Flip Video Ultra

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Customer Rating:

Summary: below average
Comment: I was excited to buy this camera. Sure, it's idiot proof, but that's not the reason why I bought it.
I was willing to pay more for the image quality.
This is my biggest dissapointment. />This camera is only good for day light. At artificial light it shoots horribly. Red looks like
pink, some other colors are washed out. Horrible. Forget zooming in, picture will turn grainy. I
would perhaps accept this, if I would not have Logitech video camera for Skype on my computer that
has much better picture quality than this. It costed 90 dollars which is much cheaper than this
junk.
It's easy to plug in this camera to laptop, but I expected software to compact video so
you can quickly send it to somebody. If you shoot longer video than 1 minute, it takes a long time
to send and other person to download. That's really stupid. I expected more.
I bought rapid
charger with this camera. What does rapid mean? It takes 3 hours to charge this RAPIDLY. Don't call
it rapid, call it molasses charger!
If you are not in a hurry to buy camera, wait for next
generation. Maybe it will be better.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Short Lifespan
Comment: I loved my Flip - it was easy to use, always there - until it died at about 18 months of age.
Without warning, the camera quit responding. When turned on, it would boot as far as the FlipVideo
screen and stop right there. From this point on, it would not turn off, nor would it turn
completely on. Flip customer support was very prompt and responsive, but in the end, they said they
couldn't do anything because the warranty only covered the first 90 days.

So, if you
don't mind having an almost disposable camera, in that it won't last you a very long time, then this
is the camera for you. I really expected more customer support from them.

Customer Rating:

Summary: huh.
Comment: In this day & age you'd think there would automatically be an image stabilizer on all camcorders --
not the Flip Ultra :( There is also no rewind/fast forward on the camera, and the volume control is
loud, louder, loudest.

Otherwise it is small, easy to use, and portable so that is a
plus.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Do not buy this as a substitute for your camcorder - picture quality is terrible
Comment: I'll start by saying I've been using a 5 year old Sony camcorder until I bought this, which I was
hoping would be a replacement. To compare the two is a joke. The Flip doesn't live up to the quality
of a good camcorder at all. This is not the video recorder you want if you are trying to get high
quality picture or your are not within 10 feet of your subject. The zoom is so limited as to be
almost useless, plus the picture gets fuzzy when you are zoomed all the way in. With no image
stabilization, the picture jumps around a lot becuase you can see every movement of your hand while
you take the video. The lighting has to be perfect as well. When I recorded in dim light, the
picture had a lot of snow in it. My husband joked that it looked like the video was from 1984. On
top of that, the movies you do take are not easily uploaded into iMovie, so if you are a Mac user
who uses iMovie, I wouldn't recommend this.

That said, I paid $89 for this and about
$400 for my camcorder, so maybe I was expecting too much. This product you can use for a toy, but I
certainly wouldn't count on it to capture moments like school plays, or sporting events or really
anything you'd like to make a quality DVD out of later. I might recommend it only for short, simple
videos you may want to post on Youtube.

To sum it up, the Flip is no substitute for a
camcorder. If I knew before I bought this what I know now, I would never have purchased it -- even
for $89. I think I'm just going to give it to my 5 year old to play with and keep using my camcorder
for everything.

Customer Rating:

Summary: The only way to shoot video
Comment: I purchased the Flip camera and a case from case logic in early December so we could start taking
videos of my 3 year old again. The camera is so easy to use and i highly recommend it to everyone.
The price is great and it is an exceptional value. You will not be disappointed!!!

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