Just going through my photography Hard Drives to try and organise them some more and stumbled upon this photograph i’d taken a few years back up in Glen Etive Scotland.
For all the photography geeks out there, this was taken with my trusty little Canon 350D, which i still have 
Following up from my blog post on the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, I wanted to give our visit to “The killing Fields” a seperate blog post too.
Another harrowing experience but in my opinion a must see if you are visting Cambodia.
The information below is taken from Wikipedia:
The Killing Fields were a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Vietnam War.
At least 200,000 people were executed by the Khmer Rouge[1]. Analysis of 309 mass grave sites by the DC-Cam Mapping Program and Yale University indicate at least 1,386,734 victims.[2][3] Estimates of the total number of deaths resulting from Khmer Rouge policies, including disease and starvation, range from 1.4 to 2.2 million out of a population of around 7 million.[4] In 1979, communist Vietnam invaded Democratic Kampuchea and toppled the Khmer Rouge regime.
Cambodian journalist Dith Pran coined the term ‘Killing Fields’ during his escape from the regime.[5] A 1984 film, The Killing Fields, tells the story of Dith Pran, played by another Cambodian survivor Haing S. Ngor, and his journey to escape the death camps.
Human skulls on display in the glass-sided stupa. One of the most harrowing things ive ever witnessed.
So i picked up the Rode Videomic the other day. The onboard sound on the Canon 5D Mark II isnt the best so for £79, the Rode mic seemed a good buy.
I intend to use this along with my Canon 7D at weddings in the future. I plan to set up the camera on a tripod and capture some footage of the ceremony whilst im photographing it, perhaps even the speeches too. Using the onboard mic wouldnt cut it so hopefully this does as advertised.
Below is just a basic test i set up with normal sounds and what not. I also kept the mic at its default setting. There seems to be 2 different types of settings that ive still to read up on :
Flat filter ( the one used in these clips ) and High pass filter as well as 3 PAD switches to adjust the dB, from 0 to -20dB.
I like the fact that you dont hear any sounds from the operator of the camera, such as focusing etc ( something the onboard mic does a lot of ). Voices are much more clearer and the mic does a fantatic job of cutting out any unwanted sounds.
There are many more tests of this mic on Vimeo. Id suggest you also take a look over there if your interested in buying this. For £79 its a total bargain.
