On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 10:13:20 -0800, "Mike Rehmus" wrote:

>The problem is that you will not find a good-quality lavaliere microphone
>without an XLR connector. The good microphones require phantom power and a
>balanced line to avoid noise problems.
[...]

Sorry to jump in on your post as the place to put this, but...;-)
- with short cables, there is no inherent advantage to
balanced-line (XLR) systems...
- phantom power offers no inherent audio advantage over
internal power for many camcorder applications...
- there is little disadvantage to using a mini-plug, if
it is clean, and the connection is good and secured...
- XLR connectors do make a good connection more
reliably, but at a cost in size and complication
with most small camcorders...
- if your camcorder has mini-plug input, adding an XLR
adapter offers little advantage unless you already own
XLR-mics, and are adapting them (in the end, you still
have a single-sided system with a mini-plug as the
connector ;-)...
- while it is true that better mics of all types are
likely to have an XLR connector than a mini-plug,
mics with mini-plugs are often more compact, cheaper,
and quite useable for much video work (which requires
less in the way of ultimate mic audio quality than
mics used for music recording), especially if you are
willing to EQ the results in post...
- mics that are excellent for music recording may not
be ideal for speech-recording for video...
Choose the mic for its suitability for the job, not
just its connector-type, price, response, "name", etc...