So I hit a home run with Steph on Christmas gift this year. Our camcorder broke before we went to China, which was too bad, as we were not able to capture video of our crazy china experiences or the kids.
Now a new camcorder was out of the budget, but a friend of ours received a 'Flip Camcorder' as an early Christmas present. I was intrigued and started to to look into them... They are pretty slick.
About the size of a compact digital point and shoot camera, you definitely trade off features for size, but what you get in return is worth the trade off for what we will be taking video of these days.
We don't need a very powerful zoom right now, since the kids are not yet playing sports or in dance recitals that need zoom capabilities. We didn't use all of the bells and whistles our last camcorder had, so they are not missed on our tiny Flip Mino.
And the software it comes with is pretty slick too... It's all held on the camera itself, so no need to load anything to your computer! But I think the nicest thing is the ability to create what they call your own 'Flip Channel'. When you move your videos from the camera to the Mac/PC you can do some basic editing (trimming from the beginning and/or end) and then drag and drop them into your 'channel'. The channel allows you to save a set of e-mail addresses so that whenever you drag and drop a new video onto the channel it sends an e-mail out immediately to the distribution list letting them know that a new video has been posted.
It also allows quick and easy uploading to YouTube and Facebook.
If you don't need a lot of capability, but want a very basic camcorder that is VERY small and easily allows saving and sharing of captured memories check out the Flip!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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