Thanks for that, BC. Where is the hot shoe? I gather it must have a terminal going to the sound circuit. Is it possible to buy an extension cable so that the socket is off the camera? (It will not be the standard hot shoe extension because of this special extra terminal, I presume).
Do you mean the socket which uses the EG-CP16 cable with 3 phono plugs? I reckon this is for playback through a TV only.there is a wire running from the mic to the jack on the side of the camera.