{"id":176,"date":"2007-09-28T23:49:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T03:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/09\/28\/lens-rentals\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T23:49:38","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T03:49:38","slug":"lens-rentals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/09\/28\/lens-rentals\/","title":{"rendered":"Lens Rentals!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across Glass and Gear<\/a> today, a lens rental<\/a> place. Unknown to me at first, they’re in New Hampshire. I chatted with the owner a bit via e-mail, and am pretty impressed. The 85mm f\/1.2 <\/a>lens is amazing. (For $3 grand, it had better be.) It’s often touted as one of the best lenses for portraiture.\u00a0 (There’s also the 50mm f\/1.2<\/a> if 85mm is too long.)<\/p>\n

I then did some more searching, and realized that there are a lot of lens rental places out there. This place<\/a> has the “Bigma” 50-500mm lens for just $49 for a week. Much more expensive, but there’s also the 600mm lens<\/a> if you really need the best of the best.\u00a0 And at $300 a week it’s not cheap, but they even have the Canon 1Ds Mark II<\/a> body, currently the<\/em> best camera Canon makes. 16 megapixels, full-frame, for a mere $7,000.\u00a0 (The 1D Mark III<\/a> is also incredible, but is aimed at sports photographers and the like; it can shoot at an incredible ISO 6400, a self-cleaning sensor, and it can capture so many photos a second that many have referred to it as a “machine gun” camera.) They seem to be the only place with good lighting rigs<\/a>, too, for studio photography.<\/p>\n

There’s also RentGlass.com, which has a Sigma 30mm f\/1.4 lens, for a mere $24\/week. And the 24mm tilt-shift lens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, there are also super-macro<\/a> lenses. It might be worth comparing prices on anything you’re going to rent (and looking for reviews: I haven’t done that yet!), but I was just surprised to learn how much is out there. Of course, being the first ones I found and<\/em> practically a neighbor, I think Glass & Gear<\/a> would be my preferred vendor. When the foliage gets a little nicer and I’m home for a nice crisp autumn weekend, I think I’m going to have to try an 85mm f\/1.2 to get some good family portraits, and something like the Bigma<\/a> to finally get some good moon<\/a> shots.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across Glass and Gear today, a lens rental place. Unknown to me at first, they’re in New Hampshire. I chatted with the owner a bit via e-mail, and am pretty impressed. The 85mm f\/1.2 lens is amazing. (For … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-links","category-materialism","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}