Lapel Mic and lighting

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Today I have two equipment requests.

Lapel Mic

Over the past few months, after doing lots of single person shows, I've decided that we need our own lapel mic. Often we go to places where the mic we are given is of inferior quality or they can only give us a hand-held mic or nothing at all.

The one I'm planning on buying also has a camera receiver which means that we can hook it directly up to our video camera to record movies with much higher quality sound (which has always been a problem for us).

Sennheiser ew 112-p G2 - Camera Set
Budget: $900
Suggested contributions: $100 - $200 - $500 - whole amount

Lighting

Since we are constantly performing at different venues, more often than not, we are performing in venues or churches which were not designed for theatre performances and the lighting doesn't suit. We need some simple lights that we can transport with us so that we can have adequate lighting for people to see our faces.

2 x Secondhand 640 Watt Fresnel Lights with barndoors (up to $190 each)
1 x Lighting stand - Budget $160