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As of 11/11/15, the price jumped up up up and away…
Price updated 11/6/15 at 11:51pm ET: the classic “falling knife” price continues… The black color scheme of the Fuji XQ1, in new condition, is currently down to $187 (was $196, was $203, was $208, was $213, was $227) with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon itself. The silver goes for $270+. Thanks to one of our readers for the alert!…
These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box (new, giant images version) or Amazon Gold Box (old, widget with arrows version) and Camera & Photo page…
This daily deal expires…
This weekend sale ended…
It is November, so just about everything now is Black Friday or Cyber Monday or a Doorbuster, or a Black November, or Best Deals Ever. The hype is strong in November 🙂
If you are a fan of 13.3″ Macbook Pros, Groupon has a limited time doorbuster offer on the manufacturer refurbished Apple MacBook Pro 13.3″ Laptop, model FD101LL/A, with a one year manufacturer warranty, for $780 with free shipping, and free returns, with a limit of five per customer. Spec summary: 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 dual-core, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 1280×800, Intel HD 4000 Graphics, DVD-RW SuperDrive, SDXC slot, Thunderbolt, Firewire 800, USB 3.0, Bluetooth, etc.
PS: now that Apple has a lightning connector for their iDevices, they literally have …Thunderbolt and Lightning. Very very frightening! [now that song is stuck in your heads!]
As smartphone photography increases in popularity, so do the accessories. The JOBY GripTight GorillaPod Stand for Smaller Smartphones is now on sale for $18.50 at Amazon by Amazon itself. Check the specs to make sure your smartphone fits as the grip mechanism has limited range… This is not part of the lightning deals…
Things big and small are trending at the eBay Trending Deals and it’s on the small that we focus this post. eBay seller “Digital Goja” (99.9%) is offering a Lens Cleaning Kit for $8 with free shipping (from USA/Miami).
This includes various accessories assembled together Avengers-style: an air blower, a lens cleaning pen, a cleaning brush, a plastic spray bottle (empty), a 50pk of cleaning tissues, and three MagicFiber cleaning clothes. I count eight items, the eBay listing says “9 in 1”. I don’t know if they count the outer package as one item 🙂 Over 3600 units of this got sold so far.
PS: eBay changed the Trending Deals page. In addition to changing the actual url, they also changed the design, so now it’s a “tablety” designe, taking away the middle-button mouse-click, so clicking on the picture of an item opens it in-place. If you want to open in a new window/tab, you have to click on the name of an item below the tablety-sized picture.
These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box (new, giant images version) or Amazon Gold Box (old, widget with arrows version) and Camera & Photo page…
This deal expired… For more action, check the B&H Featured Deals…
One of the phrases making the rounds in pop culture circles is “pictures, or didn’t happen”. Well, in photography, it’s perhaps “prints, or it didn’t happen” 🙂 Which brings us to a new prints sale at the Adorama Pix website. Prices start at $1 for 8×10 inches, $2 for 11×14″, $6 for 16×20″, and more. Prices vary based on paper and other options. The discounts are factored in on their website, no coupon code needed. Sale ends 11/17/15.
If you are interested in getting the Canon XC10 video camera, Adorama is offering a bundle for the same $2500 price at authorized Canon USA dealers. You get a free 64GB Sandisk Extreme Pro CFast 2.0 memory card, a Sandisk Extreme Pro CFast 2.0 card reader, and a one year subscription to the Adobe Premiere Pro Creative Cloud. The Creative Cloud offer is redeemed separately through Canon’s promotions by you (the buyer).
Back to the world’s largest online flea market, where the Digital Goja eBay store (99.9%) is offering the new condition 58MM Altura Photo 0.35X Wide Angle Macro Fisheye Lens for Canon D-Rebels for $25 with free shipping and free returns. Over 4700 units got sold so far from this listing. It has a countdown clock and if that does not get extended, it will end around 3pm ET on Thursday.
The Last Action Camera Hero. Coming soon to a theater near you (probably not)… In the meantime, if you like boatloads of extra accessories, BuyDig’s Rakuten store is offering an orange-black Ricoh WG-M1 camera bundle for $140 with free shipping. This include the standard camera kit, along with two 32GB microSD cards, a tripod, a camera case, a card reader, a memory card wallet, a cable and the obligatory cleaning kit… While there, promo code REWARDME gets you 7% Rakuten Points rewards (if you are part of their rewards program)…
NewEgg and American Express are having a new co-promotion for the Holiday shopping season. You must first opt-in for the offer. Then you spend $200+ at NewEgg paid with a qualifying American Express credit card, and you will receive $25 back as a statement credit on your AMEX card. Limit one per customer. Purchases must be made by 12/31/15. More details and terms/conditions at the NewEgg Promotional page.
Strategically these type of offers are a good match for products that have the same prices across all retailers.
The Pentax DA 50-200mm f4-5.6 ED WR lens is currently on sale for $163 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo.
The Helder EF-2537 37mm HD 0.25x Fisheye Conversion Lens is on sale for $50 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo. As the model name suggests, this is a 37mm Rear Lens Mount.
PS: no fish were hurt in the making of fisheye lenses.
The Bower 35mm f1.4 SLR lens is on sale for $300 with free shipping at B&H Photo is the Sony-Minolta Alpha and Pentax K.
The ProOptic 4X4 (100mm) Filter Holder Foundation kit is on sale for $40 with free shipping at Adorama, but that’s not all. When you click on the “See details” of the yellow “Special Offer”, you can select a free ProOptic Adapter ring at the size of your choice (52, 55, 58, 62, 67, 72, 77mm). The 82mm is +$1 instead of free. Here’s an annotated screenshot crop of that:
Late start, fifteen blog-post penalty, repeat first down! We start this PM round at the eBay Deals where Adorama’s eBay Store is offering the manufacturer refurbished Nikon D5300 with 18-55mm DX VR II for $460 with free shipping with a limit of five per customer.
On the other hand, if you also need the 55-200 DX VR lens along with a 32GB SD and case you can get them for $600 at BuyDig.
These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box (new, giant images version) or Amazon Gold Box (old, widget with arrows version) and Camera & Photo page…
This daily deal ended, but I suspect we’ll get more Lytro sales until they run out of inventory…
Canon announced not one but two new RAWsumers, the G5X and the G9X with starting prices of $800 and $500 respectively. As of the time of writing, these are in-stock at multiple retailers, including:
+ Canon G5X: B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon (price is $800, ignore the $450 after MIR, it is WRONG!)
+ G9X silver-brown: B&H Photo and various at Amazon and OneCall
+ G9X black: B&H Photo and various at Amazon (price is $500, ignore the $150 after MIR, it is WRONG!)
Red flag alert! There’s a problem with the way Amazon calculates prices for Canon digital cameras that are eligible for the Canon Pixma combined purchase mail-in rebates. The after rebate prices are incorrectly shown on camera-only kits. These won’t fly since the Canon mail-in rebates specifically require a camera + printer purchase.
Here’s an example of a broken price box, using the Canon G5X as our guinea pig:
When you click on the rebate link, it will take you to the usual Canon Pixma combined-purchase rebates. See the PDF form.
The company that owns the Polaroid brand has another new product out. Their Polaroid Cube+ tiny little square lifestyle camera is now in-stock and ready to ship for $150 at B&H Photo and Adorama and DB Roth thru Amazon. Amazon itself doesn’t have any of the three colors in-stock as of the time of writing, but they are coming soon per the listing.
For the early season shoppers, Best Buy is planning to have a brick and mortar sale-a-bration on Saturday November 7 (2015) between 1-5pm local time at their stores. Some of the offers are teased on their website and include a $30 Best Buy Gift Card with the purchase of a Sony a5100 or a5000 kit, and a $40 Best Buy Gift card with the purchase of a GoPro Hero4 Session or Hero+ LCD action camera. The first 100 customers per store will receive an unspecified “free tech gift”. You can find out which ones of your local stores are participating by using the blue location box over there.
If you happen to want the Panasonic 25mm f1.7 micro four thirds prime lens and you are also curious to try Corel’s AfterShot Pro 2 and Paintshop Pro X7, Adorama has a nice Panasonic 25mm f1.7 bundle for $200 plus shipping (the lowest shipping price is under $10, YMMV by zipcode). For that you get the standard 25mm f1.7 lens kit, along with the Corel Creativity Software kit (Aftershot Pro 2, Paintshop Pro X7, FileCenter, Omnipage), along with the Pro Optic 46mm Digital Essentials Filter Kit, a lens cap tether, a lens wrap, and the obligatory cleaning kit.
Adorama is having an impromptu flash sale on the Aries BlackBird X10 Quadcopter with built in 16MP Still/Cine Camera for $300 with free expedited shipping. This is model AIR-BBX10.
That pestery free Shutterfly offer you often see at Best Buy is now propagating across the internets to Amazon. They have launched their own Shutterfly promotion. The 8×8-inch Photo Book is free, but shipping is extra. Details on how this works at the aforelinked page. To cut a long story short, if you purchase a qualifying item, you will receive an email from Amazon with details (and your own Shutterfly redemption code).
Eligible, as of the time of writing, are 1500+ Digital Cameras and 1500+ Lenses and 160+ Action Cameras and 1100+ Memory Cards and nearly 900 External Hard Drives and 500+ NAS devices and a partridge in a pear tree.
Do you go loopy over Eneloops? (sorry, that’s the best I could come up with in 20 seconds). Adorama is offering the Sanyo Eneloop 2-slot Travel Charger with two AA Eneloop rechargeable batteries (pre-charged, 1900-2000mah) for $10 with free shipping. As you can tell from the Sanyo brand name, this is an older model, but has a very sold 4.8 out of 5 based on 120 customer reviews at Adorama. It charges two AAs in about 4 hours. More details in the description and the reviews.
This could be a nice introductory gift to rechargeable batteries for people who use single-use batteries – as long as you explain to them that you can’t recharge single-use batteries with them. Perhaps point them to the exploding battery YouTube videos to make sure they “get it” – because a few will probably be tempted to “try it just in case it works”. You know how people are 🙂
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