'We managed to get a reservation for a popular lunch time show, and all the characters came out to meet us, which should have been a great photo opportunity, but...'
Mrs Kumahara, mother of a nine-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl
The other day, the whole family took a trip to a major theme park.
It took me forever to get a reservation for a popular lunch time show, but we were excited when all the characters came and visited our table, one after another!
This was a perfect opportunity to get some great photos of the kids together with the characters, but in the end none of the photos turned out right - at the critical moment they always had their eyes closed, or they weren't looking at the camera, or something. There were other people waiting, so it wasn't like we could just keep taking more photos...
And also, I wanted to film a lot of other shows and parades as well, so I brought a lot of extra batteries, but this just meant that I had to lug them around all day.
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GZ-HM400 can take real 9 Megapixel still photographs with no interpolation
•If you don't want to worry about how much power is left in the battery...
The supplied long-life battery provides about two hours and twenty five minutes of continuous recording time
