First Impressions: Flip Mino HD
I know it’s been a while since I blogged, but I’ve just gotten back to school in Washington, DC and I’ve been pretty caught up with that. The semester has started wonderfully and I am thrilled to be back.
Moving on.
A few of you might have caught that along w/ my fabulous new smartpen, I also have been able to play with a Flip Mino HD lately. I wanted to do another first impressions post about this because I really enjoy reviewing gadgets.
Perk one: User friendly interface. Holy cow, this thing couldn’t be simpler. Flips are designed very much with ease of use in mind and have a one button interface. Basically there is a big red button on the back that you press when you want to record. Then the touch buttons light up so that you can zoom in or out. To stop recording you hit the red button again. That’s pretty much it. When you aren’t recording you can hit the play/pause button to go back and look at the videos you’ve already taken and delete the ones that aren’t works of cinematic genius.
Perk two: no cables! Ok, to me, this isn’t much more than a nifty feature. It’s very convenient, but not a real selling point. The flip has a built in USB jack that flips out when you want to upload video so you don’t need another cable. This keeps things tidier, but usually I upload video at my desk where I have all of my cables stashed anyway.
Perk three: great quality. The Flip Mino HD takes really nice quality video and audio considering its size. (Here are the actual specs.) I’m really new to the video sphere, but so far I’ve been really impressed. The same applies for the playback on the camera itself. There’s a screen that’s about one inch or so across that gives you a decent idea of the video you just took, but the sound is surprisingly full for such a small device.
It slips really easily into my purse so I’ve been trying to remember to take it with me in case something interesting happens (like the car fire on my first day of work). Here are a few of the videos I’ve taken so far.
^^ This is the remains of the car fire that happened outside the office on my first day of work.
^^ This was my good morning video on Inauguration Day
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Do you take a lot of video? What do you use? Have you used a Flip before? What did you think! Let me know in the comments below!
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January 25, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I saw three of them (in a space of about 10 feet) all being used simultaneously this weekend. I want…
p.s. No space-time continuums were harmed during the multiple use of Flip Mino HDs…
January 28, 2009 at 10:52 am
Great post. Good review and thanks for including videos!! Will let you know if I end up getting one for @lindsay_faith and one for me :-)
January 28, 2009 at 11:02 am
Rob, they are nifty little buggers. I can certainly see why people want them.
Aaron, any videos I put up on viddler http://www.viddler.com/explore/KathleenLD/ are going to be taken with this if you want to check out the quality a little more. I can’t really vouch for my own skills though…
February 1, 2009 at 10:12 am
Is the Flip Mino HD better than the Flip Mino?
February 1, 2009 at 11:06 am
I haven’t used the Flip Mino, so I can’t say for certain, but I would assume that the video quality is better in the Flip Mino HD
February 1, 2009 at 8:05 pm
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