The Sony a6500 [which I forgot to include in the original Mirrorless Price Chart but was added in the revised edition thanks to corrections from our readers] with 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS PZ goes for $1500 at the Best Buy “Black Friday” but their offer has been “defeated” by B&H Photo which includes a 64GB Sandisk Extreme SDXC card, an extra Watson battery and a Shoulder Bag for the same price, versus Best Buy’s only one free accessory (a basic Sony-branded camera case).
Archives for July 2017
Panasonic GH4 Body with Extras (Various Options) for $999
At the stroke of midnight last night, the Panasonic GH4 with the 12-35mm f2.8 zoom lens dropped to $1495 at B&H Photo but that’s not the only offer that went live today for the Panasonic GH4!
A number of retailers are running “free with purchase” promotions with the Panasonic GH4 body only, while still selling at the $998 to $1000 price. Here are the options:
+ GH4 Body + Tascam 6-Track Field Recorder for DSLR with SMPTE Timecode by Beach Camera through Amazon
+ you get Prime-like shipping speed if you are a member but it ships directly from Beach Camera from the East Coast
+ GH4 Body + Panasonic DMW-SFU1-VLOG V-Log L Function Firmware Upgrade Kit at Adorama
+ GH4 Body + Rode VideoMic Pro R Cardioid Condenser Microphone at Adorama
+ GH4 Body + 2TB WD Elements USB 3.0 External Hard Drive at B&H Photo
+ all the above go for around $1000
Panasonic GX85 w/12-32 for $500 spreads
The Panasonic GX85 with 12-32mm dropped to $498 like Cinderalla last night at B&H Photo. But the sale is spreading across the interwebs, as of the time of writing, it also goes for $498 at Adorama and by various at Amazon.
PS: if you are a Prime member, and you pay with either the Prime Store Credit Card or the Amazon Chase VISA credit card, you earn a 5% statement credit on the purchase. This covers all Amazon purchases, they don’t have to be sold and shipped by Amazon itself. Prime subscriptions too earn 5% statement credit.
Fuji Instax SHARE SP-2 Wireless Printer with FREE Exposures for $150
Best Buy’s Black Friday is offering the Fuji Instax SHARE SP-2 wireless printer for $150 (which apparently got price-matched at Amazon) but both of them have been “defeated” by B&H Photo who is bundling a free 10pk of film exposures in various options, eg the standard 10pk or monochrome 10pk of film exposures. On the same listing, they also have other bundle options, eg with a pouch instead of free exposures for $153, or a a 20pk of free exposures for $154.40. With free shipping.
$5 Per Year: Digital Photo OR Outdoor Photographer
The Weekend Magazine sale is back at Discount Mags as usual, running until Monday night. Of photography interest, there are two printed magazines, offered for $5 per magazine per year, “Digital Photo” or “Outdoor Photographer”.
Monoprice 2-Day coupons: $5/$25+ or $20/$100+ or 20% off $200+ orders
A trio of coupons is running until Saturday night at the Monoprice website as follows:
+ $5 OFF $25+ orders with coupon 1BASE
+ $20 OFF $100+ orders with coupon 2BASE
+ 20% OFF $200+ orders with coupon 3BASE
$50 Gift Card with either Sony RX100 III or V
Also part of the Best Buy 2-DAY Sale is a promotion that gets you a $50 Best Buy Gift card and a 32GB SD card with the purchase of the Sony RX100 III or V at their regular prices of $750 and $1000 respectively. Sale ends Saturday night.
On the other hand, if gift cards don’t tempt you, and you are comfortable with open-box cameras, they are also available in open-box condition (without gift cards) as follows: the open-box RX100 III goes for $637 with free shipping, and the open-box RX100 V for $850 with free shipping.
For a refresher on RAWsumer price ranges, check the Fixed Lens Cameras Price Chart.
Sony Cybershot HX80 superzoom with $50 Gift Card for $370
Best Buy launched a Black Friday sale (no, you haven’t slept through the summer, it’s still July 2017) and among the offers is a $50 Best Buy Gift Card bundled with the Sony Cybershot HX80 superzoom selling for its regular price of $370 with free shipping. This is a 30x optical zoom camera, more of the travel/compact-zoom than the mega-barrel-zoom. Offers end Saturday night or earlier if sold out.
2TB G-Technology G-Drive PRO for $200
Another flash sale is now running at Adorama, for a limited time you can get the new condition 2TB G-Technology G-Drive PRO External Hard Drive with Dual Thunderbolt Ports, 4x 7200 RPM Hard Drives, Up to 480 MB/s, for $200 with free shipping. This is model 0G02828, not to be confused with the non-PRO model which costs less.
Speaking of Adorama, if you feel like deal fishing there, here are some places to check:
+ Open Box offers (241 options)
+ Refurbished offers (100 options, many are Nikons)
+ Clearance of USED products (430+ options)
+ Overstock sale (over 7600 options)
+ Rebate Offers (over 350 options)
+ Special Offers (over 3000 options)
Stock Updates: Fuji X-T2 Graphite Back In-Stock; USED Fuji X100F for $1202 (either color); Etc
We just updated the Stock Status Tracker and here are some of the changes since our previous update.
The Fuji X-T2 Graphite body only is now back in-stock at multiple retailers at its usual price of $1800 including B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon (3rd parties). Or if you are comfortable with USED condition, you can get it for $1614 by 6ave thru Amazon.
Meanwhile B&H Photo has sold out of some good USED prices they previously had on the Panasonic GH5 and Fuji GFX-50S and X100F.
Speaking of the Fuji X100F, the situation is currently as follows:
The black Fuji X100F is available in USED “Like New” condition (listing has pictures of the used model) for $1202~ by Amazon Warehouse Deals itself or $1300 in new condition at various authorized dealers including B&H Photo and OneCall and Adorama.
The silver Fuji X100F is also available in USED “Like New” condition (listing has pictures of the used model) for $1202~ by Amazon Warehouse Deals itself ($1202). Or if you prefer new condition from authorized dealers, many currently have it including Amazon itself and Samy’s (eBay) and Best Buy (eBay) and Kenmore (eBay)
The other tracked cameras are in status quo. The Nikon D7500 kits and the Panasonic GH5 are steadily in-stock.
QUESTION: which other un-released or hard to find cameras would you like us to add to the Stock Tracker? Please feel free to leave a comment below or use the online contact form.
Imported Fuji X-T2 Body w/1-YR Seller Warranty for $1355
The Fuji X-T2 body only goes for $1600 in new condition at authorized Fuji USA dealers as you can see at the Stock Status Tracker but if you are comfortable with imported grey-market cameras…
… to the eBay Deals we go, where eBay seller “Deals All Year” (99.9%, New Jersey) is offering the new condition imported grey-market Fuji X-T2 Body Only for $1355 with free shipping and a 1-year warranty from the seller (not Fuji USA).
Dell Refurbished Coupons: 30% to 50% (four options)
A new quartet of Dell Refurbished coupons are running now. The monitors coupon expires Tuesday night, while the computer coupons expire Monday night at 11:59pm central time. Free ground shipping. Coupons cannot be combined with other offers. Clearance items are excluded.
+ 50% off Dell 19 – 20 inch Monitors with Coupon Code: SAVE50MONITOR
+ 45% off Dell Laptops or Desktops priced $499 & up with Coupon Code: DELL45DEAL
+ 35% off Dell Laptops or Desktops priced $498 and below (excludes E5440 models) with Coupon Code: DELL35DEAL
+ 30% off any item in stock (excludes E5440 models) with Coupon Code: DELL30DEAL
(ENDED) Sunday: Vello Softbox for $15 to $17, Ansmann Charging Kit $28, Etc
These daily deals expired but for more action, check their Featured Sales…
(ENDED) Friday: 10% off Used Camera Bodies at KEH w/coupon
This coupon expired but stay tuned in the future for future KEH coupons… It’s coupon time! For Friday 7/21/17, coupon code BODY07A gets you 10% off Camera Bodies at KEH Camera. The coupon is towards the purchase of used camera bodies.
If you are looking for ideas, this page has the latest used KEH camera price drops. This coupon however only works on eligible camera bodies.
Panasonic GH4 with 12-35mm f2.8 for $1495
Good until Monday night (7/24/17), you can get the new condition Panasonic GH4 with 12-35mm f2.8 for $1495 with free shipping. The price before the sale was $2095, so that’s a pretty nice combined purchase discount for a PRO zoom lens and a previous generation flagship M43rds camera.
Panasonic GX85 w/12-32 and $20 rewards for $498
Good until Monday night (7/24/17), you can get the new condition Panasonic GX85 with 12-32mm in silver or black color schemes, along with $20 in promotional rewards for $498 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo.
B&H Photo Back to School Camera & Lens Bundles
B&H Photo has also launched a Camera and Photo Lens Sale featuring a variety of camera bundles, lenses, and combos of the two. There are plenty of items, I will digest them on Friday and post more alerts.
PS: keep in mind the Panasonic sales go live at 12:01am ET on Friday.
B&H Photo Back to School Camera Accessories Sale
B&H Photo has launched a Photo Accessories Back to School sale featuring a variety of products from different product categories, including plenty of tripods, bags, photo papers, studio/lighting kits, film accessories, and more. You can also filter them by price range over there. I will go through them on Friday and post individual items that stand out from the list of 80+ options.
Friday Lightning Deals: Usual Camera/Photo accessories
There are over 50 items listed in the Camera & Photo lightning deals (old format) or Full Page format (faster to navigate on Desktop) of the Amazon Gold Box. Due to time constraints I cannot create a detailed listing of them all. The usual assortment of LEDs, Tri/Monopods, Action Cams, Bags, Studio/Lighting Kits, and more are running throughout the day.
240GB SanDisk SSD PLUS 2.5″ SATA III MLC Internal for $70
A storage doorbuster is currently in progress at NewEgg Business, the new condition 240GB SanDisk SSD PLUS 2.5″ SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD), model SDSSDA-240G-G26, is on sale for $70 with free shipping. NewEgg is the seller of record. Limit one unit per customer at the sale price.
Starts Friday 12:01am ET: Panasonic GH4 with 12-35mm f2.8 for $1495
If you are not mesmerized by the temptation that is the $2000 Panasonic GH5 [see options at the Stock Status Tracker], then stay up until after Friday 12:01am ET, because that’s when…
… B&H Photo will be offering the Panasonic GH4 with 12-35mm f2.8 for $1495 with free shipping. The price before the sale is $2095, so that’s a pretty nice combined purchase discount for a PRO zoom lens and a previous generation flagship M43rds camera!
The sale price will go live after 12:01am ET on Friday 12/21/17. This is a heads-up so you can deliberate and read reviews for camera and lens and check out samples and such.
Now shipping: FotoPro line of Tripods (14 options)
We have a group in-stock alert! The line of Fotopro tripods and ballheads is now in-stock and ready to ship at Adorama. Prices range from $90 to $449.
Starts Friday 12:01am ET: Panasonic GX85 w/12-32 for $498
This is a heads-up! The sale will go live on Friday at 12:01am ET. The Panasonic GX85 with 12-32mm will drop from its current price of $598 to $498 with free shipping! The heads-up gives you some time to deliberate whether this might be of interest, read reviews and check samples and such.
Tokina 14-20mm f2 PRO DX with $24 Rewards for $599
New promotion has now gone live at B&H Photo, the new condition Tokina 14-20mm f2 PRO DX [CORRECTED LINK] along with $24~ in promotional rewards is offered for $599 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo in the Nikon and Canon systems.
PS: this blog-post is blog-certified to be Tokina, not Tamron 🙂
New Price Charts: DSLRs vs Mirrorless with APS-C Sensors
The bonus “Price Charts” installment that was promised is here! It is a DSLR vs Mirrorless edition! I merged the data from APS-C DSLRs and APS-C Mirrorless cameras into the APS-C DSLR vs Mirrorless Price Chart. How do they stack up? Are there more DSLRs or Mirrorless cameras in this segment? Try to guess before looking at the spoilers 🙂
You can find all the previous editions in the list below. But wait, there’s more! Since this APS-C comparison turned out to be a fun thing to do, there will be another bonus installment, using the same data set. You can guess what it will be, 35mm Full Frame, DSLR vs Mirrorless. Coming soon to a Noisy blog near you 🙂
JULY 2017 SERIES
+ 35mm FULL FRAME digital cameras
+ APS-C dSLRs
+ Mirrorless Cameras
+ Fixed Lens Cameras
+ APS-C dSLRs vs Mirrorless
+ 35mm Full Frame dSLRs vs Mirrorless
Select CreativeLIVE classes for $19 each [also new FREE-to-Watch Camera “Fast Start” Classes Next Week]
CreativeLIVE is back with another photography class sale. A number of classes in a variety of topics are on sale for $19 each for a limited time only.
But if you prefer not to pay, and you have schedule flexibility, you can watch classes for FREE when they are originally recording online. Check their ON-AIR SCHEDULE for the upcoming schedule. There’s a variety of classes, including a set classes focusing on Posing. On the camera training front, they plan the following camera “Fast Start” classes:
+ July 24: Olympus E-M1 Mark II
+ July 25: Sony a6500
+ July 27: Nikon D5600
+ July 28: Canon D-Rebel T7i
+ July 29: Canon 77D
+ August 11: Canon M5 and M6
+ August 11: Fuji X-T20
+ these will be free to watch while they are recording live or streaming promotionally to attract new potential buyers
Thursday Lightning Deals: Usual Camera/Photo accessories
There are over 50 items listed in the Camera & Photo lightning deals (old format) or Full Page format (faster to navigate on Desktop) of the Amazon Gold Box. Due to time constraints I cannot create a detailed listing of them all. The usual assortment of LEDs, Tri/Monopods, Action Cams, Bags, Studio/Lighting Kits, and more are running throughout the day.
Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG APO OS HSM with Extras for $1299
PRO zoom action now! The Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG APO OS HSM is bundled with a different set of freebies for $1299 with free expedited shipping at a couple of retailers. The lens is available in the Canon, Nikon and Shiguma SLR systems.
At B&H Photo you get Sigma APO Teleconverter 2x EX DG for Canon EF and 4% promotional rewards. 4% may sound like a small number, but 4% of $1300 is $52~ to use in future B&H purchases. Not a small amount!
At Adorama you get the Sigma 2x EX DG APO Tele-Converter along with the FocusShifter LensShifter Grip Handle, and 77mm Pro-Optic filter kit, Corel software bundle, lens shade, lens pen, and cleaning kit.
In-Stock Now: Canon SL2 for $550
Canon’s second attempt at mirrorless-esque sized DSLR is now in-stock and ready to ship! The Canon SL2 body only goes for $550, and the SL2 with 18-55mm goes for $700 at B&H Photo. Both are in-stock and shipping as of the time of writing.
DIY Thrifty Lighting: 16ft Daylight White Flexible Light Strip (cuttable/linkable) for $1.63
And now something from the “$5 Gadget” department. This will definitely not replace a professional $lighting$ system, but if you want to do some DIY lightning, this 16.4 ft Daylight White Flexible Light Strip (cuttable/linkable) is on sale for $1.63 at Amazon by Amazon itself. Limit up to six units per customer. It averages 4 out of 5 based on 49 customer reviews. There are 300 bright white LEDs in the whole spool. See gallery picture #1 over there.
There is a however a catch, it is an ADD-ON item, so you must needs place a $25+ order in order to buy this. Even buying the maximum of six of these is not enough to get you to $25+ [that’s just under $10].
But fear not, there are some used items we mentioned yesterday that can help you get there, $4 lens adapters, and $11 used camera bag, etc ~ look for them in the Used category. A USED APE CPRO342W Metro Collection Medium Camera Case goes for $10.80, while a Fotodiox T to M43rds adapter goes for under $4.
It is the bizareness of Amazon, sometimes lower prices can make you pay more!
UPDATE: AmazonBasics is another good place to find low priced items to get to $25+. Check their AmazonBasics products. Some items:
+ universal smartphone waterproof pouch for $3.36 [not an ADD-ON, so you can buy this on its own]
+ $8 headphones or or $3.75 earhpones
UPDATE #2 more ideas for items to get you to $25+:
+ Bottle Cleaning Kit for $2.38
+ 72pk of Tetley Green Tea bags for $2.66
+ Calm Your Tits: 40 Hilarious Road Rage Coloring Book for Adults for $4 (not an Add-ON item)
+ Perks of Being a Wallflower DVD with Digital Copy for $4.08
+ Bodum BRAZIL Coffee Maker, French Press Coffee Maker, Black, 34 Ounce for $8.61
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