From the course: Video Gear: Audio
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Attaching directly to a camera
From the course: Video Gear: Audio
Attaching directly to a camera
- Now, one of the reasons use the Zoom H for hand, is that there were severe limitations on some of the earlier limitations of DSLR style camera. Cameras have gotten pretty good sometimes. - Well, we have to sort of break this out into two different sides of the equation. First, there's the microphone part of the equation. And that hasn't really changed a whole lot in terms of sort of DSLR style hybrid cameras. - [Man In Orange Shirt] Right. - But what has changed a lot is the processing the file formats, and the things that we can do in software on these cameras are going to give us better audio quality. At the end of the day, in most situations, you're still stuck, if you're using the camera natively, a couple of pricks in the plastic, and that's your microphone. But there's some new options out there that are really exciting. - Well for example, I can take my Olympus camera here, and I can connect to the accessory port in a hot shoe adapter. - Yup. - A dedicated audio unit. This is…
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