Sony Is Taking On DJI With Its New ECM-W5 Wireless Microphone Kit
The kit includes two transmitters and a receiver, and it supports 32-bit float recording.
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Sony has announced the ECM-W5, a $400 wireless microphone kit that's clearly designed to be as easy to use as DJI's affordable wireless mics, provided creators are willing to pay a comparatively premium price to use it. The ECM-W5 combines wireless transmitters and a receiver that can directly record to a Sony camera (or other devices over USB-C), capturing 96kHz audio from up to 500 meters away in line-of-sight conditions.
The ECM-W5 is easiest to use with Sony's Alpha series cameras, where it can connect over the Multi Interface Shoe (Sony's modern answer to the hotshoe) to receive power and transfer data. A kit only comes with one rectangular receiver and two microphone transmitters, but if you're willing to purchase multiple $120 transmitters separately, you can record up to four tracks at once. Each transmitter...
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