[MacDV] Re: Sony camcorders

[Danny Grizzle]

On 11/26/02 12:51 PM, "Ken McNamara" <conmara at grandcanyonhiker.com> wrote:

>> My Panasonic's CCD was (according to the manufacturer) 570,000 pixels
>> and delivered what I thought was acceptable picture quality. I rather
>> liked the built-in mike, which could record conversations across a
>> fairly large room.
> 
> Take a long hard listen to the Sony audio quality.  I've had 3 Sony
> camcorders - none of them have had audio as good as you describe above.

"recording conversations across a fairly large room" is subjective opinion,
nothing more. By professional standards, there is *no* microphone that will
record conversations across a fairly large room.

There is no such thing as a "zoom" microphone, and spending a lot of money
on a big shotgun microphone is not a solution for poor mic placement. Bottom
line: when audio is important, nobody uses a camera-mounted microphone.

On camera mics are good for home movies... or maybe the reason home movies
are so bad. Mics on Sony DV cameras are as good as any others. The problem
is not mainly due to the quality of the mic, but poor positioning too far
away from the sound source.

Read this book:

  Producing Great Sound for Digital Video
  by Jay Rose

Danny Grizzle