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So for the last few weeks I have been toying around with the idea of doing a holiday gift suggestion post, but until now I couldn't get motivated to do it. Why? Who knows, maybe because most of these so-called "gift guides" are nothing more than paid advertisements and big wastes of time. So you might ask, what motivated me to finally get off my ass and do it? This...

Well, to be more specific, the first page. Now, I do love PopPhoto, and usually get a lot out of what I read there, but when this one popped into my feed reader and I clicked through, I almost didn't make it past the first page. I mean, a 3D space navigator mouse thingie? an $80 card reader? a USB thumb drive? and a few other things that if I received I would smack someone. But seriously, what photographer wants this crap. There is a LensPen, good, at least one ray of light. Luckily, I was able to suppress the urge to break things long enough to get to the second page, and there we are, some good stuff, and the PopPhoto gift guide was saved, and actually has some really cool stuff, some of which I will mention here. If you plan on checking it out, I suggest starting on page 2

So now you are probably wondering, what do the crazies at CameraPorn think you should get for that special photographer you love? Well, everything I'm going to list are things you should get for yourself, and if you have a few bucks left over, buy your friends something. I'll keep it short, sweet and cheap. List after the jump.

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