@Jain :comfyheart: not returning the precious. even if owning it causes me psychic damage.
i'm just saying if i was intelligent and responsible, knowing what i know today, it would be more practical to have bought that and the zoom shotty mic. (i didn't even know until recently that zoom made one, let alone that it has self recording so the camera doesn't even need a barrel jack, and the self recorder is 32-bit float so you don't even deal with mic gain on site.)