Don- in my case, I don't think so. I thought about that myself so, I shook the camcorder while recording and it ran fine. Gave me a dizzy headache watching it thought ! lol
Sal- the size of card makes a difference. Like with my camera, the card was small and would only take about 15 photo's. I bought a new card, (the only one they had for my year of camera) and now it can handle 1,000 photo's !
Think that will be enough for our cruise to Alaska ?