noise-free, clean sound

It's easy to forget that half of the film consists of clay, not only image. Most manufacturers forget also and equip itself with its top-grade camcorder microphones. Canon provides for its newer models as an extension possibility, unfortunately, no standard shoe available, but a special shoe, in the only match the company's DM-100. That's why I (my HFS-100) such upgraded despite the prohibitive price.

And I must say I've been pleasantly surprised. Canon as a manufacturer of microphones had never crossed my path, but in this case they have proven that they also very well can.

Processing and handling: the suspension is very stable, decoupled the micro but good from the housing. Hand films is therefore possible without any problems. When taking panning shots on a shaky tripod I was still cautious ... the shoe fits (of course) perfect, the micro is surprisingly small. The supplied windscreen is really useful for location shooting.

Sound: This is where the DM-100 trumps correctly. I've not only for all types of functions (Shotgun, 90 °, 120 °) measured a perfectly linear frequency response, but am really surprised by the sensitivity and the impressive freedom from noise of the device. Honestly: The shotgun microphones from 300 euros upwards who else I own so, rushing more! Subjective listening impression: The sound is very clear and crisp, the frequencies below 150 Hertz seem minimally attenuated, which is probably guilty of the size of the membrane. In shotgun mode the midst of noise outside the shotgun axis fall off greatly and the sound is simply hollow. This mode, however, is anyway only for problematic environments where the ambient noise are strong and undesirable.

Conclusion: One should of course always as close to the source as possible and bring the Micro does not sit on the camera have. For fast and flexible shooting this device, however, is a panacea and receives my full recommendation.