Cameras — Hire & Rental

Cameras come with a variety of features suited for different applications. If you’re shooting sports, you probably need a high performance camera that can keep up with shooting at 20 frames per second. However, if you’re shooting a commercial job and your client needs photos and video, you’ll be better off using a hybrid camera which has a balance of features for both photography and video. Think about what your project’s requirements are and we can help you decide.

A mirrorless camera is the newest generation of camera system where the manufactures have removed the mirror component from a traditional DSLR camera, which is where the name “Mirrorless” comes from. Removing the mirror makes the camera lighter and smaller, but it also means that the cameras use a different lens mount and different lenses, but most camera manufacturers have a lens adapter available.

The defining difference between these sensors is the sensor size. A full-frame sensor is the standard sensor size and is based on the size of 35mm film. An APS-C sensor is 1.6x smaller than a full frame sensor, and a Micro Four Thirds sensor is 2.0x smaller.

The relationship between the lens and your sensor is important to note, too. When we point a camera at a scene, the light transmits through the lens and projects an image circle on our sensor. The size of the image circle is designed specifically for a sensor size, for instance, a Canon EF lens will produce the appropriate image circle to cover a Canon EOS Full Frame sensor (EF). The same is true for a lens designed for an APS-C camera, such as an EF-S lens with a Canon EOS 600D. You will find that an EF lens and an EF-S will use the same lens mount but if you put the EF-S lens on a full frame camera, you will see the edge of the image circle in the photograph, also known as Vignetting.