From the course: Panasonic Lumix GH5: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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External microphones

External microphones

- Choosing a good microphone for your video production is a pretty big task. There's a lot of different things to consider, and certainly way more than we can cover in this short video. But what I would like to do is go through some of the basic options that you do have and show you how to connect them and then configure them on your GH5. Let's start with one of the smallest choices, a simple lavalier microphone. Now a lavalier microphone is extremely handy. This is something that you can clip onto someone in an interview and get really good quality audio for relatively little money. The microphone is close to their body, actually on their body. If it's positioned right, you can get really good sound of them off of them and also get a nice resonance off of them, get a nice bass out of their voice. It's really a very good type of mic to use. But when you're shopping for a lavalier, you can spend anywhere from 10 or 15 dollars for a piece of junk to several hundred dollars, even over a…

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