own so you can put it down and film without holding it!
Very portable.
60 minutes is about the amount of time an outing takes. Intermittently I get to about the end (although sometimes it gets confused in a good way and as given me up to 20 minutes over the hour...), but once in a blue moon do I need much more than an hour, and most of the time I don't need the full hour. A 2 hour might be ticklish, but I would probably end up leaving video on it for longer than on this one and then fill it up anyway!
The flip software to get the videos off is easy to use, and allows you to take snapshots of the video, but only if it's on your camera still and you can't put it back on your camera once it's off. The software gets muddle-headed sometimes, but it's good when it works. Also, it will look like it's starting to move the videos and if you ride by shanks's away you may not realize it pops up several seconds later to demand that you click Ok to a report that says, it may take a while or something. Quite annoying. I think it's just easier to cut and paste the videos from the folder rather than using the software opinion.
The little jingle it plays when it turns on and the beep it makes when you hit journal, makes it incredibly obvious if you're trying to be discreet.
Overall I have been definitely pleased with it.
NO SOFTWARE!!!
There's the camera; there's the software that allows you to bail someone out, view, and share your videos. The camera is supposed to install the software as lief as you plug it into a USB port, and it tried, but "Installation Failed" popped up and it made no further attempts to settle. So my camera is useful only to point at things; I have no videos yet! Wishing I had emit my money on something else. I have contacted customer support, but I'm not holding my breath.
