50 best camera accessories in 2024: essential photography gadgets and add-ons

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With the best camera accessories, you can push your photography much further. Whatever types of images you shoot, you're going to get a huge amount of use out of the likes of tripods, monopods, bags, filters, memory cards, laptops, software. This big, comprehensive guide is designed to help you find the right ones.

It can definitely be tricky to keep up with all the camera accessories that are out there, let alone figure out which ones you need and which you don't. Fortunately, we have a team of dedicated reviewers who spend their days testing the latest and greatest accessories, and we use their findings to keep this guide bang up to date with everything that's out there. 

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Rod Lawton

Rod is an independent photography journalist and editor, and a long-standing Digital Camera World contributor, having previously worked as DCW's Group Reviews editor. He has been using, testing and reviewing all sorts of photo accessories for more than two decades. 

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Rod is an independent photography journalist and editor, and a long-standing Digital Camera World contributor, having previously worked as DCW's Group Reviews editor. Before that he has been technique editor on N-Photo, Head of Testing for the photography division and Camera Channel editor on TechRadar, as well as contributing to many other publications. He has been writing about photography technique, photo editing and digital cameras since they first appeared, and before that began his career writing about film photography. He has used and reviewed practically every interchangeable lens camera launched in the past 20 years, from entry-level DSLRs to medium format cameras, together with lenses, tripods, gimbals, light meters, camera bags and more. Rod has his own camera gear blog at fotovolo.com but also writes about photo-editing applications and techniques at lifeafterphotoshop.com