A Camera to Continue

Well, like a good horse, a good camera is only truly appreciated when it's gone.

Back in 2015 I purchased this Canon XA10 as part of the IndieGoGo campaign that started this whole Guerrilla Miniature Games endeavour. Since then it has shot thousands of hours of video over the course of over five hundred days of shooting. I really can't complain about the wonderful job it has done.

But like all mechanical devices, eventually components begin to break down. I first noticed the issue when viewers mentioned that there were some clips beginning and ending abruptly in videos, as though editing were choppy. As I do a lot of my editing in-camera I knew this shouldn't be the case. Over the past few weeks it has become worse and worse and now there can often be as much as a 5 second delay as the camera struggles to begin recording. After posting this on Canon's website today and using the chat to talk to the technician he suspects there's an iminent hardware failure coming up for it.

So; this was something I really hoped I'd be able to put off for another year and especially not have happen right before tax time (when money is completely tight), but here I am about to be without a camera to shoot on. I can switch to a family camcorder style camera to shoot on in an absolute emergency, but it has limitations and EVERYONE will notice the difference. So, I'm reaching out to you folks in the hope we can come togther and all pitch in to put togehter a solution before this gets critical. I'm going to put together a GoFundMe for the cost of another XA10 plus the Duties/Handling service B&H provides (which insures the camera gets to me without issue and that duties are paid up front). Basically, if it's possible for you guys to pitch in $10 this will be covered almost instantly.

Thanks for reading!


Ash