Video/Audio Hardware Response

I am usually a quick learner with technology, but I had some trouble getting the hang of the sound recorder. I took me quite a while to fully understand how to work all of its functions. It was hard to find an area where you couldn't hear a great amount of wind projecting into the microphones, even with the wind-blockers attached. My felt squares constantly fell off while I was walking. It was hard to keep them taped on. I also found out that the re-chargeable batteries died very quickly, especially in the digital camera. I'd record only about a minute of footage and I'd already have myself a dead camera. This kind of ruined my sound walk a couple different times. Otherwise I found everything pretty easy to work with. The camera and stuff was self-explanatory. I kind of wished that we could have gotten cameras with at least a little bit more quality to them. The sounds were very clear while the videos looked borderline webcam.