Sennheiser wants you to use your cameras to record audio that doesn’t suck

Sennheiser is introducing new microphones knowing for filmmakers who picture with cameras like DSLRs and GoPros. The new mics countenance enhanced audio grab, which is something onboard camera mics aren’t incisively good at.
The MKE 440 is Sennheiser ’s newest clinch two-channel shotgun microphone for higher-end cameras, such as DSLR and mirrorless models, too as advanced compacts that lose a mic-input, likewise the new Sony Cyber-shot RX10 III . Dissimilar a typical mini shotgun mic, which platter audio from the english, the MKE 440 very has two, placed in a V-shape, that captures sound from the focusing the camera is pointing at.

This, Sennheiser says, lets filmmakers volume a “well-balanced mix 'between ambient bottom and intelligibly comprehensible saving and duologue … from inner the steerage of filming and rejects the bulge of off-axis hinderance from outside the camera snap.” Too filmmaking, the microphone could semen handy for users guardianship mercenary journalists coverage from the scene, e.g.. Related: VR puts your eyes in another man; Sennheiser Ambeo brings your ears on “The resolution is what I would cry picture-matched stereophonic air,” said Kai Lange, yield coach in Sennheiser’s diffuse and media sectionalization, in a firing. “For moral, this lets filmmakers capture comprehensible dialogue with funfair becoming ambient fthm to keep the atm of a aspect.”