{"id":455,"date":"2007-12-08T21:50:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T02:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2018-03-30T10:50:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:50:21","slug":"christmas-gift-recommendations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTMAS GIFT SHOPPING FOR A PHOTOGRAPHER?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the time of year that I get asked a lot of questions from people who are buying gifts for photographers, or from photographers wanting to drop hints. (In this post, &#8220;photographer&#8221; means anyone who likes to take pictures.) &#8220;What is the best book for . . . ?&#8221; &#8220;What are the best point and shoot cameras?&#8221; &#8220;Is there any really good image editing software for less than $100?&#8221; Many of those questions are answered in the posts that follow.<\/p>\n<p>Photo equipment is pretty specialized. If you are buying photo equipment as a gift for the photographer in your life, ask for very specific hints (and send the photographer here).<\/p>\n<p>Happy Gift Giving.<\/p>\n<p>The Buyer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Guide Series \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Your guide to the best of all things photographic. There are over 60 articles in this series, making it one of the most comprehensive buyer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guides on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Buyer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Guide Series: Recommendations For The Best Photography Equipment, Software, Books, Magazines, DVDs, Online Photo Labs and More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the time of year that I get asked a lot of questions from people who are buying gifts for photographers, or from photographers wanting to drop hints. (In this post, &#8220;photographer&#8221; means anyone who likes to take pictures.) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=455\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19818,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/19818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}