Dear friends, this is my first post but I'm been using Jw for gathering a lot of knowledge and insight into the world of sound so thank you for the help so far. I'm a documentary filmmaker working in what you'd call in english Veritè Style documentary (we call it 'observational' in Europe), anyway as you can guess for some shooting situations I'm a solo shooter and truth be told for my tastes I like to be invisible, so I try to avoid too much attention with a crew (boom pole, furs, cats and dogs and lavaliers). I sure know the limitations of this approach but it works better for the subjects. I'd love to have a sound person, my production budget could afford it and usually when the shooting situation permits, I hire one but most of the time I'm alone.
That said, I work with shoulder mounted camcorder, like the Eva-1 and as a b cam a GH5s panasonic. With the Panasonic i use an NTG3 microphone and a Zoom H5 for sound. Never missed a shot, sound is relatively good. Now in post I'm talking with my sound man (he's doing post but works on location too) and he's really critical of the NTG3-h5 combo. The why I chose the h5 is for portability. Now I'm asking you, if I'd like to upgrade, what would be your combo? I'm eying Sound devices Mixpre 3 and a Sennheiser MHK 416 or a Sanken Cs3e the question is: it is a true upgrade? What's your experience? I'm tented to buy a good mike, what would be your choice? What would you suggest if a documentarian came to you with the request: 'I can work on this gig just me and my camera, what should I get?'
Thanks a lot my friends and good work! Don't get too harsh, I respect sound and sound persons dearly.
