We’ve been meaning to make it up to the zoo since last year, even before we moved to Sendai. It’s pretty good considering its small size, with a variety of birds, reptiles, and animals from all around the world. The primates were particularly interesting; we got to feed some of them, and witnessed a couple fights. Across the street from the zoo is Sendai’s amusement park, Bennyland. Looks more geared for young children, but I’m sure we’ll make the trip there sometime this summer anyways.

Got to play around a little with my trusty little Casio EX-V8 at the zoo too. Along with taking great quality stereo video, you can get a true 14x optical zoom when shooting at 2M. Most of the photos below were taken at the telephoto end of the lens. As you can see the zoom and image stabilization work pretty good for such a small and inexpensive camera. It’s really a shame for consumers that Casio discontinued this line after only 2 models. I got mine though so I guess that’s all that matters!

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