Her sweet 16, filmed by her friends, edited by us

That's the condition these are built for and the exact condition a phone fails in. Low light and a moving light rig are what produce the smeared, grainy, half-black clips that end up in a group chat. You'll still want one camera near the entrance or the cake table where there's some ambient light.

No — the camera orients itself, so it records the right way up regardless of how it's being held, so the horizontal habit isn't something you need to teach anyone.

You won't have it that night, and it's worth saying so upfront. The edit takes three weeks on the four-camera kit from when the case reaches us. If the timing matters — a birthday post, a school thing — add the rush edit at checkout and tell us the date you need it by.

Split them. Two cameras stay at the house for the getting-ready room, which is loud and usually funnier than the party, and all four go to the venue afterwards. There's nothing to set up at either end — no power, no rigging, nothing the venue needs to know about.

No. There's no equipment to load in, no stands, no power draw and nobody standing in a doorway with a rig. From the venue's side, some of your guests are holding small cameras. It's the reason this works in rooms that won't accommodate a second videographer.

You don't pay for the edit. If the kit comes back without enough usable material to cut a film, the editing charge and every add-on are refunded in full. You keep paying only the kit rental — 20% of the package price, less than the rental is worth on its own — because the cameras were held and shipped for a date we couldn't book to anyone else. It's rare, and we show you what came back before we make that call.