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To the Canon Outlet specials we go where the manufacturer refurbished with a 1-year Canon USA warranty Canon D-Rebel T5i w/18-55 IS STM is offered for $400.
UPDATE: the D-Rebel T5i w/18-55 IS STM and 55-250 IS II kit goes for $450.
PS: both bundles are in-stock as of the time of writing.
ISO performance may be getting to the moon and back, but you still need light. Which brings us to the Dracast LED500 Silver Series Daylight LED Light with 2x L-Series Battery Plates on sale a limited time for $260 with free shipping at B&H Photo.
The Sony a7r II body only is offered for $3200 at B&H Photo where you can choose one free item from a choice of three: A) $200 B&H Gift Card, B) Rode Videomic PRO, C) Sigma MC11 (EF to E). You are promoted to select which one right after you press the regular “Add to Cart” button. The pop-under presents you the three choices. The gift card is obviously the most flexible of the three choices.
Here’s an in-between storage size you don’t often see, it is the 1.5TB Seagate Expansion 2.5″ Portable External USB 3.0 Hard Drive on sale for $60 with free shipping at Adorama.
Lost in the sea of tripods are the monopods, they just can’t get their leg through the door! But there is a sale, the 3Pod PM3A Aluminum 4-Section Monopod is going for $40 with free shipping at Adorama.
This limited time offer expired… Another manufacturer-refurbished Nikon Coolpix superzoom is on sale at Coolpix L830 in the red color scheme, with 34x optical zoom, powered by AA batteries, for $109 with free shipping and a 90-day Nikon USA warranty.
Move over Hubble telescope, here comes an 83x optical zoom lens camera 🙂 The manufacturer refurbished Nikon Coolpix P900 is on sale for $430 with free shipping at Adorama with a 90-day Nikon USA warranty. Offer ends at 11:59pm ET on Thursday 12/1/16.
If you are a fan of the “Really Right Stuff” camera accessories brand and of B&H Photo, you are in luck! They have began carrying their products and they are now available for pre-order at B&H Photo. This is breaking news, their listings will soon get populated with more details but you can place a preorder if you want to get in line as an early bird.
This lightning deal expired: It’s almost the same price as the one that was a lightning deal last night but it’s a different model, good until 3:55pm ET, among the Amazon Lightning Deals is the Ape Case ACPRO338W Metro Collection Standard Camera Case (Black) going for $17.36 with the usual free shipping terms.
Speaking of camera bags, these are some of the camera bag sales in-progress, sorted by price:
These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page…
It turns out that they should have kept the limit of one per customer, because as of 1:45pm ET, this is sold out and cannot be ordered…
These daily deals expired… For future ones, check the B&H Photo Daily Deals…
I went through the first two pages of this blog (100 posts) and marked all the expired offers as ENDED, and I also updated the Holiday Shopping 2016 Situation Room by removing all the expired offers. Its name has morphed as well, it is now “Holiday Shopping” since Black Friday and Cyber Monday are already in the rear view mirror timeline-wise. The “Situation Room” will continue until 12/31/16.
I will also begin some experimentation on how to do things in this post-MAP world. This blog was/is optimized for market-driven changes in prices. But manufacturers are controlling pricing more and more, so there are fewer market-driven deals, at least on the cameras and lenses many photographers are interested in.
If you are interested in the National Parks or Nature photography, the hardcover edition of the April 19 (2016) “National Parks of America: Experience America’s 59 National Parks (Lonely Planet)” is on sale for $15.80 at Amazon by Amazon itself with a limit of 30 per customer. The sale is such that the used prices are higher than the new condition. If you are not a Prime member, you get free shipping if you buy $25+ in books (eg two of these) or with a $49+ order.
If you are a Prime member and you are not familiar with this book, but you are curious, you can borrow it for FREE through the Prime Reading program! Go to the Kindle page and look for the “Read for Free” with Prime Reading button. You have to be logged on to a Prime account to see this. Screenshot below:
But wait there’s another way to borrow it for free, if you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber!
MINI RANT: Amazon really really really needs to change how they phrase it when you borrow an ebook. It is not free. You are borrowing it. This will probably reduce accidental purchases and returns, and reduce user frustration. The “Read for Free” is good but the “Free” above that when it shows the price is confusing to the uninitiated.
The updating of the Holiday Shopping 2016 Situation Room continues, and one offer I forgot to post here is among the latest eBay Deals, eBay seller “voodublu”(99%) is offering the new condition Lytro Illum light field camera (the “normal size”, not the PEZ dispenser one) for $249 with free shipping with a limit of five per customer. Over 400 units got sold from this listing so far per the eBay data over there. Note that Lytro is out of the consumer camera business!
Sometimes it pays to go through those Valpak coupons in the light blue envelope that come along with the Weekly Grocery Ad mail spam ads. There is a coupon from Woot, coupon code VALPAK2 gets you 10% off your first order at Woot. The coupon expires 1/31/17. Restrictions apply.
You can see all the terms and conditions at this url: http://www.woot.com/537.r (there is a dot before the “r”). NOTE: this redirects to a Cloudfront.net page and opens a PDF file; I am not putting a “live link” so people don’t get spooked by clicking on it and then all of sudden finding a Cloudfront PDF file in their browser tabs. Limit one per customer. This is only good for first-time customers there.
Typically offers expire or lose some of the extras after the Black-Cyber 4-day weekend ends, but while updating the Holiday Shopping Season Situation Room, this offer actually added a bonus since the last time I checked it…
… the Sony a6000 two-lens kit (16-50, 55-210) now gets a $50 B&H Photo e-gift card, along with the previous 4% promotional rewards (around $28 to be used in future purchases at B&H Photo. The price is $700 with free expedited shipping.
UPDATE: price added to the blog-post title. Previously it read “for $” instead of “for $700” 🙂
Splash! The Nikon Coolpix S33 waterproof P&S digital camera is bundled with a Lowepro case, a 16GB Delkin SD and a cleaning kit for $107 with free shipping at Adorama in the white color and the blue color. Both are “temporarily out of stock” at the moment, but you can purchase them to lock the price.
On the other hand, if you need them to ship right away, they are in-stock for the same price but without the three free accessories at B&H Photo. Or if you are comfortable with refurbished, the white color is in-stock for $83 with free S&H.
The latest Adorama daily deal, good until Wednesday at 12pm ET is the new condition Tascam DR-05 Portable Handheld Digital Audio Recorder for $65 with free shipping. It takes two AA batteries and records on microSD cards, accessories you may already have aplenty thanks to cameras and photography accessories (AA) and smartphones and action and compact cameras (microSD)… For more action, check the latest Adorama Cyber Week specials…
Another eBay Bucks promotion was rolled out earlier today by eBay. As usual with these, they are YMMV because I don’t know if they sent this to everyone or a subset of the eBay users. This current iteration is 8% eBay Bucks with no minimum purchase required. The standard eBay Bucks percentage is 2%. As usual, you have to manually activate the offer (press a button in the email or eBay message/app), and you are good to go. The offer ends on Wednesday at 11:59pm Pacific time. The usual restrictions apply.
A good place to look for ideas are the eBay Deals along with the Trending Deals (shows only 100 trending deals, less overwhelming to look at than their main deals page). There’s also a dedicated search box there that searches only the Deals, not everything else on eBay.
This flash sale expired…
META UPDATE: And we are back after the post-Black-Cyber weekend! The “Situation Room” will morph into a “Holiday Shopping season” situation room and continue until 12/31/16. I will post a separate alert after that is converted as I will also do a full refresh and prune of the expired promotions.
These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page…
As of late 12/1/16 recheck, this promotion is over…
UPDATE: this offer continues until Wednesday at 11:59pm ET… Pentax is getting some Cyber Monday action! A total of 29 Pentax lenses are on sale at B&H Photo. Some of them also earn promotional rewards. It features a mix of zooms and primes (including pancakes and maple syrup) and Limiteds, and one f2.8 PRO zoom, the 50-135mm for $850…
For more action, check the latest B&H Cyber Monday specials…
This flash sale expired… In addition to the daily deals, B&H Photo is also running “flash sales” which only last a few hours each. Good until Wednesday at 9am ET is the Tenba RC9 Rain Cover (Black) for $15 with free shipping.
These daily deals expired…
Wednesday is here in the east coast, and so is the new round of B&H Photo Daily Deals. Of camera and photo interest, the Manfrotto Clamp-On Remote Control for Canon DSLRs is offered for $100 with free shipping. This ends by 11:59pm ET on Wednesday or earlier if sold out.
This lightning deal expired…
I caught a “live fish” in the Gold Box pool, good until 11:59pm ET on Tuesday (or earlier if sold out), the Ape Case Standard Digital SLR Holster Camera Bag (ACPRO650) goes for $17.65, sold and shipped by Amazon actual, so it has the usual free S&H terms.
This flash sale expired…
The current flash sale item among the B&H daily deals at the moment, good until 2pm Eastern today (or earlier if sold out) is the Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 Lens for Sony E going for $299 with free shipping. Only the Sony E-mount version in the black color scheme is on sale. The other colors and mounts are not on sale.
Time for another camera bag sale, this one is available in three different colors, the Tenba Lightweight Messenger Camera Bag (for 1-2 D/SLR Bodies, 3-5 Lenses, Flash and Accessories) for $60 with free shipping at Adorama, yet another one of the never-ending Cyber Monday offerings.
Another round of Olympus Instant Savings is in progress at Adorama featuring a variety of Olympus cameras (iLC and fixed) and lenses, and various accessories. Some of them are bundled with free accessories and/or promotional rewards. Due to time (and sanity) constraints I can’t go through them all one by one (at least not yet). Cyber Monday flies by too fast!
UPDATE (3/28/17): as of this re-check, this is OUT of STOCK, and CANNOT be ordered 🙁
UPDATE (3/26/17): as of this re-check, it is now down to $230.
Costco members can now score the Panasonic ZS50 travel-zoom for $250 with free shipping at the Costco website and may be at their stores (that’s what the page there says). This is thanks to a brand new $50 off manufacturer discount that went live today and will continue until Christmas Eve… If you are not a Costco member, you can purchase it but you have to pay a 5% surcharge (around $12.50 more).
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