Sima MZM-1 Mini Zoom Camcorder Microphone

by Sima

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.5 x 0.5 x 1 inches ; 2.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0008D5FPE
• Item model number: MZM-1
• Average Customer Review: 1.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

Mini Zoom microphone is small but powerful describes this great add on microphone for camcorders This super compact might mic zooms in to pinpoint audio sources for improved audio quality. Picks up conversations, speeches, nature sounds, and more. Stylish and high quality

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

60 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars better off w/ built in mic, September 27, 2005

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John A. Radi "jradi" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sima MZM-1 Mini Zoom Camcorder Microphone (Electronics)

I bought this to shoot a wedding, I was hoping to get better audio of the ceremony than the mic built in my camera (canon zr40).

Fortunately we did some trial runs - turns out the audio quality was FAR BETTER without this microphone! It turned everything into a tinny and unsatisfactory tone.

Switch has two positions - zoom and normal - couldn't tell a difference between them. Tried the microphone in many different locations and it just sucked overall...

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars sima mic is useless!!!!!!!!, April 20, 2007

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Beau Leopard "BLDesign .:. Custom Bass Guitars" (Rochester, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sima MZM-1 Mini Zoom Camcorder Microphone (Electronics)

Due to the lack of info on the web about this mic I thought i should comment...
I recently decided to get a DV-CAM to make promos for my bass guitar company. I spent a great deal of time finding a consumer camcorder w/ a mic in and settled on a pv-gs300. The built in mic on the gs300 is ok but recording electric bass with a mic is quite difficult. After several comparision tests between the built-in mic and the sima it became blatantly apparent that the sima was garbage. Huge amounts of hiss and noise and very uneven frequency response! The built-in mic sounded beautiful in comparison. For the price I figured this mic was marginal but thought it would at least be useable...it is not. If your looking for the worst possible sound for your videos I'd highly recommend it!
So, the search continued... I settled on a Rode Videomic which is fantastic!RODE VideoMic Directional Camcorder Microphone They also make a stereo video mic if you need stereoStereo VideoMic. The Rode video mic has extremely low noise,flat frequency response and another really nice feature is a built in attenuation switch (0, -10, -20) for DV-Cams w/o a mic gain control.

Anyway.. point is don't waste your time with the sima mzm1 mic! There is a very good reason it is the cheapest camcorder specific mic on the market!

Cheers

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY THIS, January 4, 2007

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Richard A. Barber - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sima MZM-1 Mini Zoom Camcorder Microphone (Electronics)

I bought this to improve the sound on Canon Elura 100; even though the camcorder has pretty poor sound qaulity, but it was still FAR better without this MZM-1 microphone. The MZM-1 sound quality has heavy static, and we could not tell the difference between "normal" and "zoom".