Just in case I wasn’t actually the last person to realize it’s possible to rent good camera equipment for a reasonable price I thought I’d let people know. Over the weekend I rented a very nice lens from Protog rentals in Costa Mesa for $40, picked it up Friday evening and dropped it back off Monday evening. It was a lens that was on my “If I had a million dollars” wish list but could never justify purchasing just to take pictures of my kids playing soccer. The down side is now that I have witnessed what a good lens can do it will be hard to go back to using my lens again, kind of like once you have flown business class it’s hard to go back to economy. They also rent video equipment, but as I’m only interested in stills I didn’t pay much attention to their video inventory.
