Best practice for checking out from various rental houses

[Tom Dowler]

Interested to hear ppl's thoughts on best practice when renting from different rental houses for the same project. Do you wait until you have everything in hand and then prep everything in one spot, or prep camera package at that rental house, then go to the next and prep lenses there, etc.

[James J Lamberg]

As a 1st AC, when I am hired for a checkout I tell the producer that I will need all equipment in one place for a minimum of 6 hours for single camera. The place to be is whichever rental houses you are getting the lenses from. This way if there are any issues with the lenses they can be addressed on site.