external microphone for the Q3 43

[kengai]

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I am starting to make short videos, travel documents or concerts. I feel the need for an external microphone to connect to the camera. 
Which external microphone for the Q3 43 have you tried and recommend?

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[setuporg]

DJI Mic Mini is great and Røde 3 is too.  The problem right now is a USB-C mic turns off FOTOS.  Leica, please make FOTOS work with a USB-C mic connected!

[kengai]

thank you for your reply. On several occasions I need to mount the microphone on the flash shoe. For this latter use which microphone should I choose?

[kengai]

I tried the two Rode VideoMic GO II and VideoMic NTG microphones listed by Leica with the firmware update 3.0.0.
With both of them the volume is very low, so much so that they are useless to use. Do you have any other experiences? What do you recommend?

[LocalHero1953]

3 hours ago, kengai said:

I tried the two Rode VideoMic GO II and VideoMic NTG microphones listed by Leica with the firmware update 3.0.0.
With both of them the volume is very low, so much so that they are useless to use. Do you have any other experiences? What do you recommend?

How are you are using those mics? How far is the source of the sound from the camera/mic? What is the sound: normal spoken word? music? Do you adjust sound levels when you edit the video?

If you think about broadcast media, journalists use either hand-held mics or wireless/wired clip-ons/lavallier. For performance/concerts sound engineers source the sound from a mic on or near the performers/stage, not from a camera. On-camera mics are really only good for spoken word close to the camera, or for ambient sound.