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Options for recording audio on your DSLR

Options for recording audio on your DSLR

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Options for recording audio on your DSLR

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- In this installment of Photo Gear Weekly, we are at the studio technology department at B&H Photo in New York City. I'm here with Prentiss. Now in a previous installment of Photo Gear Weekly, we talked about the basics of shooting video on a digital SLR. But if you've gotten started with video on your SLR, you might have noticed that the built-in microphone doesn't give you the best audio quality, so Prentiss is going to help us out with some tips on getting started with a little bit better audio. So we've got a variety of devices here, microphones and whatnot, first off, can you give us a sense of what sort of options are available, general options in terms of types of microphones that we might want to consider? - Well, you have handheld, you have shotgun, lavalier, those are, you normally get three options, most time I tell people all the time when they come here is that a camera is a camera first, audio device 50th, maybe. (laughing) Somewhere around there. - But in terms of…

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