video camera lighting kit

I just bought a Canon GL2 video camera and now Im looking for Audio gear?

Any suggestions on a shotgun mike and also I heard I need some type of adaptor for the shotgun mike to camera?

The Canon GL2 has a 1/8″ mini-stereo mic input, so you can’t connect professional XLR mics, unless you purchase an XLR adapter, like that made by Beachtek, which are about $180. Mini-stereo mics aren’t nearly as good as XLR mics, but their are decent ones.

Unless you purchase an XLR adapter, the only mic worth buying is the RODE VideoMic. It produces excellent sound, and comes with an integrated shoe mount for mounting on a camcorder’s shoe mount OR a boompole. The Sennheiser MKE300 and Azden SGM-X are decent too.

For a boompole. You can buy one on B&H, starting at $90, you can buy one for around $60 on eBay, or you can make your own for $10. All you need is a telescoping painter’s pole from Home Depot, a 2 inch 3/8″ Hangar bolt and two 3/8″ Hex nuts. Just drill ‘em in the painter’s pole, and you got yourself a boompole.

http://www.indymogul.com/backyard-fx/post/1498/build-plans-15-telescoping-boom-pole

For light kits, if you want to go pro, you’ll need 1-3 650W fresnels which can be $200-600 each. Along with that, you’ll want a 1K open faced light with a softbox. Then you’ll need a couple of C-stands, Scrims, diffusion screens, etc.

That’s pretty expensive no matter where you buy it. If you want to spend that much money, you could get a couple of 500W worklamps from Home Depot or wherever. They wont work As good as the pro ones, but they are a very good place to start.

I’d love to give you links to sites where you could buy them, but I could get kicked off Yahoo Answers. You could search for B&H Photo Video, and here’s a link that will give you links to sites where you can buy lights:http://scarletuser.com/showthread.php?t=627

Hope that helps.

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