Best Nikon Camera Holiday Gifts in 2022

The Nikon Z 6II is the versatile full-frame mirrorless camera great for the serious enthusiast as well as the budding professional photographer on your list. With a 24.5MP sensor that excels in low light, your loved one will enjoy making candid portraits and 4K video as you celebrate and will never miss a shot with 14 frames per second stills shooting.

The ultra-high-resolution sensor of the Nikon Z 7II will capture every detail of your family and friends as you gather together and make merry, celebrate with stories, and feel the joy of the season. For candlelit dinners, walks under the stars, and snowball fights, the Z 7II will never fail to capture lasting memories with brilliant images and 4K video.

The Nikon Z fc DX-format mirrorless camera is the perfect blend of style and power to please the photo geek who is all about style (and quality images!). Great for vlogging and content creation, and with modern features in a retro body, this camera can handle it all. Built for on-the-go creators, this 20.9MP camera can capture 4K UHD video with ease.

Those who love the traditional form of the DSLR and need the focusing speed and accuracy of Nikon’s flagship models will be in perfect unity with the Nikon D780. Versatility is the name of the game with its impressive low light capability, beautiful slow-motion video, and time-lapse options.

For the person who has it all, the D850 is the DSLR that does it all. The joy of capturing your friends and family living it up this holiday season will be amplified by the knowledge that your photos and videos will be tack sharp and crystal clear in the brightest sun or the lowest light. The EXPEED 5 quickly processes all 45.7 megapixels of data for lower noise, wider dynamic range, subtle tonal and textural details, high-speed continuous shooting, and full-frame 4K UHD movie recording.

We all have that person in our life who insists on bringing their camera everywhere. Thank goodness for them! The Nikkor Z 40mm f/2 is the tiny lens that won’t get in the way of the fun and won’t let you down when the time comes to make those funny and touching candids and portraits worthy of a framed print. With a 9-leaf round blade diaphragm, the shallow depth of field of f/2 is enhanced creating a natural bokeh effect.

Beauty is in the details and what better way to indulge in detail than with the Nikkor Z MC 105mm. Your loved ones can delight in the worlds they discover with 1:1 macro. Clearer, sharper images with no color fringing are achieved by an innovative optical design, powered by a new multi-focus system which virtually eliminates chromatic aberrations. Also, the 105mm focal length is great for portraits, even of those friends who haven’t always enjoyed having their picture taken.

Compact and capable, the NIKKOR Z MC 50mm is great for someone who wants to keep it simple. With 1:1 reproduction, amazing bokeh, and a nonstick fluorine coating on the front element, your creativity can go wild!. Grab this lens to snap photos while out with friends snapping or to capture the detail in your cappuccino’s foam. It’s capable of it all.

Landscapes, cityscapes, or star trails — capture all that surrounds you with the NIKKOR Z 14-24 lens. The holidays are a great time to remember we are all together under the same stars and sharing photos of our loved ones can be a great way to celebrate our time together, the past, and what’s to come. Speaking of the future, the 14-24mm lens’ compact size, extreme resolving power, distortion control, and an integrated filter slot make this a true next-generation lens.

The sharpest, fastest prime lens Nikon has ever created is the perfect gift for the serious photographer in your life. There is a simple joy in working with the normal focal length of the NIKKOR Z 50mm. Opening up the aperture to f/1.2, we begin to appreciate the world in a new way. Portraits with a razor-thin depth of field or those quiet moments with family are all captured with sharpness and beautiful contrast. When working with backlight, as we often do in environmental portraits, the 50mm f/1.2 S’s anti-reflective Nano Crystal Coat and ARNEO coatings help suppress light that can cause flare, ghosting, and coma.

We all have that person in our lives who loves to create images at night. With a tripod in hand, your adventures out together, enjoying conversations that can only exist in the stillness of the night. When making long exposures for skyline, landscape, and star trail photos, the NISI lens hood prevents light from entering from behind the hood and spoiling the images. The 112mm filter thread allows the addition of various filters to help fuel creativity.

Filters make a great gift as every photographer and filmmaker can use well-crafted filters. The handcrafted brass frame of the Polar Pro QuartzLine 77mm CP is made for durability, making this a gift that will last for years. The fused quartz glass element resolves up to 100MP sensors and the anti-scratch, anti-oil, and hydrophobic coatings will protect the lens as well as enhance the images created.

The colors of the holidays can be brought to life with the NanLite PavoTube II 6C 10" 6W RGBWW LED Tube light. For those times when the available light just doesn’t give you the look you imagine. Create a vibrant portrait or video with color to match your scene, using the 2700-6500K color temperature range, whether it be a quiet holiday dinner with friends or a colorful celebration, a little extra light never hurts. Lighting effects of flame, lightning storms, flashes, and many more can be accessed with the touch of a button.

If there is one tool every photographer should have on hand, it is a small flash and the FJ80 from Westcott is a great option for the event photographer or burgeoning studio shooter. Used as a single light source to capture the laughter and toasts as you celebrate the holidays, or with the integrated FJ Wireless system to control multiple flashes in the FJ line, the FJ80 is a gift that the photographer in your life will always have a use for.

Level up the candid snaps as well as the posed portraits you and your friends will look back on for many years to come. The Profoto A1X is the flash for the serious photographer in your life who revels in the joy of light shaping to create images with exacting detail and does not want to be tied down to a studio. With an LED modeling light, full compatibility with the Profoto AIR system, and a clean easy to use interface, the A1X is not only a hard-working tool but a beautiful piece of gear.

Hanging out with the gang this holiday is going to be amazing, but when you want that group photo, who is going to hold the camera? This is why keeping a GorillaPod in your bag is always a good idea. No more selfie-type shots of the group. Let’s get a nice group portrait! The precise ball head can hold 6.6lbs and with the flexibility of GorillaPod, you can place your camera just about anywhere! Pro tip: carry two and you can mount your flash off-camera for an even better shot

Isn’t it time your creative upgraded their bag to protect their gear? The Lowepro Flipside Trek BP 450 AW Backpack has a sleek, understated look that protects a pro-DSLR body and 3 to 4 lenses. Durable, water repellent materials and the all-weather AW cover provide exceptional protection from water, snow, sand, and dust while plenty of pockets and compartments keep the camera separate from your outdoor gear.

You may not know what filter or lens to get for your loved one, but a tripod is a great universal gift for the creator in your life. Photographers tend to focus solely on lens and body specifications and don’t consider how much a tripod can improve their work. Freeing up hands to do other things on set, removing any chance of camera shake, keeping the exact framing for composite shots, and so much more can be achieved by simply mounting the camera on the Manfrotto Element MII Tripod. Weighing in at 3.5lbs, with a closed length of 16.73 inches, you can be sure this is a gift they will take with them everywhere.

Microphones, cables, pedals, and more, the gear the musician in your life transports to gigs can add up quickly and your holiday gathering just wouldn’t be the same without music. You can help your friend get all their gear to the location safely and easily by gifting them the D'Addario Backline Gear Transport Backpack. With dedicated cable and microphone sections, as well as discrete laptop and tablet storage, you can be sure they will be able to join the festivities without worrying about where they packed the power cable.

Holidays are a time when we come together, and technology allows us to do so even when we are physically far apart. Plug the H&A VideoMini, HA-CVM Compact On-Camera Microphone into your DSLR, mirrorless camera, or even your smartphone and send a message of love to those who can’t come in person this year. The super-cardioid pattern is perfect for picking up several people at once while the super anti-interference function, and the included foam windscreen and wind muff will help produce clean sound so your messages ring through loud and clear.

Run and gun interviews, simple scenes, and video conferences; today’s video shooters need to be prepared for the ever-expanding challenges of content production. As we gather together for the holidays, make the video producer in your life’s workflow a bit easier with the Rode Microphones VideoMic Pro+. An outstanding on-camera mic with a super-cardioid pickup pattern, suspension system, and high-quality windscreen, this microphone has versatile power options and digital switching to capture the best audio and reduce post-production times.

Arguably there is no better way to elevate your loved one’s video production than to help them achieve the best possible audio. The Sennheiser MKE 600 Shotgun Microphone With Zoom H4n Pro Recorder kit will allow your filmmaker to capture clean audio. Pronounced directivity, effectively attenuating side and rear noise, a switchable "low cut" filter to minimize wind noise, and the ability to run from phantom or battery power, makes this microphone versatile no matter the camera system used.

Like most of us, the filmmaker in your group loves to create. But also like us, they don’t like waiting forever for the files to download from their cards. This is why the Prograde Digital CFX_B/SDXC/SDHC USB 3.1 Gen 2 Dual-Slot Card Reader might just be the perfect gift for them. With a data transfer speed of up to 10Gb/s (1.25GB/s), this Dual-slot reader for CFexpress and SD cards will have the footage copied and ready for editing lightning fast. Not sure what connections their machine has? No worries. Two 18-inch connection cables: one Type A to Type C, and one Type C to Type C are included.

As we celebrate the holidays together, many photos and videos will be made, memories shared and kept for the future. Why risk those memories on anything but SanDisk 128GB Extreme PRO UHS-I U3 SDXC Memory Cards? These cards are shockproof, temperature-proof, waterproof, and X-ray proof with speed enough to capture 4K video and keep up with rapid bursts of still photos. Offloading the images to share is also extremely fast with up to 170 MB/s transfer speed.