MKH 8060

Can’t go wrong with any of those. For your consideration if you can score an MKH8060 that’s also a very sweet package.

Man I swear by the 8060, I love that thing so much. It's also awesome for when you're having to one man band and they wanna do cross-coverage or wide and tight or some such nonsense. Also does a great job of picking up production sounds in a way that is very usable in post. Though I do admit it's because I haven't really had a chance to try the others. I was able to get a freakishly good deal on a 1 time used 8060 so that's why I habe mine.

8040 & 8050 is my weapon of choice ;)

I use my MKH50 outdoors as well as indoors, but I use a Rycote baseball windscreen and that makes it much easier to work with. The MKH416 / 8060 are also great choices, HOWEVER if budget is a concern you can totally get away with the new Rode NTG 5, I've used that a bunch and it's quite good for the price point.

Once again it depends a lot on what exactly you do. Personally I like the Schoeps MiniCMIT very much. The Sennheiser MKH8060 is exactly as good in my opinion, just a slightly different taste. Bothe are excellent all-rounders outdoors. In some locations a Schoeps MK41 or Sennheiser MKH50 or MKH8050 is still necessary, when dealing with too many reflections (even outside)

I’m getting a tascam FR-AV2 and a Sennheiser MKH 8060 shotgun. I also have some lavs. I’m going to rig the tascam recorder and the mic onto the Smallrig cage!

I’ve got a Rycote HC-22 Pro shotgun that I mainly use for birds. It’s great, one of the quietest out there at 8.5 dBA self-noise. I picked it up used on eBay for $495. I recently upgraded to a Sennheiser MKH 8060. I was originally going to get a Sennheiser MKH 416-P48U3 (also a top pick at around $837), but then I noticed the 8060 is basically just an upgraded 416 with better sensitivity and lower noise, so I grabbed one used instead.