Brianetta
Mu-43 Veteran
I have baffled the microphones on my E-P1. Cheap, cheerful and effective!
First, I got a packet of skid pads from Wilkinson, a general hardware chain store in the UK:
View attachment 157600
I took one of the pads, cut it into two, and used a scalpel to cut a hole in the patch of glue on the reverse of the pad halves. I stuck these over the microphone recesses on the camera:
View attachment 157601
Then, I tested. This (rather badly edited) video shows me blowing on both microphones in turn, before and after applying the baffles:
[ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHOqE_lA32w]Baffles video at YouTube![/ame]
Here are two videos showing the effectiveness of these baffles in the real world. There's a breeze blowing as I'm filming, and any E-P1 owner will know that it doesn't take much of a breeze to make such a noise that the gain takes a nose-dive, such that all you can hear is wind noise.
[ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceQF8CpvsEs]Out of the east window of an office block[/ame]
[ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtOfC-eS39A]Out of the west window of an office block[/ame]
First, I got a packet of skid pads from Wilkinson, a general hardware chain store in the UK:
View attachment 157600
I took one of the pads, cut it into two, and used a scalpel to cut a hole in the patch of glue on the reverse of the pad halves. I stuck these over the microphone recesses on the camera:
View attachment 157601
Then, I tested. This (rather badly edited) video shows me blowing on both microphones in turn, before and after applying the baffles:
[ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHOqE_lA32w]Baffles video at YouTube![/ame]
Here are two videos showing the effectiveness of these baffles in the real world. There's a breeze blowing as I'm filming, and any E-P1 owner will know that it doesn't take much of a breeze to make such a noise that the gain takes a nose-dive, such that all you can hear is wind noise.
[ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceQF8CpvsEs]Out of the east window of an office block[/ame]
[ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtOfC-eS39A]Out of the west window of an office block[/ame]