Flip Tripod for Flip Ultra and Mino Camcorders

The threaded post is too long on this cute little tripod--the base of your device stands off a few millimeters from the tripod's little rubber washer, which causes your camera or other device to be supported solely by the threaded post itself. It doesn't affect overall stability, but it is a lot more "wobbly" than any of the other small tripods I've used.

Buy the Joby GP1-M1EN Gorillapod GoGo Flexible Tripod instead. It's well worth the extra money.

Now that I have gotten the Joby, I have now added the Flip tripod to my childrens' toy box, as I'm past the time window during which I could have returned the item to Amazon.

UPDATE 7 Nov 2008: Just to see how the issue would be handled, I got in touch (email only, folks!) with Flip's "customer service" department. They were initially comically confused (language barrier, perhaps?), but finally offered to issue an RMA so that I could mail the item back to them for replacement. I declined the offer, as the cost of the tripod was a little over ten dollars--it would not be worth incurring the additional shipping cost to send it back. A class move would have been for Flip to just mail me a replacement after I emailed them my Amazon receipt.

Oh well, back to the toy box, where it belongs . . .

I have a Mino, which I love. And this thing is a must-have accessory for the Mino. After all, without it, how do you record your karate classes?

This tripod is cheap, and it works. What more do you want?

Overall Quality GOOD
I have not as yet used this item but is is well manufactured and sturdy and flexible

This is much smaller than it looks. It's about the size of the camcorder. You'll need to put this stand on something else to increase the height, otherwise the stand is fine.

Seemed like the flip tripod stand would stand taller than 6" to 8". Bendable legs take some getting used to.