Sony CCDTR940 Hi8 stereo camcorder

this is the sony handycam hi 8xr of SteadyShot model ccd TR 940 does not have a year or date indicated on the stickers but the I printed out the original instruction manual and it says copyright 1998 so it's from around that time it's 18 times optical zoom 72 times digital zoom with night shot and steady shot 5head system HiFi stereo with laser link here you can see the 3 watt halogen bulb you can turn it on or you can put it in Auto which is if you point the camera in a dark area it will turn on the light and if you point it back towards a bright area it will turn it back off and you even if you leave it on it shuts off after five minutes automatically because it the halogen bulb heats up and actually put a warning on there there's your built-in stereo microphone the mechanical lens shutter which is linked to the on/off switch and you have a fader and auto or manual focus with the whee