Comments for Photo This & That http://photothisandthat.co.uk Photography, cameras, software, computers & other stuff Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:54:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Rode VideoMic Pro Review by terakopian http://photothisandthat.co.uk/2012/01/18/rode-videomic-pro-review/#comment-1617 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:54:55 +0000 http://photothisandthat.co.uk/?p=1627#comment-1617 Stuart, it’s not subjective or a point of view, but a fact. This is why shotgun mics exist and the entire industry uses them. You may find your camera in a direct comparison, so try Google. I’m positive you can find a comparison on a camcorder and the VideoMic or VideoMic Pro.
In your example clip, if the sound wasn’t coming out of a PA system, you wouldn’t have heard much at all. You would have the shuffling of the crowd in front, some hiss of the hall and a feint sound of the performance. The trick with audio (generally) is to get your mic as close as possible to the source. A shotgun mic allows you to do this up to a point and then you need to boom it or use wireless mics. Do Google this stuff as you’ll find comparisons I’m sure.

]]> Comment on Rode VideoMic Pro Review by Stuart Morris http://photothisandthat.co.uk/2012/01/18/rode-videomic-pro-review/#comment-1616 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:51:27 +0000 http://photothisandthat.co.uk/?p=1627#comment-1616 I must add that it was an authorized recording!

]]> Comment on Rode VideoMic Pro Review by Stuart Morris http://photothisandthat.co.uk/2012/01/18/rode-videomic-pro-review/#comment-1615 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:49:05 +0000 http://photothisandthat.co.uk/?p=1627#comment-1615 Out of interest this was recorded on my Panasonic NV-HS700. Breaking all the rules; from the back of theatre using only the on-board mics!
I’d have liked more bass and intensity, what do you think? See:-
http://tinyurl.com/786pl6j

]]> Comment on Rode VideoMic Pro Review by Stuart Morris http://photothisandthat.co.uk/2012/01/18/rode-videomic-pro-review/#comment-1614 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:39:36 +0000 http://photothisandthat.co.uk/?p=1627#comment-1614 Many thanks for your quick reply. Exactly as I thought, but I would like to see a technical, rather than a subjective, comparison.

]]> Comment on Rode VideoMic Pro Review by terakopian http://photothisandthat.co.uk/2012/01/18/rode-videomic-pro-review/#comment-1612 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:51:52 +0000 http://photothisandthat.co.uk/?p=1627#comment-1612 Whilst built in mics may be ok in recording ambient sound, they are terrible at picking up audio from your subjects; that’s why shotgun mics are used (the VideoMic Pro being a shotgun type). This narrows the field from which audio is taken, so you will get much clearer sound from subjects. On top of this, it’s a high quality mic, so will sound much better than the built in mics on any camcorder. To take audio recording one step further, you should also get the Rode extension cable for the mic (which is shielded) and a mini boom pole; this will allow you to get the mic even closer to your subject for the best audio.

]]> Comment on Rode VideoMic Pro Review by Stuart Morris http://photothisandthat.co.uk/2012/01/18/rode-videomic-pro-review/#comment-1611 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:00:54 +0000 http://photothisandthat.co.uk/?p=1627#comment-1611 I may be naive but how does this compare with the superb on-board 5.1 mics on the new Panasonic HC-X900?

]]> Comment on Multimedia, As It Should Be by terakopian http://photothisandthat.co.uk/2012/02/21/multimedia-as-it-should-be/#comment-1606 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:32:23 +0000 http://photothisandthat.co.uk/?p=1726#comment-1606 Deanne is indeed an extremely talented photographer; thanks for posting that and for the links to the Bombay Flying Club, of whom i had not heard. I shall explore their material later on. Cheers.

]]> Comment on Multimedia, As It Should Be by Ed http://photothisandthat.co.uk/2012/02/21/multimedia-as-it-should-be/#comment-1605 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:03:49 +0000 http://photothisandthat.co.uk/?p=1726#comment-1605 These are fantastic. I love what MediaStorm are doing, and they first came to my attention why I saw this piece by Deanne Fitzmaurice: http://mediastorm.com/training/family-kocktail

I am sure you know about Duckrabbit as they are UK based and also seem to be doing great things in multimedia, but have you heard of Bombay Flying Club http://bombayfc.com/? I had the good fortune to meet Henrik Kastenskov on a Foundry photojournalism workshop last year. One of his students there produced a great piece: http://eliegardner.com/2011/08/24/is-there-anybody-out-there/

Just thought I’d share.

]]> Comment on Rode VideoMic Pro Review by terakopian http://photothisandthat.co.uk/2012/01/18/rode-videomic-pro-review/#comment-1586 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:03:57 +0000 http://photothisandthat.co.uk/?p=1627#comment-1586 Pleasure. You don’t mention what camera you’re using. Some consumer video cameras have headphone jacks and I believe the Nikon D800 does as well. Naturally the pro video cameras like the Canon C300 do too. This is the only way to check what’s being recorded to the camera. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time until more DSLRs have headphone jacks as video is getting more and more popular. With the Rode VideoMic and VideoMic Pro, the on light is at the back, so you always see it. No light means you either haven’t switched it on or it’s out of juice. Plus, they sound great. I’d suggest you get one of them to help out :-)

]]> Comment on Rode VideoMic Pro Review by Robert Riggs http://photothisandthat.co.uk/2012/01/18/rode-videomic-pro-review/#comment-1585 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:27:51 +0000 http://photothisandthat.co.uk/?p=1627#comment-1585 Thanks. Are there any solutions to directly monitoring the audio that’s being recorded directly to the memory card? I do like the idea of knowing the on camera mic is recording. We just went through a situation where the on camera mic battery died during an interview and the red indicator light did not come on. Thus, we lost our matching audio track to synch to the independently recorded track. Fortunately, we had used a clapboard.

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