Lately I’ve been updating our Popular Digital Cameras and Gear page with the best selling photographic gear among readers from our community.

I’ve recently updated the best selling DSLR lenses – but what about DSLRs themselves some readers asked?

So here’s a compilation of the best selling DSLRs among our readers. It’s based upon the reports Amazon gives us on what people buy through our affiliate links. Note: it isn’t necessarily a list of ‘the best’ DSLRs – just a list of what our readers are buying most – ranked from best seller down.

1. Canon EOS Rebel T3i (pictured)
2. Nikon D3100
3. Canon EOS Rebel T2i
4. Canon EOS Rebel T3
5. Canon EOS Rebel T1i
6. Nikon D5100
7. Canon EOS 60D
8. Nikon D7000
9. Canon Rebel XS
10. Nikon D3000
11. Pentax K-5
12. Canon Digital Rebel XTi
13. Canon Digital Rebel XT

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What is Kickstarter?

For those of you that haven’t heard of Kickstarter.com, I am writing this article to introduce you to what is becoming a great website for photographers and creative peeps. Kickstarter is a platform that allows entrepreneurs to develop a product, pitch their idea, and have their project be funded by the Kickstarter community. If a project is successfully “funded” then the entrepreneurs receives the Kickstarter capital needed to take their products to market. In return, the Kickstarter community “pledges” to these products and is usually rewarded by receiving these products at a large discount, as well as prior to these items being available in retailers. So, for us consumers, it is pretty much like Black Friday all year long!

Why Should I Participate

So, what does this have to do with photography? Well, in the last few …

PLEASE NOTE : This give-away is now closed, we have randomly chosen MIMI BOND as the winner! Thank you all for participating! Hope you had fun! We will have more like this coming up soon!

We recently had the good folk over at ioSafe send one of “very careful” reviewer type persons a hard drive called the ioSafe Rugged Portable.

ioSafe Rugged Portable 500 GB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

Let me give you some real world stats on the little beast before we get to the main event… (and don’t forget, WIN one via the bottom of this post!)

• Crush resistant to 5000lbs
• Happy underwater (10′) for a day or two
• Drop proof to 20′
• USB 2 / 3 and FW800
• Includes one-time data recovery up to $5000
• Is dead sexy, for a hard drive!

So, our velvet gloved reviewer, Paul, thought that he’d pop …

As with their mirrorless camera, it has now taken Nikon a while to push its waterproof boat, sorry — camera — into the stream – and very welcome it is with some departures from the crowd.

The Nikon AW100 review camera had a blue face plate but it is also available in camouflage, orange and black. Hope you like the camouflage version shown here!

Nikon AW100 Features

There’s lots to like: the waterproof battery/card compartment is at the side, opened with a button push and a turn of a knob, so little chance of an accidental tip out.

A useful helper is an action control button which you activate by tapping the large action button at the side of the camera — then shake the camera: …

Our friends at thinkTankPhoto are holding a unique photography giveaway between now and December 20th. They’ve taken on of their flagship rollers, the Airport Security V2.0 and are adding “photography related items” each day until December 20th. They’re also looking out, each day, for the person that shares their give-away the most creatively (should be easy with you creative bunch!) and are giving away one of their amazing Retrospective camera bags! Check each day on their blog to see what was placed “IN A BAG”

We were proud to be placed “IN A BAG” today, our entire eBook suite was loaded onto a limited edition thinkTankPhoto USB key and placed, you guessed it! – IN A BAG!

It’s free and …