Archives for March 2015

B&H Photo Specials and New Arrivals [updated]

To get things moving faster, in this post, we round up a variety of new arrivals and special offers from B&H Photo. If planning a purchase there, please note the store will be closed for Passover from 7pm ET on April 2nd and will re-open on April 12 at 10am ET. Online orders will be available for some of those days, however, they will not be processed until the store re-opens on April 12. Free shipping below unless otherwise indicated.

+ Fuji 23mm f1.4R for $700 plus 4% rewards (= $28~) – click “More Details”

+ NEC PA242W-BK 24″ Professional Wide Gamut LED Desktop Monitor for $680 – click Price

+ 2-pack of 32GB Lexar CompactFlash Professional 1066x memory cards (UDMA7) for $120 (limit 25 per customer)

+ Tamrac 3380 Aero 80 Photo/Laptop Backpack (Rust) for $50

+ Sony a7 with 28-70mm FE for $1500 with 4% rewards (= $60~)

+ 5TB Seagate Expansion External USB 3.0 drive for $130 (ends 4/3/15)

+ Apple 13.3″ MacBook Pro Notebook with Retina Display (Late 2013) for $1030

New Arrivals, In-Stock, and Pre-orders
+ In-stock: Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG OS (Canon) for $1100 with 4% rewards (= $44)

+ In-stock: JVC GY-HM200 4KCAM Compact Handheld Camcorder for $2700 plus three free accessories (Wifi dongle, extra charger, extra battery)

+ In-stock: JVC GY-HM170 4KCAM Compact Professional Camcorder for $2000

+ Pre-Orders: HTC One M9 (32GB, Unlocked, No Contract) for $650 (April 15 in-stock estimate)

Panasonic GM1 w/12-32mm and $200 Gift Card for $700

For a limited time, Adorama is bundling a $200 Adorama Gift Certificate with the Panasonic GM1 with 12-32mm kit for a total price of $700. This is available in the blue color scheme or the orange color scheme. The lens is silver regardless. The orange also earns a 4% reward (= $28~).

Nikon D750 body + refurb 50mm f1.8G lens + Lightroom 5 for $2300

BuyDig has created their own Nikon D750 body only bundle. The D750 body only kit is new condition with USA warranty. The bundle includes the factory refurbished Nikon 50mm f1.8G lens (with 90 day Nikon warranty), the Adobe Lightroom 5 software (PC or Mac), and 64GB generic SD card, for $2300 with free shipping. This offer ends 4/6/15 or earlier if sold out.

If you are not familiar with the BuyDig, this may be hard to spot, so here is an annotated screenshot of what to look for:

nikon_d750_bundle_at_buydig

Click the “view more details” link over there, or locate the “Rebates” tab in the gray bar below. Note that this is not a rebate offer, the free items will be included automatically by BuyDig, they are under the “Promotions & Special Offers” section under Rebates. That area has live links to each of the included freebies so you can examine them more closely.

64GB Sony SDXC (up to 94MB/s) for $30 w/free S&H [also Lexar USB flash drive sale]

BuyDig has a computing solutions sale that includes the 64GB Sony SDXC I (up to 94MB/sec) for $30 with free shipping. This is model SF64UX/TQN. You can buy as many as you like. Sale ends by 4/5/15 or earlier if sold out.

Also part of this sale is a 2-Pack of 8GB Lexar USB Flash Drives for $9 with free shipping. In parallel, they have a 2-Pack of 32GB Lexar JumpDrive TwistTurn 32GB Flash Drives for $23 with free shipping. I don’t know if these are USB 2.0 or 3.0. You can buy as many as you like of either one. Offer ends 4/5/15 or earlier if sold out.

Separately, you can use coupon code DIG5 to get $5 off an order of $99+ from the Blowout Sale page. This coupon ends 3/31/15 unless extended.

Adobe Elements 12 (Pho + Prem) + 2TB WD USB 3.0 portable HDD for $107

Buydig is offering a portable hard drive + Adobe imaging software bundle. It is the 2TB Western Digital Ultra USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive + Adobe Elements 12 (Photoshop & Premiere) for $107. The price on the page is $187. After you add it to cart, it drops to $107. You don’t need to login to see the sale price, just add to cart. No coupon needed. Sale ends at 4/7/15 or earlier if sold out. The hard disk on its own goes for $92 at Amazon.

(ENDED) Tuesday: Refurbished Sony HX50v for $160

This daily deal expired but it is recurring at various sellers… This started at 4pm ET on Tuesday, a limited time sale on the refurbished Sony HX50v compact-zoom (30x optical), for $160 with free shipping by Secondipity thru NewEgg. The price before the sale goes live is $180. The sale will end by Wedn 3am ET (or earlier if sold out).

(ENDED) Tue: Fuji S4830 superzoom + card + 8GB SD for $120

These daily deals expired…
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(ENDED) Tue: Seagate, Toshiba, QNAP hard disk and NAS storage options

This daily gold box deal ended… The main Amazon Gold Box deal of the day for Tuesday 3/31/15 is a sale on various Storage products from Seagate and Toshiba and QNAP, featuring portable external hard drives, NAS storage options, wireless storage, and internal hard disks. Limit three of each item per customer. A total ten different storage products are participating in this promotion with prices ranging from $50 to $400. Offers end by 3am ET on Wednesday (or earlier for any that may sell out before then).

(ENDED) Wedn: Lomography LomoKino 35mm Movie Camera with LomoKinoScope for $40

This daily deal expired… The B&H Photo Deal of the Day good until 11:59pm ET on Wednesday (or earlier if sold out) is the new condition Lomography LomoKino 35mm Movie Camera with LomoKinoScope offered for $40 with free shipping.

(SOLD OUT) Ends Thur 1am ET: Olympus Stylus SH-1 for $235

This sold out before the 24 hour cycle and got replaced by a “replacement teacher-deal”… The Woot Electronics Deal of the Day, good until 1am ET on Thursday, is the new condition black Olympus Stylus SH-1 (24x optical zoom) offered for $230 plus $5 flat shipping with a limit of three per customer.

(ENDED) Wednesday Lightning Deals: three B+W filters (67, 72, 82mm)

These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page

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Pop Photo for $5 for one year (with auto-renewal)

If you are a fan of printed magazines with automatic renewal, Amazon has a $5 Magazine Sale that includes a 1yr Popular Photography Magazine subscription (printed edition, 12 issues in 12 months, for $5, with auto-renewal). Other magazines are also participating but the duration and offers vary. The only constant is the $5 price. For example, there is a Wired All Access + Hat offer for $5 that gets you six months of Print + Digital issues (= All Access) of Wired, and a Wired …baseball hat.

NOTE #1: for auto-renewal subscriptions, when it is time for renewal, they will automatically charge you the future-current price (at renewal time), not the initial price you paid. I may have to do one of these just to see how they work.

NOTE #2: if you don’t like auto-renewals, fear not, DiscountMags has recurring photography magazine offers that are NOT auto-renewal.

250GB Samsung 850 EVO 2.5″ Internal SSD for $100

On the SSD front, the 250GB Samsung 850 EVO 2.5″ Internal SSD (SATA III), model MZ-75E250B/AM, is currently on sale for $100 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon itself (limit two) and by Adorama’s eBay store (limit five).

Sony a7 with various freebies for $1200 (body) to $1500 (w/28-70)

Adorama is offering various Sony a7 kits with freebies. The body only kits go for $1200 and include free battery grip (VG-C1EM), free leather case (LCS-ELCA) and either the Shure VP83 LensHopper Camera-Mount Condenser Microphone or Lowepro holster case and such. Similar bundles are also offered for the a7 with 28-70mm FE lens for $1500.

The freebies are included automatically by Adorama while this promotion is running, there’s no coupon, no rebate.

NOTE: Adorama appears to be testing a new website design. You may occasionally get error messages while loading some Adorama pages. If so, simply reload the page or wait a few seconds and retry.

Amazon Cloud Drive: $12/yr for Unlimited Photo Storage [Free for Prime members]

If you are a fan of cloud backups and backups-of-backups and backups-of-backups-of-backups (and so forth), Amazon is now selling Unlimited Photo storage for $12 per year for non-Prime members. Prime members get this feature for FREE as part of their Prime membership. If you are not a Prime member, you get a free 3-month trial of this service. It includes unlimited photo storage plus 5GB of any other file types (videos, documents, etc, your choice).

If you want to store a lot of other data (not just photos), they have a $60/year Unlimited Cloud Storage plan. Everyone has to pay for this plan, Prime members too. This plan too comes with a free 3-month trial membership.

You can upload your photos using the Desktop (PC or Mac) Cloud Drive app or the mobile apps (iOS, Android, Fire Android) or use the browser-based Cloud Drive navigation (eg Drag and Drop or use File Explorer on Windows). [updated]

This is an automatic renewal subscription service, so it will keep renewing unless you manually cancel it on your Amazon account. It requires a credit card (no debit/gift-cards) for the payment plans.

Clarification #1: this general Cloud Drive offer should not be confused with the Fire Phone promotion that gets you unlimited photo storage for photos taken with the Fire Phone (which is not linked to a Prime membership, but includes a 1yr Prime membership upon purchase).

Clarification #2: Digital Music you purchase from Amazon (or is included with a CD/vinyl purchase) is stored in your Amazon locker but does not count against your 5GB Cloud Drive storage. The 5GB is for anything you upload on your own.

(ENDED) Monday: 32GB Sandisk Extreme U3 SDHC for $20 (64GB for $40)

This daily deal expired…
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(ENDED) Tuesday Lightning Deals: three B+W filters (67, 72, 77mm)

These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page

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(ENDED) Dromida Kodo RTF Quadcopter with HD Flight Camera for $35 w/free S&H

This daily deal expired… The B&H Photo Deal of the Day good until 11:59pm ET on Tuesday 3/31/15 (or earlier if sold out) is the DROMIDA KODO RTF Quadcopter with HD Flight Camera offered for $35 with free shipping.

(ENDED) Rokinon 16mm f2 for $300 (seven mount options)

This limited time offer expired (the price went up to $400)… It’s Rokinon time at the eBay Deals, eBay seller “BestPriceOptics” (99.8%) is offering the new condition Rokinon 16mm f2 lens for $300 with free shipping, with a limit of five per buyer. It is available in the Canon, Sony and Pentax dSLR mounts and the Sony, Fuji, Samsung NX, and M43rds mirrornyet mounts. The Nikon dSLR version is sold out.

(ENDED) Monday Lightning Deals: two Sony NEX-5TL options, B+W filters, etc

These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page

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(ENDED) Sunday Lightning Deals: two Vanguard Shooting Tripods

These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page

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(ENDED) Sunday: B+W 52mm Kaesemann XS-Pro Circular Polarizer MRC Nano Filter for $43

This daily deal expired… The B&H Photo Deal of the Day good until 11:59pm ET on Sunday (or earlier if sold out) is the new condition B+W 52mm Kaesemann XS-Pro Circular Polarizer MRC Nano Filter offered for $43 with free shipping and a bonus cleaning cloth.

Refurbished Nikon WU-1a for $30 w/free S&H

Adorama is offering the refurbished Nikon WU-1a wireless adapter for $30 with free shipping. This is refurbished by Nikon USA.

Nikon J4 with 10-100mm VR for $450

Zoom-zoom! BuyDig is offering the new condition white Nikon J4 with 10-100mm f4-5.6 VR lens for $450 with free shipping. Expires by 3/29/15.

Refurbished Sony RX100 for $350

For a limited time, BuyDig is offering the factory refurbished Sony RX100 for $350 with free shipping and one year warranty. Offer ends by 3/29/15.

Refurbished Nikon Coolpix S9700 compact-zoom for $130

Buydig.com is offering the factory refurbished Nikon Coolpix S9700 compact-zoom for $130 with free shipping. Offer ends by 3/30/15.

Ricoh WG-M1 elementproof for $145

Back to the eBay deals we geaux, where we find the new condition Ricoh WG-M1 elementproof digital camera for $145 with free shipping, with a limit of five per customer, offered by Adorama’s eBay store.

Fuji S9250 superzoom for $64 used [updated]

If you are comfortable with used cameras, you can get it for $64~ in “Used – Good” condition at Amazon Warehouse Deals by Amazon. Bonus case and SD card not included with the used offer.

The new condition daily deal expired: One of the Best Buy Deals of the Day for Thursday is the Fuji S9250 superzoom (50x optical) with a case and 8GB SD card offered for $120 with free shipping.

(ENDED) 25% off Olympus Outlet store with coupon

This limited time offer expired but coupons are recurring offers in the future over there… If you are interested in refurbished Olympus cameras, lenses or other accessories, from today until the end of day on March 27 (2015), you can get 25% off at the Olympus Outlet Store by using coupon code SPRING over there. Free shipping on orders of $100+.

Samsung WB1100F Wifi Superzoom for $180 (red, 35x)

On the Wifi superzoom front, the red Samsung WB1100F digital camera (35x optical) is currently on sale for $180 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon itself (limit 2) and at Walmart.