Wind tests of various camcorder microphones, including: - Canon HF200 built-in microphone - Rode shotgun Videomic - Rode Stereo Videomic All recordings were performed on the same street corner at the same time, and only the original windscreens included with each microphone were used. There is no absolute favourite microphone here. Surprisingly, the Canon HF200's built-in microphone handled the moderate winds nearly as well as the Rode Stereo Videomic, which can be very useful if you need to record something discretely without intimidating everyone around you with that huge fuzzy beast on top of your camcorder. But if you need a high fidelity recording, stick with the Rode Stereo Videomic. Unfortunately, the Rode Videomic is more of an interviewer's microphone best suited for indoor use. Its high sensitivity to low frequencies creates a huge rumble in the recordings even under very slight winds. The microphone's custom made fuzzy windscreen is only available as an optional accessory, and wasn't available for this test. The next series of tests will be performed during an unusually windy day, hopefully with steady 50 km/h winds, the kind of wind that starts making everyone walk funny.
Tags: Camcorder, Microphone, Rode, Stereo, Shotgun, SVM, Videomic, Wind, Test, Gust
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