So I have something kind of fun to share with you guys today which is this. I call this the Sparrow Mock 1.

Actually it's just a little running gun shooting rig that I've built around the Sony

ARX 105 which I've been shooting with for about two weeks now and I absolutely love this camera.

It is fantastic. I had the three, I had the four, and now the five. And what I love the most about this,

particularly with video, is that you're able to get results that rival what you're able to do on much more

expensive and much larger cameras and it's all in the form factor that will fit in

your pocket that you can carry around with you anywhere and so I really like that.

Now they do have a major Achilles heel to them, a lot of point and

shoots, not just the R. 1005. On this camera there is no microphone or audio input and

that's a little bit of a drag because you're stuck with only capturing audio with the built-in mics.

If you've ever used the built-in mics on any camera, you know that they're pretty awful.

And that's straight across the board. A lot of that has to do with the form factor of the camera and the microphones are just kind of stuck into that. They're teeny tiny. They have a way of finding any imperfection and anything that's ugly about the sound in a room and amplifying it. Sometimes you can get away with using built-in microphones

outdoors, but even then you have wind problems so you need to get windscreens for them at least. So I wanted to have a

solution of something that was really lightweight, really portable, really easy to use where I could capture audio and do

vlog style stuff, I could do interview footage if I wanted and I get better audio than what I've

got in the camera itself.

So I'll walk you through this and this is pretty cool. So this bar is that everything's

mounted to and is made by a company called Vello and I think I got this for like $7 and it's super cool. It's got two tripod

mounts on it and I didn't realize this when I got it, but you can actually mount four things to it because each one of the tripod mounts in the screw can accept another tripod mount. So it gives you a lot of flexibility. So what I've got on here, the Sony Arts 105, the microphone

itself is made by a company called Road, and this is the Road Video Micro. Don't get it

confused with the flagship that everybody uses from Road,

which is the Road Video Micro, which is a very small shotgun mic.

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