Transfer from Digital 8 camera won't recognize

I'm a first time user of Mac (just picked up a new iMac last month) and I'm a beginner at video editing also. I've been playing around with the Mac trying to transfer video via a firewire from my Sony digital 8 camera.
I have had success in getting the tapes that were recorded with the digital 8 camera to transer using the firewire but any other tape that I put in that I have recorder with a another camera in the past is not recognized by the Mac. I just get a blue screen and the computer will not recognize the signal.....the camera will play and display the videos perfectly and the Mac will recognize play/stop/rewind commands from the camera but will not record or display any of the signal whatsoever.
The tapes that I recorded on the digital 8 are a mixture of regular, hi8 and digital 8 tapes so I don't think that the type of tape is the issue but I think that its the camrea's inability to recognize and convert the non-digital tapes for transmital on the firewire...don't know, thats just my thought on it
Does anyone have any ideas or solutions
thanks in advance
Is there a way that I can get around this issue of transfereing these videos to the Mac via a firewire?...is there something on the camera that I may have to activate for the Mac to recognize the video signal that was not recorded on the digital 8 camera?

is there something on the camera that I may have to activate for the Mac to recognize the video signal that was not recorded on the digital 8 camera?
Not sure if this may be your problem or not... In the VTR menu, is your "A/V —> DV Out" switched "On" or "Off?"

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