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Some sort of Hack for external Microphone on the GF2?
  • Hi there, i hope this is the right place to ask but since i am very new to digital photography (just ordered my gf2, dont have it yet :) i wanted to ask if someone knows a way to use an external microphone on the gf2 regardless what the specs say?

    Cheers,

    Johannes

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  • If you are really good you can disassembly it, unsolder electret mikes and solder wires with plugs and attach external electret capsules to it (like Panasonic WM61)

  • Or buy GH2.

  • if you did open it up, it would probably take a quiet audio line level signal too, as long as your sending equipment was tolerant of the 1 to 6 volts they are probably powering the electret condenser element with.

    but given voiding warranties and doing probably surface mount reflow soldering, getting an external recorder and syncing the audio is a much better solution :)

  • NO!! Buy zoom h1 its much much better!!!!!!

  • using a seperate recorder is what i thought too. on the other hand that connector below the hotshoe looked very promising but probably its really just outputting the video for the evf.