On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > There's an old saying that goes something along the lines of "If it > has wings or ti..uh no Y chromosomes, it's cheaper to rent than to > own". > > It seems to me that the same could be said for lenses, studio lights, > film scanners, all the really cool, really expensive, toys that you'd > only use now and then. > > Are there setups where everybody would pay $50-100 a month and to get > access to shared equipment? Maybe renting it for 2% of value per day > with half of that going back to whoever owns the lens. > > I can see all sorts of benefits to belonging to such a club, and all > sorts of headaches to running it. > > I know that there are businesses that rent out gear, but they work a > lot better if you have a Canon or Nikon. > >
Well, things like studio lights and such (pretty much all the really expensive non-lens stuff) are generally system agnostic, so you can just hit a rental place. But there's no really viable option for Pentax lenses (As much because places like lensrentals.com can't get the moneymaking kit as anything else) -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
