Archives for October 2017

(ENDED) Sunday: miggo Agua Stormproof Msgr 75 for $100; Etc

These daily deals expired but for more action, check the B&H Featured Sales

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(ENDED) Monday: E-Image 2-Stage Aluminum Tripod with GH03 Head for $160, Etc

These expired but for more action, check the B&H Featured Sales

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(ENDED) YI Lite Action Camera for $82

This lightning deal expired, but YI camera gear is recurring in the Gold Box every few days…

Happening now in the Amazon Gold Box until 2:20pm ET today is the new conditiono YI Lite Action Camera going for the very specific price of $81.59 with free shipping. The price before the sale was $100.

Saturday: Action Cams, Usual Camera/Photo accessories

There are over 40 items listed in the Camera & Photo lightning deals of the Amazon Gold Box.

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The LG V30 and V30+ are out!

LG’s approach to their flagship smartphone cameras has been bright lenses and wider than telephoto. Their new LG V30 and V30+ duo is now out in the US market with various options at various carriers. The unlocked versions are coming later in the year. As part of the launch, LG and Google have a special promotion through participating carriers that gets you a FREE Daydream View VR Headset and a second year warranty.

+ at Verizon Wireless, you get a $200 prepaid VISA gift card along with the Daydream
+ price is $840 outright or $35/month on a 24-month plan on approved credit with 0% APR

+ at T-Mobile the price is $800 or the equivalent with an installment plan
+ but they offer $500 back in a prepaid Mastercard if you buy TWO LG V30s when you add a line, pay with an Installment Plan and such. There’s also an optional offer for a free LG G Pad X2 tablet

+ at AT&T they offer it $27/mo on an installment plan OAC or $810 outright

+ at US Cellular they offer a $20/month on a 30-month installment plan or $800 outright

+ at Sprint they offer a 2-for-1 “Sprint Flex” offer with an installment plan and such. Note that “Sprint Flex” is a lease program, not a purchase program
+ Sprint offers the V30+ which has more on-board memory

The FREE Google DayDream promotion and second year warranty comes from LG and Google and is redeemed through the LG launch promotion page. The other offers are through each particular carrier.

As usual when dealing with carriers, make sure you understand all the terms, restrictions, traps, and conditions of their offers. They have a long way to go towards offering more transparent and consumer-friendly plans and services.

12pk AmazonBasics AAA (800 mAh) rechargeables for $12

If you need a handful of AAA rechargeable batteries, the 12pk of AmazonBasics 800 mAh batteries is currently on sale for $12 at Amazon by Amazon itself. That’s $1 per battery. You can buy as many as you like. This is an old fashioned sale, not a lightning deal, not an Add-On.

Free 2-day shipping for Prime members, or with a $25+ order. Some ideas to get to $25+, sorted by price:

+ 10ft AmazonBasics Male to Female HDMI Extension Cable for $2~

+ 2 Quart Union 63181 Elephant Watering Can for $2.54

+ 4-pack Melitta Single Cup Pour Over Set for $5.69

+ Case Logic DCB-304 Compact System/Hybrid Camera Case for $7

+ 52oz Bubba Classic Insulated Mug for $8~

+ LensShifter Blue – Balanced Focus and Zoom Grip for $12 after green clip-on coupon [details]

+ AmazonBasics Medium DSLR Gadget Bag (Orange interior) for $13 (Prime only)

+ 50-inch AmazonBasics Lightweight Tripod with Bag for $13

Monoprice Underwater Housing for the Canon G1X for $10 + S&H

If you are a Canon G1X photographer, you may be in luck…

Monoprice has an on-going Clearance sale that includes a dedicated Camera-related page. Among the items offered there is the new condition Waterproof Camera Dive Housing For the Canon G1X for $10 plus shipping. Shipping speed options vary but the lowest price seems to be around $9 for the various zipcodes I tried.

That’s the shipping fee if you don’t buy anything else. Some other items at Monoprice qualify for free shipping, and often if you buy an item with free shipping it will drop the shipping fee of other items in the shopping cart. Monoprice works in mysterious ways 🙂

You can get a shipping and handling estimate without logging-in or creating an account. Simply add the item to the shopping cart and enter your zipcode(s) of interest. In some areas, your whole order may qualify for 1-day delivery that costs about the same as slow shipping. So do check all the options before checking out!

In-stock now: Silver Fuji X-E3 with 23mm f2 R for $1150

If you had been waiting for the silver Fuji X-E3 with 23mm f2 R to get in-stock, you are in luck! The silver kit at its starting price of $1150 is in-stock and ready to ship at Amazon by Amazon itself with a limit of up to three units per customer.

It is also in-stock from Cameta thru Amazon. It ships directly from Cameta, but if you are a Prime member, you get Prime-like shipping delivery (it’s a lesser known Prime benefit).

If you prefer the black color scheme, it remains in-stock and shipping for $1150 at Amazon by Amazon itself.

For more, check the Stock Status Tracker.

Pre-order 15.6″ Diet Bezel ASUS VivoBook F510UA for $499

This is a new “diet bezel” pre-order laptop that is generating a lot of traction at Amazon, it is currently the #1 among New Releases. It is the 15.6″ ASUS VivoBook F510UA Windows 10 laptop with a pre-order price of $499. No shipping estimate yet. Its full name is F510UA-AH51.

Its claim to fame is the “diet bezel” (not a professional term). Per the product description, this has a 0.3″ NanoEdge bezel and a 80% screen-to-body ratio. It is 0.8″ thick, it is physically 14.2″ wide but with a 15.6″ diagonal full HD display.

Other specs include 8GB DDR4 RAM, Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz (8th generation; ranks a very respectable #373 at cpubenchmark.net for a $500 laptop), 1TB HDD (5400rpm), Intel UHD 620 graphics, SD card reader, HDMI, USB 3.0, USB 2.0, USB 3.1 Type-C (Gen1) ports, 802.11ac, 3.7 lbs weight, fingerprint sensor, etc.

No optical drive, no touchscreen. There is no mention of Bluetooth in the product description. This is brand new, there are no reviews yet.

(ENDED) Weekend Magazine Sale is Multi-Year Discounts: 3-YRS of Outdoor Photographer for $13 total, and more

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(ENDED) Dell Refurbished Coupons: 45% off $399+, 35% off under

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Last Day of CreativeLIVE’s Photo Week FREE-Streaming Online

Today is the last day of the Creative LIVE Photo Week 2017. These are five days of FREE live-streaming classes, with TWO parallel channels running per day (think of it as ESPN and ESPN2). There is a variety of content planned: 40 classes, five keynotes, and five photo critiques.

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(ENDED) Saturday: 3 Month Prepaid Texture Premium Subscription for $6.50 total [Netflix of Magazines; includes Shutterbug, Outdoor Pho, NatGeo, CR, etc]

This daily deal expired… If you missed it, it returns every few weeks/months…

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(ENDED) 13% off Bargain and Ugly Gear at KEH Camera with coupon (over 2600 options)

This Friday only coupon expired…

If you can find beauty in ugly, you are in luck! Good until Friday 11:59pm ET, KEH Camera offers a lucky 13% off Bargain and Ugly Used Camera Gear with coupon code BUG10A. Over 2600 items are eligible for this coupon promotion!

PS: the Bargain (BGN) and Ugly (UG) conditions still qualify for the 180-day warranty and free returns. The “AS IS” items however don’t get a warranty or returns.

(ENDED) Friday: 10% off at Rakuten with coupon (max discount $50)

This Friday only coupon expired…

If you’ve got Friday on your mind, Rakuten has coupon on its mind! For Friday only, coupon code YAY10 gets you 10% off almost everything at the Rakuten website with a maximum discount of $50. Once per household while this promotion is running. Check their website for more details and such.

Friday: Action Cams, Usual Camera/Photo accessories

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Tamron 12-28mm f4 PRO APS-C for $199 [Canon]

It looks like Amazon has price-matched the B&H offer. As of the time of writing, you can get the new condition Tamron 12-28mm f4 PRO APS-C lens in the Canon mount for $199 with free shipping, sold and shipped by Amazon itself. Maximum three lenses per customer.

It is currently in “temporarily out of stock” status, so shipping date is up in the air, but you can lock the $199 price if you like it.

Imported Tamron 24-70mm f2.8 Di VC USD for $690 [C/N]

The new condition Tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD lens bundled with some free accessories goes for $1100 at authorized dealers such as Adorama. But if you want to save a lot and you are comfortable with imported grey-market, then…

… to the eBay Deals we go where eBay seller “QuickNDone” (99.9%) is offering the lens in new condition imported grey-market for $690 with free shipping in the Canon mount or the Nikon mount.

Limit five per mount per customer. Between them they sold over 800 units.

Warranty-wise, if you are buying in Canada, you get a 6-year Tamron Canada warranty. If you are buying elsewhere, you get the 1-year Tamron International warranty. So it’s a lot shorter than the Tamron USA warranty. That’s one of the reasons why the price is lower. They are a Canadian seller but the eBay listing says they ship from various locations in the USA.

Pre-order new iPX8 waterproof 7-inch Kindle Oasis e-reader with Audible for $250+

If you like to read everywhere you go, or you spend a lot of time in various shooting locations waiting and you want to make the most of the downtime, you may be interested in a brand new waterproof Kindle Oasis e-book reader with Audible (audiobook) support!

The new waterproof Oasis is available for pre-ordering starting at $250 from Amazon directly. This is a 7-inch 300 ppi screen, iPX8 waterproofness (2 meters, 60 minutes), with physical page turn buttons, bluetooth support, etc.

UPDATE: you can see the various options in the search results if you don’t want to play with the “Customize” button.

The default $250 model comes with 8GB of on-board storage (an increase from the previous models), Wifi-only, with Special Offers. Options that cost extra:

  • You can instead get 32GB of on-board storage (if you want to load it up with audiobooks) for +$30
  • you can remove the Special Offers for +$20 [you can remove these later as well for a one-time fee; they are not that bad unless you hate ads]
  • get the Wifi + Cellular for +$50; free cellular data for e-book purposes
  • you can select the various options using the Customize button on the product page

This is so tempting 🙂 Please feel free to send me one as part of our just-launched Secret Santa 🙂

Used Lens Filters: $1.79 to $3.89 (Xit, Tiffen, Vivitar 1+10, Firecrest)

More used action as we round-up some of the lens filters found in the Bargain Bin of the Amazon Warehouse Deals:

+ USED Xit XT95CPL 95mm Lens Polarizing Filter for $1.79

+ USED Firecrest 67mm Superslim stackable multicoated UV MC Filter for $3.75

+ USED Tiffen 52mm Linear Polarizer for $3.89

+ USED Tiffen 52mm 80B Filter for $2.57
+ or NEW condition for $5.12 with free shipping by Willoughby’s (not Prime eligible)

+ USED Vivitar Series 1 +10 Digital Macro Lens (82mm) for $3.55

+ free shipping for Prime members or with a $25+ order
+ it doesn’t look like any of them are Add-On items ~ the Add-On algorithm works in mysterious ways 🙂

FREE 8×10 inch Walgreens Photo print with coupon

For a limited time only, coupon code FREEPRNT gets you a FREE 8×10 inch print at Walgreens Photo. Free store pickup. If you prefer shipment to your address of choice, shipping is extra unless they have a free shipping promotion.

$20 off $100+ orders at REI Garage

Good until 10/19/17, there is a new promotion at the REI Garage (a newer/sexier name for REI Outlet), their shopping cart will automatically give you a $20 off discount if your shopping cart has a pre-taxes/pre-shipping order total of $100 or more. This offer only works on the REI Garage, not the main REI website. Complete offer details at their website under the “Details” link which brings up a pop-up with all the terms/conditions/restrictions if you are not familiar with how these work at the modern hippy commune that is REI 🙂

Starts Thursday 12pm ET: Day #4 of CreativeLIVE’s Photo Week FREE-Streaming Online

It is Day #4! Running this week, October 9-13 (Monday through Friday) in 2017, Creative LIVE is having their Photo Week 2017. There are five days of FREE live-streaming classes, with TWO parallel channels running per day (think of it as ESPN and ESPN2). There is a variety of content planned: 40 classes, five keynotes, and five photo critiques.

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(ENDED) Nikon Coolpix B700 superzoom (60x optical) for $350

As of a 10/17/17 AM re-check, this sale is over as well…

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(ENDED) 10% off Overstock Gear at KEH with coupon (560+ options; ends Sun PM)

This coupon expired. If you missed it, fear not, KEH has new coupons on a regular basis…

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(ENDED) Monoprice coupon: 20% off orders of $200+

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Thursday: Action Cams, Usual Camera/Photo accessories

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Used Nikon EH-68P AC Adapter/Charger for $6

And now some charging action at the Warehouse Deals. You can get in “Used – Like New” condition (damaged original packaging) the Nikon EH-68P AC Adapter/Charger for the very specific price of $6.48 with free 2-day shipping for Prime members or with a $25+ order.

Per the listing, this is compatible with Coolpix S8100, S80, P100, S8000, S6000, S4000, and S3000 cameras. It averages 4.3 out of 5 based on 110+ customer reviews.

Used Vanguard Sedona 34 DSLR Sling Bag for $26 w/free S&H

The new condition VANGUARD Sedona 34 DSLR Sling Bag/Daypack goes for $60+ (eg $60 at Adorama in the Khaki/Green color scheme), but if you are comfortable with used camera bags, then …

… to the Warehouse Deals we go where we find this Khaki/Green color scheme in “Used – Very Good” condition (repackaged) for the very specific price of $26.10 with free shipping.

Used Fotodiox Lens Mount Adapters: T2 to 43 for $4, Yashi to Nik-F for $8, FX35 to EF-M for $11

In this post we group a trio of Fotodiox lens mount adapters, with free 2-day shipping for Prime members, or with a $25+ order through Amazon Warehouse Deals as follows:

+ T-Mount (T / T-2) Screw Mount SLR Lens to Olympus 4/3 for $3.79

+ Yashica 230 AF SLR Lens to Nikon F Mount Body with Built-In Aperture Control Dial for $8.36

+ Fuji Fujica X-Mount 35mm (FX35) SLR Lens to Canon EOS M (EF-M Mount) for $11.31