Just a quick follow up. I've been using a Shoeprs cmc5 41, a sennheiser mkh40 and an mkh60 in extremely hot and humid weather in Macao and Hong Kong and they work flawlessly. The only real problem is city noise. It seems to be everywhere, all the time.
Unfortunately I decided to go with a Zaxcom Fusion for this job (I normally use Sound Devices) and I absolutely hate this thing. The limiters don't seem to work. The Effects Package is just a name there that doesn't do anything but worst of all is the file naming.
I had to spending an afternoon trying to figure out out how to retrieve metadata - take names, scenes, comments, etc - and how to convert them into wave files. I also have to output a scratch track to a couple of Scarlets and I can't find a way to attenuate the signal. I wish Zaxcom could give some sort of output level control.
I can see this is an efficient piece of gear but honestly I wouldn't buy this machine. It's to expensive to be this complicated to operate. I understand that it's good not to lose a whole take because you ran out of batteries but I would rather lose a take then having to deal with this everyday.