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    Apurture amaraon 528 LED lights

    I've used smaller LED units and not had flicker problems but then again they were so small I was running fairly slow shutter speeds. The main issue with lights like these is the poor quality of light. Unfortunately this is most evident on skin tones, particular darker skins. What annoys me...
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    LED lighting experience...

    LED lights are generally cheap and convenient BUT, like cheap fluorescents, most lack a full balance of light frequencies or a full back spectrum (an issue which also crops up with aquarium and horticultural lighting). End result, oddly coloured and grey looking skin tones. You cannot correct...
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    H4n Zoom/Canon 60D Hookup

    What you are suggesting requires a mixer, the zoom is a recorder. Some mixers have outputs specifically designed to go into DSLRs and other consumer equipment on mini-jacks, keep an eye out when choosing one. Might be wrong but an attenuated tape out might be usable. To allow freedom you could...
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    Shooting at Night

    If you don't have the money you'll have to make up by putting in the effort to day for night. Either that or live with the noise. At most you can use a small handheld battery powered LED light with a blue gel just to pick out your subject and lift them from the gloom. I'd shoot with the...
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    Visual & Audio Setup for On-Location in a Pub

    You are in for quite a challenge audio wise. The go-pros have a wide field of view and covering all that area is gonna mean a lot of mics. Or is your doc solely about the staff and their interactions ?(I can't really see punters being happy about having mics listen in) then you can just mic...
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    T2i protective case

    never mind
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    Audio gear...

    Sound Deices 744T Sennheiser 416 + Rycote S-Series wind kit Sennheiser ME66 kit + Rycote universal camera kit (includes basic boom mount and slip on wind protection K-tek alloy boom Tascam DR-100 Hawke Woods regulated NP battery adaptor Audio Technica ATW 100 series wireless kit Beyer Dynamic...
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    Canon T3i - Audio Dilemma

    Not quite on topic but may open up some possibilities for the OP, but I don't totally the audio circuits on these DSLRs are totally useless. I have heard far worse, and of course, far better. Once you move away from the inbuilt mic things change very drastically. As naughty as it may be I have...
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    Audio question

    If the mic is phantom powered you'd probably need to be looking at extra battery packs or ways toextend battery life. Dies off quick when powering mics
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    Sound only appears in left channel

    you using balanced input? Due to the connector you can only get one balanced input into the cam with ML and it only appears on one channel. There is no adaptor or way around this if in balanced input. If you are using the input as a standard stereo input you could run an adaptor but at the...
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    iPhone to record sound

    there are iphone audio interfaces that take a balanced mic input. You will probably need a phantom power module too. Big drawback is that all such interfaces need power but probably from a wall wart so an electrician might be able to make a transformer you can run off NP1s or other batteries.
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    I NEED HELP WITH SOUND!!!

    The Zooms are hissy and you are compounding the problem with using a self powered mic. The headphone amp is pretty low grade and underpowered too. You could be hearing hiss from the headphone amp is it any better listening to the files through a GOOD audio system?? Though to be honest though if...
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    Unable to install Magic Lantern

    +1 what Craig Said, computers often see the camera in a different way to card readers, they behave somewhat differently depending on how you access them. If you are on a PC try right clicking and 'exlore' rather than just clicking on the icon if you do not have access to an SD reader
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    Sound on the Cheap

    You're not gonna get usable audio for less than $100 unless you find someone to lend you the gear, even rental will be pushing it but possible. You can live with one mic if you get the dialogue from each person, one by one in the close ups and cut what ever shot you want underneath it. Don't...
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    Interview Sound in a shop

    clip on mic. quick, easy to set up and not as distracting as a shotty hanging overhead. If you going straight to DSLR I hope you have a model or solution that turns off the auto gain.
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    Turret Model Problems

    fishing line/thread??
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    Audio Recorder/mic for casual dslr setup

    He don't have enough money and bought the wrong camera. The best he could possibly do is a radio shack PZM on the stage floor and an interference gathering cable all the way back to the cam, possibly through an auto recording gain defeat barrel. If the events are going through sound...
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    Video Mic for Tascam dr-100

    The portable hand recorders such as the Tascam 100 and the zooms are well known for getting a bit hissy at the higher gains needed for recording dialogue for film. This may be getting worse with your choice of microphone and how you have connected it, the Tascam is not really designed for that...
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    Easiest to use (budget) field audio recorder

    from what I know of the Zooms (The 2 track one) once you set up its just record (twice) and stop. No menu involved or saving. All small recorders have similarly convoluted menus due to the low button count though I think the tascams have bigger screens, look up their DR range. Personally I...
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    Charging Camera Batteries on Set

    Generator or kit van with rectifier or 12V in. Make sure whatever you use it as far from the action as you can get it and/or only run between shooting. Always remember the soundy has a large stick:D
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