Best gifts for photographers under £100

If you’re stuck for ideas for the photographer in your life, you’ve come to the right place. Here we’ve got some suggestions for the best gifts for photographers that cover a variety of budgets up to around £100.

Best gifts for photographers under £100: 01 WD Passport

Price: £49 – £89

Photographers are always running out of room to store their photos, and many will use laptops when they’re on the move that don’t have enough built in storage. A WD Passport is small and light enough to be carried around on a daily basis – and doesn’t require an external power source. You can get up to 2TB space.

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Best gifts for photographers under £100: 02 Olloclip

Price: Around £50

Available for Samsung and Apple smartphones, the Olloclip are small lenses which attach to your smartphone to give you different effects, including macro, telephoto and fisheye. These tiny lenses won’t take up too much extra room in your bag, either.

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Best gifts for photographers under £100: 03 Reflector

Price: Prices vary – expect to pay anything from £15 – £35.

A reflector is an extremely handy tool for the portrait photographer, and you should look out for multi-sided devices that can be packed away into a smaller size for ultimate portability, or those with rigid handles if your photographer has lots of space to store a reflector. Look for 5-in-1 reflectors for maximum usefulness.

Choose from a range of reflectors on Amazon US
Choose from a range of reflectors on Amazon UK

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Best gifts for photographers under £100: 04 Memory Cards

Prices vary

Just like you can never have too many socks, you can never have too many memory cards. Make sure you find out which kind of card your photographer’s camera takes – the two most common are SD and CF. An extra memory card or two always comes in handy, and you can now purchase them in huge (in terms of capacity) sizes, depending on your budget.

Choose from a range of memory cards on Amazon US
Choose from a range of memory cards on Amazon UK

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Best gifts for photographers under £100: 05 Camera Bag

Prices vary

You can spend hundreds of pounds on a bag if you like, but there are lots of nice ones available for less than £100. It will of course depend on the style of your photographer, but choices range from funky not-so-obviously-a-camera-bag designs to classic Billlinghamesque retro numbers. Look for those which offers lots of different pockets, preferably customisable dividers, so that the photographer can use it in whichever way they need to.

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Best gifts for photographers under £100: 06 50mm f/1.8 lens

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens – around £75
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D lens – around £90

Many believe that this is the lens which should be supplied with a camera, rather than the standard 18-55mm kit lens, and with good reason too. The fixed focal length will force the photographer to walk around, while the wide aperture means you can throw the background out of focus and shoot better in low light. An essential piece of kit for every photographer which can set you back as little as £80.

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Best gifts for photographers under £100: 07 Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Package

Price: £8.78 a month

Gone are the days when full Photoshop used to set you hundreds of pounds in one fell swoop – you can now subscribe for just a few pounds a month. Of course over the long term, you’ll pay just as much if you keep hold of the subscription, but on the plus side you’ll always have the most recent version of the software and it’s an easier pill to swallow when the cost is spread out monthly. Better yet if someone else buys it for you.

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Best gifts for photographers under £100: 08 Carbon fibre tripod

Prices vary

You can get cheap tripods, but try to spend as much as you can afford and invest in a carbon fibre number for increased stability without adding too much bulk. Some tripods will require you to buy an additional head, while others come as an all in one package.

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Choose from a range of carbon fibre tripods on Amazon UK

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Best gifts for photographers under £100: 09 GoPro Hero

Price: Around £99

Action cameras have become incredibly popular in the last few years, and these fun little devices attach to your bike helmet, handlebars, surfboard and so on – so if you have a photographer who’s into action sports, it’s an ideal gift. The GoPro Hero, at the bottom end of GoPro’s range, can be picked up for just under £100, and it will provide hours of fun. Of course… you can spend more if you wish.

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Best gifts for photographers under £100: 10 Photography Magazine Subscription

Prices vary £20-£50 a year

Ah, the gift that keeps on giving. Inspire the photographer in your life every month (or week) with a magazine subscription gift. If your photographer uses a Nikon, there’s N-Photo magazine, while if they’re a Canon user, PhotoPlus is a good idea. For everybody, there’s Digital Camera, while Photography Week is our iPad only magazine. Our print magazines are also available digitally for Android and iOS, too, if you (or the person you’re buying for) isn’t based in the UK.

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Best gifts for photographers under £100: 11 Monopod

Prices vary

Less versatile than a tripod, but infinitely more transportable, a monopod is also useful when you’re shooting in cramped spaces, such as sports events and so on. For landscape photographers, it can also double up as a hiking stick.

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Best gifts for photographers under £100: 12 Macro extension tubes

Price: Around £60-90

Allow your photographer friend to get into macro and close-up photography without having to shell out for expensive dedicated macro lenses. You can pick up a quality set of extension tubes for around £80 or £90, which could represent a huge saving when compared with special macro lenses.

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Best gifts for photographers under £100: 13 Dropbox Pro Account

Price: £79 for a year

Have we mentioned how much photographers need space for their files? For a solution that means they don’t need to carry around a hard drive, a gift of a Dropbox Pro account gives the photographer 1TB of space which can be accessed from anywhere for either £7.99 a month, or £79 a year.

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