Hi,
So now given the situation below, I adopt the only way, some DIY ! I need a standard hotshoe foot of plastic I can carve up to fit, I need it to have a knurled ring to screw down for tight fit, and atop a standard metal hotshoe.
Suggestions please., what hotshoe fitting gives this start point for me to doctor ?
I have one with plastic foot and a knob at side that locks it in a tilt position, but its forever sliding out of hotshoes, hence my preference for a locking down ring.
Nightmare...Sony AX100E has a non standard 14.5mm width slotted hotshoe with docking of a foot being a downward then forward action. This is deliberate by Sony to force owners to bin their expensive Rode Video mics, or Sennheisers., but instead it is denying existing mic owners the choice of buying this decent full manual control ND filter camcorder with 12x (24x menu option StableShot ) and hopefully decent focusing hi end camcorder.
I want this for airshow filming and my existing rode is a quality bit of kit, suspended with silicone rings, self powered and with a thick hairy coating coping but just with airfield winds and giving better sound than plugins such as Sony.
I simply need an adapter that slots into this offbeat hotshoe and provides a standard width and design hotshoe on its top surface. 18.7mm wide. Allowing quality mics fitted to a quality camcorder.
I wish to buy this camcorder but until I find a simple way of attaching my very directional well furred up long haired Rode video mic, I am stuffed. I will not give into Sony tactics and have to buy their small mic and reduce my audio quality.
No one has created an adapter to allow thousands of Rode and Sennheiser owners to fit their standard shoe mics though, it seems. The ADP-MAC adapter creates another 14.5mm wide hotshoe on top, for ...Sony products !!!
I google this and folk are pondering on what mic is best to fit, well they need to first of all consider the fact that nothing will fit !
Merlin
So now given the situation below, I adopt the only way, some DIY ! I need a standard hotshoe foot of plastic I can carve up to fit, I need it to have a knurled ring to screw down for tight fit, and atop a standard metal hotshoe.
Suggestions please., what hotshoe fitting gives this start point for me to doctor ?
I have one with plastic foot and a knob at side that locks it in a tilt position, but its forever sliding out of hotshoes, hence my preference for a locking down ring.
Nightmare...Sony AX100E has a non standard 14.5mm width slotted hotshoe with docking of a foot being a downward then forward action. This is deliberate by Sony to force owners to bin their expensive Rode Video mics, or Sennheisers., but instead it is denying existing mic owners the choice of buying this decent full manual control ND filter camcorder with 12x (24x menu option StableShot ) and hopefully decent focusing hi end camcorder.
I want this for airshow filming and my existing rode is a quality bit of kit, suspended with silicone rings, self powered and with a thick hairy coating coping but just with airfield winds and giving better sound than plugins such as Sony.
I simply need an adapter that slots into this offbeat hotshoe and provides a standard width and design hotshoe on its top surface. 18.7mm wide. Allowing quality mics fitted to a quality camcorder.
I wish to buy this camcorder but until I find a simple way of attaching my very directional well furred up long haired Rode video mic, I am stuffed. I will not give into Sony tactics and have to buy their small mic and reduce my audio quality.
No one has created an adapter to allow thousands of Rode and Sennheiser owners to fit their standard shoe mics though, it seems. The ADP-MAC adapter creates another 14.5mm wide hotshoe on top, for ...Sony products !!!
I google this and folk are pondering on what mic is best to fit, well they need to first of all consider the fact that nothing will fit !
Merlin
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