hzak wrote:

I have not used this camera for about three years. My son wanted to use it
for school project. The play back works fine. When the camera is turned
on, the scrren as look in the view finder is dark. It almost look like
that the shutter did not open but it is open. Any ideas on what may be
wrong with this camcorder? Thanks in advance for your help.


Unfortunately it probably has dozens of bad capacitors. Unless this
camera has some sort of extreme sentimental value or something it's
probably not worth repair.
It can be repaired, but the amount of labor involved would cost you many
hundreds of dollars.