Camera Equipment Rental

Here is how this works in practice. Cinema camera rental in Australia centres on five vendors. Cameraquip operates the country's largest national footprint with floors in Sydney (Alexandria), Melbourne (Port Melbourne), Brisbane, and Perth. Lemac runs Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane depots with deep ARRI inventory.

Here is the short of it. Panavision Australia — the Australian arm of the global Panavision business — operates Sydney and Melbourne floors with DXL2, Millennium DXL, and the full Panavision Primo, Primo 70, Sphero 65, T-Series anamorphic, and System 65 lens libraries. ARRI Australia itself runs distribution and rental out of Sydney.

Here is the breakdown. Filmplus sits in Alexandria for boutique builds. Vantage Australia (Australian arm of Munich-based Vantage Film) holds the local Hawk anamorphic stock. Body inventory spans ARRI Alexa 35 / LF / Mini LF / ALEXA 65, Sony VENICE 2 / FX9 / FX3, RED V-Raptor + Komodo, and the Auckland-engineered Blackmagic URSA range. Phantom Flex 4K high-speed bodies cross-border in 14 Qantas hours from Vision Research distributors in LA.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Heritage productions on Australian camera floors include the Matrix trilogy (Bill Pope ASC, Sydney Fox Studios 1999-2003), Star Wars Episode II and III (David Tattersall BSC, 2002 and 2005), Mad Max: Fury Road (John Seale ASC, Village Roadshow Gold Coast finishing 2015, Oscar nom and six wins for the film), Aquaman and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (Don Burgess ASC and Don McAlpine ACS ASC, Village Roadshow), Thor: Ragnarok (Javier Aguirresarobe AEC, Sydney and Brisbane 2017), Elvis (Mandy Walker ACS ASC, Village Roadshow 2022, Best Picture Oscar nom), and Furiosa (Simon Duggan ACS, Village Roadshow 2024).

Here is how the picture comes together. ATA carnet clearance through DFAT and Australian Border Force handles cross-border arrivals — 14-hour Qantas LA-Sydney direct for US-built specialty bodies, three-hour Auckland flights for NZ shared cross-Tasman gear. Prep days run at Cameraquip and Lemac with calibrated charts and matched-sensor verification on every body before locations.