

The second one would be best so you don't pick up any noise from handling the camera. You can get a reasonably priced condensing microphone and attach it to the camera with one of these:

HTRHayden - If your DSLR has an input for an external mic you might want to consider that direction. Jsljustin - Good point! I'd settle for both though.

It's got compression, limiting, delays, reverbs- just about every effect you can think of including a vocoder (which is really, really, really, really, really fun to play with. Roland 880 I see it's been discontinued now but it's still going strong. Although not as cheap as the Tascam 4 track cassette recorder I had back in the day or the Sony 4 Track Mini-disc recorder (which was junk for professional grade and $1500), I eventually latched on to one of these for music production. Sometimes you find something awesome from the "cheap" companies. Aladdin4d - Cheap doesn't ALWAYS mean cheap.
