Comments on: Comparing iPhone 3GS video to Flip Ultra

By: pietro

pietro — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:15:07 +0000

Oops! It wasn’t obvious that the first video is the iPhone not the Flip until it ended. Forget the last comment. You don’t need glasses!

By: pietro

pietro — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:09:46 +0000

You need glasses! The flip video quality is junk. The detailing in the trees and greenery in the middle of the road is lost and look like green blobs, but are distinct in the iPhone. The color looks more accurate in the iPhone video as well.

By: zahadum

zahadum — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:56:20 +0000

what a bloody useless waste of electrons!

the transcoding for utube (at what datarate was that? – 64kbps????) makes both clips almost totally unintelligible – or at least I distinguishable from the tiny video on an old Nokia 5870 candybar phone! (180×120, upsampled).

I refuse to believe that either the apple or fliphone produce such garbage natively!

pls show the actual h264 source files so readers can make an accurate – and useful – comparison!

btw: I don’t know what u r doing wrong in the transcoding, but I have seen much better quality posted on utube – you might want to figure that one out.

FAIL.

By: B

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:23:58 +0000

Apples and Oranges?

The real problem here is that you assume everybody knows what the hell a “Flip Ultra” is. (I don’t} I’ll assume it’s a another phone camera of some sort (a flip phone, I guess) since that is what the iPhone camera is.

By: lkern

lkern — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:09:51 +0000

Flip looks better here by a long way. But I don’t want a Flip!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:33:01 +0000

Thanks for the excellent comparison. I may be getting a iPhone GS in the next few months. Your blog is the first I’ve come across to mention the destructive video editing. Not a huge deal but something to keep in mind when trimming shots.