Gear rental · Mesa, Arizona
Camera and event rentals in Mesa
Mesa is forty minutes east of the counter, the third-largest city in Arizona and the largest in the East Valley. The Mesa Arts Center stages and galleries book performance and arts content, Falcon Field's aviation museum and hangars host aviation films, Sloan Park fills with Cubs content every spring, and downtown Main Street's light-rail plazas and storefronts shoot brand and community work all year.
~40 mindrive time
27 miroad miles
From downtown Mesa via the Loop 202 and I-10.
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Shooting in Mesa
Stages, hangars and a ballpark in one city.
Mesa orders are as varied as the city: theater lighting one week, an aircraft hangar the next, a spring training feature after that. What they share is scale and distance, which is why the delivery van and the multi-day discounts do most of the work here.
Mesa Arts Center and performance content
The MAC's four theaters and its galleries book performance films, rehearsal documentaries and arts-education content. Low light, moving performers and a house that cannot be lit: the A7S III or FX3 with T2.1 Vespid primes, a long lens from the balcony, and a Zoom H6 off the board are the order.
Aviation at Falcon Field
The Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum, the flight schools and the hangars around Falcon Field are the East Valley's aviation location. Escorted access means a compact kit: mirrorless bodies, a gimbal, a long lens, and lights that run off batteries because the hangar's power is spoken for.
Sloan Park, Main Street and the tech corridor
Cubs spring training content at Sloan Park and Riverview Park in March, downtown Main Street brand films along the light rail, and corporate work in the Elliot Road Technology Corridor. Long lenses and comms for the ballpark, a gimbal and a lav for Main Street, the interview kit and a monitor for the corridor.
Where productions work in Mesa
Main Street to Las Sendas, address by address.
Mesa runs from Sloan Park on the west side to Las Sendas in the far northeast, so the van plans each drop, the parking and the load-in by neighborhood, not just by city.
- Downtown Mesa
- Dobson Ranch
- Fiesta District
- Falcon District
- Red Mountain Ranch
- Las Sendas
- Superstition Springs
- Elliot Road Tech Corridor
Locations worth building a shot around
- Mesa Arts Center
- Sloan Park and Riverview Park
- The Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum at Falcon Field
- Main Street's downtown storefronts and light-rail plazas
- Usery Mountain Regional Park
- The Arizona Museum of Natural History
The kit Mesa shoots pull
The Mesa performance kit
Sony A7S III and FX3 for the dark house, the Vespid 35, 50, 75 and 125mm at T2.1, a Zoom H6 taking the board feed with a Sennheiser MKE 600 for the room, a DJI RS 3 Pro for the backstage follow, the Hollyland comms for a crew split between the house and the wings, NP-FZ100 and V-mount spares, and a 17.3-inch broadcast monitor in the production office.
From these shelves
Same building: Influence Studios
Rent the gear. Book the stage. One roof.
The counter shares a nearly 10,000 sq ft building with Influence Studios: a 2,000 sq ft cyc wall, a 30 by 10 ft LED volume wall, a podcast suite and 16 standing sets across 9 studios, bookable by the hour from $49/hr. Studio time includes lighting and audio; cameras come from this shelf.
Good to know
Mesa questions, answered.
Usually you have to. The Sony A7S III and FX3 both carry a high second base ISO that keeps stage footage clean under theatrical lighting, and the Vespid primes at T2.1 give back the stop the house takes. Coordinate with the MAC's production staff for positions and a board feed, and rent the long lenses for the balcony.
Depends where. Falcon Field's Class D covers north and northeast Mesa, Mesa Gateway Airport's covers the southeast, and Sky Harbor's Class B reaches the west side around Sloan Park, so many flights need a LAANC authorization at a set ceiling. Downtown sits outside all three. Usery Mountain Regional Park is a county park, and county rules do not allow drones there. Plan the map before the day.
Yes. Mesa is a long city, and the far east side around Las Sendas and Red Mountain Ranch is a longer run than downtown, which the delivery quote reflects. Most Mesa productions rent for several days, and the fourth day free usually covers the difference.
Long glass for Mesa's spring training, reserved tonight.
Live availability for your dates. Pick up at the Glendale counter or have it delivered to set.