Had the wife tell me she wanted me to take pictures of the kids with Captain Jack during the pirate princess party... She was confident that she could capture everthing else with a hd camcorder. She didn't realize that the button to turn it on and off was very sensitive... needless to say she capture about 3 seconds before she apparently touched the button again and got nothing... times like that I think they need a huge red X to appear on the viewfinder when the camcorder isn't recording.