Flip Mini HD Camcorder – Small Size, High Quality Video
The Flip Mini HD Camcorder is a pocket-sized HD video camcorder from Pure Digital Technologies and is one of the world’s smallest HD camcorders to date. It’s one in the four different Flip video camcorders in the series that competes with other gadget video camcorders from Kodak and RCA.
The Flip Mini HD Camcorder boasts 60 minutes of high definition 720p (1280 x 720) video recording time at 30 fps. It has internal memory of 4 GB which is fair enough to capture important day-to-day moments. Besides that, the Flip Mini HD Camcorder also comes in two default colors: silver and black. If those colors don’t satisfy your taste, you can opt to customize the external design of your Flip Mini HD Camcorder to match your style.
The Flip Mini HD Camcorder lets users watch their recorded HD content through its 1.5” TFT LCD screen with a resolution of 528 x 132 pixels. The screen is transflective so users can view their videos in bright daylight without any problems. In terms of video quality, the mini HD camcorder boasts automatic white balance and black calibration as well as automatic exposure control and dynamic exposure compensation – which mean that the HD camcorder is able to cope and dynamically adjust settings for optimum video quality in any recording environment. The Flip Mini Camera has been known to deliver high quality videos ahead of its pack. Recorded HD videos from the Flip Video Mini Camcorder are compressed using Flip Video Engine 3.0 and have average bitrate of 9.0 mbps with an in-built H.264/AAC video and audio codecs and stored in an MP4 file format.
The Flip Mini HD Camcorder has a fixed focus lens with an aperture of f/2.4 which results in one of the most optimal qualities in low-light environments that you can ever find in an HD gadget. It also has a smooth, multi-step 2x digital zoom feature. The Flip Video Mini Camcorder powers up in as little as 4 seconds to let you quickly capture moments as they happen. The HD camcorder features a touch-sensitive capture button for easier control and has the common functions of today’s video recording gadgets.
If you are wondering about the battery life of the Flip Mini HD Camcorder, Pure Digital has packed an internal rechargeable lithium-ion in its package that lets you shoot videos up to 2 hours. The battery can be recharged via computer USB port for 3 hours or using the power adaptor for approximately 2 hours.
For Windows users, the system requirements for the Flip Mini HD Camcorder is a computer with specifications no less than 3.0 GHz of Intel Pentium 4 CPU, 512 MB of RAM for Windows XP operating system or 1 GB for Windows Vista users, and of course, a USB 2.0 port.
Mac owners will need a system with at least 1.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1 GB of RAM, OS X Tiger 10.4 or Leopard 10.5, and a USB 2.0 port.
The great thing with the HD content recorded with the Flip Mini HD Camcorder is that you can easily and limitlessly share it with your friends through email or video greeting cards. Better yet, you can upload them directly to YouTube and MySpace using the software that it comes bundled with, or watch your recorded HD videos on your HDTV with your family.
