Well if this little camera right can shoot HD and has that dependable stabilizer, then I'll be damned. With this, anybody can shoot like a pro.
It can shoot up to 2 hours of HD video (720p/60 fps), and it has a slimmer body than its predecessors. It's also easy to use: just push the big red button to start taking a professional-like HD video. The simple user interface that it has will also help you a lot.
UltraHD also has a new feature that I've mentioned above, and that is the image stabilizer. So light, but so steady. You don't have to buy that expensive steadycam or glidecam to do a steady shot now.
PC-user? Mac-user? Please, worry not. It has a built-in USB arm to your PC or mac, so you can launch a pre-loaded FlipShare software, or you can just copy and paste the video you've captured and edit it the way you want it.
It has widest angle for shooting, compared to its predecessors, and it feels the best in the hand. It also has the best microphone in its class and currently I believe has the best video quality.
The only reason to purchase a dedicated video camera, in an era when everyone and their brother's cellphone already has video recording capability, is if you're at minimum a dedicated hobbyist. And if you're such a dedicated hobbyist, I would suspect that you'd want more bells and whistles (like focus and exposure controls, or better bundled editing software) than this thing has. What it does, it does great, I'm just having a hard time figuring out who the expected market is for this -- it records in higher resolution and better FPS than anyone who wants a casual camera for posting web videos really needs, and it lacks the advanced features that would make it appealing to dedicated hobbyists. The two-hour recording time and easy portability might make it very useful for people who want to record interviews or meetings, but archiving those recordings would be prohibitively difficult without, again, 3rd-party editing tools, due to the massive file size of the recordings this thing generates.
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