Manfrotto 785 Review
Saturday, May 5th, 2012
Canon HF200 Manfrotto 785b Review
www.thai-faq.com : I review my Canon HF200 camcorder and Manfrotto 785b tripod.
Canon HF200 Camcorder Manfrotto 785b Tripod Review | Thai-FAQ
Since my total budget was $1000, I wanted to buy a camera for around the $600 mark. I looked at a number of cameras and compared picture quality but to my untrained eye they all looked fairly similar, so I decided to choose a camera based on a specific set of features that I wanted, which were: a built-in hot shoe, an audio input jack and a threaded lens.
The hot shoe is good for attaching external accessories such as lights or microphones. Unfortunately, the Canon HF200 comes with Canon’s Mini Advanced Shoe which is smaller than the industry standard shoe and therefore does not fit any of the accessories currently on the market that use the regular shoe size. Canon does this so that you are forced to buy Canon specific accessories, but the list of accessories from Canon is rather slim and so I found the use for the built-in hot shoe rather limited. In the end I bought a Sima SLB-M bracket to mount my Sony UWP-V1 wireless microphone.
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