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No Drama Ltd

Independent UK rental house providing cutting edge camera, lenses, grip & video kit to the motion picture industry and non-scripted TV.

We're a cutting edge rental house supplying top-tier equipment and first class no-nonsense customer service to the Film & TV production industries. We have offices in Manchester, Liverpool & Glasgow. No Drama services Commercials, TV Drama, Feature Films, Shorts & Music Videos. Our Flex department services the Non-scripted TV sector. Our highly experienced staff are helpful, agile and do everything possible to make sure you never need to worry about the kit on your shoot.

05/08/2025

Our latest arrival, the 18mm Tamashii T2.2. Full frame vintage goodness with very little distortion and weighing less than 2kg.

Our set of Tamashii lenses is a collaboration between and . All vintage, all Japanese and all chosen for being the outstanding focal lengths of their kind. They are matched perfectly for colour, contrast, bokeh texture and flare. Designed to be able to shoot wide open with no CA at a fast stop across the board.

All killer, no filler these should be on anyone’s list for vintage spherical lens tests!

Only available in the UK from ourselves and the legends

17/07/2025

These beautiful, rare and super unique lenses are exclusively available from ourselves and in the UK.

Always pushing to give our clients the very very best creative tools available….. 🤟🎥🎬

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𝗧𝗔𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗜 primes are among the most unique lenses we have ever tested in our Lens Lab. The set consists of Japanese vintage photography lenses that have been carefully selected by their image characteristics and modified for modern cinema use.

TAMASHII primes were designed and built in close collaboration between and

These lenses offer unique flare characteristics that add a subtle color contrast to your images. TAMASHII’s produce warm flares combined with subtle cool blue and purple spherical spot flares.

The Bokeh is one of the most outstanding characteristics of the TAMASHII’s. In contrast to most vintage lenses available today, this lens set is well matched and produces high-quality images, and combines vintage character with high resolution clean image rendition. The focus falls off, and subtle distortion renders bokeh with depth in a pleasing way and creates a unique three dimensionality to the images.

You can now compare and explore the 18mm, 29mm, 42mm and 58mm TAMASHII at different T-stop settings in the the CINEFLARES PRO lens library with our time-code synced side by side player and SCENE PREVIEW in Day & Night setting.

08/07/2025

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Last week I had the opportunity to finally direct a narrative project in my hometown! Something I’ve aspired to do since I started working in the industry. Every geordie I’d ever meet on set, we’d always say
‘Wouldn’t it be class to make something back home!’ 🏠 Well we only went and bloody did it!

I can’t say much about the project yet, so the pictures are carefully chosen to hide details 👀 But I’m sure I’ll be spamming your feeds with it soon enough 🎈 ☕️

Thank you to the amazing cast and crew! Can’t wait for you to see what we captured! Stills taken on my .uk camera 📷

Starring:
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Writer:  Producers: Maria Caruana Galizia and Zahra Zomorrodian at
Director: 🙋‍♂️
Script Supervisor:

Production Manager:
Production Assistant:
Production Runner:

Director of Photography:
Focus Puller:
2nd AC:
Camera Trainee:

Production Designer: at
Standby Props:

Key Grip: at
Grip Assistant:

1st Assistant Director:
3rd Assistant Director:
Daily 1st Assistant Director: .r.turner
Daily 3rd Assistant Director: .films

Gaffer:
Spark:
Lighting Trainee: Alex Hooper

Sound Recordist:
Boom Op:

Chief MUP & Hair Artist:
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Costume Designer:
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09/06/2025

We’re teaming up with again to bring you their very latest camera tech in a very relaxed atmosphere…. This time in Byker. Spaces are limited so drop us an email to reserve your place.

Among the kit on show this time will be the Venice 2, Burano and Mini Rialto….. come along and see us this Thursday 🙌🎥🍻

27/05/2025

Photo from on set of The Bombing Of Pan Am 103 last year. The series from is now on and

Shot on & chosen by DOP

20/05/2025

If you’re up in the Toon come over and join us on Thursday as we celebrate the launch of our office. Meet the ND Team, hang out and enjoy some of finest beverages at the same time… what’s not to like.

Places are filling up fast so email [email protected] if you want to come along…. 🙌🎉

19/05/2025

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Podcar day - driving at speed over rough terrain.

drama shooting on & with at the helm.

14/05/2025

🚨 New Full-frame Anamorphic Alert 🚨

Give a warm No Drama welcome to the lovely full-frame Xelmus Apollo Anamorphic lenses. They come as a set of 32, 40, 50, 60, 75, 100 & 135mm, utilised with a x2 de-squeeze. Sensor coverage is well beyond Super-35 and, at the long end, up to full LF open-gate.

This is a compact & sharp set of primes optimised for distortion correction, with beautiful controlled flare and tons of character.

Thanks to the newly available astigmatiser design only previously available in Panavision Anamorphic lenses, these lenses are considerably more compact than most anamorphic lenses whilst also offering remarkable close focus. They boast considerably improved breathing & ‘bumps’ performance and they’re nice & fast, starting at T1.7 and topping out at T2.8.

This is a unique offering, don’t hesitate to come check them out! 🎥

09/05/2025

Shot last year on our cameras and rehoused primes. Such a pleasure to meet Toby for the first time and work with him on this.

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Fear - Episode 1, directed by Justin Chadwick

Loved shooting this 3-part thriller in Glasgow’s West end with some great Petzval lenses, Canon k35s and some funky zooms

Starring Martin Compston , & . Out on .

Created and written by Mick Ford
Produced by Matt Brown
Cinematography: 👋
Editor: Rick Russell
Music: Adam Janota Bzowski
Production Designer: Stephen Mason
Colourist: Colin Brown
1st AD: Liam Shaw
Costume Designer: Kate Gill
Executive produced by Derek Wax, Frances Flannery, Suzanne Reid

1st AC: Sefa Ucbas
2nd AC: Bruce Carmichael
Camera Trainees: Eilidh Kellaway & Leonidas Eleftheriadis .elefth

Key Grip: Graig Atkinson
Grip Assistant: Jacob Cradling

Gaffer: Robbie Gray
Best boy: Stewart Torley
Electricians: Gareth Davies, Francis MacNeil and Simon Neale
Riggers: Chris McGregor and Steven Nailen

Steadi: Chris Maxwell
Drone: , Sam Short, Miles Trotter, Ross Elliott & Hugo Saunders
DIT: Derek Gereg
Cameras: Nodrama

And thank you to

02/05/2025

Great night Crew event yesterday eve at the wonderful - great to catch up with so many people 🙌🏻

30/03/2025

Happy Harrison Ford up in the Highlands, overjoyed with one of our DM170s…

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Wrapping up for the weekend sharing these incredible BTS shots that tell a little bit of the story behind the 3 days we spent shooting with the magnificent Harrison Ford in rural Ross-shire at home in Scotland last summer.

An absolute dream job working with Joel Edgerton, Lachlan Bailey, Bandits, Hungry Man and over 100 brilliant Scottish crew doing what they do best for the new Glenmorangie global campaign ‘Once Upon a Time in Scotland’

NICE 🥃

24/03/2025

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Here are some more test from yesterday when the sun was shining ☀️ on our modified Alexa LF converted to full spectrum, A full-spectrum camera capable of capturing images across a broad range of wavelengths, including those outside the visible spectrum—such as ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR). Unlike typical cameras, which are limited to the visible light range (approximately 400–700 nm), full-spectrum cameras can record light from roughly 100 nm (UV) to over 1,000 nm (IR), depending on the sensor and filters used. We will show some more tests shortly as we create built in luts in the camera. Available and

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