Attaching a microphone

…The Blackmagic Cinema Camera uses a less standard audio plug.…Now, most of the professional microphones you're…using are going to be XLR type connections.…And you would expect something likely on that from the camera.…Not the case.…You need to use the larger phono plug.…And the phono plug can go in here for the audio input.…I just pull the rubber back and push that in.…In this case, I am going from XLR to…a half inch adapter sometimes called the phono plug.…This works fine.…Over here on the Pocket Cinema Camera, it's using a…mini plug much like you would see on a headphone.…

So in that case, you're going to definitely need an adapter.…Now the adapter that I choose to use looks like this.…This particular adapter offers 2 XLR inputs.…The ability to attach it to my rail system and tighten down.…This particular one is from a company called Wooden Camera and this…is the A-box but there are lots of these available on the market.…And the other end ends up with the smaller stereo plug.…Now, what you do is attach this to the Pocket Camera.…