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Posted by blackburst@aol.com on 10/26/61 11:49
Richard Crowley wrote:
> blackburst wrote ...
> > Rick Merrill wrote:
> >> I confess I'm enamored of the "zoom mic" that reads the camera zoom
> >> setting to adjust it's own setting. The perfect application IMHO is
> >> audience interaction of a medium sized room where all the
> >> participants
> >> think, "ve don't need no stinking mic".
> >
> > That's about the only application where I might use one!
>
> Sounds like neither of you have actually tried it. You can
> either do the experiment yourself, or take the advice of
> people who have been there, done that, and moved on.
>
> You've never heard anything in a theatre that was miced
> from the camera. And I'd bet that you've never heard an
> on-camera mic on TV, either.
I misread Rick 'cuz I was in a hurry. No, I wouldn't use an on-camera
"zoom mic".
When I've done C-SPAN-type audience stuff, I run around with a wireless
shotgun from person to person in the audience.
When I shoot news, I usually have a Sennheiser shotgun mounted on the
camera as a backup, and it has saved the day 2 or 3 times.
I did audio on the old Real Stories of the Highway Patrol. The "focus
cop" had a wireless lav, and I had a wireless shotgun on a short boom
(sadly, the center tube from an old RadShack mic stand), and my gig was
to get audio from any and all other sources, just out of camera range.
No easy feat!
I used a wireless shotgun on boxing. Within the rounds, it was for
punch nats. Between rounds it was for corner chatter.
I used an aimed shotgun in baseball for the bat/glove sound. I had to
goose the fader with each pitch. Dir/Prod LOVED it!
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