Flip Video Mino Series Camcorder, 60 Minutes (White)

Though smaller than my cell phone, this camcorder does everything anyone could want, and with ease. I am blown away by the ease of recording with the Mino. My daughter had one when I evacuated to her home during Hurricane Ike and I promptly ordered my own. It arrived quickly and was very handy when I got back home ans surveyed my property damage. I was able to have video footage of my damages for insurance purposes. I was also able to download videos to my laptop and share with others. A great device for putting videos of my grandkids on YouTube.

It's an amazing little camcorder at a very reasonable price from Amazon. If it had been possible, I would have given it ten stars.

I got one of these when I started taking private classes with my karate Sensei from 40 years ago. He's so good that I wanted to be able to preserve the classes against the day that he finally retires (he's 73 now, and he's gotten better for each of the 44 years he's been teaching in the United State).

The good news is that as old as I am I can use this camera to take perfect, perfect video of karate classes in multiple levels of lighting, and it picks up fast movements with no problem.

The quality of the video is only part of the value of this thing.

First and foremost there's the ease of use.

Then there's the portability.

Then there's the ease of use, which INCLUDES the ease of saving the video to my computer.

The battery life is perfect for the amount of space in this thing.

The only thing that would make this better is if it had two or four hours of capacity.

If you get this, get one of the matching tripods, because then you can video your own karate classes!

Very happy with my Flip Mino. It can't get an easier to use on both the hardware and software sides. It's simplicity is it's greatest asset. The video quality is exceptional given it's small size and price. The only negative is the video quality when 'sharing' the videos via email. The files are compressed by Flip to reduce size, but the quality suffers a bit...not bad though. All in all, this is a great recorder to keep in your pocket (about the size of a cell phone) for those impromptu moments.

We have a new baby boy and this camera is just perfect. It is small enough to carry everywhere we go and catch those little memory's as they happen.

This little device is so easy to use, a diseased monkey could use it to take effortless videos. Everything is straightforward, intuitive and self-contained so you aren't matching cables, ports, plugs, buttons, etc.

The obvious question: what's the quality? If you already use your cellphone to snap pics and share them with your friends, family and well-wishers, you won't have any problem with the quality of these short videos (and did I mention how easy they are to shoot/ upload?) Serious videographers probably aren't looking for a product like this anyway.

Happy videoing!