the folks at keema fund sent over this KM-CAM20 video mic kit i'll check out all the accessories
that came with the kit and test out this microphone that's coming up on thrifty av
the KM-CAM20 microphone is more than just a microphone it's a kit you get the microphone
itself you get this foam windscreen you get a fuzzy windscreen you get this shoe mount you
get this telephone mount you get a tripod base you get a carry bag and you get two cables one
for if you're using it with a phone another if you're using it with a camera but wait
this is out of the box let's back up and check out the unboxing okay here is the box for the
keema fun video mic km cam 20. it got a little bit crushed in the e-packet that arrived from china
this piece right here is for uh mounting a phone this is interesting it has this little
pouch here here is a trs to trrs adapter for your phone a little fuzzy dead cat style windscreen
and this is trs on both sides all right here is the mount for either a hot shoe or a cold shoe
and this appears to be a small tripod you can use with this and here is the microphone and a foam
style windscreen the instructions say that this microphone has a condenser element i'm sure they
mean electret condenser the frequency response is pretty flat and it has a hyper cardioid pickup
pattern so it'll pick up audio primarily in front of the microphone the microphone clips on to this
red plastic mount like so and if i'm using this with a camera this is the cord i want to use
it shows a picture of the camera here so it wants me to plug that side into the camera which
means this side will go into the microphone and indoors i'll go ahead and use the foam windscreen
to use the telephone mount i'm just going to put my telephone in here and then i can attach the
microphone right here and screw it down and i want to use the cord that is trs on the microphone side
and plug it into the telephone on the side that has a little telephone sticker here i have the
kimafun video mic hooked up to a google pixel 3a through the trrs connection mounted to the
tripod that came with this and i'm ready to go for vlogging or whatever here with my phone in this
demonstration i'm not going to do any equalization on this audio i'm not going to sweeten it at all
what you hear is going to be what's coming out of the microphone that being said i will do some
level adjustments if the level's a little bit hot or if the level needs a little bit of boost
and when i do that you will see indications on the screen of how much of a boost or a cut i'm
applying to the audio signal before i check it out using my google pixel 3a let's see how this
sounds with my panasonic lumix fz-300 the kitchen area in my house has zero audio treatment uh the
keema fun video mic is mounted to my lumix fz-300 it is a little beyond arm's reach away from me
so you will hear room reflections in this uh audio now i am capturing the preview from my lumix fz300
in this capture device and you see all the preview stuff associated with the camera i want you to pay
attention to the lower left hand corner that shows the left and right audio channels you will notice
you'll both see and hear that the audio is only coming through the left channel when the kimono
fun video mic is hooked up to the fz 300 now there are workarounds for this you can get an adapter
that'll turn the mono signal on this microphone to dual mono and feed both left and right channels
or you can fix it in post-production where you center up the left channel and
that way it goes through both left and right channels feeding the chemo fund into an fz 300
will make it left channel only and now for comparison purposes you're listening to me through
the built-in microphone on the lumix fz 300 i also want to see how the keema fun video mic performs
outside with both the fuzzy windscreen and the foam windscreen here's those tests with the lumix
the sun's going down but it's still pretty warm out here so i changed clothes i have the keema fun
video mic hooked up to my lumix fz-300 i have the foam windscreen on it right now occasionally i'm
getting some wind gusts so it'll be interesting to hear how the foam windscreen deals with those
wind gusts you probably hear some cicadas behind me now my microphone indicator on my view screen
is showing that i'm getting a left channel only i am using the cord that i was supposed to use with
the camera now of course i can take a left channel only signal and center it up in post production
but if you are wanting dual mono with the same thing in the left and right channel you will
need to use an adapter i'm now going to switch to the fuzzy uh windscreen and see how it does
okay exact same setup except now instead of a foam windscreen i'm using the fuzzy wind screen again
i'm only getting left channel audio on the uh indicator on my view screen so if i want to center
this up i'll have to do it in post production i'll probably just leave it alone though ooh there's a
nice gust of wind there you can see it blowing my hat so right now you can hear how well the fuzzy
wind screen breaks this wind noise i'm not going to switch to the built-in microphone on the lumix
now i'm not using the kimafun microphone at all i'm using the built-in microphone on the lumix
the wind's blowing a little bit we'll see how much that affects the audio on it and this is what the
lumix sounds like without an external microphone so the keema fun video mic did a better job with
wind noise both with the foam windscreen and especially with the fuzzy windscreen
compared to the built-in microphone on the fc 300 as far as the left only audio
that can be remedied with an adapter like this one of course this adapter did not come with the
kit but if you get a mono mini plug to stereo mini plug adapter it will split the audio into left and
right channels and you'll get dual mono if that's what you want now let's take my google pixel 3a
outside and see how the keema fun does with it i'm now using my google pixel 3a with the keema fun
video mic i have the fuzzy windscreen on it right now and you'll still hear the cicadas i'm sure
i'm curious to see how this sounds if it's over modulated if it's both left and right channels i'm
now going to switch over to the foam windscreen i'm still using my google pixel 3a handheld
outdoors with the keema fun video mic there's still plenty of cicadas making noise back here
i haven't had any good wind gusts lately to test the foam windscreen and oh there's one slight
breeze you might see my hat move a little bit that might test the foam windscreen to see how well it
does i'm not going to use the internal microphone on the google pixel 3a i'm now using the internal
microphone on the google pixel 3a the cicadas are starting to calm down it's starting to get dark
outside so they're gonna be a little less noisy there was some wind just blew through here so
i'm curious to see how that breeze affects the internal microphone on the google pixel 3a
this is what the google pixel 3a sounds like on its own without using the kimafun video microphone
and there's a little bit more breeze there i want to talk about this tripod that came with the
accessory kit if you fold the legs down it becomes a handle and this is how i was holding it outside
as far as the audio on the keema fun goes it was feeding both left and right channels the audio was
a little bit hot so i dropped it 2.8 decibels to level match it with the rest of this video
both the foam windscreen and the fuzzy windscreen did a good job cutting the
wind noise down so i was pretty happy with the kimafun microphone paired with my google pixel 3a
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