Fri
May 30
5:47pm
Flip video
This little video camera is interesting.
It’s about as big as a point-and-shoot digital still camera, records at 640 x 480 at 30fps, gets around 6 hours of battery life out of good AA batteries, has a USB connector to plug straight into your computer and costs $150 US.
Perfect for the YouTube generation, I guess, although I can’t see how it replaces the movie setting that’s on my Pentax Optio W20 still camera (which is also 640 x 480 at 30fps), or many other digital still cameras, for that matter. I’ve been experimenting with the W20’s capabilities recently, so maybe I should try the video mode to see how it turns out.
The Flip’s cute, there’s no doubt about that. www.theflip.com