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This sold out again… If you missed it a couple of weeks ago, fear not – it is back! The Kata KT DL-GP-80 GearPack Micro Backpack is back in-stock for $20, sold by Roberts LP with the order fulfilled by Amazon, so Prime members get free shipping. Non-Prime members get free shipping with a $35+ order.
Meanwhile if you are planning a $25+ order at Amazon, this tiny AmazonBasics camera bag is now down to $1.20 (was $1.26) each (limit 90). Four of these and the Kata above get you to $25+.
This offer expired… For more B&H action, check their Featured Deals page…
This particular lightning deal ended, but Sony SDXC cards are recurring “guests” at the Amazon Gold Box deals, so they should return at unspecific/unknown dates in the future…
Adorama has a filters sale, with a total of 33 items participating as follows:
+ B+W Neutral Density Filters (26 options, prices range from $26~ to $99)
+ Tiffen Neutral Density Filters (7 options, prices range from $100 to $180)
Let there be light! The Flashpoint StreakLight 360 Ws Flash with Blast Power Pack bundle is now on sale for $400 with free expedited shipping at Adorama. This bundle includes:
Just add to cart and proceed to checkout. No coupons/rebates. Optionally, check the “Buy together and Save up to $100.00 with bundle. See details” Special Offers section for optional combined purchase discounts (light stands and such).
We start a tripod mini series. First up, if you are not afraid of mail-in rebates, the Vanguard 263AB-100 3-Section Aluminum Alloy Alta Pro 263-AT Tripod Legs with SBH-100 QR Ballhead is on sale for $150 after a $50 mail-in rebate and with free expedited shipping at Adorama. The PDF rebate form is right there on the product page.
The Manfrotto MKBFRA4-BHC BeFree travel tripod is currently on sale for $179 with free shipping in new condition by OneCall.com or if you have Amazon gift cards to spend, by OneCall upon Amazon.
On the other hand, if you are comfortable with open-box purchases, you can get it for $170 with free shipping by Focus Camera on eBay (five units left as of the time of writing) [don’t forget the limited time 5X eBay Bucks offer if you are eligible for that].
The tripod party continues, the new condition Vanguard Alta CA 234AP 4-section alum-alloy tripod with the PH-33 pan head is on sale for $80 with free shipping at Adorama or if you have Amazon Gift Cards waiting to be spent, by Adorama upon Amazon.
On the budget tripods front, the Aiptek ZAC-STD-5 is on sale for $10 with free shipping at Adorama. No coupon, no rebate. It averages 3.8 out of 5 based on 38 customer reviews and has 87 answers on customer questions.
Back to the eBay Deals we fly. The last time we mentioned the imported grey-market Canon 1D X it was going for $4000. Right now it has dropped to $3900 offered by Get It On Digital (99.7%). Free shipping, one year warranty from Get It Digital (not Canon), limit five per customer.
But the price has also dropped at authorized dealers since then, it goes for $4600. At B&H Photo you get three free accessories (32GB Extreme Pro CF, bag, remote) and 2% promotional rewards (= $92~). You also get 2% rewards at Adorama with two free extra Canon batteries and a 128GB Lexar Professional 1066x CompactFlash card. At Amazon, no rewards and no accessories but you get 1 Year of Unlimited Everything Cloud storage.
Prime members in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas have a new Prime benefit going live, the Prime Now service. To celebrate the launch, Amazon offers coupon code LATRYNOW to get $20 off an order of $50+. This can be particularly good if you are buying items that have the same prices at all authorized dealers. The coupon is good for physical items sold and shipped by Amazon itself. I am not in a Prime Now area yet, so I can’t test it and tell you more about it. Details and terms and conditions at the Amazon Prime Now page.
PS: that page also mentions coupon code TRYITNOW that’s also $20 off a $50+ order. I don’t know if you can use them both, on separate orders, or stack them. I can’t test this, so this is DIY YMMV.
PS2: Prime Now is purchasing regular Amazon items. It should not be confused with AmazonFresh (fresh foods and groceries) or Prime Pantry (someone’s twisted idea of a virtual Costco).
This is YMMV because I don’t know if eBay sends these type of offers to every person participating in their eBay Bucks rewards program or some of them. So if you received an email from eBay or saw this offer in your eBay Messages, then it means you are eligible. This is important because you have to opt-in for the offer, that’s how it activates.
So with this offer, you earn 5X eBay Bucks (which is 10% since 1X = 2%) on purchases of individual items that are priced $50 or more. You can use this offer on as many items as you like. The limits are $100 rewards on a single item, and $500 total per account during the promotion. Offer expires on Thursday 7/17/15 at 11:59pm pacific time.
A good place to start looking for ideas are the eBay Deals du jour.
The GoPro HERO3+: Silver Edition is currently available for $260 with free shipping and a free cleaning cloth at Buydig.com.
If you also need an extra dual-slot charger and extra battery (both GoPro products, not 3rd-party), you can get them bundled up with the action camera for $290 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon herself (limit three bundles per customer). This purchase is eligible for a free 1yr Unlimited Everything Cloud Storage (Amazon Cloud). [yes, the bundle is currently selling for $10 less than without it!]
This offer expires soon (unless renewed), so it can’t wait for the upcoming round-up. At Stacksocial, you can get the Photoshop 2-Course Bundle by GoSkills for $39. This provides 12 months of streaming access to the courses. Internet access is required to watch the courses. Instant redemption. All sales final.
Picking a superzoom camera these days is no easy task, especially if you don’t have any requirements that automatically reduce the field to a manageable size. Which brings us to another superzoom, the Nikon Coolpix L830 (34x, AA powered) is offered in “Used – Like New” condition with a six month warranty from KEH, or $148 in refurbished condition with a one year warranty from Cameta. The warranties are offered by the aforementioned sellers, not by Nikon. Look for these two sellers in the Amazon Warehouse Deals listings.
Stacksocial is back with another Mac Mega Software Bundle. You pay $30 and you receive (digital downloads) of 15 different Mac software packages. Of photography interest, the bundle includes HDR Darkroom 3 by Everimaging, Deep Dreamer by Realmac, and 1 year subscription to Pixlr Pro. Of degrees of separation interest, Disk Drill Pro, 3yr Spotdox subscription, Macbooster 2 Std, Commander One PRO, etc. All sales are final. These are digital downloads, available right after purchasing. Limit five bundles per customer (one bundle includes all 15 software packages). Ends in about seven days from today.
These dailies expired…
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These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page…
These daily deals expired…
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So many camera mounts so little time. If you are interested in the world of Olympus, you can find all the latest instant savings promotions for the iLCs, Lenses, and fixed lens cameras nicely organized at the official Olympus store where they have free shipping with $100+ orders (flat $5 if under $100).
If you are comfortable with refurbished, don’t forget to check the Outlet store where creatures big (35-100/2 for $1769) and small (body cap lens for $38) are offered. Their reconditioned items come with a 90 day warranty from Olympus.
Monitor action now, of the ASUS variety, and thankfully no mail-in rebate needed. It is the 27-inch ASUS PB278Q IPS computer monitor, with a 2560×1440 resolution, many inputs (HDMI, DVI-D, DisplayPort, VGA), 100% (sRGB), various adjustments (image and physical), and a boatload of cables included in the package. The connections are on the left side, not behind the monitor (you can see them in all their glory in picture #6 in the main gallery over there). It averages 4.3 out of 5 based on 875 customer reviews and has nearly 400 questions answered over there. Limit four per customer.
Oops, I forgot the price and link. It goes for $400 at Amazon by Amazon itself 🙂
If your interests intersect at Android and Compact Superzooms, you can get the certified refurbished Samsung Galaxy Camera 2, model ECG200, with a 21x optical zoom lens and a six month Samsung warranty for $215 with free shipping and free returns from Groupon Goods.
In new condition, this goes for $350 at B&H Photo and Amazon itself.
Not only we forgot about Dre, we also forgot about the eBay Deals where we have an imported grey-market new condition camera. If of all the 1-inch compacts with RAW it is the first generation Sony RX100 the one you want, you can get it for $320 with free shipping, with a limit of five per customer from eBay seller Electronics Valley (99.1%).
If you don’t want to wait for the Google New Nexus event in late September, the 32GB Nexus 6 is back in-stock for $350 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon itself with a limit of three per customer. No contract, no carrier restrictions, this is Pure Nexus Android. The only phone so far (as far as I recall) eligible for Google’s Project Fi phone service.
Speaking of pure Android, the Nexus 9 tablet was on sale for $239~ (16GB) or $287~ (32GB) directly from HTC but as of the time of writing, all four combinations (two colors each) are out of stock.
Not out of stock at the HTC website is their RE action camera going for $100, available in four colors.
Speaking of HTC, you can get their flagship M9 phone for $487 with a $100 Google Play credit included. This is available as Unlocked, or as a Developer model, or in one of the four carrier various (Red, Blue, Yellow, Magenta networks). Each phone is available in different colors as well. Of photographer interest, it has a microSD slot, so you can take more pictures without having to micromanage limited on-board storage.
TIP: on the HTC website, you have to select all the options (storage, colors, etc) before they show the price and stock status.
They spell it with one “l”, so it’s probably not a Bela Lugosi homage, but let’s get back on track before this runs out of control completely. There are various sales of the Manfrotto Bella shoulder bags. Prices and shipping are intertwined in these, so it depends which one may work better for you. Here we geaux:
+ Manfrotto Bella II charcoal/brown (they call the color “bungee cord”) for $10 + shipping at B&H Photo
+ free shipping if your order total is $49+ – save it for future purchase or get five of these to get free shippings
+ Manfortto Bella II black for $13 with free shipping for Prime members at Amazon.com (seller is Roberts LP, fulfilled by Amazon herself, limit 30)
+ non-Prime members free shipping with $35+ order (which you get to if buy three of these)
+ speaking of Amazon, if you are not tired of Tom Cruise scifi movies, the BluRay+DVD set of “Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow” is on sale for $10 (limit 3)
+ Manfrotto Bella III (because there’s always a newer model) charcoal/brown for $15 with free shipping at B&H Photo
+ same price but shipping is extra in Deep Purple
+ NOTE: B&H will begin accepting orders again on Tuesday at 5:30pm Eastern
And now something for fans of battery charging. The EBL 808 is an 8-slot charger that has been superceded by a newer 12-slot charger ($30), which triggered further discounting on the 8-slot charger, currently going for $10, sold by a 3rd-party seller, with the order fulfilled by Amazon so it is eligible for Prime shipping. There are over 2000 customer reviews but it is pooling multiple products. To see the reviews of only this product, check this filtered review list (over 1500 of them).
If you are planning to buy other items from the same seller, look at the various coupons in the “Special Offers and Product Promotions” further down the product listing page.
We start another burst of posts (from here upwards, since they are posted in reverse chronological order). This one is of the YMMV variety, American Express Offers. This can be found when you logon to your AMEX account. Not everyone gets the same offers, so there is a YMMV element to it. Their system probably has some kind of “targeting” algorithm to decide who to offer it to (or may just randomness). Regardless, there’s an Adobe offer, you spend $10 or more at Adobe.com in a single transaction (excludes merchandise, phone orders) and you get a $10 statement credit. Limit one per customer. Expires 10/30/15 if not used.
Ride the PoNY! We have another price drop on a 256GB memory card as they slowly but steadily reach lower $/GB, leaving the 512GB cards to hoard the big price premiums. So the 256GB PNY Elite Performance UHS-I/U3 SDXC Class 10, model P-SDX256U395-GE, up to 95MB/sec, is now down to $90 with free shipping, with a limit of 30 per customer at Amazon by Amazon itself.
Speaking of Amazon, this blog’s semi-ironic meme of 2015, the tiny AmazonBasics camera bag is now down to $1.40 each, new condition, in semi-sturdy cardboard box, still part of the Add-On program, with a limit of 90 per customer. [see earlier semi-long post].
BorrowLenses is having a coupon sale on some of their used camera gear. Use coupon code BUYUSED15 to get 15% off the purchase of used gear shown at the aforelinked page. There are 164 options there, mostly DSLR/iLC gear. Coupon expires 9/21/15.
For the speed readers, even though BorrowLenses is a rental website, this particular offer is purchases of used camera gear they have.
If you are a student, you may be eligible to get a FREE one-year NewEgg Premier subscription (free shipping, typically costs $30/year). This is different from the Adobe academic discounts. Your eligibility depends on whether your school is a partner with NewEgg Business (their business B2B site). So you get a free Premier subscription at the regular NewEgg website, but your eligibility stems from your school’s partnership with NewEgg business.
More details at the promotional page. You can confirm there your school’s eligibility by entering your school’s email address.
PS1: all apologies, Noisy U does not qualify (yet) 😉
PS2: all apologies for the long blog-post title, I was trying to prevent it from being click-bait-y without the extra clarifactions
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