What is a good mic for a Canon VIXIA HF G30 HD Camcorder for recording tutorials in a classroom?

[Waddizzle]

The following advice is from the B&H Onlline store:

"The VideoMic Pro Compact Directional On-Camera Microphone from Rode packs the audio quality and features of the popular VideoMic into an ultra compact and lightweight design that's ideal for use with HDSLR cameras, camcorders, and audio recorders......"

[wcndave]

In my opinion:

If you want to record the speaker only, then an XLR lav mic plugged into a separate recording device, such as a zoom h4n is your ideal scenario.

Second would be a jack lav mic plugged into camera, however requires long long cable, usually not practical.

Third would be a boom mic, again with the G30 you don't have XLR inputs, so you'd need an audio recorder PLUS an extra person to operate boom, probably not practical.

Fourth would be a zoom or other audio recorder on the desk

Finally, the simplest and possibly cheapest (but not the best) would be a shotgun mic on the camera, such as rhode, or the dm-100 from canon.

I use methods 1,4,5 in that order depending on situation, I find having a separate audio recorder is such a massive help with all kinds of video recording, that it was worth getting for many other reasons.