Happy Birthday to my “little” sister and brother, Katie and Brian, who are turning 25 today! I was just thinking about them as I sat here on console watching the sunrise from orbit on TV. Very cool.
Speaking of cool, here’s a photo of Woody waving goodbye to Buzz Lightyear, who travelled into orbit on STS-124 yesterday to take part in some of the educational activities planned for this mission. To get it, a photographer from the Orlando Sentinel strategically positioned Woody in a tree while he was setting up his remote cameras prior to the launch.
Jose and I were browsing at Best Buy on Friday night and I stopped to check out the Flip, a no-frills digital video camera. I’d heard good things about it, and I’ve been interested in playing around with video lately since Flickr can now handle short video clips. But in looking at the specs, I am less impressed. The resolution is only 640×480. Which is twice the video resolution of my current point-and-shoot and equal to the resolution of newer point-and-shoots. I’ve been considering buying a new p-n-s anyway, and the one I want is only $70 more than the Flip. So why not just get the new p-n-s and do some video with that? The only issue I can see is that the Flip can do up to an hour of video, while the p-n-s would be limited to the size of the memory card. But that’s no biggie. So I’m leaning towards just going ahead and getting the Canon SD1100 that I’ve had my eye on. We’ll see. Anybody have a Flip and want to share your feedback?
I’ve read some other places about the Flip. It’s gotten popular because it’s very easy to use, but I wouldn’t go for it myself. There’s another alternative I’ve heard mentioned, the Vado. Dunno much about it.
I think if I get another video camcorder, it’ll be HD. Anything else is sort of pointless for the future.
I have a Flip. I also have a regular Sony HandyCam and was taking a ton of video of my 2 year old. My mom got a Flip for Christmas and I used it a bit and it was SO EASY to take the video and upload it to YouTube or wherever you want. I hardly ever took the video off of my Sony video camera because it was such a hassle. The Flip also comes with it’s own software that lets you put together little movies, but I’ve hardly used it. I usually throw it together in Windows Movie Maker. The quality is not super great but it’s good enough for what I want it for.
There may be better options out there, but since I’d already gotten to try it out and liked it well enough I went ahead and just bought it without researching too much. I like it though!