Picture Hire Australia is a rental house specializing in the hire of broadcast & professional production equipment, brands such as Red, Sony [HDCAM, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, Digital Betacam, HDV], Panasonic, Canon, Tiffen, Arri, Kino-Flo, Sennheiser, Rode & Steadicam. We believe in a two way experience with our clients, & feel it's important to work together to create the best package.
Our staff are industry recognised professionals. Be it Standard Definition, High Definition or Ultra High Definition cameras,
VTRs, lighting, audio or grip equipment, we're able to offer sound advice based on first hand experience.
Even if the equipment you require is not listed please call our office as we have alliances Australia wide,
it's likely we'll source it from one of our partners.
Centrally located in Norwood, South Australia, just a few minutes from Adelaide city, Picture Hire is conveniently positioned
within Adelaide's 'creative hub'.
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February 3, 2010 - Just before Christmas Picture Hire acquired an AJA Ki PRO. It's a tapeless video recording device that taps into direct uncompressed camera outputs.
The Ki PRO records high quality 10-bit Apple ProRes 422 HQ files @ 220 Mb/second. The media is ready for immediate use within Final Cut Pro. Because the Ki PRO features SD/HD-SDI, HDMI & Analogue Component (3 x BNCs) inputs you can interface with virtually any type of camera. It's a multi purpose device that's used to record high-end results, recording at 10-bit @ 220 Mb-second is perfect for green screen or compositing work, is used as a video spilt, & is an excellent playback machine Films & AV presentations.
Don't hesitate to call the office to arrange a demo on 8364 2411.
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January 1, 2010 - Picture Hire Australia is pleased to offer Dave Gregan a Full-time position in its camera department. Dave brings with him an impressive string of credits including various roles in no less than eight feature films, Boys Are Back, Broken Hill, Beautiful, Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger, just to name a few.
Dave studied at MAPS in 2006/2007 & in 2008 he quickly established himself by winning
a Silver ACS Award in the Student Cinematography category for Chambers. Dave continued with his good form in July 2009 by winning first prize in the National Pro Bono Resource Centre's Short Film Festival with Stan Spade.
Dave's goal for 2010 is to further enhance his skills as a Cinematographer, but is more than happy to Camera Assist. Continuing with his long form work as a 3rd or 4th Electric is also very important to Dave. Dave's first hand experience makes him a valuable member of any crew.
To view Dave's CV &/or to book him please call the office on (08) 8364 2411 or dave@picturehire.com
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December 7, 2009 - This Christmas convince work mates, family or friends to chip in for a Picture Hire Australia gift voucher. It can be of any value & valid for 12 months.
What a cool idea!
For the months of December & January the Red One has been reduced to $1,100.00 + GST. The kit includes a set of Prime Lenses, Matte-Box & 7" LCD Onboard Monitor.
And lastly, across the board we've discounted all equipment by 10% for December. Finish off the year with a few extra dollars in your pocket!
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November 7, 2009 - The 29th SA & WA Annual Awards for Cinematography was held at the Holiday Inn, Hindley Street, Adelaide. Every year Picture Hire Australia publicly thank those who chose their equipment to achieve their goals. This year the winning entries have been uploaded to Picture Hire's Vimeo Channel for all to see.
There were two winners in 2009 picking up four awards. Lucas Scheffel won Bronze in the Music Clip category for 'The Deadly Boyz 'Rise' & Pete Hall won three awards, the first was Gold in Corporate & Educational for 'Trapped in Time', in Commercials Local/Regional Pete won Bronze for 'Right Direction' & to cap it off a second Bronze for 'Henry & Bee' in Dramatised Documentaries. Thank you Lucas & Pete, & well done.
To continue its support of the industry Picture Hire Australia was also proud to be a Bronze sponsor.
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September 14, 2009 - Picture Hire Australia has just acquired Sony's latest release Sony PDW-F800 XDCAM HD Camcorder. The F800 is top of the line in the 2/3" XDCAM HD422 series recording image resolution of 1920 x 1080 & eight-channel 24-bit uncompressed audio. The F800 builds on the PDW-700 camcorder, features such as - Frame Rates 23.98P, 25P, 29.9P, 59.9P, 50i, 59.9i, Optical ND & CC Filters, Digital Extender, Focus Magnification, Freeze Mix, Slow & Quick Motion function, Slow Shutter, Interval Recording (Time Lapse), Picture Cache Recording & Live & Play Function.
Picture Hire's F800 kit comes fitted with a 2.7" Colour Viewfinder, Chroszeil 3 Tray Matte-Box, 190Wh battery power from Swit, Satchlet HD Carbon Fibre sticks & Canon's top of the line 22x HJ series ENG/EFP HD Zoom Lens. Also accompanying the F800 is a Canon HJ11ex4.7B IASE Wide Angle Lens.
And, to get you started we'll supply a Sony PDW-U1 XDCAM Reader/Writer at no cost.
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September 1, 2009 -
Filling up your hard-drives & confused about what format to archive to? Or feel you should master those short films, docos or TVCs? For the month of September hire Picture Hire's HDCAM HDW-D1800 VTR @ $50.00 per hr (+GST). This high-end VTR is usually priced @ $200.00 per hr, so that's awesome value.
 Sony HDW-D1800P Flyer
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August 31, 2009 - Carmilla Hyde picked up two awards at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival last night - "Best Guerrilla Film" & "Best Supporting actor" Georgii Speakman. |
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