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28 Nov, 2012
Supreme usefulness, great battery life, great reliability with heavy use
I've had my flip video F260 for many years now, about 3.5 years.
It has always been 100% reliable. People saying that it isn't reliable don't know what they are talking about. It's been my car's full time rear dash cam for over a year, being used quite a bit. Also, it endures hot summers. Thanksfully this camcorder does not have a thermal sensor, so it won't shut off no matter how hot it gets. So it records for the long haul. All these new pocket camcorders have annoying thermal sensors to protect against exploding batteries.
I am a college student and it has recorded every lecture of most of the classes I've been in over the years, pointed at the ceiling for audio.
It also has been dropped a few times. When you tap the top of the camcorder heavily, the camcorder will immediately lose power as if you had removed a battery while it was on. You can just slide the power button and it will turn back on though. I wonder if there is an internal short going on that is causing that or something. Not a big deal though, has hardly ever happened unless I dropped the camcorder.
It records in 480p resolution, XVID encoded inside of an avi container file. Bitrate is usually around 2.5Mb/s to 3.5Mb/s. If the camcorder is staring at a wall, it is more like 1.15Mb/s.
By having it stare at a wall or ceiling, you can record audio for hours and hours with the onboard 2GB of storage memory. About 4 hours at the most. This is very useful for me as a student, recording lecture audio.
Audio quality is 44.1KHZ sampling rate, 16-bit mono ACPCM 176Kb/s fixed bitrate. The audio is quite decent but not nearly as good as a VPC-PD2 stereo microphoned camcorder.
This flip video camcorder is quite energy efficient. It only takes about 1.5 watts when recording. Thanks to this, and that it takes AA batteries, and with modern high end rechargeable NiMH batteries, you can get 3.5 hours out of a charge! 4 hours if you give the batteries a break. I realize that a lot of the bulk of the device is because of the batteries but that is a good thing. The battery life is awesome, it's like having a 25 gallon gas tank in a Civic. Also the flip video can stand by itself because of the thickness at the bottom. A good feature.
Modern HD pocket camcorders tend to take more like 3 watts, and they use these dinky little lithium ion polymer batteries that just have as much energy as 1 good rechargeable AA, so they only last about an hour per charge.
Use quality NiMH rechargeable batteries, don't use the crappy battery pack that flip video made, not much capacity. Use Powerex 2700mAh or Sanyo XX NiMH batteries for best results. They should last for years if you use a good slow charging charger with individual battery circuits.
Overall I give the flip video a 4 out of 5 for it's reliability, big battery slots and good usefulness. It does it's purpose very well, as a basic simple camcorder that doesn't have much that can go wrong. The 1 thing I wished it had was bitrate configuration options so I could increase the quality because video quality isn't very good because of the compression. It isn't bad though.
No, it doesn't have optical zoom, optical flash (or take pictures at all for that matter), or stereo microphones or HD resolution but it is good for what it is.
15 Dec, 2019
Strap not long enough to reach around modern Chevy steering wheel
1 of 1 found this helpful Strap not long enough to reach around modern Chevy Camaro/Volt steering wheel. What in the world... My steering wheel isn't especially thicc.. junk.
21 Mar, 2023
It gets torn apart by my Chevy Volt, repeatedly.
I have used this brand on my 2013 Chevy Volt. Back in November, this part from this brand broke in half! Literally the shaft just sheared apart.
Now guess what, March 19th 2023, it happened AGAIN. Except this time it truly exploded at the bearings point.
This cannot handle the repeated torque of a 150HP electric motor on hard left/right hard overs. Really shoddy.
I say again, 2ice now, it has utterly failed, GM-8347.