High-quality extra-Epquipement for Canon HF10 / 100

At first I was a bit careful with my expectations of the DM-100 Microphone, since it comes from the manufacturer Canon and not to its renowned microphone manufacturers (not to say the Canon would be bad). For the still high price of around 180 EUR, I then but take a chance on an experiment, as I then thought to myself but that Canon has a reputation to lose when "high-priced" accessories. - I was not disappointed, but pleasantly surprised.

5 stars for processing:
The materials used are high quality and perfect. The microphone makes visually very professional. The "mini-plug" to the camera work and fits very well. The receiving part of the microphone is muted suspended from the base, so easily shaken or on the camera itself can not be transferred to the microphone. Thus, dull, noisy "Ummpfs" prevented when recording (via the damped suspension I was very pleasantly surprised).

5 stars for sound quality:
The internal microphone of the HF10 / 100 is quite good and enough for the typical birthday and holiday filmmaker from certain.
Anyone who has the HF10 / 100 but bought for the reason because it delivers a perfect picture in Full HD quality, which will soon notice that the DM-100 raises the tone in the level with which one its high-quality HD video " wants to hear ". Sonics I'm not very well versed, but my tests with and without DM-100 have more than clearly demonstrated that the DM-100 has an incredibly good rate Ganz. Is to say: High notes and lower notes are recorded particularly well. For example, in test shots with my voice was only heard by the DM-100 the deep tone of my voice in the recordings. Very good to hear from the subwoofer connected to my hi-fi system. These offers DM-100 3 different recording modes: Shotgun, 90 degrees and 120 degrees. Shotgun actually takes up only the sounds that are emitted just before the camera. At 90 degrees are a little more to hear the ambient noise and at 120 degrees is as good as anything out of the "sound environment" included (Shotgun is perfect if you want to record, for example, birds singing in a park and entertain people in the area. With Shotgun you can record only the birdsong. Very impressive.)

4.5 stars for handling:
Already described above, the mini-plug is easy to handle with tact. The enclosed "fur coat" (porch) is easy to pull with some skill on the mic. The small 3-Trendy age (Shotgun, 90Gard, 120 degrees) is a bit small and a bit hidden by the porch. But can still be operated.

Conclusion: Who bought the HF10 / 100 because of the terrific image quality should not hesitate to also zuzulegen the DM-100. It is the completion of the HF10 / 100-perfection on the sound side.