Any Experience Renting Lenses?

[Gdad]

I am thinking about renting a super telephoto (Like 300/2.8 or 400/2.8) for a few weeks this summer while we are traveling from BorrowLenses.com- anyone use them before? I have never used them but they do have a favorable rating on resellers.com.

Or if anyone has any alternate rental places they have had good luck with or know someone who has?

Thanks.

 

[AUPr8Hd]

Another option would be rentglass.com

 

[AndrewWG]

I had an EXCELLENT experience with lensrentals.com . They are excellent to deal with. Their customer service is second to none. I e-mailed a question to them at 10pm once and they answered by 10:30pm!! The lens I rented was the 50-500 Sigma "Bigma" and they even shipped it to my parents house for me so I wouldn't have to lug it to Florida. I highly recommend them.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Just be careful. You wouldn't want something like this to happen.

 

[Gdad]

Just be careful. You wouldn't want something like this to happen.

I saw that thread a while back. I will definately get the insurance- seems like cheap peace of mind.

I will check out those other rental places also- Thanks.

 

[stitch626_in_time]

I've rented from LensProToGo and thought they were great. I wouldn't hesitate to rent from them again.

 

[Shutterbug]

I had an EXCELLENT experience with lensrentals.com . They are excellent to deal with. Their customer service is second to none. I e-mailed a question to them at 10pm once and they answered by 10:30pm!! The lens I rented was the 50-500 Sigma "Bigma" and they even shipped it to my parents house for me so I wouldn't have to lug it to Florida. I highly recommend them.

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Right now I have the Canon 100-400 L lens that I rented through them.
I ordered it on Monday, got it on Wednesday. About 95.00 for rental for the week that includes shipping(to and back) and insurance on the lens

I emailed them a question about the lens because I had some questions because there wasnt a manual with the lens and shortly afterward they sent me back a link to a full set of instructions.

 

[Shutterbug]

I saw that thread a while back. I will definately get the insurance- seems like cheap peace of mind.

Just make sure you know what the insurance covers and what it doesnt cover.

 

[AndrewWG]

Just make sure you know what the insurance covers and what it doesnt cover.

I know that with lensrentals.com it doesn't cover theft (I don't know if any of them would) but their policy is that if you can at least send back the crushed, mangled, broken lens, it is covered, I believe 100%. It did state something about the fact that they have to be able to see the serial number on the pieces.

 

[mabas9395]

Just be careful. You wouldn't want something like this to happen.

I was following that thread for a while. They were looking for interesting ways of completely destroying it or putting it to an alternative use. Anybody know what they ended up doing with it?

 

[orchjoe]

I've rented from LensProToGo and thought they were great. I wouldn't hesitate to rent from them again.

Me too... this is where I rented the 10-22 for my trip to Disney this last X-mas season

 

[dburg30]

I've rented from www.cameralensrentals.com before. I had a very good experience with them. I am using them again in a couple of days. They are getting busier now, so I am curious to see if they still deliver top notch service like they did a few months ago.