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Canon 5D mark II audio
- Thread starter chlsy8
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DSLRs are still cameras co-opted into video usage. Do you think that Canon put much money into the audio implementation?
There is a lot of self-noise (predominantly hiss) in all DSLR cameras. It has become fairly standard thinking to treat DSLRs as film cameras; you have limited shot length (film magazines are about 10 minutes, a DSLR is about 12 - 15 minutes) and you will need to record the audio separately.
There is a lot of self-noise (predominantly hiss) in all DSLR cameras. It has become fairly standard thinking to treat DSLRs as film cameras; you have limited shot length (film magazines are about 10 minutes, a DSLR is about 12 - 15 minutes) and you will need to record the audio separately.
Yup, poor quality, poor compression, poor preamps, no settings or adjustments (all auto) so you can't get a great sound our of it. That's with a quality mic plugged in, the on camera mic is beyond bad. Good enough to help sync waveforms between on camera audio and audio from a separate recorder, but that's about it.
Yes, separate audio recorder pretty much required. Several inexpensive options that Alcove knows better than me.