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| Review Date: September 14, 2009 |
| Reviewer: R. Quick, New York |
My Review of Flip UltraHD vs. RCA EZ300HD Small Wonder
Camera=........................ Flip Ultra HD...................RCA EZ300 HD
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Video.............................Excellent.........................Very Good
Zoom.............................2x.................................4x
Screen Size.....................2".................................2.4"
Software........................Nice (Download & Upload)..........Very Poor (RCA needs ALOT of work)
Select pic Quality.............NO................................YES (HD,HQ & Web)
Recording time.................2 Hrs. (Can't Upgrade)............2 Hrs. (Upgrade to 16g chip=51+ hrs Web,
17+ hrs. HQ & 8+ Hrs. HD)
Takes Still Pics................NO................................YES
Take self video................NO................................YES (Lens moves)
USB Connections..............YES...............................YES
HDMI.............................YES...............................YES
Comes with cables............NONE.............................YES (USB & AV)
Charger..........................NO................................YES
Hold Comfort....................Nice..............................Very Good
Cloth Carry Bag................YES...............................YES
Upload video from Comp.>Camera YES........................NO (Not that I know of)
I purchased both the Flip UltraHD & The RCA EZ300HD.
Overall I prefer the RCA EZ300HD. The RCA can be upgraded & has many more capabilities.
I added a 16g memory chip to RCA & got:
51+ hours recording time in Web quality pics
17+ hours recording time in HQ quality pics
8+ hours recording time in HD quality pics
I also bought a 2nd battery.
Naturally with long record times (Memory) you need spare batteries.
But you don't have to keep downloading your pics to the computer.
The Flip fits your hand Nicely, the RCA is almost as comfortable.
The RCA Has double the Zoom 4x as compared to Flip 2x.
Also RCA has manual Zoom set on lens.
The ONLY 2 things that the Flip UltraHD has better then the RCA EZ300HD
is the pic quality is a bit better & it can use any AA batteries.
The Flip's abilities are very limited.
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Happy With My EZ300HD
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| Review Date: November 16, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Cynthia K. Heyman, Salt Lake City, Utah USA |
I am quite happy with my EZ300HD RCA Camcorder. It has everything I wanted... rechargeable battery, portable, and a memory card expansion slot. I have not used the slot though, the 2GB internal memory has been enough for me so far.
Of course the picture is not as amazing as one of the high-end expensive HD camcorders, but it's perfect for what I wanted. I enjoy using it and I'm probably going to sell my DVD Camcorder. I think this one better, it has better picture quality! |
Great little camera. Works with Mac with some tools.
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| Review Date: December 13, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Zaccariah Bowling, Dallas, TX |
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2UB83XCIGZSR This video is my unboxing of the RCA EZ300HD from my blog.
Its great for the price.
Upsides:
* Price to features is much better then the Flip Video Camcorder: 60-Minutes (White) (the original) and about par with the Flip Video Mino Series Camcorder, 60 Minutes (Black)
* Simple, simple, simple!
* Mini HDMI port
* Full and Mini SD Card slots
* 3 recording modes
Downsides:
* Mono microphone that sorta sucks.
* Can't turn off onscreen display when using video out on RCA or HMDI (WTF?)
* Packaging from hell!
Some issues though for macs but they are solvable.
The h264 encoder encodes in h264 but the built decoder for quicktime from apple doesn't like something about it and the audio codec used in the audio stream is a microsoft based one (based on WMA).
There are two solutions that work wonderfully.
1. use an updated version of VLC
2. to play the videos system wide install:
a. FLIP4Mac - for the Microsoft Audio Codec)
b. Perian - for an FFMpeg based video codec for quicktime - http://www.perian.org/ -
I did a full review, sample videos, and unboxing of the product at:
http://zbowling.com/blog/2008/10/08/rca-small-wonder-ez300hd-review/
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Great camera, more than what I expected!
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| Review Date: January 16, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Alfredo Rodriguez, Phoenix, AZ USA |
Well I just received my EZ300HD last night and I am thoroughly impressed after only having taken 2 videos, at night, in artificial light, indoors. So looking forward to see what it can do in the day and outside.
First of all, maybe this "second" batch of cameras (I had to wait a while for mine after they sold out initially) has been upgraded because some of the complaints I read in other reviews are not present in this camera at all.
I received the camera and installed the software without issue. It also already came with the DivX codec you need to run the raw .AVI files and that installed automatically as well. The software then proceeded to update itself through the internet. I run Windows Vista on a pretty new laptop.
I took 2 videos, one in my living room with only a lamp on and the other in kitchen with overhead recessed lighting. The video in the living room was definitely grainy with vertical stripes lightly visible, but not dark enough to where you couldn't see the objects in the shot. It wasn't great, but acceptable given the lighting conditions. Under the brighter lights in my kitchen, the clarity was superb and all the colors were very true and vibrant. No haziness or pixelation there.
I played the video on my 46" Sony Wega through the supplied composite video cable (RCA jacks) and looked good. My next purchase will be an HDMI cable with the mini jack on one end. I also downloaded the video to my computer without issues and used the simple software that came with the camera to trim the clips and save as a combined video.
The raw footage is in .AVI format and requires the codec to view in Media Player. On my laptop LCD the HD video looked great, definitely crisp with a lot of resolution and I was happily surprised to see no frame shakes or drops at all. The video was smooth with no blurriness. Not too bad considering I was chasing my 9 month old around. The sound is mono, so nothing fancy, but sounded fine.
The saved or edited movies are recorded in Windows .WMV format, which are pretty easy to share with anyone for viewing on any computer. I think my DVD player will even play these files. The difference is that the quality is definitely less and it changes the widescreen video to normal 4:3 aspect ratio. Maybe there is a setting to change that, since it appears to just squeeze the picture in, but not a big deal as I plan on investing in some video editing software to edit the raw footage and burn higher quality video on DVDs.
The camera option is nice because it can get you out of a pinch when you need a still photograph. The picture was okay, but don't rely on it as your primary digital camera, especially for aciton shots with lots of movement. It is possible to grab frames from your movie video too, so that may actually produce a crisper image.
The camera itself is very lightweight, even with the battery installed, so that was nice. It fits comfortably in my pant pocket and is about the size of a standard Blackberry device. The camera was a gift for my wife and she thought it was great, probably for the same reasons a lot of other people buy this type of camera:
- small size
- easy to use
- don't want to tote around a regular camcorder
Because of these reasons I really see us using this a lot, especially with a growing baby.
I am going to a car show this weekend and will have a lot of fun filming with this new camera.
Overall, I am very pleased with this purchased, but I also knew exactly what to expect from this camera. Even then I was very pleasantly surprised.
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Great for the Price . . . and fun!
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| Review Date: January 1, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Judd L. Silverman, Brooklyn,, NY USA |
| This is a fun little camera, especially for the price. Do not expect broadcast quality, of course, but it is so light and so easy to use that you can take it anywhere and be up and shooting in seconds. The Memory Manager software is very rudimentary and far from flawless, but it is a cinch to drag and drop the data from the camera (when plugged into your computer) to the hard drive, where you can then use it in other editing software. It makes "candid video" as easy as a snapshot. |
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