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The Sony ECM-MS908C works great, captures good sound. I tried an Audio-Technica shotgun mic for camcorders, but it produced a low hum on every recording. Finally, noise free recordings. Works great with my Sony DCR-TRV17. The built-in mic captures the noise of the motor from the tape transport, so every video has this whine.
The hot foot DOES NOT supply power to the Mic though, it is just used to mount the mic.;). However even with using the camcorders hot foot it works very well as well. Excellent low end mic for this camcorder. I tried several mics and finally came across this one which works perfectly on my Cannon HV20 Consumer camcorder. It comes with an extension arm to reduce the the occasional tape or motor noise heard while recording with the built in mics.
But they are battery conservative, my battery has lasted over 2 years. I also use this through a mixer with an iMic for voiceovers. CONS: Hardly any, its easy to forget and leave it on too long, the led only flashes at powerup time, and notwhile on. The nice thing about having a camcorder mic and VO mic, is its easier to match the sound for voice over videos.
I used this mic on my Panasonic GS-200 video camera, its good. From what I heard, on the net and microphone reviews, it sounds very close to the $150 microphones for a lot less. Would be nice to flash once every few seconds as a reminder. No camera mounted mic is very good, they all pickup motor vibrations.
There are only a few stereo condensor mics in this price range. If you don't want the stereo pickup, you can always use one channel and Y-cable or flip a mixer switch, on a camcorder, you are stuck with stereo and have to mix down to mono in post. This is NOT a shotgun mic, buts it is stereo, so ambient room sounds, just sound true and live. It's very good.
It was a snap to install and fits nicely on top. The sound quality is great and it reduces the noise from the camera motor to almost 0. The provided shoe mount worked great.Great product. This microphone was an excellent purchase. I am using this on my Canon HV20 HDV camera.
There was no difference on the recording level no matter which direction the sound came from or what setting it was on. Put this microphone on a Canon HV20. Maybe on a lesser camera that has a really bad microphone, the MS908C will be an improvement, but on the HV20 it is a bad idea. Even with the accessory bar that places the microphone a few inches away from the camera the level of noise recorded from handling the camera was as bad as the built in microphone. The built in microphone has much better sound quality. Tested directionality set to 90 and 120 degrees by turning around with the camera in a 360 degree circle.
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