Rental help

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treynolds

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So i wasn't sure where to post this but here goes.

I've got a project coming up in a couple of months to film a conference in New York, I'm in LA though. I am looking for rental houses in NY that people have used with some success. I need something that can shoot HDV because i wont have the ability to dump footage from cards or anything during the shoot. I need to be able to just quickly switch tapes and move on during 3 days worth of conference. I am very open to suggestions for cameras that might work well for this type of shoot. Its going to be a large lecture hall, 3 static cameras and 1 roaming camera. I normally use my DSLR but for this shoot i need more cameras and need the longer takes that a tape will give me. I'm not stuck on Canon cameras i just know i can work with a canon HDV workflow and i have to shoot this in HD.

Feel free to tell me if you have any better ideas of how i could record with as little down time as possible and still be able to bring all this footage home with me to edit.

Any help is appreciated.
 
Thanks for the help, I have looked at both of them and their rates seem pretty high. I think im going to end up renting from Adorama. Anybody have experience with them before?
 
My friend rented a zeiss prime from adorama for two days I believe for only around $40, he said everything went very smoothly. Their rates look pretty reasonable for the XH A1, looks like it would be $375 for 3 days. Compare that to hundreds of $$$ per day for any HD camera from Abel Cine.
When will you be here? I have an A1 that I might be willing to loan out for a few days for a lot less than that, depending on when it is. It has a problem with the ND filters, they can't be used on preset white balance, this doesn't sound like the type of thing that would require NDs though.
 
The shoot will be march 28-30th. I did notice that adorama was way cheaper. I was seeing $300 a day for the Sony cameras on abel cine

Any reason that Adorama is so much cheaper, not that it bothers me.
 
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