I don't know about the Audio Technica but I was thinking of getting a Sennheiser ME 66 which I've used before and gotten really great results. It pretty expensive, needs extensions to get out of the shot on a small camera and an adapter to plug in. So I gave the Rode Video Mic a shot and so for I'm pretty happy with it and my new Canon HV20.
It looks like what you get for the extra $100 is a shock mount and a mini plug which are things you'll want/need for hooking up to your camera. My one complaint is that the battery on the HV20 is loose enough to make noise when hand holding the camera. I think I'm going to have to resort to using a piece of tape to hold it still. - Verdi On 7/12/07, Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I searched through the list and have asked a few people but I am > looking for some real world advice here. I am going to buy and > external Mic for my camera, it's a Panasonic it's the PV-GS165 and I am > looking at the following 2 mics the Rode VideoMic and the Audio > Technica ATR-55. The Audio Techinica is about a 100 bucks less but the > user reviews seem pretty even on both models. I don't mind spending > the money, I just want to know if spending 100 bucks more is really > worth it. > > Any help and real usuage advice is greatly apprericated! > > And David Howell, I know what you will say ;) > > Heath > http://batmangeek.com > > > -- http://michaelverdi.com http://spinxpress.com http://freevlog.org Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
