Yea, Paul took care of all the replacement parts and adding video tap and ultra 16 gate so I called him and he said I should check for corrosion, so I was trying to save on shipping it back out to Ohio. There's definitely a couple of shiny new bits inside the camera.
Currently the red light is just always on until the camera is running then it turns off, then back on again when I stop the roll. Doesn't seem too bad except for a 5 second delay between pressing the button and the camera actually kicking on which was already getting annoying even for one shoot day.
It's possible that the button got pressed while the battery was not engaged. The camera got jostled in its bag while loading into my car the morning of the shoot but I wouldn't expect that it was anywhere near hard enough to cause any sort of damage being as it was still in the run bag but may have been enough to hit the button. I wasn't aware that could cause issues! Is there any fix for that parking circuit?
Not totally sure how to get into the battery connection area on the inside to check the contacts there. I'll try to give the pins a nudge to see if it is a contact pressure issue.
