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:P For the price, I think zoom's a bit of a dream hehe

God, I think the battery would last 10 seconds with an LCD haha. As NISMO told me, he exhausted a set of normal batteries just setting up the camera and playing around with it for the first time!!

They are pretty much a track-only useful tool (and there they function fine... as marketed I suppose). But I really think they should mention the whole can't-see-in-the-dark thing though, that was a big shock. Lame.

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As far as batteries go, don't be too worried...I didn't even change them at canberra, and took heaps of video footage. I did have a spare set, but didn't use them.What i did however, was buy 4 rechargeable energizer batteries and a recharger...

I believe at wakefield i will go through more batteries, as the sessions are longer..And may also run out of room on the 2gb card. But for people with laptops, just take it with you, and empty the card every 2 sessions or so...

That's really surprising... I also bought Energizer rechargables and a charger specifically for it, they were the 1.2V ones, since rechargables don't come in 1.5V (which is what the camera is designed for). When I ran the rechargables in it, I couldn't get more than a minute or so before it would show low battery and simply shut down. A friend explained about how some things need 1.5 no matter what, and sure enough the lithiums I got have been going strong.. that's weird!!

Sorry for delay, just moved house and internet down.

Here is the link to some of my pics:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26674661@N08/sets/72157605081037405/

Cheers

Michael

Some great photos there especially of some on the drive down. Good work milt!

Hi Everyone -

The DVD will make its appearence at the first recording of the new SAU NSW Tv Show! More details to come on this soon!!

tv show info http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Sa...Tv-t219304.html

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