{"id":681,"date":"2009-02-17T11:17:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T16:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.org\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2009-02-17T16:16:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T21:16:47","slug":"improving-audio-on-the-canon-eos-5d-mk-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/improving-audio-on-the-canon-eos-5d-mk-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving Audio on the Canon EOS 5D Mk II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/find\/newsLetter\/Sweet-Sounds-of-HD.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-682\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"picture-2\" src=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-2.png\" alt=\"picture-2\" width=\"350\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-2.png 350w, https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-2-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Kevin Reylek over at B&amp;H has done a fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/find\/newsLetter\/Sweet-Sounds-of-HD.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> of options to record better audio with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the onboard mic performs as advertised, I found it to be serviceable at best. Consisting of just 3 tiny pinholes on the front of the camera body, the mic doesn&#8217;t have the greatest pickup distance or quality. It is capable of picking up general ambience and voices, but it also picks up a fair amount of handling noise, which can mar an otherwise suitable recording. So, if you&#8217;re recording video clips with the goal of having them heard as well, then an add-on mic is a must.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They did multiple testings with several mics, and you can listen to the results at the bottom of the article.\u00a0 While some of the options might seem a little impractical and unwieldy, if you&#8217;re serious about using a 5D Mk II for video\/audio, you should seriously consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/find\/newsLetter\/Sweet-Sounds-of-HD.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">these options<\/a>.\u00a0 Even if you don&#8217;t have the camera and just record audio separately, the article is worth a read, as it provides a lot of information about different types of microphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Reylek over at B&amp;H has done a fantastic review of options to record better audio with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II. Kevin writes: &#8220;While the onboard mic performs as advertised, I found it to be serviceable at best. Consisting of just 3 tiny pinholes on the front of the camera body, the mic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[526,525,1920,471,42,221,524,529,528,27,527,28,40],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-tools","tag-5d-mark-ii","tag-5d-mk-ii","tag-audio","tag-bh","tag-bh-photo","tag-cameras","tag-canon","tag-digital-slr","tag-kevin-reylek","tag-mediastorm","tag-microphones","tag-multimedia","tag-photojournalism","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}