I use the Shure SM57 & SM58 all the time with my camera. It's the "interview mic" I use for interviews on the Dragon*Con DVDs.
Right now it's cabled to the camera. I have a passive dual-XLR to 1/8" adapter that I use to tie it to my Sony TRV950's 1/8" mic jack. This takes care of the impedance matching problem, so I don't need any extra pre-amps. It also handles conversion of line-level inputs, independent gain & an additional 1/8 source (best $150 I spent to upgrade my camera). The Shure mics I have are from my college band ... I'm 35 now :) These are solid mics that work well & take punishment. My current interview setup actually has a shotgun mic & handheld mic at the same time ... Rhode VideoMic on the left channel, SM58 on the right channel (another bonus of the adapter, two mics at once). Most of the time I only use the audio from the handheld, but having the shotgun mic has saved my rear on on occasion when the handheld mic cable failed (otherwise I would have lost the interview audio). br On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 8:05 am, Jan McLaughlin wrote: > Hrm. Typically, you go either hand-held or attached to the camera. Not > both. > > For hand-held, man-on-the-street interview work, the most durable, > cheap mic > I know is the Shure SM-58 but you may need some kind of preamp between > the > mic and the camera to boost the signal a bit. -- Brian Richardson - http://siliconchef.com - http://dragoncontv.com - http://whatthecast.com - http://www.3chip.com
