Advice on hiring my Red, UK.

[Karl H]

Like a lot of you, I got the e-mail from Red to have my camera shipped soon.

I'm seriously thinking of some way to rent the camera out, just for the first few months to try and make something back on my investment.

I'm pretty lazy and to be honest I couldnt be doing with renting the camera out for odd days here and there and dealing with lots of individuals. Equally I dont want to go out with my camera because I will be working elsewhere.

So perhaps it's an oxymoron but does anyone have advice on how I'd go about offering my Red package as a long term rental? Either to a rental house or to an individual production for a long duration. Has anyone dealt with rental houses, what sort of percentage do they offer?

I wont be getting the PL mount lenses (I'll go with Birger/canon when it arrives).

Essentially I'm almost spending all my savings on this just so I can make my own stuff, but if I could find some way to soften the financial blow, now seems the time to do it while prices are high, rather than in April when the market is more saturated.

thanks in advance...

 

[Eren Ozkural]

Whereabouts are you based?

It would be less of a hassle to rent out from London than elsewhere because of the number of shoots going on at any one time.

I've only rented from people like VMI, Arri etc and not individuals so I don't know the particular ins and outs of that process but you would need to be wary of handling insurance policies, providing flightcases etc assuming you already arent.

 

[Michael Stanmore]

The thing about hire houses are that they're well positioned to offer a full range of services... such as the right sorts of insurance, and they can also rush a replacement to set if a unit breaks down and can't be brought quickly back online... that sort of thing.

So do a deal with a hiring house if you can. I'm in London, and I'll be working with a hire house. They'll get a slice of the action in exchange for handling the clients, and having the clientlist in the first place, as well as being better able to keep clients happy.