Such thing as a camera mounted boom pole
- Thread starter jrod81
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boom attached to the shoe mount on your DSLR that could hold a shotgun mic - NO. The leverage would be way, way, way too much. You can attach the boom mic to a cradle and that to the shoe mount, but you can't leverage it off a boom of any length as that would be too much. As suggested, put the boom on a stand, or clip the mic to something using something like the Dinkum System.
Spartacus
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This:
https://thextender.com
If your using a 15mm rods rig for your DSLR, you could also use a longer carbon rod clamped to the base rods and attach one of the smaller DSLR mice (MKE400) to it.
https://thextender.com
If your using a 15mm rods rig for your DSLR, you could also use a longer carbon rod clamped to the base rods and attach one of the smaller DSLR mice (MKE400) to it.
Maybe this might give you some ideas....one man band
How about you just do it properly with the appropriate crewing levels in the first place?
How about you just do it properly with the appropriate crewing levels in the first place?
Richard Crowley
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Even if you could find a boom that weighed NOTHING, just the lever-arm torque from even the lightest microphone would rip the shoe right out of your camera. Not to mention that it would be nearly impossible to hold the camera at the proper tilt with all that weight forcing the camera to tilt down. Just sounds wildly impractical to me.
Currently using a c stand with a boom and it works fine... just trying to walk in and set up with as little time/equipment as possible. i meet with State Troopers (who typically give me about 5 minutes of their time). I don't get a studio, i don't get a back drop... I simply walk into the jail or into the Sheriff's office etc and have about 30 seconds to start shooting... Currently using the Videomic Go (not pro) and it is getting the job done pretty well... just looking to get the mic closer to the subject's mouth without having to ask them to clip a lav to their shirt or run it up their shirt...
No one is asking me to put this much time into the videos... I could take our family's home video camera with me to work but i just like to have a bit of that creative expression that seems to slowly be leaving and being replaced with speed and turn around...
No one in the office is asking me to do anything more than "iphone" videos but then they use these videos in court and I feel audio is too important... however, they aren't going to hire or pay someone to go with me to run separate sound...
I can just stick to my videomic go and camera- wasn't meaning to ruffle anyone's feathers by not doing it the "industry" standard way
No one is asking me to put this much time into the videos... I could take our family's home video camera with me to work but i just like to have a bit of that creative expression that seems to slowly be leaving and being replaced with speed and turn around...
No one in the office is asking me to do anything more than "iphone" videos but then they use these videos in court and I feel audio is too important... however, they aren't going to hire or pay someone to go with me to run separate sound...
I can just stick to my videomic go and camera- wasn't meaning to ruffle anyone's feathers by not doing it the "industry" standard way
Nobody's feathers are being ruffled, and it's not about "industry standards", but rather what is possible taking into account the laws of physics and technology available today. Leveraging a mic off an arm that's attached to the DSLR's shoe is likely to result in torquing off the shoe - simple laws of physics. I suggested using the Dinkum Systems clip, because it can be attached to many surfaces, and it can be done in seconds. All we can do is provide you suggestions as to which tools might work, but only you know your situation in detail, so you are in the best position to judge which suggestion, if any, has the best chance of working for you.
Richard Crowley
Veteran
Depending on your budget and working conditions a proper shotgun (not a little plastic "video shotgun") mounted on the camera could prove useful.
And/or if you want to hang bigger stuff, some larger assembly like a "Figg Rig" or equivalent....
And/or if you want to hang bigger stuff, some larger assembly like a "Figg Rig" or equivalent....
We had actually made something exactly like you are asking for. We basically cut our Articulated boom pole in half and mounted it onto our Norbert DSLR frame. It was quite impractical and nobody bought it, so we discontinued it. It's just a very cumbersome setup to lug around. This is where a proper sound person comes in handy. You can be ready to shoot even with just a boom op in about 15 seconds if you prep all the gear beforehand. Doing everything yourself is just too much. Heck, back when I was in high school and we had our own TV station we'd always send at least two people out on a crew, especially the one time we went to the police station.