Sony Bloggie

In our pursuit to find a good video camera, we were told by Best Buy that our new DLSR camera had a wonderful built-in HD video camera feature. The stability was great and the picture quality was wonderful. The only problem? You had to manually focus as you were filming. There is a way to start the focus before recording, but the minute your subject moves farther or closer, you have to manually re-focus which just was NOT working out. I was content with just using our camera, but after several attempts to make short videos, it just was not working for us.

So on to what would be recommended to us by MANY people; the Flip. Cheap, easy to use and with wonderful video-camera features, we headed to Best Buy to purchase one as they were having great post-Holiday deals.

We were pretty set until the employee mentioned Sony's newer version (only out for a few months) of the Flip, called The Bloggie. It's essentially the same (even the price point), however there are just a couple differences. The first being that the viewing screen is fully touch, and is about 2x larger than the Flip, and the zoom is about double that of the Flip as well. After a couple other employees came over to express their love for the Bloggie over the Flip, we were sold. It's 2011 and I'm confident that both are a fine selection.... I'm just a sucker for peer pressure.

Here's a video from the Indians Snow Days. Derek and my brother are on lanes 3 and 4 from the left.