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Originally Posted by bert6280 
Budget Canons have had a bad reputation for picking up tape transport noise on the built-in mic. Not a problem if what you are shooting is quite noisy anyway, but very intrusive if filming interviews etc.
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Tell me about it! Dear god...
I'm editing a yearbook DVD for a local shool a the moment and they've shot interviews with the pupils on a Canon, You can hardly hear a single word they're saying because the speak so quiet and they're drowned out by the constant ZZZZZZZZZ, I would try and filter it out for them, but they're not paying me much to do it so they can just put up with it methinks.
As far as not picking up noise from the tape Mechanism goes, I think I've had the most pleasure with a cheapy Panasonic cam, which the Tape mechanism didn't actually seem to make much noise at all in, however on my HDR-HC3 I find the noise of the tape mechanism quite loud altho the mic doesn't pic up much of it.