Flip Camcorder

[Sadie]

Does anyone have one? I've heard great things about them, and was thinking about one for Christmas for my husband.

[uforgot]

I had one. I got it to record my dance classes. It was really easy to use, and was great for just plugging in the computer and giving the girls instant feedback, but the recorded area was really narrow. Narrower than my Canon G10 with video and the resolution the same, so I sold it. Mine also had an issue with the record button not wanting to turn off. It took several emails to convince customer service to accept it for service. You can't send it in without an RMA, and I finally had to get mad to get them to give me one, even though I had it less than a month.

Maybe my experience was just the exception. You can go to Amazon or Cnet and check out reviews on stuff like this.

[colby]

My father in law got one recently and has been enjoying it. Relatively painless to use and to get videos onto the computer. Quality seemed decent (it's not a super HD awesome cam, but it's decent).

[ny biker]

My brother got one last year for his kids to take videos on their vacatio (to DC for the inauguration). They had lots of problems with it.

[Zen]

Kodak has one as well.

[TsPoet]

So many cameras have video capability now (The canon G10, for example), that I wonder about getting a video specific camera.
My new SLR has good enough video capability that it's been used to shoot segments of Saturday Night live.
I know that doesn't answer your question about the flip camcorder, but I just had to put in my 2 cents