Mike Rehmus
June 8th, 2002, 11:08 AM
The microphone mount included with the PD-150 is OK but is so close to the camera that you pick up camera noise and if you put a hair-ball wind screen on the supplied microphone, it shows in the picture.
Sony makes a microphone adapter for their larger cameras that will screw right into place on the PD-150
Just remove the existing mount and screw a Sony CAC-12 which you can purchase from B&H and others. It has an openable clamp at the top into which you can drop just about any microphone up to around 22mm in diameter. Maybe a bit more. For smaller microphones, you will have to find something thin that will fit between the microphone and the mount.
The existing microphone will fit in the CAC-12 if you use the rubber bushing that is already around the microphone.
Bad news? The CAC-12 costs $169.95 from B&H.
http://www02.bhphotovideo.com/default.sph/FrameWork.class
Wind zepplin
Light Wave makes an all-in-one nose zepplin (just fits over the holes in the tube, not over the entire microphone) for the standard microphone. It costs $150 and works very well.
However, the tip will show in the picture unless you do something like use the mount discussed above. Or just make your own riser block. A couple of long replacement screws for the original mount and a block of plastic or even wood will get the microphone up off the camera enough that this will work.
You can go even further as I did for another camera and make a block that mounts to the camera but has a standard female microphone thread on the topside. Then you can screw in a real shockmount for any microphone you chose to use.
CAUTION.
The two screws that fasten the mount to the camera are not all that strong. The plate they screw into appears to be steel so it is probably strong enough. But placing a longer mount on the camera increases the leverage that any stress on the mount might cause. I dont know what would fail first, the screws or the body casting of the camcorder. Just be careful and don't blame me if you knock the top of your camera off for some reason or another.
Sony makes a microphone adapter for their larger cameras that will screw right into place on the PD-150
Just remove the existing mount and screw a Sony CAC-12 which you can purchase from B&H and others. It has an openable clamp at the top into which you can drop just about any microphone up to around 22mm in diameter. Maybe a bit more. For smaller microphones, you will have to find something thin that will fit between the microphone and the mount.
The existing microphone will fit in the CAC-12 if you use the rubber bushing that is already around the microphone.
Bad news? The CAC-12 costs $169.95 from B&H.
http://www02.bhphotovideo.com/default.sph/FrameWork.class
Wind zepplin
Light Wave makes an all-in-one nose zepplin (just fits over the holes in the tube, not over the entire microphone) for the standard microphone. It costs $150 and works very well.
However, the tip will show in the picture unless you do something like use the mount discussed above. Or just make your own riser block. A couple of long replacement screws for the original mount and a block of plastic or even wood will get the microphone up off the camera enough that this will work.
You can go even further as I did for another camera and make a block that mounts to the camera but has a standard female microphone thread on the topside. Then you can screw in a real shockmount for any microphone you chose to use.
CAUTION.
The two screws that fasten the mount to the camera are not all that strong. The plate they screw into appears to be steel so it is probably strong enough. But placing a longer mount on the camera increases the leverage that any stress on the mount might cause. I dont know what would fail first, the screws or the body casting of the camcorder. Just be careful and don't blame me if you knock the top of your camera off for some reason or another.