My Favorite Thing

My husband was given one of these for his birthday.  Its my favorite thing anyone has ever given him.  I have never had a piece of technology that was so user friendly.  Its called a Flip camera.  Ours is the Mino.

Its a video camera the size of a cell phone.  It holds 60 minutes of footage and has 2 hours of battery life.

When you are ready to upload your videos to your computer, you won't need any external wires or software.  Its all in the device.

The software is easy to navigate.  You can edit your videos, upload them to the web easily or email them to others.  And the video is really good quality (good enough to project on our huge screens at church- this is what I shot Elijah on for the video they played this past Sunday).

There are a very limited amount of buttons and features on the device so it is not confusing to use.  Ours even has a small zoom.

They make one version that is only $69 at Amazon.com.

This would make a great Mother's day gift (hint, hint to you men).

Later this week I will post a few shots I captured of my boys.

Comments

[Heather]

Got the same camera...in love with it! I have a tripod for it as well....love it...good camera for a little guy!

[Toni Rae Maners]

I have had my FLip for over a year. I have taken so many more hours of video in the last year than I ever did before. The picture quality is not great if you zoom or are recording something like a graduation or play. To get moments of the kids playing, it is WONDERFUL!!!!!!!! It may not be movie quality but atleast I have the moment captured, because how many things did I miss because the nice video camera was not charged:(. The flip runs on 2 AA batteries so I keep them in my purse with the video camera. It also has an underwater case that you can purchase from the website. I LOVE it too. We have video of snow tubing, swimming in the ocean, diving off the diving board at the pool, etc. I can not say enough good things about it and it cost around 100-150 dollars so well worth it.

[Joni in MN]

:-) Aren't you glad his gifts are also your gifts ;-) Thanks for the detailed blog about it... maybe I'll invest? Enjoy your time with it! :-)
Blessings,
~Joni

[Tiffany]

I am not up with all the new devices but this sounds great. Thanks for the info.

[kim Gushee]

I just saw this camera on Oprah she gave them out to all the moms in the audience. It has been getting great reviews.

[Drea]

I also got one for my trip to panama a few weeks ago.. but the circuit city guy said the image quality isnt really nice.. i have seen some videos done with it on other blogs tho and i think it looks ok, can you post a video some time? so we can see. I may ask for one, hehe FOR MOTHERS day ;-)