I have owned my Flip Video for 6 months, and today ...it went kaput! The side switch for turning on/off the Flip just broke beyond repair.
As those of you who own a Flip camera know, the side On/Off button is an indurated button that goes in and out of the camera when you pres sit on or off. The constant pushing on it, makes it vulnernable to breakage. Mine broke.
I tried re- fitting it, as in attempting to get the silver-colored On/Off button to fall back into the socket... but it did not work.
The Flip video quality is good, and I have used it to take more than 200 videos, most of them are about 30 minutes long, the shortest is about 9 minutes, and the longest was 1 hour and 15 minutes. Loading the Flip video on my DELL desktop computer (bought it in 2004) is a slow painstaking process. I backed up all my videos, and I eliminated (deleted) a lot of the Flip Video files...but my computer is still slow especially and only when I load the Flip camera..boy does it get slow. It took me more than 7 hours "create" a movie from a 45 minute video shoot. Sending Emails of the videos is also a hassle and a long delay too. Posting to You Tube has also been a long delay. Any suggestions? I am still going to buy a Flip-video camera to replace the one that just went kaput after 6 months of use.
I guess the wear and tear did it for my Flip Video. I have one of the first to come out on the market, and the Flip video camera color is White. As you use your Flip more and more, it starts to eat away at the double AA batteries faster. The Flip video camera is still a good buy for $200.00 dollars plus tax, and you can get 2 hours of video that is good quality. I wish the manufacturers would make the On/Off button more durable, and I hope they put it out side the camera the way it appears on our cell phones or digital tape recorders. It's a nice compact camera. Too bad mine broke. Anybody know where I can get another one in Red, like new, for less than $200 dollars? Thanks for reading this.
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I have owned my Flip Video for 6 months, and today ...it went kaput! The side switch for turning on/off the Flip just broke beyond repair. As those of you who own a Flip camera know, the side On/Off button is an indurated button that goes in and out of the camera when you pres sit on or off. The constant pushing on it, makes it vulnernable to breakage. Mine broke.
I tried re- fitting it, as in attempting to get the silver-colored On/Off button to fall back into the socket... but it did not work.
The Flip video quality is good, and I have used it to take more than 200 videos, most of them are about 30 minutes long, the shortest is about 9 minutes, and the longest was 1 hour and 15 minutes. Loading the Flip video on my DELL desktop computer (bought it in 2004) is a slow painstaking process. I backed up all my videos, and I eliminated (deleted) a lot of the Flip Video files...but my computer is still slow especially and only when I load the Flip camera..boy does it get slow. It took me more than 7 hours "create" a movie from a 45 minute video shoot. Sending Emails of the videos is also a hassle and a long delay too. Posting to You Tube has also been a long delay. Any suggestions? I am still going to buy a Flip-video camera to replace the one that just went kaput after 6 months of use.
I guess the wear and tear did it for my Flip Video. I have one of the first to come out on the market, and the Flip video camera color is White. As you use your Flip more and more, it starts to eat away at the double AA batteries faster. The Flip video camera is still a good buy for $200.00 dollars plus tax, and you can get 2 hours of video that is good quality. I wish the manufacturers would make the On/Off button more durable, and I hope they put it out side the camera the way it appears on our cell phones or digital tape recorders. It's a nice compact camera. Too bad mine broke. Anybody know where I can get another one in Red, like new, for less than $200 dollars? Thanks for reading this.
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