The Pentax K-1 body only is bundled with Pentax D-BG6 Battery Grip, together for $1900 at B&H Photo… The Pentax HD Pentax-D FA 24-70mm f/2.8ED SDM WR is on sale for $1100 with free shipping on its own as part of the B&H Black Friday sales… Or you can get them together for the same total price ($2994) as a bundle.
Archives for November 2017
Black Friday Sigma DSLR Lenses sale (92 options)
Sigma is back with a Black Friday Lens Sale featuring 92 products in this promotion nicely organized at B&H Photo. Almost all of them are lenses, along with a couple of flashes and converters/adapters. They are available in Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sigma and Sony A. You can use the options on the left hand side over there to filter by these and more.
Speaking of B&H Photo, they have a massive Apple sale featuring laptops, iPads, Mac Minis, and more. Click on “Load More” at the bottom of the page to see more.
NewEgg 24-hour Black Friday sale
NewEgg too launched a brand new 24 Hour Black Friday sale with a variety of offers. As usual with NewEGG, some of the offers may require the use of promo codes which you can use by signing up to their email newsletters. It’s easier than it sounds, they have details at the top of the page. I am too brain-dead to go through the NewEgg BF sale, so that’s a DIY adventure 🙂
20% Statement Credit on Select Purchases Paid with Prime VISA or Prime Store Card
And the offers keep on coming! If you are a Prime member, AND you have either the Amazon Chase Prime VISA credit card, or the Prime Store credit card, AND you purchase eligible products participating in the promotion you will receive a whopping 20% back as a statement credit on your credit card. You get the usual 5% plus a 15% bonus cashback, making it 20% total. The six eligible categories include Electronics, but it’s only a subset of all products that are eligible. This happens automatically if you fulfill the prerequisites, so you don’t have to enter a coupon. If you can find items you want/need with this, it’s a great deal. I’ll look into it more later in the weekend. Expiration date unspecified.
Manfrotto MVH502AH Fluid Video Head with MT055XPRO3 Aluminum 3-Section Tripod for $250
The new condition Manfrotto MVH502AH Fluid Video Head with MT055XPRO3 Aluminum 3-Section Tripod is a Black Friday sale at Adorama going for $250 with free shipping and handling! No coupon, no rebate, it’s an old fashioned sale!
Rakuten Black Friday: 20% off almost everything (max discount $40 off)
Rakuten has a “make your own deal” type of a Black Friday! Coupon code BF20 gets you 20% off almost everything at their website. The usual exclusions apply (cash-equivalent items not eligible, some brands don’t allow coupons, some products cannot be legally discounted, etc). The maximum discount is $40 using the coupon (in order words, purchases over $200 get a flat $40 off discount if my math is right). The coupon expires on Saturday at 3am ET.
Microsoft Store Black Friday Sales
I am posting faster than Doug Flutie is throwing passes during a two-minute warning 20-point comeback attempt 😉 The official Microsoft Store too has their Black Friday sales, featuring a number of Microsoft’s own hardware including Surface bundles of different kinds, a showcase of various Windows 10 products, Xboxes, their Cortana powered speaker (made by Harman Kardon who is now part of Samsung), Mixed Reality headsets and bundles, and more. Speaking of the Cortana-powered speaker, you can get it for FREE with purchase of select Surface Laptop bundles.
Dell launches Black Friday sales
Dell Home too has launched their Black Friday Sales featuring a number of laptops and desktops, including XPS 13 and XPS 15 models, along with Alienware, HDTVs, various computer monitors including UltraSharps, Gaming (including Xbox One S and PS VR), electronics and more. At the very bottom there is a $15 laptop backpack appetizer doorbuster of sorts. Next to it you will find the $60 1-Year Dropbox with a $25 gift card offer as well.
eBay launches Black Friday Ads “Meet or Beat” page
eBay is innovating too in the ever-changing world of Black Friday madness. They have now launched a Black Friday Price Matching page where they meet or beat some of the advertised offers from the Black Friday ads. As of the time of writing, there are 88 listings there, a few of them are tech items, but no camera gear. I will monitor it (on a time permitting basis) to see if anything pops up.
Speaking of eBay and price-matching, the official BOSE eBay store has price-matched their own Black Friday offers 🙂
Speaking of eBay, here’s an appetizer doorbuster, the 8GB Transcend Class 10 SD card is offered for $5 with free shipping by PhotoVideo4Less (New York). Limit two per customer.
All the posts are sprawling today, so might as well, while we are talking eBay, the official Google eBAY store has their own Black Friday specials running with free shipping:
+ Google Chromecast for $25
+ Google Chromecast Audio for $25
+ Google Home for $79
+ limit three of each per customer
DJI Mavic PRO with Five Freebies for $849
I forgot to post this together with the earlier DJI Spark Mini deal, so it gets its own short post. The DJI Mavic PRO Black Friday sales are here.
If you want a lower price, Adorama is offering it for $849 with free shipping and FIVE useful free accessories… If you prefer free drone training (optional), and free accessories you can get it for $900 at the official DJI store.
Update on Amazon Lightning Deals Coverage
It looks like this is the new way Amazon is doing teasers of lightning deals. Previously they gave us a 20+ hour heads-up in the Gold Box. Now the maximum future visibility we all have is four hours. More specifically four hours from the top of the hour, so it’s somewhere between 3-4 hours depending on when you check.
This means I can no longer do the nightly schedule posts because I can only “see” 3-4 hours ahead instead of 20+ hours.
Instead, I started using a brand new Gold Box tag (Bookmark This if you like; there’s also a link to it in the Blog Sidebar). I am using this blog tag to mark all the posts that talk about Amazon Lightning Deals, so you when you string them all together, you see the latest lightning deal posts.
Adorama’s Best of Canon, Nikon and Sony
Adorama has created a nice visual page with their Best Canon, Nikon and Sony offers from the latest round of instant savings. This is very handy because I can’t find time to create summaries or even go through all the Instant Savings promotions of every manufacturer. For next Black Friday, I am definitely merging with IBM’s Watson 🙂
Impromptu Lightning Deals Updates
These expired…
2TB Lifetime Zoolz Cloud Storage for $35
For a limited time, Stacksocial is offering the 2TB Lifetime Zoolz Cloud Storage for $35. You only pay $35 once, and you have lifetime access to 2TB of cloud storage. This is divided into 1TB of Instant Vault and 1TB of Cold Storage. Offer cannot be combined or stacked with existing accounts for more storage.
Also on sale is the new condition Code Black Drone with HD Camera for $35, all sales final, with a 30-day warranty. There’s also so much they can offer for $35 🙂
Heads Up: Another Wave Starts Friday at 12:01am ET
Another wave of Black Friday deals will go live on Friday starting at 12:01am eastern! So get ready 🙂 Here are some tips to make the most of this:
+ use the blue menu bar at the top to quickly check if you are interested in products from a particular Manufacturer or Camera Mount or Camera Type (DSLR, mirrorless, superzoom, etc)
+ if you want to catch up to all the posts you may have missed, under the “HOME” button there are baked-in links to the first five pages of this blog. You can open them in background tabs/windows and skim/scan them all
+ subscribe to the Full-Text RSS Feed (FREE)
+ if the website crashes or slows down and such, use the Feedburner RSS feed link above as a backup. It is hosted separately by Feedburner, so it’s not affected by what happens to the website
+ I was supposed to be updating the “Situation Room” in parallel but there are so many things to sift and post, I just haven’t found time to do yet
+ UPDATE: I forgot there was a Search Box on the website – I brought it up higher in the Sidebar so it should be above the fold on Desktops and Some Laptops. It’s below the Black Friday links.
Doorbusters: Blue Blackout Yeti Mic + Serious headphones for $144 to $175
If you are looking for a microphone and some nice scifi-looking headphones, there are a couple of secret bundles at Amazon that are definitely doorbuster material. They are sold and shipped by Amazon itself, so you know it’s not a scam. You can always gift, trade, or sell the unwanted piece.
The Blue Microphones Blackout Yeti microphone goes for $90 on its own, while the bundles headphones go for $200 each. So you are paying less than half on the bundles:
+ Blue Blackout Yeti Mic + LOLA headphones for $143.91
+ Blue Blackout Yeti Mic + Mo-Fi headphones for $174.69
Speaking of headphones, Adorama has some real doorbusters as well:
+ Shure SE 535 In-Ear for $299 in Clear color scheme
+ Shure SE 535 In-Ear for $349 in the Limited Red Edition
+ for Apple fans looking for lightning headphones, the AUDEZE Sine On-Ear with 24-bit Cipher Lightning cable go for $200, also at Adorama, new condition, with warranty.
Black Friday deals at Focus Camera
Waves and waves of deals, these are the focus Camera Black Friday Deals, click on the big tabs (cameras, lenses, tripods, etc) to see all the details. Due to time constraints I can’t break them down further…
White Canon SL2 w/18-55 drops to $599
A new Star Wars movie is less than a month away, and if you are feeling unofficial Stormtrooper pride, the white color scheme of the Canon SL2 with the 18-55mm IS STM lens is now down to $599 with free shipping as well (this was released a few weeks ago, long after the original black SL2 came out) at Amazon by Amazon itself and at B&H Photo with free 16GB Sandisk Extreme SDHC and Corel Paintshop PRO 2018 (in case you want to correct the Stormtrooper’s shooting in post).
Rokinon AF Sony E Lenses: 14/2.8 for $499, 50/1.4 for $399
Rokinon has discovered autofocusing technology and now they are ready to conquer the universe! Two of their autofocus Sony E system, FE lenses, are on sale as part of the Black Friday festivities, the 14mm f2.8 FE AF goes for $499 with free expedited shipping, while the 50mm f1.4 FE AF goes for $399 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo.
Rokinon 24, 35, 50, 85mm T1.5 Cine DS Lens Bundle for $1649
The two Rokinon lightning deals go live at 7:05pm ET and 8:20pm ET tonight, but there’s more Rokinon action, not a lightning deal but a Black Friday bundle, the Rokinon 24, 35, 50, 85mm T1.5 Cine DS Lens Bundle is discounted to $1649 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo in the Nikon, Canon, Sony E and M43rds. That’s $412.50 per lens 🙂
Mitakon Zhongyi 20mm f/2 4.5x Super Macro for $149 in Eight Systems
Earlier today we mentioned the 35mm f0.95 II sale but that’s not all! There’s more Mitakon Zhongyi action, their 20mm f/2 4.5x Super Macro Lens is onsale for $149 with free shipping at B&H Photo in the Canon, Nikon, Sony and Pentax SLR systems, but that’s not all, it is also available in four mirrorless systems, M43rds, Fuji X, Sony E and Canon EF-M.
Learn to Become A Master Photographer 2017 Bundle for $29
And now something education! The Stacksocial Learn to Become A Master Photographer 2017 Bundle of eight different photography courses is on sale for $29 for a limited time. Details on each class over there… Another sale there, for $15 is their The Award-Winning Speed Reading Bundle: Lifetime License…
Flashpoint eVOLV 200 TTL Pocket Flash Kit for $399
Flashpalooza! A big Flashpoint kit is on sale at Adorama for $399 with free expedited shipping and your choice of a transmitter for Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Sony or Panasonic.
It is the Flashpoint eVOLV 200 TTL Pocket Flash Kit with AD-B2 Twin Head, Bare Bulb/Speedlite, Fresnel Flash Head And AD-L LED Head, Glow 31 x 31″ Quick Softbox With S-Type Bracket, BD-07 Barn Door Kit with Gel Filters, Mini reflector, Blue and Black Silicone Skin and R2 TTL Transmitter for your Camera (AD200). Select your transmitter of choice from the menu on the product page.
Fuji Instax Mini 26 + Rainbow Film Bundle for $50
If I could stop time, I would organize all the Fuji Instax deals in a single post, but the deals keep on flowing, no time to stop! You can find all the latest Instax related offers under the Fuji category.
Which brings us to another Instanx sale, the new condition Fujifilm Instax Mini 26 + Rainbow Film Bundle is on sale for $50 with free shipping by Amazon itself. The white color scheme is in-stock, the other two are “temporarily out of stock”. Limit up to three per color.
AmazonBasics sales round-up
AmazonBasics has gotten so big now that Amazon has created a fancy visual page for them. There are some sales, I will post them all below to save on posts. Once I go through those, then I’ll dig into the Lightning Deals and then Instant Savings [unless I get distracted by something else again]:
+ AmazonBasics Trekker Camera Backpack for $44 in black (limit 3)
+ AmazonBasics Hiker Camera and Laptop Backpack for $64 in black (limit 3)
+ 67mm AmazonBasics UV Protection Lens Filter for $6 (limit 5)
+ AmazonBasics 4-Piece Packing Cube Set (Slim) for $14+ depending on color
+ AmazonBasics 4-Piece Packing Cube Set (Medium) for $17.59+
+ AmazonBasics 4-Piece Packing Cube Set (Large) for $18 to $20 depending on color (limit 3 sets per color)
+ Okay, off to check the Lightning Deals now 🙂
Epson Expression Premium XP-640 AiO for $60
How about a printer that is not a Canon? The Epson Expression Premium XP-640 small all in one printer is on sale for $60 with free shipping at Office Depot and by Amazon itself (limit four per customer).
I will do another dive into the Lightning Deals [you can see the most recent lightning deals in the Gold Box tagged posts, and after that I’ll dig into the latest Instant Saving promotions.
64GB Samsung EVO Select microSDXC for $20, 128GB for $37, 32GB for $10
Last night’s orange-cream 128GB Samsung microSDXC EVO+ for $30 sold out and cannot be ordered, but fear not, there is another sale, this time it is the orange green EVO card that is on sale, the 64GB Samsung 100MB/s (U3) MicroSDXC EVO Select goes for $20 (it was $23) yesterday, the 128GB goes for $37, and the 32GB goes for $10. They come with a full size SD adapter. Limit up to ten per customer.
But not also that there is a Sandisk Ultra microSDXC sale running until 3am ET on Friday!
UPDATE: speaking of Samsung, there is a sale of 14 Curved Samsung Computer Monitors.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (USA Warranty, Unlocked) for $780
SURPRISE! The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has a big sale, the Midnight Black color scheme goes for $780 while the Orchid Gray goes for $800. These are new condition, with USA warranty, unlocked, no contract, sold & shipped by Amazon itself with up to two per color per customer! This is not a lightning deal… UPDATE: Both colors go for $780 at B&H Photo. Make sure you are buying the “North American” variant because their listing has International models too…
Sony a7 body with extras for $798
35mm Full frame for $800! A new low as far as I can recall for a new condition camera from an authorized USA dealer! It’s the good old Sony a7 body only, down to $798 with free shipping at Adorama (with free accessories) and at B&H Photo (two free accessories) and at Amazon itself.
Full frame parties 🙂 This went for $1000 a couple of weeks ago when I posted the 35mm Full Frame Camera Price Charts.
50 sheets of Fujifilm Instax Mini Instant Film for $30
The Instant Camera revival is so strong that it is currently headlining the Groupon Goods Black Friday sales. Good until Saturday night (or earlier if sold out) you can get 50 sheets of Fujifilm Instax Mini Instant Film for $30. These are five ten-packs which is handy if you plan to split among friends or add them to instant camera themed gifts.
Free shipping with orders of $34.99+. You can buy up to TEN sets of this, instead of the usual five. So if you max out, $300 gets you 500 sheets.
If you plan on making small purchases at Groupon throughout the holidays, they are offering a 90-day Free Shipping service for $15. During these 90-days, you don’t need a minimum of $34.99 to get free shipping. Note however that the free shipping only applies to products sold and shipped by Groupon, not by 3rd-party sellers who sell there [similar to how Amazon and NewEgg and Best Buy and others do it]
BUT if you don’t want the iconic green-white packets, B&H Photo has a 60 sheet Value Pack for $33.74 with free shipping. This is $0.56 per sheet, versus $0.60 per sheet at Groupon (assuming you buy enough to get free shipping).
Fujifilm instax mini 9 Instant Film w/10-expo for $50
After this post, I am digging into the Lightning Deals which I haven’t checked in six hours!
The new condition Fujifilm instax mini 9 Instant Film is on sale for $50 with free shipping and with ten free exposures until Black Friday at 4:30pm ET at B&H Photo. That’s when B&H stops taking orders for their usual Friday PM to Saturday PM Sabbath closing. So if you are planning B&H Black Friday purchases, don’t wait until late in the day!
The same price is available at Amazon by Amazon itself but no free exposures.
PS: if you are having a deja vu, the instant camera we mentioned earlier today was the $90 Mini 90 Neo Classic 🙂
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