This camera is great. Very durable, compact, sufficient zoom, and has minmal but neat software that comes with it for editing. Do not download the new software from flip.com because it eliminated the cool features that compress many clips into one with automatic slow motion and colors, (i.e. the journal, classic, and kaleidoscope effects) Instead it added a text for the beginnning and end and you cant even change the font or color of the text so it is pretty lame. The new software has a better layout but again doesnt have the best features in my opinion of the first edition.
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I love this camera. It takes a decent video for its price and it is so easy to use. Because of it size you can always have it with you unlike a camcorder. I bought one for myself and loved it so much a got each of my sisters one and had my friends by them for their kids.
I especially like the fact this camera uses 2 AA batteries instead if a recharge. The battery life is quite long and I don't really trust anything that has an internal battery.
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I had great expectations after hearing reviews on the radio and also reading some of the Amazon reviews. I am very disappointed in the picture quality with this camcorder. The video quality is very poor and you wouldn't want to capture memories of children or important events with this camera. The close ups are clear enough, but any images over about four feet away are too fuzzy to enjoy. It's a real distraction. The only use that I will have for this is recording things related to my business for documentation, for reference, and/or to send clients video discriptions of projects etc. The one real advantage to this camera is the ease of uploading video to the internet. I've had no problems so far with getting the video off the Flip into my Dell notebook, and emailing video. In short this camcorder is compact and convenient for some uses, but the quality is poor, so don't buy the Flip if you have the idea of recording important events - get yourself a good quality digital camecorder.
ADDED LATER - after reading about the fuzzy picture problem with this camcorder I found that not using the zoom feature cures this problem. Still, it's too bad that the zoom function makes the picture quality so poor. Why have it as an option?
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A solid camera for a low price. Very easy to use. Good for quick home videos or to post to website/you tube. Easy to plug to your USB port to download films. Easy to view films on your tv. Easy is the key word. I've had the camera one month and like it a lot. If you want to be able to do real zoom or more fancy stuff, you need a bigger camcorder. On the minus side, the on/off button seems to work ok to start, but I often have to push it multiple times to get it to stop. Battery power runs out fairly quickly, so make sure to have lots of extras. Zoom is only 2x, and when you do zoom, you lose clarity, so I'm not sure if it's an optical zoom or a digital zoom, but don't zoom is the rule. Sound is very good. The outputs are large sized avis. I wish there was a way to choose your output type, but you can always convert them later. Nice camera.
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We bought this to take to Walt Disney World with us. It was great to carry around and the video turned out great. We did have problems putting it on a DVD. I tried to work with customer service but you cannot talk to anyone in person. We used it 5 days. About a week after coming home I was going to use it and when you turned it on it would not shut off and you could not take any videos. After numerous attempts to work with the company, I wanted to return it since it was within 30 days they would not even answer my emails. Thank goodness I bought this through Amazon. I was able to return it through them.
It's a great little video if you have no problems!!!
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