The Amazon Gold Box has a couple of camera & photo related items scheduled for Thursday 3/5/15 as follows:
+ starts 9:30am ET for Prime members
+ starts 10am ET for All: Square Perfect 2806 SP99 Light and Umbrella Clamp for Studio Photography
+ starts 5:30pm ET for Prime members
+ starts6pm ET for All: Holy Stone RC Quadcopter w/ 720p HD Camera(Photo/Video),come with 2 Batteries, 4CH 2.4GHz,equipted with Headless Security System,M68R(Plus) RC Drone
+ blog post updated Thur at 12:47am ET
The B&H Photo Deal of the Day good until 11:59pm ET on Thursday 3/5/15 (or earlier if sold out) is the Hoya 82mm Variable Neutral Density Filter offered for $80 with free shipping.
Speaking of B&H, they have a number of WPPI Specials to coincide with the wedding trade show.
The Best Buy website has launched a 2-day Camera Sale featuring a variety of items. The sale ends Thursday night. Among other things, you get a $60 Best Buy gift card with the flagship GoPro at $500. They have various DSLR and P&S bundles, accessories and such.
BuyDig.com has Canon 6D bundles, which require mail-in rebates (prepaid American Express gift card). You have to add to the shopping cart to see the sale prices (you don’t need to login). You get the Canon 6D (body or with 24-105), the Pixma Pro 100 printer, 50pk of Canon 13×19 photo paper, 32GB card and camera case.
For the Canon 6D body only bundle the price displayed on the page is $1798 before rebate (and $1548 after rebate). After you add it to the shopping cart, the price before rebate is $1579. When you submit/receive the $250 MIR, it will become $1329 after MIR.
A similar offer is available for the 6D with 24-105 bundle with the after add-to-cart and after MIR price of $1830.
These in-cart discounts expire 3/8/15. The mail-in rebate promotions continue per Canon’s schedule.
The main Amazon Gold Box deal of the day for Wednesday 3/4/15 is a sale on Sony AS100 action cameras and accessories. The AS100V on its own is offered for $150, while the AS100VR with live remote is offered for $220. The travel charger kit is sold for $35 while a 64GB Class 10 Sony microSDXC is offered for $26. The camerars are limit two, the charger is limit three, the microSDXC has no purchase quantity limits. Offer ends at 3am ET on Thur or earlier for any individual items that sell out before then.
Sony has just announced four new E-mount lenses and four converter lenses, headlined by the 35mm f1.4 ZA Zeiss ($1600) and the 90mm f2.8 OSS G macro ($1100), along with the 24mm f2 prime ($450), and the 24-240mm f3.5-6.3 OSS ($1000), along with four converters for various primes lenses. You can find them all available for pre-order at Adorama.
Google Play is celebrating its three year birthday, and as part of the celebrations, they are offering various digital items at heavily discounted prices including the Facetune app for just 10 cents. They have a variety of other non-photography specials, check your Android device or the Google Play website for more.
The Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 ATX Pro DX II lens is on sale for $430 with free expedited shipping and 4% promotional rewards (=$17~) at Adorama in the Canon mount or the Nikon mount or the Sony Alpha mount.
Adobe is not the only one making digital imaging related software. B&H Photo is currently offering the digital download of JPEGmini Pro Photo Optimization Software for $80. This will be delivered via email in 1-3 business days. This is part of their WPPI specials.
As part of their WPPI specials B&H Photo has a bundle centered around the Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera, Micro Four Thirds edition. You get the camera body only kit, the Panasonic 14-140mm f4-5.8 HD OIS lens, an extra battery, and a 64GB Sandisk Extreme Pro SDXC for $1000 with free expedited shipping.
These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page…
This daily deal expired… The B&H Photo Deal of the Day good until 11:59pm ET on Wednesday 3/4/15 (or earlier if sold out) is the Bolt VM-110 LED Macro Ring Light offered for $50 with free shipping.
Speaking of B&H, they have a number of WPPI Specials to coincide with the wedding trade show.
The Woot Electronics deal of the day ending by 1am EST on Wednesday is a sale on single-use Sony alkaline batteries featuring AA, AAA, 9V, C, D, and more. This includes a 108-pack of AA STAMINA PLUS Alkaline Batteries for $25 (picture shows it as three 36-packs), and a 144-pack of half AAs and half AAAs for $30. The description has a “Best if used by 2024″ date. The limit is three per individual pack. Shipping is $5 flat regardless of how many items you buy during a deal-day.
K-temptations at B&H Photo, where this Pentax K-3 bundle is offered for $950 with free shipping as part of their WPPI specials. It includes the K-3 body only kit, the 50mm f1.8 prime lens, and the BG-5 battery grip.
The various Fuji X-T1 go for $1300 (body), $1600 (w/18-55), $1700 (w/18-135), $1400 (graphite silver), and during this promotion, B&H Photo automatically includes the Fuji VG-XT1 battery grip for free. While this promotion is running, it is mentioned on the camera’s product page and in the search results. No coupon/rebate/action needed.
The 2TB WD My Passport Ultra portable USB 3.0 hard drive is currently on sale for $80 with free shipping at Amazon (limit 2) and by Buy.com on eBay (now Rakuten; limit 5; black color scheme only). Because you can never have too many backups? 
Digital medium format is more affordable these days. If you are a fan of the Pentax 645, the 40mp Pentax 645D currently sells for $4500 with 4% promotional rewards (= $180) at Adorama and B&H Photo.
But if you want the latest model, the 645Z, Adorama has created a special 645Z bundle for WPPI that goes for $8500, the standard price of the body only. Adorama is including the following extras: 55mm f2.8 lens, 3 year New Leaf Spills and Drops warranty for the Camera, and a similar warranty for the Lens, and a ProOptic filter kit.
The Nikon combined purchase DSLR + Lens discounts are back at Amazon. You can purchase one DSLR and multiple lenses in the same shopping cart transaction, and receive a discount for each eligible lens. You can see all options at the Amazon promotional page.
TIP #1: not every lens is eligible for every dSLR. This is mentioned on the aforelinked page, but to be on the safe side, add the items of interest and check and double-check the discounts on the top right corner of the Amazon Checkout page
TIP #2: some of the bundles with free accessories are also eligible for this promotion. For example, when looking at the D5300 options page, carefully peruse to find the color/kit combo with the free extras. The extras are typically an AmazonBasics DSLR bag and 32GB SD card.
TIP #3: the just announced Nikon D7200 shows this promotion on its product page, but when I add it to cart with various lenses there are no discounts. There are two possible explanations: 1) because the camera is not shipping yet, the discounts are not working or 2) the promotion has not yet been activated in the shopping cart, or 3) both or 4) something else
In case you haven’t seen or done one of these promotions in a while, here is an annotated screenshot shot of the top right corner of the Amazon Checkout page with one DSLR and a few lenses added to the shopping cart.
The Size Wars continue in the world of superzoom digital cameras with Nikon taking a Zoomiagra with their all new Coolpix P900, which comes with an 83x (eighty three) optical zoom VR lens, with a 24-2000 mm equivalent range. It is available for pre-order for an appropriately-zoomed price of $600 at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon.
You can find this and more at the Interesting Cameras of 2015 Reference page.
The Nikon D7000 was one of the milestone DSLRs in the APS-C segment. Fast forward to today, and Nikon has revealed the third generation model in this series, the D7200, with a body only starting price of $1200, and a with 18-140 starting price of $1500. Pre-orders are available for this at Amazon and Adorama and B&H Photo.
In parallel, they launched the $250 ME-W1 wireless microphone (Bluetooth).
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This daily deal expired… The B&H Photo Deal of the Day good until 11:59pm ET on Tuesday 3/3/15 is the orange Panasonic TS5 elementproof digital camera offered for $200 with free shipping.
Speaking of B&H, they have a number of WPPI Specials to coincide with the wedding trade show.
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There are many Pentax K-50 colors and kits around. At the lowest point, $367 gets you the red K-50 body only with bonus AF-200FG flash and 32SD and 4% promotional rewards (= $14.xx~).
The bang for the buck is the black K-50 two lens kit with the 18-55 WR and 55-200 WR lenses and AF-200FG flash and 4% rewards (= $21~) going for $527 at B&H Photo and Adorama.
However, if you don’t want/need the flash, Adorama has another bundle that substitutes the flash with a $50 Adorama gift certificate for the same $527 total price.
If you prefer other body colors or kit combinations, Adorama has a total of 18 different kits to ponder over. You can try sorting by price (low/high or high/low) or other factors to get a better handle of the many and more options.
A new round of Canon Lens Mail-In Rebates has gone live, covering the period of March 1-28 in 2015. Just like before, the rebates are in the form of a prepaid American Express gift card (not a paper check). You can see participating lenses at Amazon. Each eligible lens has the mail-in rebate offer on its product page. This is a direct link to the PDF form.