Cheap DSLR Audio – The Azden WLX-PRO

Opening the box for this thing was like swirling in a Hot Tub Time Machine. I was directly taken back to Radio Shack of the 1990’s. Plastic, large sliding buttons and a FM antenna.


So why bother with this $130 wireless system? Most people know they need a Sennheiser EW100 as at least a baseline wireless system. But now in 2011, many people are buying DSLR cameras for video and spending less than $300 for excellent video cameras that have terrrible audio. Most first inclinations are to add a completely useless shotgun to the top of the camera.
Even if this system isn’t the greatest, it’s still 100x more useful than tiny shotgun 7 feet away from your talent.

So how does it fare? For the price, it is certainly usable for web work. The line output is fairly low, but most of these DSLRs have AGC so it’s probably not going to matter. It captures a very compressed and bass-y version of the human voice, but for no budget run and gun style web videos I could see it being perfectly adequate. No, its not going to work over long distances. No, its not going to work with any other interference in the area, but it is going to work better than the built in mic on your dslr and it will work better than a silly shotgun sitting on top of the camera.

All Panasonic GH1 bodies soon to be hackable!

Vitality announced on his website today that he is able to downgrade unhackable gh1s to version 1.32. This will allow any GH1 to run the GH13 bitrate and battery patches!

Hurry up and buy a body for $399 before they disappear!

Link to vitality’s site

Buy the GH1 body from B&H for $399 before there gone!GH!k

Hacked Panasonic GH1 (100mb) vs GH2 Round 2

 

Full Size 1080p PNG files above.

So in this second test with the new lpowell patch for Vitality’s GH1 Hack, we test Color, Dynamic Range and Fine Detail without overloading the codec on the GH1 to the point of crashing, but at the same time have a full range of light to compare the two cameras. Both were at their lowest ISOs which provides the most amount of Dynamic Range. At the same time both cameras used the Smooth Profile.

Redrock Electronic EOS to m4/3 adapter shown at NAB – under $500

Youtube video link here




This news must have been ignored by most sites, because I’m just hearing about it now. Supposedly RedRock will have these out in the next month or so, and I know the livestream youtube viewers have been clamoring for such a device. Especially if it lets them keep their Canon EOS lenses and control them on a Panasonic GH2 or hacked GH1.

Birger hasn’t released any other information about their upcoming EOS to m4/3 adapter, but it should be nearly double the cost of this device (admittedly with more features). …