Equipment
Typically, this blog stands on the idea of “Please protect your gear, and if it’s our gear you’re renting from us, please absolutely protect the gear”. However, mistakes happen, and things break. When you have an inventory as large and diverse as ours, that reality happens way more than we’d care to admit. So after […]
Customer Stories
A few months ago, we were able to sit down with Lensrentals.com customer and filmmaker Shannon Corsi, as she told us about her upcoming project, Nexus – a documentary focusing on five groups of female skiers, as they highlight their love for winter sports and the challenges that come with it. Well, a lot has […]
Equipment
Professional video batteries are a constant source of confusion for our customers. So constant, in fact, that this isn’t the first time we’ve written an article on this topic. First, Erik Morrison wrote a beginner guide in the bygone days of 2011. I then updated that article with some more information and context in 2020. […]
Equipment
I’m always inherently a bit of a skeptic when someone’s explanation for something involves a ‘magic’ or a ‘minutia’ that can’t quite be explained. When someone offers an explanation to reasonings for what gear they use, I want them to take a pragmatic approach – This lens is much more robust than the alternative; this […]
Equipment
In 2019, I made one of my first attempts at a Milky Way photo while on my first trip to Big Bend National Park. Surprisingly though, it wasn’t what drove me to make the 8-hour drive to this remote location. In March of that year, Big Bend had a perfectly timed rainfall that kicked off […]
