What would be the best external microphone for a Canon ELura 100 camcorder?
Canon Elura 100 is an interesting beast: it has a jack for external microphone, but does not have an accessory shoe to affix the microphone itself. I am not going to analyze technical reasons for such a decision, at least the camcorder provides a way to feed in external sound. Elura users should feel lucky, because Elura series is discontinued in 2007, and ZR series just does not cut the mustard. Obviosly, Canon is moving to high definition pastures, leaving good old DV format behind. Ranting aside, attaching an external microphone to Canon Elura 100 — or to any camcorder that has no accessory shoe but does have a tripod socket — is quite simple. All you need is a so-called L-bracket. As it is evident from the name, the bracket is an L-shaped piece of metal with attachment screw on the bottom and one or several cold shoes on the top. There are different kinds of L-brackets used in photo and video industry. Just running a search on the Net for “L-bracket” will yield all kinds of bent
