Welcome to The Dog House
Home of Mad Dogs Television
We sniff out quality broadcast equipment and professional crews for all your television broadcast, corporate and video content needs.
Our highly obedient & trained pack can guide you when planning your next TV documentary, lead you through equipping your video production & dig up the top dogs to go on location. To our clients, Mad Dogs really are productions best friend.
Our constant reinvestment in the latest technology ensures we can provide you with top quality equipment. We have an extensive range of cameras, grips, minicams, lighting kits, sound equipment, data wrangling kits and much more! We stock broadcast cameras including Sony’s flagship ranges with the Burano, PXW FX9, ILME-FX6 & ILME-FX3 as well as PXW-FS7 mk2 & PXW Z750 for 4K production.
We also have smaller cameras for quality on a budget including the PXW Z280, PXW X70, Insta360 X4, Blackmagic Micro Studios Cameras and GoPros available for hire. Feel free to browse around and have a look at what we have to offer and find out more about us. If you would like any more in depth information or have a specific enquiry please get in touch.
You can contact us by email [email protected] or give the dog a bone on 02380 813847
Popular Equipment
Sony PXW Z280 Camera
£120.00The PXW Z280 is the Rambo survival knife of cameras! Designed for journalism, you can run and gun and shoot from the hip with this swiss army camera. Fast, lightweight and precise, it is the perfect news gathering camera
Atomos Shogun 7″ Monitor
£40.00This fantastic monitor/recorder has many strings to its bow.
Great as a directors wireless monitor, fantastic as an operators confidence monitor, then factor in quad HD or single 4k recording capability! All of which makes the shogun 7 an essential piece of kit.
Sony Alpha A7 III Camera
£110.00Small camera, large sensor.
This camera (like its twin the ILME-FX3) holds its own against its larger cousins and is a low light monster and king of the gimbal.
Samyang 14mm T3.1 Wide Angle Prime
£25.00Samyang 14mm T3. 1 II is full frame and at 14mm is fully wide, there is little this lens doesn’t see!
Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM Prime Lens
£35.00Canon’s EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM ia a professional short-telephoto lens, precision-made for low-light shooting and those situations where extremely shallow depth of field is required. Perfect for creative portraiture.
Apple Macbook Pro M1 DIT Laptop
£25.00We exclusively use Apple Mackbook Pro for our DIT/Data wrangler laptops. Each unit comes with the latest licence of Shotput pro, Catalyst browse & Di Vinci resolve. Adobe CS is also installed (User licence required). All packaged in a molded pelicase with required docks and card readers. We maintain our kits to ensure you get the quickest and most secure offload speeds.
Sony ILCE A7Siii Camera
£110.00Small camera, large sensor.
This camera (like its twin the ILME-FX3) holds its own against its larger cousins and is a low light monster and king of the gimbal.
Sony Burano Cinema Camera
£385.00Sony Burano, essentially the Venice-lite. This camera fills the void left by the Sony PMW-F55 and bridges the Sony cinema range from Venice 2 to the PXW-FX9. It is an 8k Full frame offering with in sensor stabilization for any lens, the only camera is Sonys line up to offer that with built in variable ND also. It can natively fit PL mount and E mount lenses. We see this as a particularly powerful combination for long lens shooting and dynamic movement.
Friendly local support
Every booking is handled personally by a dedicated member our team. From start to finish we’re hands on to ensure we provide the right kit for the job. We pack each kit as if we were using it, to ensure everything you need on location is in the bag ready to go.
Getting you to location
We offer support for our crews flying out of the UK. Delivering to and collecting from London airports at no charge. We'll help your team with getting everything to the airport, checked in and the crew though security. Packing for travel is our forte! Reducing your excess baggage and saving money! We help take the stress out of international projects for crew and production.
In house technicians
Our ability to maintain and repair our equipment in house means we can ensure every hire goes without a hitch. Or if something does need repairs, we can fix it in house to keep costs down and pass the savings onto you! We also offer in house serving and repairs of your equipment too! Our contacts within the industry mean we can source original parts for spares, or make suggestions for the right people to go to for specialist advice and servicing.
Professional Crews
Our crews are all broadcast professionals and have cover a broad range of skills to suit your requirements. Our crew include Camera operators and Sound recordists as well as DITs, Drone, Jimmy Jib and Gimbal operators. Minicam riggers, Timelapse specialists and Technical supervisors.
Our address
Maddogs Television
The Dog House
Pound Lane
Copythorne
SO40 2PD
Office hours
- 9:30am - 5pm