Comments on: Review: The Flip Mino Video Camera

By: Eva

Eva — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:34:06 +0000

It looks like you still get the flaky cell phone video effect if the flip is in motion while recording, but when the flip was still it looked a lot nicer. I am still debating whether to buy the Mino. My digital camera is on its way out. It was top of the line P&S in 2004, and takes 320 x 240 @ 20 fps. It has 10x optical zoom but once you start recording it won’t let you zoom in or out. I was kind of looking for something that would let me zoom well this time but the ability to put my own picture on the Mino is tempting me badly.

By: Flip Video Cameras

Flip Video Cameras — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:16:59 +0000

While Matthew is right that you can’t use the Flip to take pictures per se, you can of course use basic video editing software to pull individual frames from your videos - so you can essentially use it as a stills camera in a roundabout way.

What John says is true - I don’t think the battery will last 60 minutes of continuous filming based on my own experience but I do tend to turn mine on and off quite a bit taking short (less than 1 minute) clips of events which of course will wear the battery down faster than extended video sessions.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:46:50 +0000

Thank you so much for your review, John.

I really appreciated the full quality video you
supplied with the review. After seeing that video
I had all the information I needed to decide to
purchase this video camera.

Thanks!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:29:35 +0000

it look awesome, but it can’t take photo…

some thing like that just look like it woould take photos as well, ya’know?

By: diggy

diggy — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:09:56 +0000

Hey John. Really nice review and I agree with everything you said. I liked mine so much I bought one for my mom for her birthday. She loves it because its so easy to use.

By: John Watson

John Watson — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:44:32 +0000

I tend to agree with you except… Well, I just checked the specs on all the cameras in the Canon A line and only the A570, A630, A720, and A650 can shoot at 640×480 AND 30fps (the rest shoot 640×480@20fps or 320×240@30) and you’d need an 8 GB card to record 60 minutes of video (according to their specs 640×480 @ 30fps requires 1920 KB/second * 3600 seconds per 60 minutes).

And that assumes that the battery in those cameras will even last for 60 minutes shooting video full out. I don’t know if anyone has tried it but I doubt they would last since video is a secondary function of those cameras.

I guess it comes down to what you expect from your video in terms of length and quality. I’m sure many people would be perfectly happy with shorter videos at 20fps.

By: dru

dru — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:02:03 +0000

Why not just get a Canon Powershot A series with a 4GB sd card for the same cost? Maybe slightly bigger but then you have a good P&S camera AND 60 minutes 640×480 movies with sound. And you can buy more memory. This thing seems like a gimmick. Maybe for less than $100 it would be a better deal.