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
Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM Long Zoom Lens
£35.00A compact, high-performance, image stabilsed Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM zoom lens that’s ideal for those shooting sports, action and wildlife photography. Try it with canon 2x extender for an awesome 800mm lens which is easy to transport.
Sony 70-200mm f2.8 G Master Zoom Lens
£45.00The Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 G master makes everything look soooo pretty! It really does, its a must for interviews and GVS. Try it! Throw out those backgrounds, embrace the Bokeh and lap up those lens flares
Sony 16-35mm f2.8 G Master Zoom Lens
£40.00G Master performance in a wide-angle F2.8 16-35mm zoom
Perfect applications being for landscapes, Ronin gimbals (when you want face tracking auto focus) or when you want a beautifully shallow non-sync wide shot.
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.
TV Logic LVM-170A 17″ Monitor
£60.00Keep the director or client quiet & happy with their own 17″ monitor. Our TV Logic LVM-170A 17″ Monitors have been assisting with this task for years.
Sony 35mm f1.4 G Master Prime Lens
£40.00The FE 35mm F1.4 GM is a must-have for Sony’s E-mount users, in combination with Sony’s camera bodies, it boasts advanced focusing capabilities – perfect for a wide range of uses such as shooting landscapes, portraits and street photography, recommended for both stills and video.
Laowa Periprobe F/14 E-Mount Kit
The Laowa 24mm T14 2x Periprobe lens is a wide angle macro lens with a long barrel, that now features a 90° “periscope” tip. This lens comes with both straight and periscope front elements that can be easily changed. The periscope version also features LED lights near the front lens, it can be freely rotated, and is waterproof as well.
Teradek Bolt 300 Pro Wireless Video
£25.00Bolt 300 Pro offers up to 300ft of zero latency wireless video, perfect for focus pullers and director’s monitors.
The 300 model comes in HDMI, 3G-SDI, and dual I/O varieties and includes a new fan-less receiver design with internal antennas.
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 forr out crews flying out of the UK. Delivering to and collecting from the airport. 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 crew
Our crews are all broadcast professionals and we 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
- 9am - 5:30pm