Sorry I should have been clear,
no way in hell any rental place in LA would give us this deal. One of our Prof.'s owns his very own thrity five mm camera, fully equiped with lenses and everything you need (you can't change shutter speed and you can only shoot in 24 fps but it's a super 35mm camera) so he gives ridiculous deals to us. If he likes you and you don't fuck up his camera package ( a rarity but we have been good ) he gives you ridiculous deals.

To get nitpicky it's an older camera and some have dissed his lenses but they can drop the few thousand dollars extra, I'll take his package...of course now that I'm graduated we'll see what I do!