I have had bad luck with external mics and audio in general for my Xacti. I tested several mics (mono,stereo, powered, non) and none sounded very good at all to me. BUt I'm totally novice about audio.
-halcyon p[.s http://xacti.proboards3.com/index.cgi?board=xactichat On 4/21/07, Mark Schoneveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, Rob! > > No,I the HD2 doesn't have manual gain control, unfortunately. It also > doesn't have a headphone jI haack I quickly discovered, so it's hard to > monitor what anything is sounding like in the field (wind noise, etc). > > I'm plugging in various mics that I had laying around and comparing > them to one another vs. the on-board stereo mic. The on-board mic is > very sensitive, but as you might imagine, too broad. I like the > external's sound better, but I wish you could monitor in real time. > > Anyone else have any feedback for this particular camera? > > Also, maybe we should start a "Gear List" on the wiki to compare and > contrast what hardware everyone is using, no? > > > If the Sanyo Xacti HD2 has manual gain, that is quite a find these > > days. I'm not sure what type of recordings you have in mind, but the > > Rode VideoMic seem to be a good investment mic for a boom mic. The > > shock it comes with can be mounted on a pole too. A pair of small > > lavaliere electret mics is very flexible for recording locations in > > stereo and interviewing. You can make these for less than $20 or buy > > them for around $70. > > > > >Audio gear gets so neglected in the tech gear blogs! Help! > > > > The naturerecordist list is a good resource to search about field > > audio recording: > > http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/naturerecordists/ > > Rob D. > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
