HIREACAMERA GUIDES

Hints, tips, tutorials and kit lists
covering a range of job types and shooting styles.

Helpful articles covering a host of different topics, from how-to guides to kit teardowns and shooting ideas. Whether you're interested in getting into a style of photography you've never tried before, or you're shooting a corporate video and need a ready-made kit list. With Guides, we aim to get you up and running with shooting ideas and equipment suggestions.

Helpful articles covering a host of different topics, from how-to guides to kit teardowns and shooting ideas.

Vlogging Guide

To launch a successful vlog, you don't necessarily need a sprawling professional studio, but selecting the right equipment is crucial for producing high-quality content that keeps viewers engaged.

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Wedding Guide

For a wedding professional managing a modern workflow, capturing a once-in-a-lifetime day demands absolute reliability and creative versatility.

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Safari Guide

For an unforgettable African safari, choosing the right camera kit can make the difference between capturing a razor-sharp portrait of a hunting leopard or coming home with a blurry spot in a distant acacia tree.

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Sports Guide

Capturing fast-paced action and split-second moments requires high-speed burst shooting, ultra-fast autofocus, and telephoto precision to keep every peak athletic performance sharp and clear.

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The Latest Guides from our Blog Page

02 September 2026

Best Camera Gear for Sports Shooting

The world of sports content creation is fast-paced, high-stakes, and relentless.

20 July 2026

Best Camera Gear for Weddings: Covering All The Bases

For a wedding professional managing a modern workflow, capturing a once-in-a-lifetime day demands absolute reliability and creative versatility. A wedding is a beautiful, chaotic marathon where you must pivot instantly from high-speed emotional moments to stylized cinematic video clips

20 July 2026

The Hybrid Hustle: Managing a Multi-Brand Ecosystem on the Wedding Day

Running a high-end wedding production team or working as a solo hybrid shooter often means choosing the absolute best tool for each specific job, even if those tools come from different manufacturers.

23 June 2026

Best Camera Gear for Safari: How to Choose Your Lenses and Bodies

Our quintessential hiring guide to help you select cameras, lenses support and accessories to get the absolute best out of your safari adventure

23 June 2026

Beyond the Camera: Why Premium Optics and Support Gear Make or Break a Safari

Going all in on a top tier camera and gigantic telephoto is all well and good, but if you don't pick up essential accompanying items you might find that wonderful kit is entirely wasted!

01 April 2026

Sony FE 35mm f/1.8 GM: A London Field Test from Soho to Sunrise

Resident Sony expert Jonny Gios puts the Sony FE 35mm F/1.8 GM through its paces on the streets of Soho

20 November 2025

Wedding Shoot: Jonny Gios Tests the Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II

When resident Sony guru Jonny Gios offered to put one of our lenses through its paces and report back on his findings, at a wedding shoot no less, the answer was an immediate YES.

11 November 2025

Lenses For Vloggers

Vlogging Lens Hire: While the camera body captures the pixels, the lens is the true artistic tool that dictates the look, feel, and perspective of your vlog, profoundly influencing how your audience connects with your content.

11 November 2025

Get Started Vlogging

Vlogging Camera Hire: We cut through the noise to provide a clear and practical guide on the crucial technical pillars of vlogging

18 January 2024

Sunday Read: Cooking with the Canon EOS R7

As a keen Amateur chef with a very deliberate capital A, shooting food and cookery seemed an obvious next step on my photographic adventure, as well as the chance to dabble with a little video too.

14 June 2023

Guides: why you shouldn't overlook camcorders

As more high-end mirrorless cameras hit the market, the humble traditional camcorder is often overlooked in favour of hybrid cameras with interchangeable lenses.

22 March 2023

Easter Offer 2023

We've made Good Friday and Easter Monday free hire days on our instant booking system, so when you book your kit for the long weekend enjoy 4 days hire for the price of just 1!

05 January 2023

Guides - Canon Camcorders for Business

It’s a new year, and many of us will be coming back to work with new priorities and a list of things we want to achieve in 2023. For small businesses, growth and exposure will be high on the list of desires, and video content will play a crucial role in this.