Gadling gift guide – photography gadgets

by Scott Carmichael on

An essential part of any trip is photography, and an essential part of photography is good photo gadgets. In this fourth and final Gadling gift guide, we’ll recommend a couple of great photo gadgets that will make even the most amateur photographer happy.

Be sure to check out our previous gift guides:

Gift guide for the lightweight traveler
Gift guide for famlily travel and kids
Gift guide for the business traveler
The top ten travel products of 2009

Hyperdrive Colorspace UDMA photo backup unit

The Colorspace UDMA is one of the fastest photo storage devices on the market. Available with up to 500GB of space, the Colorspace UDMA supports most RAW photo formats and accepts SD and CF memory cards. It’ll do up to 250GB off a single battery charge, and can even be programmed with user scripts to automate certain features.

Price: From $249
Product page: HyperDrive Colorspace UDMA

Joby Gorillapod

The Joby Gorillapod is the perfect travel photography gadget. It is small, lightweight, and lets you take photos using it as a mini tripod, or by attaching it to a solid object (like a tree). The Gorillapod comes in several versions, including one for SLR cameras and a version with interchangeable mounts.

Price: From $21.95
Product page: Joby Gorillapod

Gigapan EPIC robotic imager

If you want to take your photos beyond the dull and boring, consider investing in the $299 GigaPan EPIC imaging robot. By attaching your camera to the unit, and setting some basic options, the GigaPan starts shooting away, turning 100’s of photos into massive panoramic photos. The unit includes the free stitching software from GigaPan, and image hosting on their site.

Price: $299
Product page: Gigapan EPIC

Epson Artisan 810

Making great photos is fun – but with a good photo printer, you can take them beyond the screen and show them off the old fashioned way. The Epson Artisan 810 features a sheet-feed scanner, fax and triple-source printer tray. It’ll print on blank CD’s and comes complete with Ethernet and Wi-Fi.

Price: $199 (after temporary $100 instant rebate)
Product page: Epson Artisan 810
Eye-Fi Wireless SD memory card

Eye-Fi cards turn your camera into a Wi-Fi enabled device. Photos and videos can instantly be uploaded to your PC or a variety of online photo/video sharing sites. The card is available with Wi-Fi geotagging and hotspot access.

Price: from $49.99
Product page: Eye-Fi

Epson P-6000 multimedia photo viewer

The Epson P-6000 is the professionals choice for a photo storage device. It features a large 4″ Premia LCD display with support for 16.7 million colors. Inside the unit is an 80GB drive. Photos can be loaded off one of the memory card slots, or directly off the camera with USB host and a neat tethering option.

Support is built in for almost every RAW format on the market, and the unit even allows for several powerful photo editing procedures, right on the device. Plus, at the end of the day, you can use it to watch some movies or listen to music.

Price: $599.99 (+ $75 mail in rebate)
Product page: Epson P-6000 multimedia photo viewer

Ipevo R7 Wi-Fi enabled photo frame

The Ipevo Kaleido R7 is another great way to view the photos you make. The R7 looks fantastic, but inside is where the real power is – thanks to Wi-Fi, you can view live photo channels, or even read the latest news through RSS. The unit features touch sensitive controls and its hi-resolution screen makes photos look fantastic.

Price: $149
Product page: Ipevo Kaleido R7

Manfrotto ModoSteady

The Manfrotto ModoSteady grabbed a top spot in our lineup of best gadgets of 2009 – and rightfully so. This 3-in-1 device works as a mini tripod, shoulder grip and steady-cam mount. Best of all, it is lightweight and can fold up into a compact unit.

Price: $115
Product page: Manfrotto ModoSteady

Manfrotto Modopocket

The final product in our gift guide is another Manfrotto invention – the ModoPocket is a tiny folding tripod, designed for smaller cameras or Micro Four/Thirds cameras. The ModoPocket screws to the bottom of your camera, and allows you to angle it up or down. When you are done, you simply fold it back up.

Price: $29.99
Product page: Manfrotto ModoPocket

Reminder – enter the Gadling anniversary contest for your chance to win an IPEVO Kaleido R7 photo frame!

by Scott Carmichael on

You have got till Monday, October 26th at noon to enter our anniversary contest for your chance to win one of five IPEVO Kaleido R7 WiFi enabled photo frames. These fantastic frames can display live galleries with content from Flickr, Picasa, Google image search and a variety of other sources.

Entering is simple, and you can pick three different ways for your chance to win – and we’ll even allow you to enter all three ways, greatly increasing your odds at winning! Head on over to the contest page for the instructions and don’t forget to check out the IPEVO Kaleido R7 product page to learn more about this great product.

Happy birthday Gadling! Enter to win one of five IPEVO Kaleido R7 WiFi enabled photo frames

by Scott Carmichael on

Part of travel is making fantastic photos, and part of fantastic photos is being able to show them to the world. To celebrate our birthday, we’ll be giving away five IPEVO Kaleido R7 WiFi enabled photo frames.

These are no ordinary photo frames – its 7″ hi-res display can display online content from a variety of sources. It also has 512MB of internal memory and a memory card slot for old fashioned photo sharing.

The Kaleido R7 supports live galleries with online images from Flickr, Picasa, RSS (text and images), Google image search and even Facebook. It’ll automatically sync with images from your computer (Windows and Mac).

The 7″ screen rotates 90 degrees, and the included remote control and touch sensitive buttons allow you to control what you watch. The IPEVO Kaleido K7 costs $149.99, but you can enter our contest to win one of five of these fantastic frames!

Entering is simple, and you have three different ways:

  1. Leave a comment below, telling us where you took your favorite photo (if you have a link to it, even better!).
  2. Follow us on Twitter and retweet this message.
  3. Join our Flickr photo pool. Anyone who is in our pool when the contest ends will be eligible to win.

You can enter in all three ways, but only once in each. This will give you three chances at winning one of these fantastic frames!

  • To enter for your chance to win an IPEVO Kaleido K7 digital photo frame, leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter (and retweet our daily contest message), and/or join our Flickr photo pool.
  • You may only enter *each entry method* once.
  • If you enter by leaving a comment, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you’ll be fine.
  • Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older.
  • Winner will be chosen randomly. Five winners will get one IPEVO Kaleido K7 digital photo frame each, valued at $149.99. We’ll give two frames to people who leave comments below; two frames to people who RT the message on Twitter; and one to a person who is a member of our Flickr pool.
  • Entries can be submitted until Monday, October 26th, 12PM ET. Good luck!
  • Full rules can be found here.