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Very cool! For what it's worth, my frustration with borrowlenses/lensrentals isn't their pricing, which seems reasonable, but their lack of selection -- I'd lo

Very cool! For what it's worth, my frustration with borrowlenses/lensrentals isn't their pricing, which seems reasonable, but their lack of selection -- I'd love to rent out film cameras like an old Leica or a Mamiya medium format, and no-one seems interested in letting me do that. Maybe this site could? What's the reason you've limited it to Canon/Nikon digital so far? Seems like this could be a real differentiator to get your brand out there. (Oh, there are more options for searching than header buttons for posting. Weird.) As for getting more traffic, have you tried going where the photographers are, places like dpreview/500px/I don't know where else? If you wanted to put all of your energy into this, you might consider buying some camera gear to rent out to seed the site with renters. That's a large commitment, though.

derwiki 13y ago
Just added Leica and Mamiya (I actually had two disparate lists, so you helped my correct a bug!). Canon/Nikon have been the gear of the most interest so far (and high end for both). The headers for "Rent Canon" and "Rent Nikon" are there for the bulk of visitors coming to the site. I haven't reached out to many photographer communities, as I didn't feel the site was end-to-end enough to bother them. I think it's to a good state though, and will start pursuing this. I actually bought a 5D Mark II after launching the site that I've rented out more than a few times :) Luckily enough, I'm also a photographer. It's been a pretty good incentive to also be able to earn money as a user of the site.