I have the same camera. I purchased both the ECM HW1 and the pearstone adapter. I really like the quality and ease of use for the HW1. I normally hide the microphone just out of sight and it works fine for one or two people. I use the Pearstone adapter if I want to use a lav mic or if I want to use a small field mixer and bring the mono signal into the camera, it works very well. I use a Samson mixpad4 with phantom power. I can run two phantom powered condenser mics, a pair of lav mics and a background audio in all at the same time, listen to the audio through the headphone jack, and bring all of the signals into the camera synced with the video. It works very nice.