[Alex Rappoport]

I’ve just learned that my EX-1 footage from two consecutive days of shooting on an HBO job suffer from this random backtracking of clip numbers. I’m glad I decided to look here before calling Sony about it.

Sadly, the earlier theory that a firmware updated will solve the problem doesn’t seem to be the case. I’m running v1.25 and have been for about six or eight months after a Sony servicing. Indeed, the earlier firmware worked just fine, so in my case it’s the upgrade that seems to carry the problem.

I concur with the theory that a dead battery can cause this problem, but I have a new theory, which has to do with switching card slots too quickly!

I don’t like to let clips run over from one card to another, so I briefly pause the roll and then switch slots and start recording again. Often very quickly! But I recall that when you push the card slot button there is a period of a few seconds when the light on the camera hasn’t exactly reset to green on whichever slot has been toggled. Perhaps the result is identical to the power failure glitch in re clip numbers?

Just throwing it out there. This is a big problem!

I see that no one has written on this thread for quite a while – wonder if there’s been a solution I should know about.

A.R.