Gear Rental · Crew & Assistants
Crew & Assistants rental in Denver
Need an extra set of hands? Add a production assistant, grip, lighting or photo assistant, or a digital tech to your gear rental — booked by the day. Tell us how many days you need each role and it rolls into your estimate.
Crew & Assistants · rental rates
The Crew & Assistants catalog.
Assistants are booked by the day — choose how many days you need each role. Labor isn't discounted on the 3-day rental week.
On-set crew
Day rates based on a 10-hour day — overtime bills at 1.5× after 10 hours. Travel, parking, meals, expendables, and specialty equipment are additional. Digital-tech labor and the workstation kit bill separately (kit $500/day).
General set help for the day — errands, releases, deliveries, pickups, load-in/out, runs, crafty, and client support.
Stands, flags, sandbags, rigging, loading, and set safety.
Lighting setup, camera setup, and on-set support.
Capture One, tethering, color, backups, and the client/monitor station. Labor only — add the workstation kit below as its own line.
The tech's full station — cart, laptop, calibrated client monitor, tethering, and shuttle storage. Bills per day alongside (or without) digital-tech labor.
First-time on-location renters set up a rental account once — a quick step covering insurance and a card hold for replacement value. Request a quote with your list and dates.
More gear to rent
Browse by category.
Cameras & Lenses
Medium format through mirrorless and cinema — bodies and lenses for the work. Body-only rentals include a battery and charger; lenses include a UV filter.
Browse →Flash Lighting
Profoto strobes from on-camera speedlights to 2400ws studio packs. Kits ship in a case with your choice of Air Remote (Canon / Nikon / Sony / Fuji / Universal).
Browse →Continuous Lighting
Color-accurate continuous and LED for video and hybrid shoots — point sources, panels, tubes, and big soft fixtures.
Browse →Lighting Modifiers
Hard, soft, big, small — shaped to your call. Softboxes, octas, parabolas, beauty dishes, grids, umbrellas, scrims, and sun control.
Browse →Grip & Electrical
The room behind the room. C-stands, flags, cutters, booms, clamps, apple boxes, sandbags, frames, fabrics, and distro.
Browse →Production Supplies
The kit you forgot at the office — tables, chairs, generators, comms, steamers, tents, SFX, and the utility gear that keeps a set running.
Browse →Photo & Video Accessories
The in-between gear that makes a shoot work — tripods, gimbals, sliders, monitors, mics, recorders, media, and readers.
Browse →FAQ
Rental questions.
Do I need a rental account to rent gear on location?
Yes. To take equipment on location you register for a rental account once — a quick step that includes a driver's license scan, two business references, and either a certificate of insurance on file or a credit-card hold for the replacement value of the rental. Renting just the studio doesn't require this.
How are gear rentals billed — what's a 3-day rental week?
We rent on a 3-day rental week: three, four, five, six, and seven days are all billed as a single 3-day rental, so a full week costs the same as three days. Daily rates are listed on every category page, and longer or recurring rentals are quoted on request. Invoices are payable by card or ACH bank transfer and carry a payment-processing fee — 3% for card, 1% for ACH — shown as its own line item on the invoice before you pay.
How do I get a gear rental quote?
Send your gear list (or a brief) and your shoot dates through the request-an-estimate form, and we'll confirm availability and send a written quote — usually the same business day. Estimates are free and open to anyone; a rental account is only needed once you're ready to take the gear out.
Can I rent gear without booking the studio?
Yes. The gear-rental house is completely separate from the studio — pick up (or have delivered) cameras, lenses, lighting, grip, and production supplies and take them anywhere. No studio booking required.
Do you deliver gear, or is it pickup only?
Both. Pick up at the Kalamath St. shop Monday–Friday, 8:30am–5:30pm by appointment, or add the gear transport van at $225 per travel day — a travel day is each calendar day the van is on the road for your job, out and back. We don't ship, but we deliver anywhere within 500 miles of downtown Denver, and out-of-town crews can have gear staged on arrival. Pickup or return outside standard hours is a flat $95, charged per off-hours end.
What happens if rented gear is damaged or lost?
That's what your rental account covers — a certificate of insurance on file, or a credit-card hold for the replacement value of the gear. On the card-hold option we email you the authorization link 24 hours before your rental begins (a card authorization only lasts about a week, so an earlier hold would lapse before you collect), and on rentals longer than a week we re-authorize the same amount on the same card partway through and release the earlier hold. Bring everything back in good shape and the hold is released. If you're unsure about coverage, just ask before your shoot.
Live estimate
Build your estimate.
Pick your dates and add the gear you need for a live price in seconds. We confirm availability and send your written quote — usually the same business day.