wind screen for onboard mic

[Noah Kadner]

Won’t help much. I’d highly recommend getting a good shotgun mic- it will greatly improve sound over the built-in mic.

Noah

[Todd Roush]

Damn Straight. Forget those onboard mic’s but for home movies. Hard core OMNI.

I almost lost a job assuming the onboard mics would be better than a handycam because it’s a “pro-sumer” cam. Actually, Handy-cam mics are quite amazing at times. When my shotgun audio is bad, I usually save my posterior by cutting to Sony TRV-120 audio which rivals My Me-66 but with less warmth.

I think Panasonic assumes you will buy a good mic for this camera. Sennheiser Me-66 with a k-6 cartrige is the industry standard “pro-sumer” mic. It’s the only lower mid mic that I have heard of actually being used in Televison, indie-film or ENG> (not to say there aren’t others) Probably find it for $350.00.

S.