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Canon is rolling out a brand new lens for their Mirrorless System (yes, they have one), the Canon 28mm f3.5 Macro IS STM EF-M is available for pre-order for $299 with free shipping with a late June 2016 release estimate at Adorama and B&H Photo and Amazon itself.
This too has been added to the New Cameras and Lenses of 2016 tracking page.
Oops, I forgot about this, there is a new Canon Speedlite 600EX II-RT available for pre-order for $579 with free shipping and handling at Adorama and B&H Photo and Amazon itself which has a late June 2016 release estimate.
Also among the longer-running Woot offers, good until 5/23/16 at 1am ET is a sale on Fuji Instax Mini 8 instant cameras. You have to pay attention to the listings of the three colors. The pink is in new condition with a 1-year warranty and goes for $50. The white is refurbished with a 90 day Woot warranty and goes for $50. The blue is refurbished with a 90 day Woot warranty and goes for $60. So Pretty in Pink is the best deal. Limit three units per color per customer. Shipping is $5 flat for everything you buy from Woot during a single calendar day in the central time zone.
Woot has daily deals but they also have longer-running deals, which I often forget to check, but thanks to an alert by one of our power-user readers, I just did. Running there until 5/20/16 at 1am Eastern, there is a GoPro Accessories Sale featuring 18 different products, with prices ranging from $4 (wrist strap or tripod mount) to $6 (Filter Kit or Battery or bicycle clamp) to $20 (multi way adjustable bracket). Fifteen of the eighteen items are under $10. Limit three units per item. Shipping is the usual $5 flat for all Woot purchases during a single calendar day (in the central time zone).
The official Olympus USA store is having a coupon sale on its official Fan Merchandise (hats, shirts, coffee cups, and of course the obligatory Swiss Army Knife). You get 10% off with coupon code GETGEAR until 5/22/16. They call it “Gear Shop” but that is rather be confusing since camera gear is more gear than t-shirts and hats 🙂
Good until 5/22/16, Monoprice has a sale on their house brand Carbon Fiber Monopods. The 59 inch model goes for $25, while the 70 inch model goes for $40. Shipping is additional. Some regions may qualify for a flat next-day delivery fee (I think they have to be near their shipping centers and serviced by regional carriers that offer this service).
PS: if you are a low-carb diet, fear not, carbon fiber monopods do not account against your carb allowance 😉
Once upon a time a 32MB Smartmedia card was a top of the line storage option. Now you can get 1000 times as much storage on a single card and pay about the price of a visit to the all you can eat salad buffet. Which brings us to the 32GB Transcend Class 10 SDHC UHS-I Flash Memory Card, model TS32GSDHC10E, 200x, up to 30MB/sec, on sale for $8 per card, with a limit of 30 per customer at Amazon by Amazon itself. It comes in frustration-free packaging so you don’t have to fight/deal-with the usual retail packaging annoyances.
Keep in mind this is slower compared to newer cards, so keep that in mind depending on how you plan to use it.
Speaking of storage, the 32GB PNY USB 3.0 Flash Drive, model P-FD32GTBOP-GE, is on sale for $9 with a limit of 30 per customer.
The “New Usual” free shipping terms apply to this, like most Amazon purchases, free 2-day for Prime members, or with a $49+ order for non-members (or if the order includes $25+ in physical books). These for items shipped by Amazon or fulfilled by Amazon.
The Panasonic VW-VBN130 Battery Pack (for camcorders) is on sale for $29 with free shipping and handling at B&H Photo. Limit 10 per customer. If your order total is $49+, you get free expedited shipping instead of the slower free shipping.
B&H Photo is having a Sony SD* memory card sale that includes the 32GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDHC card (the up to 70MB/sec model) for $8. Limit 50 per customer. Shipping depends. If your order total (of these and any other items) is $49+, you get free expedited shipping. Otherwise you have to pay for shipping.
With the same shipping terms as above, the 128GB version (the up to 70MB/sec model) goes for $35.
We just updated the Stock Status Tracking page and we have another new in-stock alert! If you are looking to get the new Nikon D500 APS-C flagship bundled with the 16-80mm f2.8-4E ED VR AF-S DX Lens, that kit is in-stock and ready to ship at its starting price of $3067 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo.
Borrow Lenses is offering an extra rental day if your rental order ends on Memorial Day. They will be closed, so they are giving everyone an extra day as well. No coupon needed but the rental must end on Memorial Day (5/31/16). Details in their email, a screenshot of the relevant part is right below:
The Adorama Sony a6000 two-lens kit bundle expired but if you missed it or didn’t need Lightroom 6, or can’t wait for future deals, and you are a Costco member, they are offering the Sony a6000 two lens kit bundle (with 16-50mm and 55-210mm and bag and 32GB card and DVD learnings) along with a $50 Costco Cash Card by mail (four weeks after camera delivery) for $730 with free shipping. Lightroom 6 is NOT included with the Costco offer. The price is for members. If you are not a member, you have to pay a 5% surcharge. Limit three bundles per customer. Promotion ends 5/29/16.
These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page…
This offer expired… For more action, check the B&H Photo Featured Deals page…
This daily offer expired… For more action, check the B&H Photo Featured Deals page…
Spring may be an excuse to convince the spouse CFO to “authorize” the purchase of a waterproof camera and if so, and if you are also interested in the Corel imaging software without breaking the bank, Adorama is offering a number of free accessories with the Nikon Coolpix AW130 for the same price of $277 with free expedited shipping: the Corel Software Bundle which includes AfterShot PRO 2 and Paintshop PRO X8 (total of five titles), a floater strap, a 16GB SD card, a Lowepro pouch, and a cleaning kit. This is available in Coldplay Yellow, Blue or Black. Page down over there to locate these among the list of options.
Back to the land of milk and honey (and everything else you can think of), the eBay Deals Top 100, where the official GoPro eBay store is offering the manufacturer refurbished GoPro HERO3+ Silver bundled with a Remote control and the GoPro Wrist Housing, along with a 1-year warranty, all together for $170 with free shipping with a limit of 50 units per customer.
If you like to read memory cards in your spare time, the Lexar Professional USB 3.0 Dual-Slot (one SD, one CF) Reader (UDMA 7) is on sale for $20 with free shipping at B&H Photo. You can buy as many as you like (within reasonable reason since infinity does not exist in retail). Offer ends 5/28/16.
With the Pentax K-1 becoming a reality, there are more temptations among K-shooters to add more lenses or upgrade existing ones, which brings us to the Pentax FA 150-450mm f4.5-5.6 HD D DC AW on sale for a limited time only for $2389 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo.
This latest update of the Stock Status tracker brings us another new in-stock alert, it is the return of the Nikon D5 xQD edition, at its starting price of half-a-beatup-hatchback-Civic of $6500, with a limit of three per customer, at Amazon by Amazon herself.
As of a 11pm ET recheck, this sold out and is no longer available at this price…
If you go loopy for Eneloops, you can loop over to the Amazon Gold Box where one of the day-long deals is a sale on this Panasonic Eneloop Kit for $26, with a limit of five kits per customer.
This is the K-KJ17MZ104A power pack, with a 4-slot charger, 10 AA rechargeables and 4 AAA rechargebles. There are two different AA colors and two different AAA colors. They average 4.8 out of 5 based on 300+ customer reviews. Offer ends on Tuesday at 3am ET (or earlier if sold out).
PRO TIP: if you buy multiple kits, you can color code the battery colors and use them as “teams”, eg the “blue team” and the “cyan team”.
This 1-day offer expired…
This 1-day offer expired…
This 1-day offer expired…
These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page…
eBay is currently having a semi-curated Nikon Camera Gear sale featuring around 300 items, a mix of new and refurbished, authorized and not. Unfortunately I am not a 64-thread AI, so I can’t “digest” 300 items on the fly, so this is a YMMV adventure if interested in Nikon gear.
PS: I call it “semi-curated” because I don’t know how this gets assembled (how much human and how much computer input).
An SSD can be your performance improvement friend depending on your setup and if so, Amazon is offering the 480GB 2.5″ SanDisk SSD Plus, model SDSSDA-480G-G25, for $107 {was $110} with free shipping with a limit of four units per customer.
UPDATE: speaking of storage, the NewEgg eBay store is offering the new condition 3TB WD My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (USB 3.0, model WDBBKD00) for $100 with free shipping with a hard limit of five per customer. You have to do the “See price on checkout” song and dance to see the price. Over 860 units got sold as of the time of this update.
UPDATE #2 (5/16/16): there’s yet another SSD offer, this time it is the NewEgg eBay store offering the 240GB SanDisk Ultra II 2.5″ SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD), model SDSSDHII-2, for $64 with free shipping with the usual NewEgg-upon-eBay limit of five per customer.
Orange interiors is not just a description of an orange. It is also the description of this AmazonBasics Large DSLR Gadget Bag, on sale for $22.50 with a limit of three per customer. Free shipping for Prime members or $49+ (or $25+ in books). Only the orange interior is on sale. It has customizable dividers plus a tablet slot. See pictures and reviews (4.6 out of 5 on nearly 1900 reviews there).
It is the weekend, among along with it comes another Canon USA store sale that includes a number of refurbished Canon SLR Lenses. The ones on sale have their price shown in “red cyber ink”. Among them:
+ 50mm f1.8 STM EF for $90
+ 55-200mm f4-5.6 IS STM EF-S for $130
+ 70-300mm f4-5.6 IS STM EF for $400
+ 50mm f1.4 EF for $270
+ the above are refurbished with a 1-year Canon USA warranty
+ there are five pages in the Lenses page, increase the “Items per Page” or make sure you check them all
In parallel they have a refurbished DSLR sale with the 5DS R body going for $3000, 5DS for $2800, the T6s (the name, not plural) w/18-135 for $800, 6D body for $1100, 7D II body for $1200, D-Rebel T5 two lens kit (18-55/75-300) for $290, etc. There are two pages of sale items.
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