These were hard to find during the holiday shopping season, but as of the time of writing, the Kindle Oasis e-reader is back in-stock by Amazon itself for $250. This is the latest model with a 7-inch screen and IPX8 and 300ppi and 8GB on-board storage, and audiobook playback (via bluetooth only). Customization is available in the shopping cart.
Archives for February 2018
Free Roll of Film with $49+ Film Camera purchase at KEH
This got buried by an avalanche of newer posts. February is a short month and February 28 is just around the corner! Running until the very last millisecond of February in the eastern time zone, coupon code FILMFEB02A gets you a FREE ROLL of FILM with the purchase of any film camera of $49+ at KEH Camera. As usual, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies.
Who would have guessed that in 2018 both cassette tapes and film would be making a comeback? 🙂
Retail News: Albertsons buying Rite Aid
With Ritz/Wolf mostly disappearing and local camera shops fading away as well, drugstore chains are often the places many people go to for prints. And we have a new development on the drugstores front. Walgreens had previously agreed to purchase some Rite Aid stores, but they are not buying the whole company. Announced today, the Albertsons group of companies will be buying Rite Aid, over 2500 remaining stores that are not purchased by Walgreens (buying over 1900 stores) according to the aforelinked Forbes article.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. If Rite Aid thrives under Albertsons, the local photo print markets will get more competition and better prices. If Albertsons starts shutting down stores, it will reduce competition giving CVS and Walgeens fewer reasons to offer good deals. Only time will tell – as always 🙂
FREE to Watch (starts 12pm ET): Sony a7r III Fast Start Class (WORLD PREMIERE)
Sony a7r III fans and curious bystanders! The day has arrived! Starting at 12pm eastern today, CreativeLIVE will have the world premiere (it is recording LIVE in front of a live studio audience) of the Sony a7r III Fast Start Class with John Greengo. The class will be free to watch during this promotional period and will repeat throughout the night until 12pm eastern of the next day (Wednesday in our case). If you like the class well enough that you want to watch again and again later on, they have it on a launch sale for $39.
If that’s not your cup, among the other On-AIR Schedule free-streaming classes on Tuesday is an Adobe Illustrator CC Drawing and Editing class and a DJ fundamentals. If you are or aspire to be a music or club or lifestyle photographer, it is not a bad idea to take a look at that class so you can better understand your subjects [if not already familiar with DJing]!
Coming up in the next few days
+ FEB-21: How to launch a Photography Business (WORLD PREMIERE)
+ FEB-21: Foundations of Adobe XD (WORLD PREMIERE)
+ FEB-21: Animal Photography (photographing animals I assume, not animals becoming photographers)
+ FEB-24: Photographing pets in the studio (herding cats tutorial?)
+ FEB-26: Alternative Processing in Photography
+ MAR-05: Getting started in lifestyle family photography (WORLD PREMIERE)
+ the above is just a sampling, see them all at the On-AIR Schedule
Refurbished Nikon D610 body w/90D W for $1040
As you can tell by today’s posts so far, the first round of price-checking for the Price Charts is the 35mm Full Frame Cameras (iLC or Fixed Lens). The Nikon D610 body only goes for $1500 at authorized Nikon USA dealers, but if you are willing to the manufacturer refurbished, you can pay just over 2/3rds of that, going for $1040 with free shipping at Adorama with a 90-day Nikon USA warranty.
Refurbished Nikon D810 Body w/90D W for $1900
If you are going to get the Nikon D810, since it is no longer the latest model [that’s the elusive Nikon D850 – see Stock Status Tracker], you might as well go the way of the refurbished and save a significant amount of money.
The new condition Nikon D810 body only goes for $2800 at authorized dealers, but if you go the manufacturer refurbished route, you can get it for $1900 with free shipping at Adorama with a 90-day Nikon USA warranty. That’s $900 less!
PS: “90D” is short for 90 days, “W” is short for Warranty. I am trying to keep blog-post titles one line with the desktop/laptop view. If they go for more than one line, they’d better fill up the second line, otherwise they are eating up space.
Nikon D810A gone from B&H and Adorama but still available
Another disappearing act! The Nikon D810A is no longer available for purchase from B&H Photo and Adorama, but if you still want to get it in new condition from an authorized dealer Amazon itself has it for its normal price of $3800 with a maximum of three per customer. It is in the all-encompassing “temporarily out of stock” shipping estimate though.
Nikon D5 Anniversary gone from B&H, but still available elsewhere
The time is right in the year for a brand new Price Charts series to begin! I have began doing the spreadsheet work and price-checking! This will continue for this week (other things equal) and you may see an increase in deals/posts featuring the cameras that are tracked in the Price Charts as the price-checks surface different kinds of deals directly or indirectly.
If you want to re-familiarize yourself with the Price Charts series, this link shows all previous editions (going back to December 2014).
The first thing that surfaced is the Nikon D5 Anniversary edition is starting to run out. The camera is marked Discontinued and unorderable at B&H Photo but it remains in-stock at Adorama for the five of you that may interested in it 🙂 Amazon itself still has it as “not yet released” but it’s still available for $8000 by Adorama and Unique Photo thru Amazon. Paying for this with an Amazon Prime VISA or Prime Store Card gets you a 5% statement credit, which in this case it’s a pretty nice $400 amount!
(ENDED) Wedn Gold Box: YI Lite Action Cam, Mactrem, Zhiyun Crane Plus, Studio/Lighting Kit for $78, Etc
These offers expired BUT for more Gold Box posts here, follow the Yellow Brick Road of Gold-Box tagged posts…
(ENDED) Zhiyun Crane 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal w/FollowFocus for $455
These lightning deals expired…
(ENDED) YI Lite 4K Action Camera for $80, with Waterproof Case for $96
These lightning deals expired…
(ENDED) Distianert Trail Camera for $36 after coupon
These lightning deals expired…
(ENDED) Wedn: iKan Mylo MB4 Mini BiC Portable LED Light, AOC
These expired BUT for more action, check the B&H Featured Sales
25% off Wall Decor at AdoramaPIX with coupon
Coupon code WALARTEM gets you 25% off all Wall Decor at ADoramaPIX until 2/21/18 at 11:59pm pacific time. Free shipping with $49+ orders. Wall Decor is everything that is typically hanged from walls, eg canvas or metal or wood prints. Their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies as “Wall Decor”.
New Prime Benefit: Free Shipping at Woot (FINALLY!)
Some thought the day would never come, but as of February 18 in 2018, this is for real! Amazon Prime members can now receive free standard shipping for most of their Woot purchases. This was announced on the official Woot blog and there are also notices scattered throughout the Woot website.
The benefit is free standard shipping, not free 2-day shipping, but it’s definitely better than paying $5 per calendar day for purchases. T-shirt purchases however get “free express shipping” which makes sense, since they are lightweight and they can be compressed for shipping purposes to the size of a burrito if need be.
Here’s an annotated screenshot from the Woot blog summarizing it:
There are some exceptions though. “Gourmet” items, sold by the Gourmet sub-Woot (formerly Wine) are not eligible. You’ll get confirmation on the product page and the shopping cart on what qualifies.
If you are a regular Woot shopper who’s not a Prime member, it’s not a bad idea to give it a try, they offer 30-Day Free Prime Trials. If you make Woot purchases on 20 different days during a rolling 12-month period, that’s the price of a 1-year Prime subscription (20 x $5 = $100).
The list of Prime benefits is getting longer and longer. Take a comprehensive look at our Amazon Prime Benefits mega-post at the main blog.
FREE OCF 24″ Beauty Dish with select Profoto B1X or B2 kits
Do two posts in a row make a theme? After the B&H Studio/Lighting offers we have one from Adorama! It’s a Profoto offer. With the purchase of the select Profoto B1X or B2 kits, you get a FREE Profoto OCF 24″ Beauty Dish with Deflector Plate. The free offer is mentioned on the individual product pages of participating items, and it is included automatically by Adorama while this promotion is running. No coupon, no rebate needed! The Beauty Dish goes for $179 on its own.
In other lighting related action at Ado, the new condition Litepanels Lykos 23W Bi-Color Flight Kit (3x Lykos Bi-Color LED Panels, 3x Ball Head Shoe Mounts, 3x Manfrotto Nano Stands and 3x Diffusion Gels) is on sale for $1580 with free expedited shipping. No relation to the Lycos search engine 🙂
For more Adorama offers, check their President’s Day sales…
Studio/Lightning deals: Aputure, Elinchrom, Dracast, Impact
Thunderbolt and Lightning very very frightening! Who knew that “Bohemian Rhapsody” was actually prophecy about 21st century technology standards? Speaking of lightning, to the lighting front we go with a handful of special offers with free shipping at B&H Photo as follows:
+ Aputure Light Storm LS 1c AC LED Light with Wireless Controller Box for $556
+ Elinchrom D-Lite RX 4/4 Softbox To Go Kit for $800
+ Dracast Silkray 400 Daylight LED Panel Light for $162
+ Dracast BoltRay LED400 Plus Bi-Color LED Light for $279~
+ Impact Collapsible Background Kit – 5 x 7′ (Chroma Blue/Chroma Green, Black/White for $199
SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC/SDXC UHS-II Card Reader/Writer for $20 w/free S&H [limit 20]
If you need to have a solid USB flash reader for SD/SDHC/SDXC UHS-II memory cards, this sale is back on, the new condition SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC/SDXC UHS-II Card Reader/Writer goes for $20 with free shipping with no minimum purchase required. However, if your order total is $49+ you will get the faster “free expedited shipping”. Limit up to twenty per customer at the sale price.
SLR Magic Variable Neutral Density Filters (4 options, $99 to $149)
B&H Photo is having a limited time sale on four SLR Magic Variable Neutral Density Filters (self locking) with prices ranging from $99 to $149 in the 52mm, 62mm, 77mm and 82mm sizes.
Refurbished Nikon D7500 body w/90D W for $900
The new condition Nikon D7500 APS-C body only goes for $1250 in new condition at authorized Nikon USA dealers such as Amazon and Adorama. But if you want to pay 3/4ths of that price…
… to the eBay Deals we geaux, where the BuyDIG eBAY store is offering the D7500 body only in manufacturer refurbished condition with a 90-day Nikon USA warranty for $900 with free shipping. Limit up to three per customer at the sale price.
PS: if you are having a bit of a deja vu, that’s because three days ago we posted a similar day for the refurbished D750 for $1200 also by BuyDIG upon eBAY.
FREE to Watch (starts 12pm ET): Beginner Photographer’s Crash Course
Snowed in? Stuck in an airport? Babysitting kids and cats and grown-ups? Why not be educationally productive instead of watching YouTube bloopers? 🙂 Streaming for FREE at the CreativeLIVE On-AIR Schedule today starting at 12pm ET (hooray, I’m finally posting it well before it starts) is the “Beginner Photographer’s Crash Course” class among a half a dozen other free-to-stream classes…
NOTE also that during actual President’s Day CreativeLIVE has a 40% to 50% off site-wide sale, so if there are any classes you like, this might be a good time to scoop them up. This is the schedule for the discounts…
Coming up in the next few days
+ FEB-20: Sony a7r III Fast Start (WORLD PREMIERE)
+ FEB-21: How to launch a Photography Business (WORLD PREMIERE)
+ FEB-21: Foundations of Adobe XD (WORLD PREMIERE)
+ FEB-21: Animal Photography (photographing animals I assume, not animals becoming photographers)
+ FEB-24: Photographing pets in the studio (herding cats tutorial?)
+ FEB-26: Alternative Processing in Photography
+ MAR-05: Getting started in lifestyle family photography (WORLD PREMIERE)
+ the above is just a sampling, see them all at the On-AIR Schedule
75% off Wood Panels with Walgreens coupon
In addition to the previously mentioned 50% off Everything Photo coupon, Walgreens Photo is also running another promotion at their Photo Store, coupon code FEBDECOR gets you 75% off Wood Panels. Free store pickup, otherwise you pay shipping (unless their website is running free S&H promotions).
Refurbished Canon G7X II for $430 after coupon
More couponization at the official Canon USA Outlet store, this time it is a manufacturer refurbished camera, the Canon G7X II in the black color scheme drops from $510 to $430 with free shipping and a 1-year warranty when you enter coupon code FEBFLASH in the shopping cart. It is in-stock as of the time of writing.
As previously mentioned, the same limited time coupon drops the price of the new condition Canon G9X (first generation) to $265 with free shipping in either color scheme.
(ENDED) Tuesday: Core SWX, ASUS, Etc
These expired BUT for more action, check the B&H Featured Sales…
(ENDED) Tuesday Gold Box: GVM, PowerExtra (for DMW-B12), Anker, RAV, Aukey, DBPower, Eyoyo, Etc
These lightning deals expired… for more Gold Box posts here, follow the Yellow Brick Road of Gold-Box tagged posts…
(ENDED) Tuesday Daily Deals: Moto X for $250, HP Omen, Rosetta
Thees daily deals expired…
(ENDED) GVM 520 LED Video Lights Multi-function Adjustable Bi-color Video Photography Lighting kit for $160
These lightning offers expired…
Dell President’s Doorbusters Begin Monday 11am ET
If you are a fan of Dell and Dell Home, their President’s Day Doorbusters will begin on Monday at 11am eastern and continue throughout the day. The aforelinked page has teaser on some of the items that will be offered. This includes desktops, laptops, computer monitors (including two Ultrasharps), gaming, and more.
Speaking of computery products, the official Microsoft Store has a doorbuster of its own, the Huawei USB-C Dock for $30 with free shipping and free returns. Of interest if you have a USB-C laptop or computer. It has two USB full size ports, a VGA, Ethernet and HDMI. Note that earlier in the week various three letter agencies issued a warning against Huawei and ZTE products because of their closeness to the Chinese government (or something like that).
Stock Tracker Update: Added X-H1, Removed X100S, a7r III; [G9 out of stock, D850 imported skyrockets]
I just updated the Stock Status Tracker and we have two sets of news.
On the meta front, the Fuji X-H1 has been added to the Tracker [already has a deal, free Domke F-803 camera bag with pre-order for the same price of $1900 at Adorama], while the Fuji X100S and the Sony a7r III have been removed as they had been steadily in-stock and had stable new and used prices. But fear not, the entries are saved, so if they happen to run out, I can quickly add them back on…
On the actual stock updates front, the Panasonic G9 is now out of stock (despite the multiple new camera announcements from Panasonica), while the imported Nikon D850 prices skyrocketed from $3230 to $3800.
If there are any upcoming cameras and lenses you’d like to see us keep track off, please leave a comment or use the online contact form. Your feedback helps determine which cameras and lenses are covered!
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