Camera noise

[ShirleyK]

Recently, Chris asked about camera noise on the Canon ZR60. I have a 
ZR40 which probably isn't a whole lot different. This morning I set it 
up on a tripod on the screened-in porch to record bird sounds.

It seemed to me that the bird songs were loud enough to record but when 
I imported them into iMovie3, I could barely hear the track. I bumped 
it up to 150% and still couldn't hear as much as I expected. (The G4's 
fan noise wasn't helping a lot either.) Finally I put on some earphones 
and then I could hear quite well - most of it camera noise.

So if you want to pick up anything light like this on the ZR series 
using the built-in mic, forget about it. By the way, did you ever 
notice how we tune out certain sounds like airplanes overhead until we 
are trying to record. I live inside the boundaries of a national forest 
and you'd think it would be quiet early Sunday morning before the 
neighbors are up, but not necessarily.

Shirley

P.S. The motor noise could just about pass for the sounds of the tree 
frogs and crickets, but then there wouldn't be birds singing at the 
same time :-)