Archives for July 2017

(ENDED) YI M1 with 12-40 M43rds Camera for $239 [ends by 10:25am ET]

This early morning lightning deal expired…

Ending by 10:25am ET in the Amazon Gold Box is the YI Technology M43rds sale that was promised and it’s pretty good for the YI M1 with 12-40mm going for $239~ with free shipping in the aforelinked black or silver color schemes. Limit one per color per customer. This was going for $300 before the sale, and $350 before Prime Day week. So it’s a pretty good discount… PS: there is also the two lens kit for $303~, so decisions-decisions.

(SOLD OUT) Used Panasonic GH5 body for $1700

As of 7/17/17 recheck, this SOLD OUT… For more options, check the Stock Status Tracker

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(SOLD OUT) Used Fuji GFX-50S MF Mirrorless for $5850

As of 7/17/17 recheck, this SOLD OUT… For more options, check the Stock Status Tracker

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(ENDED) Sunday: 15% off Monoprice coupon

This promotion expired…

Did you know that today is National Ice Cream Day? To celebrate this, coupon code ICECREAM gets you 15% off many items (but not everything) at the Monoprice website. Same situation as before, you can test the coupon and get a S&H estimate without creating an account. Expires Sunday night.

Nikon 35mm f1.8G DX with Extras for $167

Prime time for APS-C Nikon shooters. The new condition 35mm f1.8G DX is bundled with a 52mm ProOptic filter kit, and a lens-cap tether, and a cleaning and $6.68 promotional rewards at Adorama… The same price is available but with only a Nikon cleaning kit and promotional rewards as freebies at B&H Photo

Refurbished DJI Phantom 3 4K WiFi Quadcopter w/1yr warranty for $439 after coupon

The official DJI eBay store is one of the eBay store participating in the 20% off coupon promotion using coupon code PBACK2SCHOOL20 by 7/16/17 at 11:59pm pacific time.

One of the items eligible for the coupon, shown at the very top of the Camera Drones listing is the manufacturer refurbished DJI Phantom 3 4K WiFi Quadcopter 4K Video going for $439 with free shipping and a 1-year DJI warranty. The price before the coupon is $479, the coupon drops it to $439 as the maximum discount with this coupon is $50.

Latest Adorama Sales [updated]

The 12 hour sale expired Adorama has launched a 12-Hour Sale with over 3000 items featured. You can filter them by manufacturer or price-range or product status or review rating using the left sidebar over there. but…

… if you feel like deal fishing at Adorama, here are a few other places to look at:

+ 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)

Lensbabies Velvet 56 for $450 [corrected]

Just like most babies (except perhaps Gilly’s baby), the Lensbabies are growing up in size and in cost. Their Velvet 56, available for various DSLR and mirrorless systems is now going for $450 at Adorama and by various at Amazon.

CORRECTION: blog-post title initially showed price as $50. It is/was $450. Probably cause of typo: the dollar-sign being shift-4.

CreativeLIVE Sale: a dozen classes for $19 each

CreativeLIVE is back with another sale, this time they offer a dozen online classes for $19 each. It is a diverse set, from building DIY Lighting Gear, to authentic portraits, to being a second shooter, and more.

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
+ these will be free to watch while they are recording live

Photographer Freebies on Tuesday July 18 T-Mobile Tuesdays: Free Prints and N.Geo N.Parks e.Book

If you are a T-Mobile customer, rejoice! They finally have some photography-themed freebies for their July 18 (2017) “T-Mobile Tuesdays” freebies. Anyone who is a paying T-Mobile customer qualifies for these offers, and better yet, you get one set of freebies per line, not per customer or main account holder.

If you are not familiar, you can get the freebies at the T-Mobile Tuesdays website or by downloading their Tuesdays app (this is a separate app, not the regular T-Mobile app). Prepare for your screen to be taken over by magenta overload 🙂 You login using your T-Mobile account number and password. If you have multiple accounts, login with each phone number if you want to claim more than one set of freebies.

For Tuesday July 18, 2017, the two photographer freebies are:

  • free digital prints with free shipping from the Freeprints service: ten 4×6″ and two 5×7″
  • free e-book version of National Geographic’s National Parks. This comes from the BookShout service, not the popular ebook reading services. You can read it on the web or using the Bookshout app. No DRM-free downloads as far as I know

Also, some of the prizes to be won (if you play the “games” on their app or website include National Geographic prizes.

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10% off Photo Prints and Custom Photo Books with AdoramaPIX coupon

The previously mentioned coupon code PXSTEP10 gets you $10 off a $20+ order at AdoramaPIX, but if you are planning to place a much larger order of photo prints or custom photo books, coupon codes PRINT4TH (for prints) and BOOK4TH (for custom photo books) get you 10% off the order total.

In other words, if your order total is $100+, you save more with the 10% off coupon. If it is under $100, then $10 off is a bigger discount. Cannot be combined with other offers. Coupon cannot be stacked. Free shipping with $49+ orders. Hudson albums excluded.

Both coupons expire 7/16/17 at 11:59pm pacifica time.

(ENDED) Sunday Lightning Deals: Usual Camera/Photo accessories

These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page

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(ENDED) Default Photo Magazine Weekend Sale returns

The weekend is over, and so is this sale…

The weekend is here, which means another DiscountMags weekend sale until Monday night. This is what I call the “Default Sale” with Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photo going for $5 per magazine per year, “Digital Photo PRO” goes for $7 per year. These three are printed magazines delivered to your front door. But there’s also a digital Zinio subscription for Shutterbug for $9 per year. The usual terms apply.

(ENDED) New 10% off Barnes & Noble Coupon

This promotion ended…

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(ENDED) Sunday: Bolt Cyclone for $140, Manfrotto Shoulder Bags for $18 to $23, Etc

These daily deals expired but for more action, check their Featured Sales

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(ENDED) Dell Refurbished Coupons: 50% off $500+ (or 40% off $400+ or 30% off $300+)

This promotion ended but check back on the blog next Friday since they seem to have new coupons on Fridays…

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GoPro HERO4 CHDHX-401 Action Cam for $276

This is not “action camera day”, it just happens there are sales everywhere of them 🙂 BuyDig through the Rakuten website is offering the new condition GoPro HERO4 CHDHX-401 for $276 with free shipping until 7/16/17 or earlier if sold out. The price is automatically discounted while this promotion is running.

You can use promo code REWARDME to get 5% in Rakuten Reward points. This does not change the price you pay. It only earns you Rakuten Rewards which you can use in future purchases.

YI Action Camera w/Extra Battery for $60

The YI M43rds camera sale continues from Prime Day at Amazon’s website, but there’s more action on the YI sales front. Their entry-level YI action camera gets a FREE YI Action Camera Battery Replacement, all together for $60 with free shipping. You can add them to the shopping cart individually, or you can page down to the “Special offers and product promotions” of the action camera product page and click on the “Add Both to Cart” yellow button. No coupon is needed.

The price of the battery will be deducted at the top right corner of the Amazon Checkout page. No coupon is needed. If the price of the battery does not get deducted, it means the offer ended or there’s something else wrong.

These are sold by YI’s Amazon store, with the orders fulfilled by Amazon, so they are Prime-eligible if you are a member.

Now shipping: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR Camera with Canon Log

We have a new camera in-stock alert! The Canon EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR Camera with Canon Log body only is in-stock and ready to ship for $3599 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo. The standard log-less model goes for $3299.

DJI Phantom 4 Quadcopter for $852

The new condition DJI Phantom 4 Quadcopter is currently on sale for $852 with free shipping at Adorama and B&H Photo. It goes for slightly less from lesser known sellers at Amazon.

Serious Fixed Lens Cameras Price Charts Series is POSTED!

It was delayed by the Prime Day madness, but not defeated! The Fixed Lens Cameras has just been posted. It goes through Fixed Lens Cameras, with this year, removing 1/2.x” cameras from consideration. It’s 2017 🙂

To make up for the delay, I will launch a brand new fifth installment in the series by the weekend. This will be based on existing data. You can probably guess what it will be if you think it through but I won’t spoil it ahead of time 🙂

TIP: these can get long, but you can send them to your favorite “read it later” / bookmarking service for undistracted reading.

JULY 2017 SERIES

+ 35mm FULL FRAME digital cameras
+ APS-C dSLRs
+ Mirrorless Cameras
+ Fixed Lens Cameras
+ COMING NEXT: NEW Installment using Existing Data

(ENDED) Rokinon 85mm T1.5 Cine DS (Sony E) for $240

This lightning deal expired but Rokinon lenses are recurring at the Gold Box, so I’m sure more of them will return at unspecified points in time in the future…

Oops, this one was hidden in the convoluted way Amazon product pages with multiple options are presented. Also good until 2:15am ET on Saturday is the Sony E mount version of the Rokinon Cine DS DS85M-NEX 85mm T1.5 AS IF UMC Full Frame Cine Wide Angle Lens for Sony E for $240 with free shipping.

(ENDED) Friday: Kodak Dock & Wi-Fi 4×6” Photo Printer for $100

This deal of the day deal expired…

One of the day-long Gold Box deals of the day is the Kodak Dock & Wi-Fi 4×6” Photo Printer with Advanced Patent Dye Sublimation Printing Technology & Photo Preservation Overcoat Layer – Compatible with Android & iOS on sale for $100 with free shipping by DB ROTH with the order fulfilled by Amazon (Prime eligible). Offer ends by 3am ET on Saturday or earlier if sold out.

In other Amazon action:
+ $8 K-Cup Sample Box (Prime members only)
+ Amazon Warehouse Deals Bargain Bin (clearance sale with 3300+ items)
+ the Prime Day Audible Offer is back, 6 months of Audible for $9/month (Prime Only)

(ENDED) Friday Coupon: 20% off $200+ at Monoprice

This coupon expired, but Monoprice has coupons on a weekly basis…

Friday is here and so is a new coupon for the Monoprice website. Coupon code DEALS20 gets you 20% off an order of $200+ (instead of the usual $300+), so it’s a plus if you want to place a smaller order. The coupon expires Friday night (like midnight in the pacific time zone since that’s where Monoprice is headquartered).

(ENDED) Rokinon Cine DS DS85M-C 85mm T1.5 AS IF UMC for $319 (EF)

The second Rokinon lens in today’s Gold Box is the new condition Rokinon Cine DS DS85M-C 85mm T1.5 AS IF UMC for $319 in Canon EF. It is the only one that is a lightning deal which ends at 2:15am ET on Saturday.

Meanwhile ending at 3am ET on Saturday is the Kodak Dock & Wi-Fi 4×6” Photo Printer with Advanced Patent Dye Sublimation Printing Technology & Photo Preservation Overcoat Layer going for $100.

(ENDED) Rokinon AF 50mm F1.4 Full Frame Auto Focus (Sony E) for $399

This lightning deal expired, and it was very close to selling out completely right before it expired…

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(ENDED) Saturday Lightning Deals: Meike X-T2 Hand Grip, and the usual camera/photo accessories

These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page

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(ENDED) eBay coupon: 20% off items priced $25+ from 38 sellers (over 4300 camera and photo options)

This coupon expired, but if you missed it, fear not! eBay is running coupons on a regular basis these days…

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(ENDED) DJI Mavic PRO Drone with Extra Battery, Charging Hub, 64GB microSD, Pad for $1028

This flash sale expired…

If you want to get the DJI Mavic PRO drone, butt also need more accessories than what comes with the standard kit, Adorama is bundling an extra battery, a Charging Pad, a Landing Pad, and a 64GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC card. All together they go for $1028 with free expedited shipping from Adorama.

Corel AfterShot Pro 3 for $20 [digital download]

The Corel AfterShot Pro 3 is a post-Prime-Day sale for $20 in digital download option, for PC or for Mac, at Amazon by Amazon’s Digital Services, which is their digital selling persona. The key-card by mail option is NOT on sale. This is not a lighting deal, so expiration time/date is unknown.