Recent content by rungunshoot

I've thought about using a safety channel, but I'd need a stereo lav, and the ones I've seen seemed kind of bulky (like the Giant Squid models). Anyone know a good stereo lav for this kind of application?

I neglected to note that I'm shooting mostly docu-verite or "reality TV" style footage. My job is to go out to location solo and capture on-the-fly verite footage of highly unpredictable subjects. So issues like talent wandering too far from the camera become very real. So in my work, there...

I just carefully tape down the microphone and keep a visual check on it - I can usually see if it's rubbing on something, in which case I stop the action and correct the mic placement. I've gotten used to paying extra attention to mic placement, and so far I haven't had many issues with...

I don't know how popular a technique this has become, but I've been using portable recorders + lavs instead of RF wireless mics for over a year now. I use a Sony ICD-SX712u portable recorder and a lav mic that came with my Sennheiser G3 kit. I just plug the lav mic into the recorder, mic the...

So I do a lot of docu-verite or "reality TV" style shooting as a one-man crew. I've found it extremely hard to cover conversations between people with a single camera. So I started training myself to shoot holding two cams at once. While I've used everything from DSLR's to camcorders shooting...