I’ve been meaning to mention the Flip Mino HD video camera, and posting the video from the University of Washington students (shot on standard Flip Mino cameras) the other day kicked that memory back into living color.
To wit, Bobby Hutcherson performs on the vibes at the Crystal Ballroom during the 2009 Portland Jazz Festival:
Now this is a tool that even the least tech savvy users can get up and running in no time. Really, all you have to do is press the big red button to record. A 1.5-inch LCD screen reveals all the action. The lens zooms with the + and – buttons, but even if one didn’t know that, she or he could use the “human zoom” (moving closer), which is the preferred way anyway. The unit has 4 GB of onboard memory, enough to shoot about an hour of HD video.
