Electronics Gadget Reviews

Flip Tripod for Flip Ultra and Mino Camcorders

for Flip Video camcorders * interchangeable feet match Flip Video camcorder colors * maximum height: 5″ * warranty: 30 days *

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Simple is good
I have an expensive Digital SLR with multiple lenses. But for a camcorder, I wanted something simple, light, and small that coulde be used to record family events and sudden picture opportunities. The Flip mino HD is perfect for this purpose. Picture quality outdoors is very good. Indoors, without flash, the quality was much better than expected as long as there is a light source like sunlight. There is no flash. The best part of the story is the way videos are transfered to the computer and the ease with witch pictures can be shared. This is a very well thought out product.

What could be improved? Almost everything but the software tranfering videos to your computer, but the simplicity and ease of use would be compromized.

4 Stars Works well with my Flip Ultra, second generation (older model)
This little tripod does what a tripod is supposed to do: It holds the camcorder to free the hands of the operator and eliminate movement of the camera. I found it stable enough to support my Flip Ultra with the support feet in multiple positions.

5 Stars cool item
Product came with several colored tips, very sturdy and a must have item for the Flip.

5 Stars Perfect Accessory for my Flip
Great little tripod to help steady your shot with your Flip! It’s flexible, easy to pack up (like the Flip) so it’s a great accessory to tag along whenever you need a shake free shot!

4 Stars Nice Portable, Compact Item!
This tripod is great for taking videos of students. It sits nicely on a table. If you’re using this for students in a classroom and space is an issue, it is a nice portable, compact tripod.

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Flip Tripod for Flip Ultra and Mino Camcorders

for Flip Video camcorders * interchangeable feet match Flip Video camcorder colors * maximum height: 5″ * warranty: 30 days *

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Simple is good
I have an expensive Digital SLR with multiple lenses. But for a camcorder, I wanted something simple, light, and small that coulde be used to record family events and sudden picture opportunities. The Flip mino HD is perfect for this purpose. Picture quality outdoors is very good. Indoors, without flash, the quality was much better than expected as long as there is a light source like sunlight. There is no flash. The best part of the story is the way videos are transfered to the computer and the ease with witch pictures can be shared. This is a very well thought out product.

What could be improved? Almost everything but the software tranfering videos to your computer, but the simplicity and ease of use would be compromized.

4 Stars Works well with my Flip Ultra, second generation (older model)
This little tripod does what a tripod is supposed to do: It holds the camcorder to free the hands of the operator and eliminate movement of the camera. I found it stable enough to support my Flip Ultra with the support feet in multiple positions.

5 Stars cool item
Product came with several colored tips, very sturdy and a must have item for the Flip.

5 Stars Perfect Accessory for my Flip
Great little tripod to help steady your shot with your Flip! It’s flexible, easy to pack up (like the Flip) so it’s a great accessory to tag along whenever you need a shake free shot!

4 Stars Nice Portable, Compact Item!
This tripod is great for taking videos of students. It sits nicely on a table. If you’re using this for students in a classroom and space is an issue, it is a nice portable, compact tripod.

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Canon BP 827 Lithium Ion Battery Pack for Vixia HG 20 21 HF11 10 and 100 Camcorders

Canon Battery Pack BP-827 for the HG20 and HG21 Camcorder. Also works with VIXIA HF S10 Dual Flash Memory and the VIXIA HG20 Hard Disk Drive

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars awesome battery
i’ve been bumping up my canon HF10 and its strange but this battery is one of my favorite things in my camera bag because this thing last forever. i was using my camera from 8am till 6pm, on and off. but it lasted all day.

5 Stars Everything as it is supposed to be
Fine battery, works well and everything is as it is supposed to be. Love it.

5 Stars Great Battery Life
This battery is a must have if you have a video camcorder. It has about 4-hrs of usage time and so I don’t have to worry about a dead battery. Plus you can review videos and keep the camcorder on pause rather than having to turn off the power all the time.

The original equipment battery is now a spare/backup.

5 Stars Battery Pack for Canon of great benefit
During extensive filming, this battery pack provided reliable use of the Vixia HG20 for many hours. While the battery pack extends beyond the end of the camera when attached, it does not cause a problem in handling the camera nor does it look objectionable. The battery that comes with the HG20 is very short lived and the camera would be of limited value without this option.

5 Stars Must have item!!!!
This battery is great and a must have if you plan to record long sporting events.

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Creative Labs Vado Pocket Video Camcorder Silver

Creative Vado is a slim, lightweight pocket video cam that makes it easy to capture and share everyday life as it happens. Simply connect Vado to your PC with the flexible USB plug and the built-in software lets you save videos to your computer or post them directly to YouTube or Photobucket. Since Vado is thinner than a deck of cards and as light as a cell phone, it fits into your pocket or purse and never weighs you down. Free yourself from the hassle of the bulky camcorder bag. You’ll never miss a moment, with two hours of video capacity and one-button recording that makes capturing life on video effortless. With up to two hours of video capacity, you never need tapes, CDs or extra memory cards. With a 2x zoom and excellent low-light performance, you’ll get great video quality every time you press Record. Just connect Vado to your computer with the flexible USB plug and the built-in software takes over. You can transfer your videos to your computer or post them directly to YouTube or Photobucket, all at the click of a button. The rechargeable battery is removable so you can change out for a fresh one. Built-in microphone and speaker Built-in flexible USB connector TV-output (Vado Audio/Video cable available separately) Anti-flicker support for adjustment to 50Hz or 60Hz Easy-to-use with great video quality at the touch of a button Slim, lightweight design that fits in your pocket or purse Simple built-in software makes sharing videos on YouTube or Photobucket a snap System Requirements – Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHZ or faster, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Mac OS X version 10.4.11 or later, QuickTime with Xvid plug-in, 512MB RAM and USB Port

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Left out in the rain 4 times and still works!!!
I decided on this recorder as a less expensive alternative to the Flip Ultra as a gift for my irresponsible (as it turns out) 11 year old son. He absolutely loves it, and it performs every bit as well as my own Flip Ultra at a lower price point. What has impressed me the most, though, is its durability. He has left this device out, overnight and IN THE RAIN, 4 times now, and it has come back to life every time as soon as it dried out. I’d buy it again in a heartbeat!

3 Stars Okay, but not as good as a digital camera’s video.
I purchased this as an easy alternative to larger video cameras. I was really looking at the Flip, but the price on this one was better, and I thought it would probably be good enough. But I was not happy with the Vado. The video quality is fair, at best. The zoom is very poor and really not even worth using. The playback on the Vado itself has very poor sound quality, but when uploaded to the computer, it is somewhat better. At my daughter’s recent concert, my sister used her regular digital camera (not a camcornder, just a point & shoot camera) to video tape it, and I used the Vado. My sister’s camera did a much better job than the Vado. Her sound quality was better, the picture crisper and clearer than the Vado. And since the room was somewhat dark, the Vado’s picture was very dark and fuzzy. My sister’s camera captured my daughter perfectly in the spotlight. I was disappointed with the Vado. It’s okay as a small, handy video cam, but I think the video feature that most digital cameras have these days is just as good or better. Not sure it’s worth the money to buy something like this. On the plus side, though, it is very easy to use and very small — easy to carry around.

5 Stars great grooms men gift
I bought them as grooms mens gifts for my wedding. Everybody really liked them and the video quality is much better than I expected. I was trying to figure out if I wanted these or the FLiP and am very happy I chose these.

3 Stars Keep the light on
Very convenient video camera. Picture quality is OK with good light. Product will not work in dark conditions.

2 Stars works about as good as a camera phone with video
The good: cheap, easy to use, good low light video quality, did I say cheap

The bad: poor color reproduction, useless zoom, very poor audio quality.

This is a nice toy for a kid (bought it for my 12 yr. old son)or anyone who likes to post videos on youtube. The sound and video is not as good as the flip but it cost less than half of what the flip did. The software is very basic, but it’s easy for any computerphobe to use. It’s pretty useless for anything that’s more than 10 or 12 feet away.

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Canon VIXIA HF20 HD Dual Flash Memory with 32 GB Internal Memory and 15x Optical Zoom

Canons new VIXIA HF20 Dual Flash Memory camcorder packs so
much excitement and high-quality imaging power into its small,
lightweight body, youll be inspired to keep it close. Capture vividly
colored, realistically detailed, high definition video and photos with a
Genuine Canon 15x HD Video Lens with SuperRange Optical Image
Stabilizer, 3.89-megapixel Full HD CMOS Image Sensor, and Canons
latest DIGIC DV III Image Processor. The VIXIA HF20 lets you record
up to 12 hours of HD video to a 32GB internal Flash drive, and also
lets you enjoy the option of recording directly to removable SDHC
memory cards.Youll love shooting with the user-friendly layout and
switching seamlessly between shooting video and photos. The Canon
VIXIA HF20 is packed with innovative new features like Pre-Record
that captures the action 3 seconds before you press the record button,
so you never miss a memorable moment, Video Snapshot Mode that
lets you set 4-second video vignettes to music, and Genuine Canon
Face Detection that perfectly focuses and exposes selected faces–anywhere in the frame and even in profile. All this in one compact
camcorder! Canon USA 1-year limited warranty included.

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Mac compatible? I think not.
I wasn’t as thorough when doing my research for a Video Camcorder. I assumed that this high end model would work seamlessly on a mac, but it doesn’t. I had to buy some 3rd party software to convert the windows video files to mac compatible files that i could use in iMovie, etc. It’s a real pain in the butt!

5 Stars Excellent choice!!
I was searching for a camcorder which can take HD videos, compact in size and has good consumer reviews.

This camcorder fits perfectly fine in my requirements.

Starting off with cons (since they are very few):

1) Pricy: Yes unfortunately this camcorder is priced way too up for entry level users.

Pros:

1) Excellent video quality.

2) compact size

3) looks amazing.

4) easy to use.

I would highly recommend this camcorder to someone looking for compact easy to use HD video taking capability but doesn’t mind spending few hundreds of $$ more..

5 Stars For amateur videographers, this is plenty camera.
This is my first foray into camcorders. I’ve been waiting at least 10 years for just the right camcorder to come along. This is the first one that had many of the criteria I was looking for: HD, small size, high quality image, OIS, photo taking, built in memory, etc.

I have to say that I’m satisfied with it considering the price you’re paying for such a little marvel. The only things I think that can stand to improve are the sharpness of the photos, the low light performance, the capacity of the 809 battery, a wheel for manual focusing and perhaps a larger touch screen instead of the manual controls. Other than those things I can’t think of anything else that would enhance this little gem.

It works wonderfully with iMovie ‘09. Just plug it in and you’re ready to go. No hunting the internet or CDs for drivers.

The PQ of the videos are extremely good in good light, decent with moderate light. I think most people would be very satisfied with it.

5 Stars Canon VIXIA HF20
First, it’s a Canon, so you know it’s quality, it come with 32GB of internal flash memory, I bought an extra two 16GB SD cards, if you want to record as long as you’re battery is good, flash is the best! I’m very happy with this Camcorder.

5 Stars Mac-friendly, even for users new to camcorders.
After a frustrating week of trying to learn how to transfer video from an otherwise exquisite Sony camcorder to my 24-inch, 2.6 GHz Intel Core Duo iMac (running OX 10.5.6 and iMovie 09), we returned the Sony to Amazon (thanks, Amazon!) and replaced it with this Canon.

The Sony manual, website, and tech support were useless to me as a Mac user, but the Canon manual told me everything I needed to know. I didn’t need to spend hours scouring the Net for workarounds. I didn’t have to call Canon’s Tech Support.

This Canon is all previous reviewers say it is. But for me, an experienced Mac user new to modern camcorders, it was especially valuable because Canon’s built-in support of Macs shortened the learning curve (and, fellow newbies, there IS a learning curve!) tremendously.

Experienced camcorder users running PCs will find the Sony virtually perfect in every way; less experienced camcorder users, on the other hand, will likely find the Sony manual — which appears to have been written by experienced users for experienced users — of little help at all. Mac users new to today’s camcorders will weep, scream, and be sorely tempted to throw the whole thing against the nearest brick wall.

The Mac’s notoriously creative user base can only wonder, sadly, at Sony’s failure to support that not-insignificant segment of the marketplace — and, likewise, marvel at Canon’s commitment to doing so.

In short: Mac users, think Canon.

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