Posts Tagged "Camcorder"
Jun2

Missing the Kids?

Posted at 11:45 AM • View Comments


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Right now I have been noticing how fast my children are growing up. Every second seeing them learn new things and develop their own characters seems priceless. But I often worry I haven’t been able to capture these memories. I definitely want to be able to look back in a few years with them and on my own at their childhood. My Mrs. has often moaned we don’t have enough video of the kids.

If you are like me you are pretty busy and sometimes the home video is low on the list of things to do, it can seem a hassle, a nagging thought. But I have noticed because the Flip Ultra is so effortless to use and handy to carry I have shot around 400% more videos of my kids recently. I am sure in years to come I will be pleased I did bother to shoot videos and in the process kept the other half happy!

When will you buy yours?

Apr8

50% of Flip users …

Posted at 8:09 PM • View Comments

I read with interest a post by Chris Allbrecht of Newteevee.com. He has recently spoken to Simon Flemming-Wood, vice-president of marketing for Pure Digital who reports 50 percent of Flip owners already had a camcorder. “The point-and-shoot phenomenon has been driving the growth,” he said. “Until we launched Flip there wasn’t such a thing as a point-and-shoot camcorder.”

He also reveals Pure Digital expects to have an HD product out by the end of the year (or at least an announcement of one).

I am one of those who fits into 50%  who “already have a camcorder”.  I own a bigger camcorder which I have used in the past for family videos. But I often found myself torn between taking my camcorder on trips OR a high quality digital stills camera I also own.

Taking both, due to space and weight plus often having to carry a young child as well meant I would often choose to leave the camcorder behind as I love taking stills. But then later when my kid came up with a new phrase or a joke I would regret not having a video camera to hand.  Good stills cameras are not great with audio!

But now I have the slimline Flip Video Ultra I find I can easily take both a video camera and a decent stills camera when out and about.

Jun21

Fliptastic in NYC

Posted at 9:39 AM • View Comments

Hats off to David Pogue, he puts a lot of effort into his Tech reviews for the New York Times. Here he gives the Flip Ultra the Apple treatment with a couple of contrasting characters – played by himself.

The main gist is how the Flip Ultra compares to other more cumbersome camcorders on the market.