More Good Stuff!
Datacolor SpyderLensCal
Adorama price: $62.95
Is your lens focusing accurately? Are you sure? Even the best lenses can slip slightly out of focus, just enough to mess up that important shot of a lifetime. The SpyderLensCal lets you quickly and easily establish if your lens’s focus is accurate and help you to recalibrate it. It lets you quickly and easily self-service your lenses and save you hundreds of dollars because you don’t have to send your gear in to be fixed by providing accurate repeatable calibration of your lenses and recent DSLR bodies.
Ansmann Energy 8 Battery Charger
Adorama price: $55.99
In these days of multiple battery-operated devices, this multiple battery recharger is a necessity. The Ansmann Energy 8 Battery Charger will charge up to 6 AA and AAA cells, or 4 C or D cells, or any combination of C, D, AA and AAA cells as well as two 9-volt batteries. It can provide a full charge for NiMH and NiCd cells in 3 hours, and can automatically detect and switch to the proper current.
Alpine Innovations Spudz 6×6 Microfiber Cloth
Adorama price: $4.95
This convenient microfiber cloth tucks into a self-contained tough sack, and can attach to a camera strap or belt loop. Handy and wallet-friendly. Alpine’s Sputz cloth goes well with Alpine Innovations’ Anti-Fog Liquid CPAF for use when cleaning lenses.
Adorama Finger Shooting Gloves
Adorama price: $21.95
Fingerless gloves give you manual dexterity when you’re shooting in the cold, but they don’t keep your fingertips warm. Flashpoint Finger Shooting Gloves expose only your trigger finger and thumb, the two digits you need to operate a camera, with the remaining three fingers covered and warm. But even the open fingers have tips that are “flapped” to keep those key appendages toasty when you’re not actually operating the camera. When you’re ready to adjust the camera and shoot, you just pull back the flaps. Our unique gloves have wrist straps so you won’t lose them, and are made of water-resistant polyester with a grip surface on the palm side. What they do: Keep your fingers warm until you’re ready to shoot, with flapped tips for thumb and forefinger. An Adorama Exclusive!
Adorama microGAFFER tape
Adorama price: $19.95
Studio and location photographers would have to shut up shop if it weren’t for gaffer’s tape. It does things no piece of photographic hardware can do, whether clamp, clip, or thumbscrew. But the downside is that it comes in big, heavy rolls that are a nuisance to carry around. Enter Adorama microGAFFER—high-quality, professional cloth gaffer’s tape made pocketable. Each roll is just an inch wide (vs. two inches for a standard roll) and measures less than 2.5 inches in diameter (vs. 6.5 inches). Those dimensions make a roll of microGAFFER small enough to slip into your pocket. It comes in four-packs of white , gray, and black , plus a fluorescent multicolor four-pack (shown). What it does: Provides trusty, tried-and-true gaffer’s tape in a form you can actually stick in your pocket. An Adorama Exclusive!
Flashpoint Professional Camera Grips
Adorama price: $19.95 and up
It’s tough to pay top dollar for brand-name accessories when you’ve just bought an expensive DSLR. Fortunately, that needn’t stop you from buying a dedicated camera grip—one that gives you both longer battery life and a more comfortable hold for vertical shooting. Flashpoint Professional Camera Grips are custom-built in versions for nearly all popular DSLRs, yet cost a fraction of their name-brand equivalents. Each of them provides full functionality with its intended model, including a separate, more comfortably placed shutter button for vertical shooting. These AA-powered grips match their specific model cosmetically as well. What it does: Provides longer-lasting power and more comfortable vertical shooting at a fraction of name-brand price. An Adorama Exclusive!
Kaiser Strap-On Cable Release Adapter
Adorama price: $35
Serious photographers love to shoot with compact cameras, which free them from the weight and bulk of DSLRs. But setting them to slow shutter speeds for low-light shooting or creative effects can be a problem because pressing the shutter button with your finger usually causes blur. Most compacts don’t have a traditional threaded socket in the middle of their shutter button, so if you want to use an inexpensive mechanical cable release you’ll need the Kaiser Strap-On Cable Release Adapter. This simple but ingenious device is a strap that wraps around your compact camera, secured with Velcro so that its threaded socket is positioned above your camera’s shutter button. And unlike a self-timer, it lets you trip the shutter immediately! What it does: Lets you use an inexpensive mechanical cable release on a compact camera, for blur-free long exposures
Leatherman Wave Multi-Tool
Adorama price: $80
Forget those “Swiss” gadgets, the stainless steel Leatherman Wave Multi-tool is packed with 18 different components: 420HC Clip Point Knife, 420HC Sheepsfoot Serrated Knifem Needlenose Pliers, Regular Pliers, Wire Cutters, Hard-wire Cutters, Wire Stripper, Large Screwdriver, Large Bit Driver, mall Bit Driver, Scissors, Wood/Metal File, Diamond-coated File, Saw, Bottle Opener, Can Opener, 8 in / 19 cm Ruler. Be prepared!
Hoodman Professional 3-inch LCD Screen Loupe
Adorama price: $80
Hoodloupe 3.0 Professional can be worn around your neck just like a normal loupe, and you can also use it to review your shots by placing it over your LCD monitor to get a magnified view. Each Hoodloupe is encased in rubber for comfort and protection from bumps that will occur throughout your shoot. A comfortable lanyard and compact protective storage case included. It fits up to 3.0 inch LCD screens.
