<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Stephen,<div><br></div><div>I’ve gone the camcorder route and can say I’m very happy with the results I’m getting. I mostly pair wireless Sennheiser lav mics with a Canon HD100 camcorder, and I’ve been as impressed by the sound recording as I am by the image quality. I’ve used shotgun, boom and other mics, but have to say that for narrative I’m a huge fan of good quality lavs for their ability to foreground a voice and background everything else. I’ve had situations where someone’s been telling a story, and some interference has occurred (rain on a roof, a truck pulling up close by, etc) and I assumed the recording was ruined, but on playback discovered that what was loud to my ears barely registers with the lav mics. Quality is so good this way that I’ve felt no need to make independent audio recordings. Camcorders usually also offer a good range of video output ratios (16:9, 4:3, etc) to suit different needs. My camcorder+wireless lav setup cost close to AUD$2K, no doubt a lot more expensive than the Zoom, but worth every cent in my opinion.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On 9 Mar 2014, at 7:07 pm, Stephen Morey <<a href="mailto:S.Morey@latrobe.edu.au">S.Morey@latrobe.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div ocsi="0" fpstyle="1" style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Dear RNLD list,<br><br>I am at present in North East India, where members of the language communities are busy making recordings. Up to now we have preferred to use the Zoom Q3HD for video, rather than buying a commercial Handycam, because the sound is supposed to be much better. However the picture doesn't seem to be, and the shape of the Zoom is not necessarily the best for taking video of events (though fine if you set it on a stand for video of a story!)<br><br>So I am wondering what people on the list think about the option of purchasing a handycam of similar cost to the Zoom Q3HD and making a simultaneous audio recording on the Zoom H4n? Or is there a better option available?<br><br>Best<br><br>Stephen<br><div><br><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;"><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;"><div class="BodyFragment"><font size="2"><div class="PlainText"><font face="Arial">Stephen Morey<br>Australian Research Council Future Fellow<br>Centre for Research on Language Diversity<br>La Trobe University<br></font></div><div class="PlainText"><font face="Arial">Website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/StaffPages/morey.htm"><font face="Arial">http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/about/staff/profile?uname=SMorey</font></a></div><div class="PlainText"><br><font face="Arial">Language data website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://sealang.net/assam"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/assam</font></a><font face="Arial"><br>Dictionary websites:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://sealang.net/ahom"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/ahom</font></a><font face="Arial">; <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://sealang.net/singpho"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/singpho</font></a><font face="Arial">;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://sealang.net/phake"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/phake</font></a><font face="Arial"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Linguistic data archived at::<br>DoBeS: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.mpi.nl/DoBeS">http://www.mpi.nl/DoBeS</a></font><font face="Arial"> and follow a link to projects, then Tangsa, Tai and Singpho in North East India<br>ELAR:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://elar.soas.ac.uk/">http://elar.soas.ac.uk</a></font><font face="Arial"><br>PARADISEC: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au/"><font face="Arial">http://www.paradisec.org.au</font></a><br></div><div class="PlainText"><font face="Arial"></font> </div><div class="PlainText"><font face="Arial">North East Indian Linguistics Society:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://sealang.net/neils"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/neils</font></a></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>