Sony ECM-680S M/S Stereo Shotgun Microphone

Yes it works great.

This is a robustly built microphone, but SONY does not offer any weather or humidity ratings.

Yes, the Sony ECM-680S M/S Stereo Shotgun Microphone is compatible for use with the Sony PXW-Z200 Camcorder. The microphone comes with an XLR 5-pin to XLR 5-pin cable, but you can get an XLR 5-pin female to dual XLR 3-pin male cable like the Remote Audio 5-Pin Stereo XLR Female to Dual XLR Male Y-Cable - 18" (BH # RECAXSTE), which will allow you to connect the mic to both XLR inputs on the camera with phantom power engaged on both channels to record stereo audio.

The Sony ECM-680S M/S Stereo Shotgun Microphone is compatible for use with the Zoom H6 Portable Handy Recorder. For stereo audio on two channels, you would connect the mic to two XLR inputs on the H6 by using the included XLR 5-pin cable and an adapter such as the Sennheiser ACS5 5-pin XLR Female to Dual XLR Male Y Cable for MKH418S and MKE44P Microphones (B&H # SEACS5) or by using a cable like the RODE NT4-DXLR Stereo 5-Pin XLR to Dual 3-Pin XLR Cable for NT-4 Fixed X/Y Condenser Microphone - 10.3' (B&H # RONT4DXLRCBL) or the Remote Audio 5-Pin Stereo XLR Female to Dual XLR Male Y-Cable - 25' (B&H # RECAXSTE25).

The Sony ECM-680S M/S Stereo Shotgun Microphone, when properly mounted in a shock mount, should pick up less handling noise than on-camera mics with a solid mount such as the Sony ECM-B1M.

This question was asked a long time ago, but I'll add some info. The question mentioned M and S channels. Does that mean Mono and Stereo, or Mid/Side? I'm not sure, so here is an answer to both: Mono/Stereo? You can output only stereo or only mono at one time. If it's in Mono, it works as a shotgun mic for you to focus on your subject from some distance, although less will be better. If it's in Stereo, you get great channel separation--use it for an ambient mic, recording music, etc. Mid/Side decoding? That's not necessary with this mic, the decoding is performed inside the mic and you get just one channel out (the left channel) if it's in mono, or two channels (left/right) for stereo. This is made possible because of the five pins on the base of the mic, rather than the usual three.

Hi Jesse R, The ECM680S is one of Sonys best shotgun microphones. It is switchable between mono and stereo and I don't believe that is something the Sennheiser does. I would also say that at almost half the price of the Sennheiser it is an excellent value. Ralph

We mounted the mic on our PDW-700 using the front port so we got the smallest cable(about 12 ) and we used the basic windscreen that just slides on with no extra fuzzy muff - we are inside 99% of the time.