Will this work with my camera?

If I have a JVC GR-HD1 and I wanna buy an Azden ECZ - 990- super cardioid shotgun condenser camera mountable microphone to use with it, can I?? and what's a good price to pay for one. Or other microphone;s you'd reccomend?Will this work with my camera?
Not sure. Does your camera have an input socket for mic/line? It seems like accessories go into the shoe on top.





There are, however, other possiblities.





All digital equipment record with solid clocks, so you could, for example, plug the receiver of the 990 mic into something like and IPOD or MP3 player and record the audio track on that while filming (using the camera mic as well) and then use a CLAP board to ';slate'; the project.





You'll get a visual cue (the closed clapper) and an audio cue (a sharp wave spike on both your camera audio and the MP3 recorder audio track.





You can transfer the new track to a WAV recorder and then import the wave file and sync it up via those clap spikes.





Just put one on one track and the other on the other track and move the MP3 track until the spikes line up.





Then mix or remove the orginal and just go with the new track.





You can do this for body mics as well.





Digital dictation machine can also possibly be used, if they have a mini plug output you can transfer to your comptuer sound card.





You'd have to test this and see the quality level.





They aren't expensive and maybe you know people with them.





You can also get peanut mics from Radio Shack for $30 that use 1/8 mini and can fit into an MP3 unit that records via an external mic/line.





The same might apply to digital dictators if they accept an external mic via 1/8'; mini plug.





The big thing is to clap board each scene with a visible clapper and loud audio clapper sound. It has to get picked up by all the mics and recorders.





Remember, all these things HAVE to be digital, analog will not provide consistency.Will this work with my camera?
I've sought for a cheap but solid mic for my videography, and I cannot recommend the Rode Videomic more. At $149, it's a steal. It connects to your camera's hotshoe, has a mic input, and runs off a 9V battery which goes 100 hours easy. You don't usually even have to worry about the battery much. The sound quality is superb. Look into it, it's very very good.





It's also suspended by rubberbands so there's no vibration transferrance. I lost one of the rubberbands and Rode sent replacements for free.