Upgrade the Built-In Camera Audio for Your Favorite Canon Cameras With This New Add-On Mic

While it’s never anyone’s first choice, recording audio for your films or video projects directly from your camera's built-in microphones can be dicey work. Best case, it sounds ok but not great. Often it sounds horrible and is unusable.

Even with advancements in internal audio recording technology over the years, it is still best practice for most filmmakers and videographers to use external audio recording methods. One step up from built-in audio is adding a better microphone to your camera.

If this feels right for your needs, you’re in luck—especially if you’re shooting on Canon cameras, since this new mic option can boost your in-camera audio. Let’s check it out.

The Canon DM-E10D Microphone

Designed to be a compact supercardioid microphone customized to fit in your multi-shoe mount spots on most of the popular Canon camera models (full list below), this new Canon DM-E10D Microphone could be a nice option for vloggers, live streamers, or other social media content creators looking to simply upgrade their built-in camera audio without making major gear or workflow changes.

The Canon DM-E10D is about as easy to use as it gets, drawing power and transferring digital monaural audio directly through the camera’s Multi-Function Shoe, which enables true cable-free, battery-free operation while resisting electromagnetic noise.

As far as audio coverage goes, it should be a usable option too, thanks to its supercardioid polar pattern, which can capture dialogue from the front and rear of the camera while reducing unwanted room reverberation and ambient noise.

List of Compatible Canon Cameras

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