Back From Denver

I discovered, only after the fact, that this Samsung camera will only shoot 20 minutes of video at a time.  At that point, it stops.  I guess that to use for my intended purpose I will have my wife hit the record button again every 20 minutes.  Nor does there seem to be any way to work around that.

I wish that someone had told me that when I bought it.

Wow.  This limit is apparently a tariff requirement! 

UPDATE: There are apparently two different reasons for the limits: 30 minutes is apparently an EU tariff requirement (Samsung cant make a U.S. version?) and 20 minutes because of overheating.  Either way, I am pretty upset with Idaho Camera.  I normally would have bought from Amazon, but I wanted the expertise of a salesman with whom I could discuss what I needed.  I told him that I was going to give a speech, and I wanted a way to record it in HD.  I am assuming that he did not know about the 20 minute video limit, or he would have sold me a video camera instead.  Unfortunately, I am past the 14 day exchange/refund time on this.

UPDATE 2: I went into Idaho Camera today, and the salesman I talked to immediately knew about the 20 minute video limit, and even though I was past the 14 day exchange/refund limit, he cheerfully applied my refund towards a considerably less expensive Samsung HD 720p video camera.  Yes, I might have bought this same camera a bit cheaper on Amazon, but I was already there, and I have it now.

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