Here is my Ama­zon birth­day wish list… worth a try:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/registry/registry.html/ref=w_h_em-si-html_viewall?id=1K3Y9X1PADP8A

Includes:

• Man­frotto 7302YB M-Y Tri­pod with Ball and Head
  
  A light tri­pod with a head with no han­dle to help with panoramic pho­tographs. It also looks like the head can be reversed, so I can take a high-quality pho­to­graph of the ground (nadir).
• Air blow Flash Dif­fuser for Canon 580ex flash­gun
  Cheap and cheer­ful dif­fuser for a flash. This is inflat­able so it should be easy to pack. It goes over a flash to cre­ate a larger area for the flash to illu­mi­nate, giv­ing softer shad­ows. Harsh/sharp shad­ows can look bad for por­trait pho­tographs, so this could com­monly be used for portraits.
• STOFEN OM-EY FOR CANON 580EX & 580EX II
  A more com­pact dif­fuser that goes over the top of the flashes I have, to give softer light and softer shadows.
• Car Video Recorder with Laser Indi­ca­tion Light
  In-car video recorder that records con­tin­u­ously in a loop, so taht if there is a car crash or other event it should be cap­tured on video. This could be use­ful to avoid blame for car acci­dents that aren’t my fault that oth­er­wise would be hard to prove. This is fairly cheap and cheer­ful. The only thing I’d worry about is that it looks sim­i­lar to a mobile tele­phone and if put in the car the wrong way would be likely to be stolen. I think if mounted above the rear view mir­ror, this wouldn’t be a problem.
• Cam­era Hot Shoe Hot Shoe Triple 2 Axis Spirit Bub­ble Level for Canon Nikon Fuji DSLR/SLR Cam­eras
  This is a spirit level that attaches to the hot shoe (flash con­nec­tion) of a cam­era. I had one for help­ing with panoramic pho­tog­ra­phy but lost it.
• Canon Flash Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX
  This macro ring flash attaches to the end of the cam­era lens, and cre­ates an even ring of light. This cre­ates an unusual light­ing effect used some­times in por­trait pho­tog­ra­phy. Here are some exam­ples:
  
• Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 EX DC HSM — Canon fit lens
  I had this lens a few years ago. It takes very wide angle pho­tographs but with­out the fish eye dis­tor­tion effect. Here are some exam­ples:
  
• T-Eye Auto­mated Dri­ving Recorder ADR-3000 With built in GPS Mod­ule
  This is a bet­ter qual­ity in-car recorder. It records a wide angle image for­wards to record for­wards and side impacts etc., and has a reverse fac­ing cam­era with night vision to record inside and rear impacts etc. It also has a GPS and G-force sen­sor to record where you were dri­ving and what speed. It auto­mat­i­cally saves a record­ing if strong forces were involved, and can down­load via wifi auto­mat­i­cally when you are in range of your wire­less net­work at home so there is no need for archiv­ing videos if you want to keep them all.
• Ricco Portable AA Bat­tery Travel Emer­gency Charger for USB Mobile Phone MP3 Player
  This is a cheap AA bat­tery to mobile tele­phone charger that I intend to use for a time­lapse video project.
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• Canon 580EX II Speedlite Flash Unit
  I have two of these already, and a remote con­troller. They are very good, and with a third I would have a good light­ing set.
• Sigma 8mm f3.5 Cir­cu­lar Fish­eye EX DG For Canon Dig­i­tal & Flim SLR Cam­eras
  I already have a Belarus-made 8mm fish­eye lens which I use for panoramic pho­tog­ra­phy, but this is bet­ter qual­ity and more reliable.
• Canon EOS 500D Dig­i­tal SLR Cam­era (15.1 MP, 3.0″ Clear View VGA LCD) Body Only
  I hope to upgrade my cam­era soon. The fea­tures this upgrade adds include HD video (very inter­est­ing on an SLR cam­era as you can use high-quality lenses, some­thing the aver­age cam­corder is miss­ing), and more megapix­els. Nor­mally I’m not con­cerned with megapix­els, but I want to use a one-shot 360 lens for panorama pho­tographs in sit­u­a­tions with crowds, and this requires as many megapix­els as you can get. The HD video could also help with 360 panoramic motion video.
• Vuzix iWear (PC Only — VR920)
  This head­set has two LCD screens in the eye­pieces, and a 3 dimen­sional head­tracker, so it could be pos­si­ble to make this into an immer­sive 360 panorama viewer to make you feel like you are really in the pic­ture. We all thought we’d have that by the year 2000 but I’ve still never seen it hap­pen­ing. A review and demon­stra­tion of the VR920 vir­tual real­ity glasses is avail­able here, and off­i­cal WR920 web site here.
  

That’s the end of my birth­day wish list. Well, that’s all the items that Ama­zon sell that I want