EX1R Lengthy Horror Story with happy ending and a Big Question Mark

[John Sharaf]

Hi Bob,

I’m not real familiar with the EX1/3, but I do know that, on all cameras that Audio is turned off when the frame rate is 24 (not 23.9), 30 (not 29.9) or 60 (not 59.9). Perhaps the rest sets the frame rate at 24. It does this on the Alexa for example and you must change to a frame rate that allows Audio before you’ll see (or hear) it!

JS

[Bob Cole]

Very interesting. How do you use a camera with the audio turned off? And by “turned off” do you mean that the audio monitoring is turned off, or audio recording as well?

I have been using the Sony EX1R set to 1080p30 for years, and audio monitoring has worked perfectly, until now.

The Sony repair facility upgraded my version to 1.31. I wonder whether that has anything to do with it.

Bob C

[Don Greening]

At the risk of oversimplifying the problem perhaps the software upgrade defaulted the audio monitor volume to completely off and the preference settings from your SxS card restored the setting to what it was before you sent the camera in. I know that if you hit the RESET ALL in the menu the audio monitor volume will default to zero gain. This fact has caught me more than once, trying to figure out why I can’t hear anything and then realizing that the monitor volume has been reset to zero.

– Don

Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com

[Dan Weissman]

Hi Ian,
Stumbled onto this valuable bit of info (thank you!), and wonder: does it apply when using SD cards in adaptors?
thanks a bunch,
– Dan