I know some of you guys out there know a lot about microphones, and I hope you can help me choose what to get. I am helping a friend digitize a lot of photographs from a museum of local history, and need to get some narratives from her elderly father on most of them. I've been looking at a simple digital recorder like this one on Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7353100694
Maybe I don't need this much recorder, but what the heck, it's inexpensive,
The problem is that I haven't the foggiest idea of what make, model or type of mike to get for an elderly gentleman to record his narratives in a seated living room evironment. Any suggestions would be appreciated.