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The best bargain for low budget prosumer wireless in the sub $1K category would be the Sony UWP-D21

It is hopelessly bulky, and with poor range. The Deity Connect Wireless performs better. But really, the best bargain for low budget prosumer wireless in the sub $1K category would be the Sony UWP-D21

Have loved the Panasonic G6, such a big upgrade from the original Panasonic GH1 which I started this filmmaking journey with (although technically it was my girlfriend's Nikon D90 or my sister's Canon T2i that I borrowed for the first handful of shoots), but in recent years I've been considering...

Why should anybody ever chose 16 bit?? It just make utterly no sense to even suggest that as an option! Any semi quarter ish decent recorder will have 24 bits as an option, SD cards are so dirt cheap the space savings make no sense either. So why mention 16 bits as a choice to choose? Sorry...

Plenty of kids fresh out of school will buy say a GH5 package, and many people might see that as very much a "minimum". Is it so wrong of me to advocating for sound something which costs but a small fraction of an indie/student/newbie camera (let alone lighting / grip) package??? Of course...

I think a lot of those don't make sense in the context of 2019. Because options have expanded and technology has advanced. I'd say go with: Zoom F4 + Aliexpress Carbon Boom Pole + Rode Blimp + Deity S Mic 2 (for outdoors, get an AT4053b with INV-7 for indoors). That is the bare bare bare...

For goodness sake don't ever record in 16bit! And even though I started out on the Tascam DR60Dmk1 myself, that was a different era. With the Zoom F4 going for so dirt cheap on sale, and with timecode boxes so silly cheap and small as well, then I highly recommend going that both instead with a...

I hope in the future as the VFX tools we have at hand get better and as crew awareness increases then we'll be able to happily have booms in shot much more often for the sake of improved sound. This is already common place on many shoots such as "House of Cards", and advancing VFX technology...

Sub $100? SUB $50??????? Just hell no. I wouldn't ever buy any shotgun which is sub $100. (a bit different though if it is a SDC, but they're not shotguns) When you're talking about "best" then you're talking thousands of dollars (and mixers will also own not one mic, but *MANY*.... for...

a) the "Zoom F4N" doesn't exist. Just say "F4" b) the Zoom F series has very very good limiters, I'd never ever call them "cheap and nasty". (and I say this as someone who owns a F4 and F8n, and has done five feature films with them, and dozens and dozens of short films / web series / tv shows...

I find putting on my business hat and thinking about the ROI (Return on Investment) of gear helps keep my GAS (Gear Addiction Syndrome) in check.

There are many forms of "success" in Hollywood, and it doesn't even have to be Hollywood for you to be "successful"! It could be some other city. And you don't have to be a director to be "successful". I have no desire at all to direct, I'm a sound recording! My definition of "success" it to...

If you're looking for an ultra cheap 4K camera for filming with (and don't care so much about stills) then I'd strongly recommend looking instead into the Z Cam E1 (which has also been improved a *lot* with firmware updates! Since it was first released). The Panasonic G7 can also be found dirt...

With time and practice you get betting at laving, or just hire a professional! As sometimes the lav will sound better in some environments/shots. But a well placed boom will ideally sound better. So use a C stand to get it as close as possible, and minimize headroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QBKTla8o2U Started a new thread for this, as it is an area (timecode!) in which the sound department overlaps with the camera department thus it might interest the camera geeks here as well. Because I got to try out the NanoLockit for the first time, was...