Built-in microphones

Robbie Carman: Now, Rich, for years when I bought a video camera, I was accustomed to getting…relatively good audio with that camera.…Rich Harrington: Yeah, lot of video cameras, professional ones would have a shotgun mic,…and even consumer ones would have a mic.…Now, this microphone, the built-in one, was just to get ambient noise, it really wasn't…good for dialogue unless you are like right in that person's face.…Robbie: Yeah, sort of passable audio.…I mean, of course the thing that really got these cameras into the forefront in the reason…that we're talking about them today, is the beautiful HD picture that they produce.…However, when it comes to the audio side of things especially in a run-and-gun situation,…your microphone built-in, mmm, not so much.…

And you can visualize this pretty easily when you simply look at the camera body itself.…Now, this is a Canon T4i and you can see my microphones, probably you can't even see those microphones up there, right?…Just a couple little pin-pricks in the top of the plastic.…