
Review Summary
2009-02-19T19:00:00
This is a great mic...if you don't need to record in stereo. I bought it with no knowledge of the mono sound, even with much research it said nowhere, so I sent it back and bought a dm-50 which was made for the HV30 and is a stereo mic with three settings for various shotgun and stereo sound. The Sennheiser MKE 300 is however a great mic, sits nicely in the hot shoe and does capture great straight ahead sound without picking up much if any camera noise(tape motor, zoom motor). It is inconvienient having to plug the mic in to get sound into the camera unlike the DM-50 that works and transfers sound through the hot shoe. All in all a great mic and if it recorded stereo I would have kept it, if that isn't important than this is the mic to buy.
ryancoke26
Ideally suited for mounting on camcorders due to its integrated shoe assembly, the MKE-300 is compact and extremely lightweight(2.1 oz.). Given its super-cardioid polar pattern, the MKE-300 has the ability to pick up only those sounds that correspond to the scene being filmed and rejects any disturbing ambient noise. This high directivity also attenuates the sounds made by a camcorder's auto focus and zoom motors.
The microphone's suspension mount assembly and integrated windscreen virtually eliminates handling and wind noise. Achieving operating times of over 200 hours using its own built in battery.
ELEMENT: moving coil dynamic
POLAR PATTERN: unidirectional
FREQUENCY: 80Hz - 12KHz
SENSITIVITY: -55dB +/-3dB (0dB=1v/Pa at 1Khz)
OUTPUT IMPEDANCE: 500 ohms +/-30% (at 1KHz)
HOUSING MATERIAL: Zinc die-cast
WEIGHT: 9.6 oz. (272g).