raising up onboard hotshoe microphone

[realspeed]

I keep on comming up with the same problem. A wind cheater " deadcat" I have which is excellent with very long hairs on it. So the hairs show up at the top of the picture/video

Also getting the microphone to face foreward
his is on a camcorder but the same with a camera

after fix below




so I came up with this idea


stripping out a piece of extrnl electrical rubber cable and placing over thread




This not only created a resistance so I could have the microphone facing foreward but protect the thread as well


so as can be seen it works and actually cost me nothing

 

[CharleyL]

I see nothing at all with what you have created. It works for you.

I have created many solutions for my photography. Back in 2000 I was having trouble getting my digital camera to focus in low light. I ha plenty of flash for lighting the scene, but not enough light for auto focusing my Sony camera. I bought a red laser gunsight and made a hot shoe base for it. The camera focused on the red dot and the photo came out great, with the exception of the red dot. The dot was very easily removed in Photoshop, so not a problem. I just had to explain what I was doing to those in the photo before taking their picture, so they didn't thing I was pointing a gun at them. Now days there are automatic solutions to this. My Godox flash transmitters have cross hatch laser systems built-in that help with this problem automatically, and they are on only very briefly during the focus cycle and back off for the shot. A few months back I found this laser gunsight in my camera gear and it still works, but I no longer need it. Brought back some great memories though.

Today, I use my DSLR for 4K video most of the time, and have a SmallRig cage for it. This gives me the ability to attach and use my "Dead Cat" mic off to the side of my camera. Above the Dead Cat is my Zoom H1Nrecorder for back-up audio, and I have a 2 channel mixer attached to the cage as well, so I can mix a wireless mic input into the Dead Cat audio as well. The receiver for the wireless mic is also attached to this camera cage.

Charley

 

[realspeed]

I already had looked on the internet for a simple gadget to raise a microphone higher on a camera/camcorder. All I could find were either brackets extending out like birds wings or ones that were jointed to put in different positions. Nothing straight forward everything over engineered. Hence the solution I came up with which as you say works for me.
I do have a handle for this camcorder shown below which lifts the microphone well out of the way





the drawback is one has to use the XLR ports on the handle (red and green) as the handle cuts out the microphone socket on the camcorder itself if I use a different microphone.
Again can't use the Sennheiser MKE400 microphone (mono directional) as in the top photo as the connection lead is fixed in the microphone itself. This one with the white deadcat "Boya BY-SM80 (stereo) "has a detatchable connection lead. So I used one of these "JEEUE 2XLR Male to 3.5mm TRS Stereo Y-Adapter Cable Breakout Lea". now i can control the left and right microphone heads individually