Flip Video’s Latest

I love my Flip Video Mino HD.  I use it constantly.  I was thinking to myself just the other day, “what kinds of improvements will they be making in the next generation of this camera?”

Enter the new SlideHD.  You can now record up to four hours, which is great.  Also, right after you shoot something, you can slide open the camera to find a 3” touch screen viewfinder to watch what you just shot.  This is rad, in my opinion because I can’t stand watching videos play back on the tiny screen I have.  My boyfriend will hold it in front of me and I beg him to plug it into the computer so I can watch whatever he just shot on a bigger screen.  But sometimes you’re out and about – maybe at a wedding or on vacation, whatever, and you want watch what you shot instantly.  Now it will be a joy to do so=)  No squinting, no struggling, just watching your footage you caught of that friend falling on their ass or your little girl doing her first bike ride sans training wheels=)

By the way, if you Flip, have you ever noticed how much great stuff happens when you don’t have it on you?  Just the other day I was sitting in my car at a red light and a man walking across the street in the sidewalk in front of me was SO DRUNK he sat down on the bumper of the car to the left of me.  It appeared that he was completely sure he was sitting down on a park bench.  Right there in middle of the street!  At first the driver of the car he sat on was laughing but then the light turned green and, when everyone else sped off, he started honking at this dude.  You should have seen the look on this drunk man’s face when the park bench he was sitting on started honking at him.

Lesson of the story: Always keep your Flip on you!