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Will give mine a go tonight.... probably audio only as only have a 2gb card and I think a 5min Video/song would be
about 250mb in size and I want to do the whole set for a few deps... plus we have nothing recent anyway.
Audio 5mins = 10 mb, typically ( not the highest audio quality )
Will also have to use rechargeables as I have gone through the batts already.

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Pretty pleased with the audio through decent headphones.
Didn't bother with finding a place for the Video as card space an issue...
plus the audio defaulted to video record anyway... so the visual is a static pic
of nothing.
Settings I used were 192kbs for audio and 360 mic surround.
Had to turn the mic level right down..as you'd expect.

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hmmm second attempt to just set the thing off and leave it.

Video takes up too much space and audio quality is good enough so I set the
device up to record on two fresh rechargeable batteries...
I got 10 mins of audio record time.
Will have to try the USB option which rather negates/limits the point of the Zoom as far as I am concerned
but the device seems to have battery power save mode it switches into rather too quickly...?

I have had 20-30 mins out of it of video but was meaning to be in Audio mode and the setting didn't hold..
Maybe these are teething problems so far but battery life and disk space are an issue at the moment.
Bigger SD card required as well

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I was able to get 29mins from HD720/30 by mistake as I set it to audio and it defaulted to
Video.. but since I didn't position it for video, the frame was useless. However the audio was
fine and 29mins of video sounds quite a decent last for the batteries.
These were normal Duracels.
For such a simple device, supposedly, I am going to have a play at home with the rechargeables
and USB settings.
Something I should have done before, maybe.

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ok... thanks.
My card is the standard 2gb.... and the video switched off around 1.78 gb... which was around 29mins.
That was useable and the audio was pretty impressive. Can live with that.
I figure I could get 2x45min on the card and the batteries, but brand new ones out of the box
which said they were fully charged didn't last.

It just seems that it needs more attention when setting up.....

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All makes sense when you run from a USB power adaptor.
If you want to run HD video, make sure you have a big SD card and you are not running from
the batteries. That way you can set the device up and leave it.
Otherwise if the device is starved of a good power supply, it will shut down prematurely...not un-naturally
but unless the recording attended, if will too late to do anything about it.

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