I had a Nikon D5000, with street performances, my videos (occasional) forestay tempered because of the sound, especially with percussion, this is the same as I D7000 for sound, fearful I still bought ME-1 microphone and ,,, I'm seduced! delicious sound of water flowing from a fountain or violence Brasil Samba percussion music everything is perfectly reproduced, more microphones that can be placed shifted is using a ruler to retained flasch option and simultaneously to flasch pictures or video - I have to have the very ME-1 in my photo equipment