TOP gifts for photographers and videographers 2022 | Articles | Photo, video, optics

The clos­er the New Year hol­i­days, the more acute the ques­tion becomes — what to give for the New Year? Ana­lysts have cal­cu­lat­ed that more than half of Rus­sians — 54% — buy gifts in the last days before the hol­i­days. But the clos­er to the cel­e­bra­tion, the less chance to have time to order some­thing worth­while.

We col­lect­ed 9 prod­ucts for pho­tog­ra­phers and video­g­ra­phers in dif­fer­ent price cat­e­gories. They will please the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of these pro­fes­sions and will have time to “get” to you before the win­ter hol­i­days.

A gift for a pho­tog­ra­ph­er and video­g­ra­ph­er for the New Year up to 5,000 rubles
An orig­i­nal gift for a pho­tog­ra­ph­er and video­g­ra­ph­er up to 10,000 rubles
An unusu­al gift for a pho­tog­ra­ph­er and video­g­ra­ph­er up to 20,000 rubles
What can you give a pho­tog­ra­ph­er and video­g­ra­ph­er up to 30,000 rubles
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The begin­ning of Decem­ber is the time to choose New Year’s gifts. Pho­to: pixabay.com

All prices are at the time of pub­li­ca­tion of the arti­cle.

A gift for a photographer and videographer for the New Year up to 5,000 rubles

Lavalier microphone BOYA BY-M4C professional XLR

Price: 3 487 rubles

High-qual­i­ty sound is very impor­tant for a blog­ger, pro­fes­sion­al or ama­teur video­g­ra­ph­er. If you are look­ing for a high-qual­i­ty but inex­pen­sive lava­lier micro­phone, BOYA BY-M4C is a great solu­tion.

Lava­lier micro­phone BOYA BY-M4C is a light­weight, com­pact and use­ful gad­get. Pho­to: onlinetrade.ru

It has a wide sound cap­ture angle, and is dis­tin­guished by effec­tive fil­ter­ing of unwant­ed noise. Even if you do not speak very loud­ly or are shoot­ing on the street (in a crowd­ed place), the gad­get will pro­vide a clear record­ing of speech.

External battery (power bank) Accesstyle Arsenic II 20PQD

Price: 1 990 rubles

Elec­tron­ic equip­ment has a draw­back — it is dis­charged. And unex­pect­ed­ly, before an impor­tant trip or at a cru­cial moment. But it hap­pens that on the road you can’t con­nect to an out­let and quick­ly recharge a dead gad­get. There is a solu­tion!

With the pow­er bank Accesstyle Arsenic II you can quick­ly charge any device. Pho­to: otzovik.com

This is a small, com­pact and pow­er­ful Accesstyle Arsenic II 20PQD 20,000 mAh pow­er bank with dis­play and fast charg­ing func­tion. Works via Type‑C or Micro USB. Exter­nal bat­tery with­stands over 500 recharge cycles — will last a long time. Weighs only 412 g, does not take up much space (67.5x147.8x27.5 mm). You can charge two devices at the same time, con­nect to a lap­top.

Monopod Falcon Eyes MP-18

Price: 3 171 rubles

A gift idea for a pho­tog­ra­ph­er or cam­era­man is a mono­pod. It can­not com­pete with a pro­fes­sion­al tri­pod. But if you need to shoot dynam­ic video and do not want to car­ry heavy equip­ment, then it is bet­ter to choose the Fal­con Eyes mono­pod.

Fal­con Eyes MP-18 is a light­weight and durable mono­pod for shoot­ing. Pho­to: digibuc.ro

It can be giv­en to both a novice pho­tog­ra­ph­er and a pro­fes­sion­al. The mod­el is com­pact (length when fold­ed 52 cm), light (weight 620 g). At the same time, it can with­stand cam­eras weigh­ing up to 8 kg. The max­i­mum work­ing height of this mono­pod is 188.5 cm.

An original gift for a photographer and videographer up to 10,000 rubles

In 2021, Rus­sians are ready to spend up to 13,000 rubles on New Year’s gifts (aver­age val­ue). These are the results of a sur­vey con­duct­ed by the Super­Job por­tal. The data was ana­lyzed by the tele­vi­sion com­pa­ny Rus­sia Today. And we have cho­sen what you can give a girl or a man to a pho­tog­ra­ph­er with­in this amount.

Color Chart Datacolor SpyderCheckr Cards

Price: 6 383 rubles

The pho­tog­ra­ph­er works not only with the cam­era. He has many oth­er tools in his arse­nal. A good gift up to 10,000 rubles is the Dat­a­col­or Spy­derCheckr col­or chart. This is a set of col­or stan­dards that are used to cor­rect cer­tain col­or dis­tor­tions.

The Dat­a­col­or Spy­derCheckr Cards are an unusu­al New Year’s gift for a pho­tog­ra­ph­er. Pho­to: datacolor.com

Each scale has dig­i­tal val­ues ​​in LAB and RGB, allow­ing you to adjust the image to the ref­er­ence val­ues. A total of 48 col­ored plates are includ­ed in the kit. Addi­tion­al­ly, there are skin tones fields (need­ed for por­trait and fash­ion pho­tog­ra­phy), a gray scale (can be used as a tar­get for col­or bal­ance). The set is pack­aged in a black box to pro­tect the scales from light.

LED panel Falcon Eyes Flat LED 60 for product photography

Price: 8 760 rubles

Anoth­er use­ful gift for a begin­ner or expe­ri­enced pho­tog­ra­ph­er and cam­era­man is an LED pan­el. It is used in sub­ject pho­tog­ra­phy, which is now very pop­u­lar. They order it to cre­ate accounts, demon­strate prod­ucts on the site, cre­ate adver­tis­ing.

The Fal­con Eyes Flat LED pan­el will help cre­ate shad­ow-free prod­uct light­ing, speed up the shoot­ing process and reduce post-pro­duc­tion time. The pan­el pro­duces “day­light” light with a col­or tem­per­a­ture of 5600K. this results in nat­ur­al col­ors.

It is easy to take a beau­ti­ful pho­to for sub­ject shoot­ing with a spe­cial LED pan­el. Pho­to: kotofoto.ru

Flick­er free tech­nol­o­gy allows you to shoot video and con­tin­u­ous pho­tog­ra­phy with­out chang­ing the white bal­ance and flick­er. This is a use­ful acces­so­ry for those who are engaged in con­tent shoot­ing.

An unusual gift for a photographer and videographer up to 20,000 rubles

Action camera Sjcam SJ6 Legend

Price: 13 760 rubles

A bit out of the aver­age bud­get, but def­i­nite­ly worth a look! Ini­tial­ly, such devices were of inter­est only to fans of extreme pho­tog­ra­phy. But over time, they have become insane­ly pop­u­lar out­side of this cir­cle of users.

The action cam­era Sjcam SJ6 Leg­end is a lit­tle helper for a video­g­ra­ph­er. Pho­to: shop.sjcam.com

SJCAM Leg­end is a com­pact cam­era with a wide range of fea­tures. Weighs only 82 grams.

Char­ac­ter­is­tics:

• video shoot­ing in 4K, 1080p, 720p;
• matrix res­o­lu­tion 16 MP;
• view­ing angle 166 degrees;
• there is image sta­bi­liza­tion;
• the max­i­mum frame rate in the video is 120;
• there is a ser­i­al pho­tog­ra­phy;
• There is night and under­wa­ter shoot­ing.

The kit includes a set of mounts for dif­fer­ent sur­faces (on the arm, chest, hel­met, bicy­cle, head, scoot­er), aquabox for under­wa­ter shoot­ing.

Tripod Joby GorillaPod 5K Kit

Price: 13 610 rubles

What can you give a pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­ph­er? Some­thing use­ful! For exam­ple, a tri­pod is an indis­pens­able acces­so­ry. It sta­bi­lizes the cam­era and lens, allow­ing you to shoot at slow shut­ter speeds for scenes that can­not be shot hand-held.

The Joby Goril­la­Pod 5K Kit is the pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­pher’s flex­i­ble com­pan­ion. Pho­to: traveltimes.ru

The Joby Goril­la­Pod 5K Kit weighs only 739g and can sup­port devices up to 5kg. You can attach a cam­era, light source, micro­phone, flash and oth­er equip­ment on it. All thanks to the fact that the tri­pod is com­pat­i­ble with JOBY pro­fes­sion­al acces­sories — GripTight PRO Mount, Goril­la­Pod Arm and Hub Adapter.

What can you give a photographer and videographer up to 30,000 rubles

Graphic tablet (monitor) Huion Kamvas 13

Price: 25 990 rubles

The Huion Kam­vas tablet is light­weight (980 g), slight­ly larg­er than an A4 sheet (366.5 x 217.4 x 11.8 mm), styl­ish and mod­ern. Huion KAMVAS 13 is com­pat­i­ble with Win­dows 8, Win­dows 7, Win­dows 10, Mac OS X 10.11 and above.

Huion Kam­vas 13 has com­pact dimen­sions (388x219x11 mm) and a wide work­ing area (293.76x165.24 mm). Pho­to: render.ru

Comes with an upgrad­ed PW517 wire­less pen. It was cre­at­ed using mod­ern elec­tro­mag­net­ic res­o­nance tech­nol­o­gy with improved input func­tion. What does it mean? The process of pho­to edit­ing, draw­ing will be even more nat­ur­al. The dif­fer­ence between draw­ing on paper and on a tablet is prac­ti­cal­ly indis­tin­guish­able.

The tablet has an anti-glare screen. Even if you work under the bright sun, on the street, it will not inter­fere with see­ing a clear and bright pic­ture.

This is a great gift idea for a pho­tog­ra­ph­er who loves to draw or retouch pro­fes­sion­al­ly.

Rode Filmmaker Kit Lavalier Radio System

Price: 26 390 rubles

For an oper­a­tor, a blog­ger, it is impor­tant to record the sound well the first time. The Rode Film­mak­er Kit radio sys­tem does the job per­fect­ly. It allows you to record audio from the first time, with­out rehearsals and takes. The sound will be clear, with­out inter­fer­ence. Record­ing is pos­si­ble at a dis­tance of up to 100 m from the object.

Using the radio sys­tem, you can mon­i­tor fre­quen­cies in real time, choos­ing the best option for the tran­si­tion. It is pos­si­ble to simul­ta­ne­ous­ly broad­cast sig­nals on two chan­nels.

The radio sys­tem with the Rode Film­mak­er Kit lava­lier pro­vides excel­lent sound qual­i­ty dur­ing film­ing. Pho­to: fastbox.su

This is a uni­ver­sal device, weigh­ing only 380 g. Includ­ed:

• on-cam­era receiv­er RX-CAM;
• com­pact repeater for belt mount­ing TX-BELT;
• elec­tro-acoustic trans­duc­er Lava­lier, cling­ing to the but­ton­hole.

The radio sys­tem has a dis­play that shows all the impor­tant infor­ma­tion:

• charge lev­el;
• vol­ume;
• select­ed com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nel.

Gift certificate for the New Year from Photosklad.ru

Price: up to 20 000 rubles

You can end­less­ly choose what to give the pho­tog­ra­ph­er and video­g­ra­ph­er for the New Year. But it’s not always easy to please some­one. If you don’t want to risk, you can buy a gift cer­tifi­cate. Avail­able in six dif­fer­ent sizes.

The Fotosklad.ru store has a huge selec­tion of pho­to and video equip­ment, acces­sories, gad­gets, smart­phones, com­put­er equip­ment and use­ful lit­tle things. And with a gift cer­tifi­cate, you can choose and buy what you like!