Steve House
Veteran
I can't make any direct comparisons. I would think mounting the recorder on the camera would make both terribly unwieldly just from the sheer mass you're trying to swing around. I would expect the sound quality to be a little better than the in-camera mic, not due to using the recorder but instead from the recorder's mic capsules perhaps being a little better than the camera's, but in any case nothing to write home about. Unless you re-think your whole approach you're not going to get Warren Miller quality anyway so if you are committed to on-camera solutions, I'd get a Rode NTG-3 (better performance in cold and damp than non-RF shotguns), a Rycote Universal Camera Kit hot-shoe mounted suspension system to hold it, including the Windscreen and Windjammer in the kit, and send the audio directly to the camera's XLR mic input. Your shooting situation makes any differences between the camera preamps and the recorder's moot.