The Flip camcorder model called the Flip Mino HD video camera isn’t anything I expected it to be. As a matter of fact a friend of mine gave it to me for a random reason. He said its great in video recording but I really can’t tell by the way he glanced at me. I’m really not into video recording, I am more into photography. But on one of my travels, this time to Beijing, I decided to take some footage using the Flip camcorder he gave me.
Surprisingly it wasn’t what I expected from the Flip Mino HD video camera- in fact it was way beyond my expectations. Below are the things that I found great about this camcorder:
The Size
The first impression I had in mind is that this video camera is nothing but a fancy gadget, one of those disposable ones you buy in the market. But regardless of that it was light, handy and very small (smaller than my coke in can) and for the size it’s really great.
The accessibility
I do bring my laptop with me anywhere I go since I do take a lot of photos and save it to my PC. The cool part of the Flip camcorder is that it needs no fancy cables for charging and you need not any memory to save it because I can easily hook it up with my laptop and transfer files.
The Features and Tripod features
It was only later that I learned that the Flip Mino HD video camera can be placed on a tripod. I did read a couple of reviews about of it online but sadly I was back from my Beijing trip by the time I knew about it.
The navigation was easy to use. You can see all of the tools in one area only. There is a red button in the center for recording, a pause button in the upper left side and delete button on the upper right side, it also have a fast forward and rewind button situated right above and below the red button.
Overall Verdict
To me it’s quite slick and a no brainer for me. Although I would love some added features with the Flip camcorder, but for what it has to offer I rate it 5 stars. I just had my Ultra version of this and it just doubled my expectations. Great Flips!
