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Does a hot-shoe shotgun mic really reduce / remove AF noise on video?

Started Dec 2, 2015 | Questions thread
Cakeshoppe
Cakeshoppe Regular Member • Posts: 239
Re: Does a hot-shoe shotgun mic really reduce / remove AF noise on video?

For what it's worth, even if you want the microphone on the camera, the hot-shoe is often not a great place for it. Hot shoe-mounted mics are often very close to the lens and can still pick up sound from the lens. If you can mount the microphone in front of the lens and further from it (off to the side, perhaps), its polar pattern will play in your favor a little better.

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