Sony ccd-trv615, camcorder won't focus, I need to zoom to focus

I have a problem with this fairly old Sony CCD-TRV615 camcorder. When I turn on the power, initially no picture comes up on either display (only a blue screen with the various symbols, HI-8, STBY, etc.) After about 10 second, the video then comes up but the error code: E:61:00 flashes in the upper right of the view finder. At this point the picture is blurry, the zoom is all the way zoomed in, and I have to zoom out in order to focus the camera. (there are in fact two focus points, one zoomed in at about 18x, and one focus point at about 1x). I am able to record, which is great, but I'd really love to fix the focus on it.

Any ideas of what I should do? Does it have something to do with the focus motor or as someone suggested, the capacitor for the focus motor?

Many thanks!