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Just wanted to make an proud announcement of a new member of my family of trusted work tools.  It’s a portable recorder which records up to 96bits in stereo.  Here’s a picture, and what follows is a kind of funny little story:

I bought this unit because the sound on all of the portable cameras that I use is horrible!  It becomes a problem when you are planning to use the sound.  And I’ve just begun a new project which I’m doing in supermarkets… so the story is I was doing my thing in a supermarket.  Pulled out my camera, my gorilla tripod and screwed it onto this Sony unit.  Then started to do an odd recording.  Before long I noticed people with walkie-talkies giving me odd side-glances and speaking secretly to what I guessed was security.  When I was finished one of them came up to me and asked if everything was ok, but he did so in such a threatening way.  I actually started to involuntarily shake a little bit.  I showed him that clearly this was a recorder, with microphones, and that it said Sony!  I can only assume he thought it was some kind of explosive device! 

Anyway, it was pretty exciting.  I look forward to more such experiences.  Maybe the next I’ll get on camera.