vision_filmz
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I've heard of people plugging in mics directly into the camera just to do handheld mic interviews. Any ideas?
HandHeld mic to plug into Canon 60d?
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What do you want to know? I have soldered a lead butchered from a pair of headphones into some Panasonic WM61A electret capsules and found that the plug in power of the camera is adequate to yield a reasonable dynamic range.
In a larger sense, this is pretty common. Cameras with professional-level audio circuitry can handle the job perfectly well. With DSLR, however, you're up against the issues of cheap pre-amps and 1/8" connectivity... plus the lack of monitoring (without some sort of workaraound).
Theoretically, you could connect a wireless receiver straight into the 60D, for use with a wireless hand-held mic/transmitter. For something hardwired, you'd need to adapt the XLR to 1/8" using either a converter (JuicedLink or BeachTek) or a mixer (MixPre-D) that is designed to interface with a DSLR. But you still have the challenge f monitoring from the camera...