Camera Support Rentals

Camera Support, From Sticks to Stabilizers

Support gear is bought with specs and rented with questions. The first one we ask is always the same: what does your camera weigh, fully built? Everything below follows from that number.

What tripod do I need for a cinema camera?

Match the fluid head’s payload range to your built camera weight, not the bare body. A stripped FX6 sits happily on a 75mm bowl system; an Alexa with zoom, matte box and wireless wants a 100mm bowl and a head rated for twenty-plus kilos. Under-rated heads drift; over-rated ones feel like stirring concrete.

Tell us the camera and lens and we’ll pair the sticks for you. It’s the most common phone question we get and takes about a minute.

Gimbal, slider, or dolly?

Each one moves differently, and the differences read on screen. A slider gives you short, repeatable, machined moves for product work and interviews. A gimbal floats through space and follows action but eats batteries and operator stamina. A dolly is the heaviest to deploy and still the gold standard for controlled, weighty movement with focus marks.

Our honest counter advice: when a director says they want everything handheld stabilized all day, quote them an Easyrig too. Shoulders give out before schedules do.

What’s a doorway dolly actually good for?

More than doorways. On smooth floors it’s the fastest way to get real dolly movement without track, and with track it handles most of what a bigger rig would on jobs this side of a studio feature. Pair it with speed rail and track from the grip department and a couple of apple boxes, and a two-person crew can pull off mover shots all day.

What does camera support cost to rent?

Sticks with a proper fluid head run $50 to $150 a day depending on payload class. Sliders and Easyrigs sit in similar territory. Gimbals range $75 to $250 with batteries, and dollies land between $100 and $400 before track. As always, the package number beats the line items, so send the whole job.

The boring checks that keep shots smooth

Every head gets its drag checked through the full pan range before it cases up, because a sticky spot at 80 degrees ruins exactly the shot you saved it for. Gimbals leave balanced to a dummy load matching your declared camera weight, motors calibrated, with charged batteries counted against your shoot days. And we send wheel cups and wedges with every dolly without being asked, because floors lie. Build the rest of the rig from camera accessories or browse the full support catalog.