Hi there,

I have a Canon ZR65MC, and it has worked well up until recently. Upon turning it on, I was met with a rather unsurprising black video screen (similar to the lenscap being on). Of course, me being the forgetful type, I check for the cap first, as usual. But it wasn't there. I preceded to check other things, and wasn't able to resolve it.

I further tried playing back a tape. This actually works. All contact to the lenses still works (zoom/zoom out action I can see physically). Changing the mode is not effective, it's still very black. I'm trying very hard to figure this out, and it's killing me (it's out of warranty

Connecting via FireWire doesn't yield anything but black (oh what a surprise) and trying to record...records...guess what..black!

If anyone has any clues, please try to help me out. I'm going on vacation soon (over 4000 miles each way...wehee) and it would be terrible to be out the use of my video camera. Further, it's a merely out a month of warranty (unless this Sears label is wrong, which I hope it is [dated 9/7/03]). I'm willing to crack her open if there is any solution you guys can think of.

TIA.