Fx wrote:

screen is dark and records dark as well .... any help appreciated !

thanks


This is a long shot since I don't know anything about that cam.
On some older panasonic camcorders the mechanical iris would stick,
often causing a dark picture, or sometimes black or too bright.
I used to take the iris out of the lens assy, clen oil off the three or
four interlockng leaves, reinstall it and it was fixed.
After a while I started saving irises from scrapped camcorders for a
quicker turnaround time by swapping the parts.