Zoom Mic/ 7.1 Ch. Mic, Hotshoe Mount 5dmkII

Handycams have long used "hotshoe" fitting accessories such as mics, lights ect. Such as this from Sony. http://www.sony.com.au …og/product.jsp?​id=ECMHGZ1


Wondering how Canon will approach this. What do you think?

I would personally like a bluetooth lapel mic for the 5d.

For the 5D II? They probably won't. The real estate for the hot shoe's already pretty heavily occupied; adding more contacts for unrelated stuff will just increase the potential for failures in that area. Not to mention that they do have mikes and lights for accessory shoes on their video cameras; making anything backward-compatible with those will be a bear and changing to a new I/O standard for their video cams for commonality would be even less popular.

twofruitz wrote in post #6527278
Handycams have long used "hotshoe" fitting accessories such as mics, lights ect. Such as this from Sony. http://www.sony.com.au …og/product.jsp?​id=ECMHGZ1

Wondering how Canon will approach this. What do you think?

I would personally like a bluetooth lapel mic for the 5d.

Maybe in the future we might see some more ports growing on the side of the camera.... I don't see the standard hotshoe changing much, though, there's really not much room to grow up there...