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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

The Accessories That Matter


Tripods, filters and other handy extras for enhancing your photography

By The Editors
Labels: Gear, Buyer's Guide

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Epson P-7000
All you really need to take photos is a camera, a lens and some film or a memory card. But there are lots of extras that can help make your photography more efficient, fun and creative.

JOBO
JOBO GIGA Vu extreme
Portable Storage
Portable hard drives and flash-memory storage devices let you download images from your memory cards and reuse the cards for more shooting. These are available in various capacities of up to 2 TB, and are handy when you’re going to be spending days in the field. Some portable hard drives—multimedia storage viewers—incorporate an LCD screen and allow you to play back the stored images.

Western Digital My Passport Studio
Hoodman
HoodLoupe
LCD Viewing Aids
Even the newest high-tech LCD monitors can be hard to see in bright light, so a device like the Hoodman HoodLoupe (www.hoodmanusa.com) can be very useful. The HoodLoupe 3.0 fits over 3-inch or smaller screens, eliminates glare and brightness, and has a +/-3 diopter for easy focusing, composition and histogram-checking outdoors.

LensCoat
LensCoat Small LensPouch
Lens Covers
Wildlife photographers know that their subjects have sharp eyes and can spot a lens moving from far away. Camouflage lens covers help mask lens movements, and also provide a degree of impact protection for the lens. LensCoat (www.lenscoat.com) offers barrel covers, camouflaged lens hoods, camouflaged covers for tripod legs and flash units, and more.

Magellan
Magellan Triton
2000
 Garmin
Garmin eTrex
Handheld GPS Units
When you’re shooting in the field, a portable GPS unit lets you know just where you’re taking each shot. With a number of newer D-SLRs, you can even connect the GPS to the camera (via an optional GPS connector) and actually record that data with each image. One such connector is the Blue2CAN (www.redhensystems.com). Used with a compatible Bluetooth GPS receiver, it automatically records the geo-location of every image with the EXIF header of each file. Some solid portable GPS device manufacturers include Garmin (www.garmin.com) and Magellan (www.magellangps.com).
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4 Comments

  1. Bill Imhof makes this comment

    Monday, 15 June 2009

    All of the recommended items are great, but I find three, practically free accessories that I wouldn't be without. (1) A shower cap, the type you get in many motels - it weighs nothing and is a GREAT emergency camera cover in the rain. (2) A shiny "Space Blanket". It's light weight, can be used as a rain cover or ground blanket and it's reflective surface can serve as a reflector. (3) Large black garbage bags - again they weigh nothing, can serve as an emergency rain cover for you and your camera gear or to kneel on wet ground. Not everything that's useful needs to cost alot.

  2. ThinkTank makes this comment

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    This article brought to you by ThinkTank Bags.

  3. Sarah Fox makes this comment

    Monday, 15 February 2010

    I think it's interesting this article lists Kokonor filters right up there with B+W, Heliopan, Hoya, and Kenko. That's very odd, considering that nobody in the known universe seems to have ordered one yet. Kokonor is filterhouse's in-house brand. They claim the filter is Japanese, but Kokonor is the name of an area of China. Filterhouse was willing to GIVE me a sample but not to LEND me one for side-by-side, objective testing with other major makes. Very strange! All things considered, I wouldn't touch a Kokonor with a 10 ft extension tube.

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