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Borrowing equipment

Photography students can borrow photographic equipment without permission from a teacher.

Items that can be borrowed include:

• SLR cameras

• Tripods

• Flashes

• Shutter release cables

• Zoom lenses

To be sure you get the equipment you need when you need it, fill in a booking slip at the front desk in the Library.

Get in early for weekend and holiday bookings! You’ll be asked when you want to pick your equipment up. Please remember that if you miss your pick up time the equipment may be given to another person.

Pre-tertiary students - please let us know that you are in a pre-tertiary photography student and we will try to prioritise your bookings at very busy times.

Students may also borrow digital cameras and digital video cameras (for course work) if a teacher makes a booking for them online.

All photographic equipment is for overnight loan only. These must be returned by 8:30 am the following day. If you can’t make it to College on the day something is due, ring us!

Your borrowing privileges will be withdrawn (polite talk for being banned!) if you get into the habit of returning things late.

If you want to renew the equipment you have out, we will need to see it.

Please remember that you are financially responsible for the equipment you borrow.

Don’t let anyone else use the College’s camera and don’t borrow a camera for someone else.

Etiquette

Please:
Please check that the camera is working properly, including the light meter.

Please clean the lens before you return it.

Please report any problems you’ve had with the equipment. That way we can fix it before the next person borrows it.

Please avoid water, moisture, sand and dirt. (eg. the beach!)

Please don’t:
Please don’t subject the camera to rough usage.

Please don’t stick the camera in someone’s face (even if you know them) without asking first if they mind being photographed. Be discrete!

Please don’t attract unnecessary attention to yourself or the camera (this increases the risk to you and the camera from people around you).


Please don’t take the camera places where there is a likely risk of it being damaged, for example, near water, sand, fine dust or out in the rain.

Please don’t leave the camera where it is highly visible and accessible as this could increase its chances of being stolen, for instance, in a vehicle.

Common problems

Tripods
Using tripods on unstable ground or without opening up and securing the tripod legs correctly can lead to the tripod tipping over.

Light meter
If the light meter isn’t working, you’ll need to replace the battery. They are available from the Library.

Rewinding
Don’t rewind the film fully into the container — this will make it difficult to start the developing process.

If you need help with your equipment, please see your teacher or one of the
Library staff.