Sony miniDV camera not being recognized by emac

Can somebody help? My sony miniDV DCR-TRV11E has worked fine with imovie 4 with a firewire connection. Now when I open imovie it tells me no camera is connected. Also, it's not appearing in the system profiler. Thinking it was a dodgy firewire cable I bought a new one - but no change. Have done the firewire reset by turning computer off and pulling all plugs out of socket, still no change. Any help would be appreciated.
Emac 1.25GHz PowerPC G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Thank you for your help Lennart.
I discovered the problem is the firewire port on the camera. Tried my old cable with my brother's camera and it worked fine. It still didn't show up in the system profiler though. Am now hoping it's not going to cost the earth to be repaired.
Emac 1.25GHz PowerPC G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

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