bought for my son this summer with this camcorder is the minimum. Autonomy 4 hours max (lit by intermittent), quality of random pictures (5 megapixels? mpxls rather a small 2). under light fog without even underwater photography (we were on a boat to film whales in Quebec have to put it in full sun sensor to from fogging). 29 for the price I'm not too unhappy with the camcorder at 99 with other vendors I would have asked for a refund.