Originally Posted By goodgirl I won a $100 online gift card to Office Depot. I was perusing the site and stumbled across the Flip Video cameras. Are these any good? Any of you that have them, what are the ups and downs? I could buy this one for $89.99: Flip UltraHD™ Video Camera - Blue, 4 GB, 1 Hour (3rd Generation) NEWEST MODEL Or, if I kick in $30 extra I could get this one: Flip UltraHD™ Video Camera - Black, 8 GB, 2 Hours (3rd Generation) NEWEST MODEL What do you think? Should I buy one? Is the extra hour worth $30? Or should I just get $100 worth of highlighters, glitter and post-it notes?
Originally Posted By ecdc I have one. Meh. I'm kinda unimpressed, honestly. The quality isn't very good and the lack of any control over settings is irritating. It's possible I don't know what I"m doing but I'm pretty techie and it just annoys me. I actually think you're better off using an iPhone. All that said, it's convenient and works great if you don't need amazing quality or a lot of control over what you're trying to do.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 I have one...it will not take the place of a really good video camera, but it is great to carry around with you when you just want to take quick videos. They are small and really easy to use, so we let the kids take videos with it sometimes too. I would say it totally worth the $100 or so dollars, as long as you don't expect it to do all of the things a regular video camera will do.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut if you have the option take a look at the Kodak zx-3. The overall quality is better then the Flip video cams. It is just like most of the basic handy cams, but it does have a few bonus features. Waterproof to 10 feet and very very shockproof. We lost one off a car at a track at over 80mph and it kept on filming. We still use it to this day.
