Archives for December 2017

Litepanels Gemini 2×1 Bi-Color LED Soft Panel with FREE Litepanels Astra 4X Daylight LED Panel for $4218

Litepanels fans, unite and take over! The new condition Litepanels Gemini 2×1 Bi-Color LED Soft Panel is bundled with a FREE Litepanels Astra 4X Daylight LED Panel (goes for over $1000 on its own) for $4218 with FREE Overnight shipping at Adorama which is nice, because you don’t want your Litepanels to be stuck in slow shipping hell.

The same price and free item is offered at B&H Photo with free expedited shipping (not overnight shipping).

Panasonic GX85 with 12-32 and 45-150 and $50 Gift Card and 64GB Sandisk Extreme and Bag for $598

The Panasonic GX85 is back on with another offer! B&H Photo is including a $50 B&H Photo Gift Card along with a free 64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC memory card (definitely not a throw-away memory card!) and a shoulder bag bundled with the Panasonic GX85 two lens kit (12-32, 45-150) for $598 with free expeditd shipping in your choice of silver or black.

50% off CVS Photo prints coupon

Good until Thursday 12/14/17 night, coupon code JINGLE50 gets you 50% off your orders at CVS Photo. Free ship to store is included where available/possible.

41 Canon DSLR Kits eligible for the Pixma PRO 100 Combined Purchase Mail-In Rebates

If you are not afraid of mail-in rebates and prepaid American Exress gift card, B&H Photo has Canon PIXMA PRO 100 + Canon DSLR Mail-In Rebate promotions. That’s right 41 different options! The offers cover the whole gamut Canon DSLRs, from the D-Rebel T6 to the flagship 1D X and almost all of them in-between!

Some of the bundles also include free additional accessories included by B&H Photo and/or promotional rewards. Check each individual listing to see what’s offered…

Sony RX100 Mark IV and III dropped $50 each

We already mentioned that the Sony RX100 Mark V went down $50 (from $1000 to $950) and is getting a $50 gift card as well at select authorized dealers, but when comparing to our most recent Fixed Lens Cameras Price Chart, we hadn’t posted that two other RX100 models dropped $50 as well (but they are not getting a $50 gift card).

Here are the prices:

+ RX100 Mark III for $700 at Amazon and Adorama (with extras) and B&H Photo

+ RX100 Mark IV for $850 at Amazon and Adorama (with extras) and B&H Photo

60% off Wood Panels or Floating Frames with Walgreens coupon

Good until Saturday night (12/16/17) at 11:59pm central time, coupon code SANTA60 gets you 60% off Wood Panels and Custom Floating Picture Frames at Walgreens Photo. I’m posting them separately since they have different expiration dates.

Used Fuji X100F Silver for $1051

Also while updating the Stock Status Tracker we found a lower used price of the silver Fuji X100F at Amazon Warehouse Deals in “Used – Good” condition, sold and shipped by Amazon Warehouse Deals itself, and with a description and pictures of the available used unit:

Fuji X100F Black drops to $1274

While updating the Stock Status Tracker, I noticed an interesting development! The black Fuji X100F is down to $1274 at Amazon by Amazon actual with up to three per customer. The usual Fuji X100F is $1299. The amount of the discount is obviously not big, but an X100F discount is a rare thing from non-importers!

A sign of the shape of things to come or some random price change by the Amazon AI Price Bots?

Tue coupon: 50% off Everything Photo at Walgreens

Good until Tuesday 11:59pm central time, coupon code WRAPITUP gets you 50% off Everything Photo at Walgreens Photo. “Everything Photo” is all their related photo print options, custom photo books, prints, calendars, coffee mugs, etc.

Also ending on Tuesday night, coupon code PRNT35EM gets you 35% off photo prints at AdoramaPIX.

Adorama Lighting Deals (649 options)

Thunderbolt and Lightning! Lots of Lighting, but no Lightning! Adorama has launched their 8 Days of Deals promotion starting with a Lighting Sale featuring 649 (!) different products from a variety of brands including Westcott, Pocket Wizard, Flashpoint, Broncolor, Glow, iKan, and more! There are too many (obviously) to list here individually, but you can use the left hand side of their website to filter (no pun intended) the results by manufacturer, prices, product category, and more!

SLR Magic Self-Locking VND Filters Sale: 62mm for $99, Etc

Good until 12/14/17 at 11:59pm ET, the new condition SLR Magic 62mm Self-Locking Variable Neutral Density 0.4 to 1.8 Filter (1.3 to 6 Stops) is on sale for $99 with free expedited shipping.

Also on sale, but without an expiration date given, is the new condition SLR Magic 82mm Self-Locking Variable Neutral Density 0.4 to 1.8 Filter (1.3 to 6 Stops) for $134 with free expedited shipping, while the 77mm version goes for $124, and the 52mm version goes for $100.

Hasselblad X1D-50c Medium Format Mirrorless for $9495

And now to our weekly Medium Format deal post 🙂 The new condition Hasselblad X1D-50c Medium Format Mirrorless camera in the body only kit is on sale for a limited time for $9495 (yes, four figures now!) at B&H Photo. It even has USB-C technology, old school photography companies embracing USB-C before the cutting edge technology ones 🙂

Starts 12pm ET FREE to Watch: Photoshop CC Brushes Class (World Premiere)

A world premiere begins at 12pm eastern today at the Creative LIVE ON-AIR, it is the “Working with Brushes in Photoshop CC” online class by Lisa Carney. The class is free to watch during this promotional ON-AIR streaming.

AMONG the UPCOMING CLASSES
+ Dec 13: Create an Online Portfolio (World Premiere)
+ Dec 14: Photography Starter Kit for Beginners
+ Dec 15: Download, Organize and Share Your Photos
+ Dec 16: Beyond DSLR Basics: Composition & Lighting
+ Dec 17: Beginner Photo Retouching
+ and so on

Meanwhile their 50% off Green Monday sale has morphed into an up to 50% off sale on their classes.

Tuesday: Samsung EVO+ MicroSD sale: 128GB for $45, 64GB for $25, 32GB for $13

One of the Tuesday daily deals at Best Buy is a sale on orange cream memory cards, more specifically the Samsung EVO PLUS with the 128GB going for $45, the 64GB for $25, and the 32GB for $13. The sale is also available by the Best Buy eBay store if you have eBay Bucks or Gift Cards or other PayPal promotions to use, more specifically the 64GB version and the 128GB version. Limit three per buyer. Free shipping even if you buy one memory card.

Woot-OFF at Sellout/Holiday

It’s the Green Monday After Party, today is Green Tuesday and it is celebrated with a Woot-OFF at Sellout/Holiday. Only this and Wine are on Woot-OFF. The other sub-Woots have regular sales, including a Centon USB stick sale at Woot Computer. These run in 24 hour blocks. Their start and end time is 1am Eastern. As usual, this is a YMMV DIY adventure, no one but the Woot AI bots (and mayhaps some well-behaved Woot humans) know what’s coming up 🙂

Refurb Dell Latitude E6430 Laptops under $200

Another day, another offer from Dell Refurbished. This is an old fashioned sale, not a coupon, the Dell Latitude E6430 Laptops are on sale starting at $179 plus free ground shipping for US addresses. Prices are below $200 during this sale. Coupons cannot be used on this offer which expires 1/2/2018 at 11:59pm central.

Amazon Printed Books: $5 off a $15+ purchase

Amazon is back with a printed books coupon! Coupon code BOOKGIFT17 gets you $5 off the purchase of $15 or more in Physical/Printed Books. The coupon expires on Thursday 12/14/17 at 11:59pm pacific, so you have plenty of time to decide. These are the Terms and Conditions. Books must be sold and shipped by Amazon itself, not 3rd-party sellers, not “fulfilled by Amazon”.

Other non-digital formats may also be eligible, eg comic books or audiobooks on CD. The only way to be sure is to add the items of interest to the shopping cart, and enter the coupon and see what happens.

Strategically this is good for books that have the same prices everywhere, or rarely go on sale. Some places to look for ideas:

+ best seller lists

+ Photography Best Sellers

+ then drill down the sub-categories on the left-hand side, eg Black and White Photography or Digital Photography

+ those categories have sub-categories for further drilling down, eg Editing or Flash Photography

+ as usual, these rankings are only as good as the accuracy of the product categorization

(ENDED) Into the Gold Box: Batteries and Chargers

These lighting deals expired… For the latest lightning deals, follow the Gold Box Yellow Brick Road

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In-Stock Oddities: USED New Sony a7r III body for $3200 (updated)

UPDATE 12/12/17 at 10:20am ET
Stranger in a stranger land. Now the same seller has a USED listing through Amazon which says it is brand new. Here’s a screenshot…

This is bizarre, I’d say wait for the more well-known retailers to have it in-stock 🙂

ORIGINAL POST
I just updated the Stock Status Tracker and there are some promising news, the camera is shown as in-stock for its starting price of $3200 by seller “Cardinal Photo” through Amazon. This ships directly from Cardinal Photo, and it is not eligible for Prime shipping.

The shipping estimates will vary depending on how near/far you are to the shipping routes as they intersect with Cardinal’s location.

Expiring Green Monday Late Night Round-Up!

Monday is getting closer to its end. Some of the Green Monday offers will expire at 11:59pm eastern time (eg retailers who reside in the eastern time zone), others will expire at 3am ET (eg pacific time zone).

ENDING 11:59PM ET
+ Canon D-Rebel T5i with 18-55 for $449 at B&H Photo

+ KEH Camera coupon code GREEN17A gets you:
+ 10% off Cameras
+ 15% off Lenses
+ 20% off Accessories
+ coupon works on USED items only
+ offer ends Monday at 11:59pm ET
+ used items purchased in “BGN” (or better) condition get a 365-day instead of a 180-day warranty

STORE-WIDE DEALS
+ I don’t know the exact expiration time of these!

+ B&H Photo Green Monday sale and B&H Apple Sales

+ Adorama Green Monday Sale

+ 20% off every $100 spent at Target
+ max discount $100; DSLRs, lenses, popular brands/tech NOT eligible

+ 20% off storewide at Rakuten with coupon GREEN20

+ Dell Home Deals
+ Microsoft Store 12 Days of Green

+ 60% off at Skillwise with coupon GREEN60
+ Stacksocial: 20% off physical products with GREEN20, 40% off digital with GREEN40

ENDING BETWEEN 12:01am and 3AM EASTERN
+ I don’t know the exact expiration time of all of these!

+ 50% off ALL classes at CreativeLIVE

+ Walmart Green Monday sale

+ 15% off regularly priced items at Toys R US

+ MacMall Green Monday and Best Sellers and PC Mall Green Monday

+ Groupon Crash the Site (it hasn’t crashed)

ENDING at 3AM EASTERN
+ 20% off at Barnes and Noble website with coupon GIFTS4ALL

+ 20% off at Monoprice with coupon 20GREEN

+ various Amazon Gold Box deals of the day

+ NewEGG Green Monday sale and Promo Code sale

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS II USM with Extras for $449

On the zooming side of EF, the new condition Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS II USM is on sale for $449 with free shipping and a handful of free accessories at Adorama: 67mm filters kit, Slinger neooprene lens pouch, a new Corel software bundle, a lens cap tether and a cleaning kit.

The new Corel software bundle is better for creatives, it has four titles, all for creatiives: AfterShot 3, Paintshop PRO X9, VideoStudio X9, and Painter Essentials 5. The previous Corel bundle had five titles but two of them were not for the creatives. Painter Essentials is the addition with the new version.

Apple price drops at Adorama

The retailers were not joking when they were hyping Green Monday, the volume of deals is such that I can’t keep up 🙂 Adorama is running an Apple price drops sale featuring MacBooks with Touch Bar, iMacs with 5K Retina, iPad PROs, and more. A total of 93 items are participating in the sale, too many to list here individually… For more Adorama action, check their Green Monday sale

Dracast LED1500 Bi-Color LED Fresnel with Wi-Fi for $596

Everything has wifi these days. If light bulbs have wifi, surely professional photography lighting can haz them too! The new condition Dracast LED1500 Bi-Color LED Fresnel with Wi-Fi is on sale for $596~ with free standard shipping at B&H Photo until Wednesday at 11:59pm eastern time as another one of their Green Monday sales.

Bower 16mm T2.2 Cine Lens (Nikon F) for $199

This offer continues (or returned) as of a late 12/13/17 recheck…

The new condition Bower 16mm T2.2 Cine Lens for the Nikon F mount is on sale for $199 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo…

8TB Seagate External USB 3.0 HDDs for $150 (Expansion or BackUp Plus Hub)

Two different 8TB Seagate external USB 3.0 hard drives are on sale for $150 each at Amazon by Amazon itself as follows:

+ 8TB Seagate Backup Plus Hub External Desktop Hard Drive Storage (STEL8000100) for $150
+ same price for the Mac version
+ limit ten of each
+ went for $150 during Black Friday madness

+ 8TB Seagate Expansion Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB8000100) for $150
+ went for $142.50 during Black Friday madness
+ limit three per customer

The Trending Five: Green Monday Edition

We have over 30 deal posts posted today so far, and with all the chaos and noise, it is time for a “Trending Five”, spotlighting some of the trending offers and ones that got buried by the avalanche of new deals! As usual, I am restricting myself to only include five (although loopholes for more are possible) 🙂

+ 50% off ALL classes at CreativeLIVE

+ 50% off select items at the National Geographic Store

+ Canon D-Rebel T5i with 18-55 for $449 at B&H Photo until Monday 11:59pm ET

+ Panasonic GX8 Silver with 25mm f1.7 Lens for $898 at B&H Photo

+ KEH Camera coupon code GREEN17A gets you:
+ 10% off Cameras
+ 15% off Lenses
+ 20% off Accessories
+ coupon works on USED items only
+ offer ends Monday at 11:59pm ET
+ used items purchased in “BGN” (or better) condition get a 365-day instead of a 180-day warranty

Green Monday is 50% off All Classes at Creative LIVE!

Oooops! I almost missed this one! The Green Monday promotion at Creative LIVE is a 50% off sale on all their classes! There is no coupon code to enter, the price is reflected automatically on their website while this promotion is running!

Canon PIXMA TS9020 printer for $50 w/free S&H

For our next magical trick, we have a Canon printer without a mail-in rebate 🙂 The new condition Canon PIXMA TS9020 is a doorbuster sale at Adorama for $50 with free shipping. No coupon, no rebate, just add to cart and proceed to checkout!

For more action, check the Adorama Featured Sales along with their Green Monday sale.

Rakuten Green Monday is 20% off site-wide

Rakuten too is celebrating Green Monday with coupon code GREEN20 that gets you 20% off almost everything at the Rakuten website during Green Monday. As usual, some products and brands are excluded from the coupon discount for various reasons.

Canon SL2 with 18-55 and 75-300 and 50/1.8 for $779 at Costco [non-members for $819]

The Canon SL2 with the 18-55 lens goes for $600 in new condition at authorized dealers (eg B&H Photo) but if you also want the Canon 50mm f1.8 STM and 75-300 f4-5.6 III non-USM lenses, you can get them all together as a bundle with a Canon bag, 32GB SD card for $780 at Costco. Non-members can buy it with a 5% surcharge (= $819).

This depends on whether you want all three lenses. The Canon 50mm f1.8 lens goes for $125 on its own, so is the 75-300mm non-USM and the bag/SD worth an extra $55 for you? Or an extra $94 if you are not a Costco member. Sales tax is extra as usual. I do not mention or calculate sales tax in the deal posts since it varies based on many factors.

Speaking of Costco, a number of gift cards for national and regional restaurants are available with nice discounts of around 20% and they are available to purchase for non-members as well. Many of these are delivered as multiple $20 or $25 gift cards, making it easier to split the order with friends and family or use them as gifts. Speaking of gifts, some of the toy drive folks often need gifts for older kids, and they say gift cards are one good option ~ in case you need ideas or reasons to buy these 🙂