by Leonard Aaron CaplanMicrophones! Without them what would we have? Silent movies! Ok, so most camcorders have mics. We know that. But microphones are as different from each other as Coakley from Brown (a soon-to-be dated reference but it’s funny now) ! The first thing I tell people about mics is that the built in camcorder mic is tinny, noisy, low quality, horrible, GARBAGE! Ok, you get the idea, I don’t like them.Why? The built in camera mic is usually omnidirectional, meaning it picks up everything around it, the sound wave being received in a 360 degree circle. The result is if someone’s speaking and a couple of other people are in the area you’re shooting in and they’re murmuring, the murmuring is likely to be recorded just as loudly as the voice you’re trying to get! The ideal when...
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