External Microphone Recommendations For Canon Vixia HF M50

Hello:
I have reviewed the microphone options for the mini-advanced shoe, and they don't work for my application. I need an external condenser microphone that can be on a wire 50 feet away from the camera. I tried a dynamic microphone but voices were much too soft.
Does anyone have a recommendation on what will work on a 50 foot wire, but provide good sound from an external microphone?
Regards,
Rich Locus

Nevermind, I got tired of waiting for some help and found one that will work perfect for what I need at campbell cameras..
Pretty neat wrap around alum. mount that will work perfect..

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] to resume playing back the scene.
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] to restore the toolbar.
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] (white text on dark background), [
] (white text) or [
] (black text).
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] to open the [Select Image] screen.
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it's often hard to get a consensus on anything, but my opinion is that it's a mixture of comfort-level, flexibility, and quality.
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I had recently JUST bought a headset.
I was excited to use it... I was positive that it was Mac compatible cause it said that it was ipod compatible.. my mistake I guess. Plus I needed to buy a mic under $30 cause that's all I had... and the cheapest one they had was the one I have on now.
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+Changing your computer's sound input device+
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The thing is I called the place and it said that this headset IS mac compatible. Soo I dunno what's going on.
My guess that this isn't mac compatible even though the guy said it was...
Also,
Any good headsets I can get for the mac UNDER $30?

Hanners, Welcome to the discussion area!
This discussion area is for the G3 iMacs which look like this:
It sounds like you do not have a G3 iMac. It sounds like you have a G4 iMac which looks like this:
The iMac you have does NOT have an audio input port. The plug you have attached the microphone to is the output port for the Apple Pro speakers. By doing that you may have damaged your microphone AND the output port for the Apple Pro speakers.
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