Originally Posted By boyumz I could swear I read somewhere that if you find your camcorder battey needs to be charged while at DL, you can take it to the camera shop and they'll let you charge it and then you can come pick it up later. We are staying in Buena Park this trip and won't be able to take the camera back to the room. And who wants to carry it around all day when you can't even use it? I guess I could rent a locker, but I was hoping that my memory is correct and DL offers this service. Anybody know??
Originally Posted By trekkeruss I've heard they do it, but I think it would be far easier to just carry a spare battery. You can buy them on eBay for very little money, and any aftermarket battery will likely have a much longer run-time than the one supplied with your camcorder.
Originally Posted By imadisneygal Yes, they still allow Guests to charge camera batteries at the camera shop. Have a great trip!
Originally Posted By RAM1984 That is a great service but I agree with trekeruss: I always carry a spare.
Originally Posted By boyumz Well, this is the deal. It's my 15 year old that likes to take the video and the camera itself belongs to his brother. So I don't want to have to spend the money to buy another battery, since it's kind of unlikely he would need 2 batteries after the trip. I don't really have time to buy a cheapo off Ebay since we leave on Sunday. If it doesn't take long to charge the batteries, we'll just use DL's service. The camera is always an issue for us every trip. I always bring it but then nobody wants to carry it around and it ends up sitting in its case in the hotel room the whole time! Anybody else ever do that?
Originally Posted By debtee We use ours all the time and have even film while on the rides. If it's a dark ride we use the view finder not the lcd screen as we don't want to annoy anyone else. The best footage we have is on Big Thunder that came out great especially with us laughing & screaming all the way around as well. we are going to try screamin next trip and see how that comes out! Ours is a sony digital camera and not very big, so easy to carry around, we ditch the bag and just have it over our shoulder. I'm assuming yours must be a bit more bulky if no-one wants to carry it. So that's a hard one?? I also carry heaps of spare batteries but I didn't know about the camera shop so please if you do use this service would you mind popping back and let us know how it went?
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<I always bring it but then nobody wants to carry it around and it ends up sitting in its case in the hotel room the whole time! Anybody else ever do that?>> I think video is fun the first time you go to Disney, or even a couple of times, because you're excited to capture shows and stuff to watch on your TV. But once you've done that, there's little need to keep carrying it around, so you stop using it. The other thing is, when you are shooting video, you automatically "step out" of reality... you spend too much time looking at Disney through a viewfinder instead of enjoying the moment. Still cameras don't have that problem; it's click bang and it's done.
Originally Posted By boyumz That exactly how I feel. My husband is very good with a video camera. He has taped many roller coaster rides and they are just as good as any pro video I've seen. But, he's so good at it, it becomes his "job". And that's not much fun for him. So now, we just let the 15 year old do it.
Originally Posted By SweetieangelM14 I always end up being the one who videos everything. My dad finally bought me my own camera for my birthday. I usually carry my camera around with me. I have a spare battery, just in case, but I never have to use it. A lot of times I also rarely use my camera. After going to Disneyland for so many times it isn't really needed. I usually only take it with me if we are doing somethings that day that I want on video.
Originally Posted By nemopoppins I've always hated videoing but I love to watch videos of our family. Luckily, my husband did a lot before he got tired of it and now we have a lot of kids to take over. My sons are especially good at it--their commentary and choice of what to cover is excellent, much better than what I could have done.
Originally Posted By Stupid_american If you bring your own charger, just to the left, as you exit the gift shop at Buzz Lightyear, there is a power outlet. You can munch a churro while waiting. I have spotted others, but their location eludes me right now.
