Archives for December 2018

Tue: Peak Design, Evlid, Canon Pixma TS, Etc

Happy New Year 2019 with a new set of Tuesday B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ Peak Design Everyday Messenger 13″ Version 1 for $140

+ ELVID OptiView 150 3.0″ LCD Viewfinder for $40

+ Vello Fabric Softbox for Portable Flash for $13

Meanwhile the Best Buy daily deals are headlined by the Canon Pixma TS9120 AiO wireless inkjet printer going for $60 with free shipping or store pickup…

PS: there is only one New Year’s Resolution that matters: make no New Year resolutions 🙂

Mon: Manfrotto, X-Rite, Sekonic, Anker, Etc

Happy New Year’s Eve with a trio of name-brand products in the Monday DEC-31-2018, yes, the last day of 2018, at the B&H Photo daily deals:

+ Manfrotto MVH500AH Fluid Head & 755XB Tripod with Carrying Bag for $299

+ Sekonic LiteMaster Pro L-478DR-U-PX Series Light Meter for Phottix Strato II System for $249

+ X-Rite ColorMunki for $100
+ X-Rite i1Display Pro for $160

Meanwhile the Amazon USA Gold Box has another sale of Anker products (chargers, powerbanks, etc), along with a print-magazine subscription sale with various “six degrees of separation” magazines…

Sun Daily Deals: JPEGMini, Angler, Ruggard, Jackery, Force1, Etc

The “Mega Zone” party is over at B&H, and their customary daily deals return with a quartet of offerings. There’s even some Cola, except it’s not …Cola 🙂

+ JPEG Mini Pro Photo Optimization Software for $59

+ Angler Muslin Background (Black, 10 x 12′) for $39

+ Ruggard Portable Dry Case with Dehumidifier (three options, $40 to $60, 8.5L to 22.4L)

+ MBA slimcase for $10

Meanwhile at the Amazon USA Gold Box there is a sale on the Jackery portable power station Generator Explorer 240 for $187~ and a portable laptop AC outlet style charger for $82~… There’s also a digital magazine subscription sale (no photography but the usual six-degrees-of-separation subject matter)…

And at Woot Electronics their deal du jour are Force1 Wifi camera drones going from $70 to $87, in new condition, with a 90-day Force1 warranty… At Woot Computers, there’s a sale of various Macbook laptops…

KEH Camera 3-Day Coupon: 20% off Featured Sale [503 options]; 10% off most other things

KEH Camera is closing the year with a double-sided coupon. Coupon code EOY12A gets you a discount as follows:

+ 20% off the Featured Sale products (503 pre-selected cameras, lenses, etc)

+ 10% off most other things at their website

+ some exclusions and restrictions apply; you can test the coupon in their shopping cart to find out ~ you don’t need an account to test the coupon

+ the coupon expires on 12/31/18 at 11:59pm eastern, so you have three days to ponder and research and decide

CL: 18 classes for $18 each [also $5 off coupon]

CreativeLIVE is back with another sale, for a limited time they are offering a 18 classes for $18 each sale with a variety of topics including wedding photography, boudoir, nature, fine art, posing, lighting, Adobe, portraits, business stuff and more. There’s also an $18 Lightroom CC Workflow class…

There’s also a limited time coupon THANKYOU that gets you $5 off your purchase. I do not know when this coupon expires…

Sat: 75% off Wood Hanger Board Prints w/WP coupon

Good until Saturday at 11:59pm central time, coupon code 2019DECOR gets you 75% off purchases of Wood Hanger Board Prints at the Walgreens Photo website. Limit up to five uses per customer…

Stacksocial coupon: 19% off almost everything

For a limited time, coupon code NEWYEAR2019 gets you 19% off almost everything offered at the Stacksocial website. This is particularly of interest for physical good as they rarely get discounted by more than 20%… The digital offers can get a lot higher coupon discounts, so if you don’t need any of those and want to pay a lower price, you can wait for the next better coupon [eg like the one they were offering for Black Friday ~ see Archives)…

As usual with coupons, exclusions and restrictions may apply. Their shopping cart is the ultimate decider. As far as I can tell, you need a Stacksocial account before you can “test” a coupon…

Sat: PNY storage sale with SDXC, 512GB microSD, Flash Drives

The PoNYs are back in the Amazon USA Gold Box for Saturday with the return of the PNY sale featuring 17 storage products, including their Elite Performance SDXC cards with the 64GB going for $16 ,the 128GB for $28, and the 256GB for $60. There’s also a 512GB microSD for $240, and a variety of USB flash drives of the 3.0 and 2.0 kind, Limit up to three per item per customer.

NOTE: some items may have a small (eg 5% off) checkout discount that appears on the individual product pages…

Friday daily deals round-up: Corel, MEGA, etc

At B&H Photo, the MEGA DEAL ZONE continues, so if you missed out on any of the earlier 2018 daily deals at B&H, this is your chance to scoop up items of potential interest…

Imaging titles have two entries in the Best Buy daily deals with Corel Paintshop PRO 2018 Ultimate going for $35 and Pinnacle Studio 22 Ultimate going for $70.

At Woot Electronics it’s a Samsung smartphones day, while at Computers it’s a refurbished Thinkpad X1 going for $400…

Photography Software Humble Bundle

It’s photography time at Humble Bundle. They have a Professional Photography software bundle running that gets you digital keys to a variety of software titles.

  • Pay $1 or more and get Photo Mirage and Photo LeMur 2
  • Pay more than the average ($14~ as of the time of writing) and additionally get Paintshop PRO 2019 and Camera Bag PRO [camera bag NOT included; that’s just the name of the software title]
  • Pay $25+ and additionally get Imerge PRO and ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2018 and Aurora HDR 2018

All the software titles are available for Windows. About half of them are available for the Mac. Look for the tiny Windows and Mac logos at the bottom right corner of each software title picture at the aforelinked page.

50% off hardcovers at B&N

Amazon’s favorability ratings among consumers, for a variety of reasons, are slowly dropping, plus the number of “real world” bookstores continues to decrease, so if your Amazon honeymoon is over, Barnes and Noble is having a 50% off hardcover books sale featuring a variety of titles. You can use the various sub-categories to look for items of interest. Due to time constraints I cannot go through the listings looking for camera/photo-related books, so YMMV…

Thur: $50 Amazon Gift Card + 1 Year Microsoft Office 365 Home [up to six people] for $100 total

Amazon hearts Microsoft in the Thursday Amazon USA Gold Box as they are offering a FREE $50 Amazon plastic gift card with the purchase of a prepaid 12-month Microsoft Office 365 Home auto-renewing subscription for $100 total. This promotion is for the first 12 months. After that, the auto-renewing subscription will renew at the future going rate. The $50 gift card is only for the 12 months of year of the subscription: the one you are buying now; the auto-renewal will NOT include a $50 Amazon gift card. This subscription options includes up to six people. You can buy up to two bundles per Amazon account, so you can cover a physical or virtual household of up to 12 people with these.

Thur: YMMV: 10% eBay Bonus Bucks

If you are participating in the eBay Bucks [reward program], check your emails or eBay Messages. You may have been invited for a new bonus bucks promotion that gets you 10% back in eBay Bucks with no minimum purchase amount required… Terms and conditions and exclusions apply as usual (max $100 rewards per transaction and max $500 total during the promotional period)…

You must first activate the offer using the links in the eBay email/message before you can earn the bonus. Promotion ends 12/27/18 at 11:59pm pacific time…

For ideas on what to buy, check the latest eBay Deals and the latest Trending Deals

Thur (KEH Camera): 25% off USED, 15% off NEW Accessories

Good until Thursday 12/27/18 at 11:59pm eastern time, KEH Camera is having an accessories coupon promotion. Enter coupon code ACC12A in their shopping and get a discount depending on the condition of the products:

+ NEW condition products get 15% off
+ USED condition products get 25% off
+ nearly 6300 items qualify for this promotion
+ exclusions and restrictions may apply ~ as always, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies ~ you can test the coupon by entering it in the shopping cart with the item(s) of interest, and it will tell you what qualifies ~ you don’t have to create an account or login to test the coupons

B&H (limited time): Free Next Day USA Delivery

B&H fans, unite and take over! For a limited time, the B&H Photo website [there is a giant promo of this offer in the middle of it all] is offering free next day USA delivery! Of interest especially if you have gift cards to spend, or if you want to make purchases for the 2018 tax year. Consult with your tax adviser(s) on how whether to Section 179 them or depreciate, and how to file them whether you are a pro, amateur or hobbyist.

Thur: B&H Mega Deal Zone CONTINUES!

If you had missed any previous B&H Photo daily deals, rejoice! Their MEGA DEAL ZONE continues for Day #2! Think of this as an all-star game of the various daily deals they posted throughout 2018, which is, by the way, just five days away from getting archived into the vaults of history…

Thur (EU): Tamron Lenses, Sonys, Nikon D5300, Canon M50, Etc

Cameras return in the Amazon Germany Gold Box, along with a Samsung SSD sale, an assortment of coffee and whiskey deals [Europe is not as schizophrenic about alcohol], Philips TVs, Amazon devices, and mo(i)re…

The main Camera and Photo sale includes:

+ Sony a6000 with kit lens for 464 euro
+ Sony RX100 V rawsumer for 769

+ Nikon D5300 with kit lens for 595

+ Tamron 24-70/2.8 Di VC USD G2 for 999
+ Tamron 90/2.8 Di Macro VC USD for 499
+ Tamron 15-30/2.8 VC USD G2 for 1169

+ Canon M50 kits bundled with different Manfrotto tripods (five options, 569 to 888)

+ also Panasonic camcorder and Parrot BeBop bundle

B&H launches MEGA DEAL ZONE

Grab your e-wallets! B&H Photo has just launched another installment of their MEGA DEAL ZONE, it’s an all-star game for their daily deals. Many and more of the products featured in previous daily deals are returning all together now! This is a limited time offer, in lieu of their regular daily deal, so don’t sleep on these! There are way too many to list here individually…

Ends Tue 9pm ET: up to 60% off at CreativeLIVE

Christmas learnigns to you! Good until 9pm eastern on DEC-25-2018, a flash sale promotion at Creative LIVE gets you UP TO 60% off sales of everything at their website. The price you see is the price you pay ~ there’s no coupon to enter. The discount is automatically factored it is UP TO 60% off. Everything is not 60% off. Happy Eatings and Happy Learnings ^_^

Tue: FPV RC Drones ($70 to $154)

Merry Christmas with a baby drone sale at the Tuesday at the Amazon USA Gold Box with two FPV RC drones bundles with 720p going for $70 and $154 each.

The rest of the daily deals at the other retailers are taking a break, there’s little and less on offer as most people have tired of shopping and will soon be snoring from tryptophan overdose…

30 Classes under $30 each at CreativeLIVE

It is not just the season of cheer, the potentially extra days from work can also mean more time for learnings. If so, this sale comes in handy, CreativeLIVE is having a 30 under $30 sale, that’s 30 classes for under $30 each. A variety of subjects are included grouped under beginning-photography, designer, self-starter, business-related, crafter, and the all important Photographer and last but not least musician. This is the order of classes as presented at the aforelinked page, not in order of priority! Because photographer is always number one with a bullet, longer at the number one spot than Whitney Houston’s Bodyguard soundtrack super smash hit pop songs 🙂

Mon: TOURIT, Viotek, X-Rite, LEDGO, Tascam, Etc [CORRECTED]

CORRECTION: as it is often the case with holidays that follow weekends, we get day-of-the-week confused ~ these offers were on Monday, not Sunday!

Christmas Eve (Monday DEC-24-2018) in the Amazon USA Gold Box has two sets of sales of potential interest. First up, a sale of a soccer team (eleven in number; before any red cards [red cards in our case = selling out]) of TOURIT backpacks going for $23 to $75. These are general use, not camera-specific bags… Next up, on sale is the 34-inch Viotek GN34CW (21:9 Ultrawide Curved QHD Gaming and Professional Computer Monitor, 100Hz 1440p, FreeSync FTS/RTS VESA) going for $375, sold by a 3rd-party seller and fulfilled by Amazon…

Both the number and variety of sales have dropped down in both Amazon USA and Amazon Germany as we have reached the point of no return in terms of Christmas Day delivery. There’s always gift cards or if all else fails, hand-written [for those who still remember how to write with their hands] IOU gift notes…

Then we move on to the B&H Photo daily deals where they offer the ColorChecker Passport Photo for $60, and the LEDGO Bi-Color Flood Shoot-Through LED Ring Light for $129. There’s also a Tascam CD player for $249…

Meanwhile at the Best Buy daily deals, you can get the Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 2018 for $35… They also offer various Logitech keyboards and mice…

Speaking of Christmas, if you are looking for a safe 5 hour instrumental playlist to have on-repeat or random, this 100-track compilation is free to listen for Prime members, or you can purchase it for 99c [that’s the whole compilation of 100 songs, 1 cent per song]. It may even cost less if you have digital credits in your Amazon accounts that are eligible towards mp3 music.

Panasonic GH4 with 12mm f12 3D for $729

More mirror-nyet action from the Adorama curated daily deals, this time we move to the Land of Panasonic where the new condition Panasonic GH4 with 12mm f12 3D lens is going for $729 with free shipping. That’s just $30 more than the body only, so you are getting the Panasonic 12mm 3D lens for just $30 more. That’s of course assuming you want/need this f12 3D novelty lens…

Fuji X-A3 with 16-50 OIS II for $290

On the other hand, if you are curious about the Fuji X system, and just want a foothold into it without breaking the bank, Adorama is offering the new condition Fuji X-A3 with 16-50 II OIS for $290 with free shipping. That is amazeballs for a “Take pictures with” kit ~ considering we were paying $2000+ for an APS-C camera at the start of the previous decade ^_^

This too is part of the Adorama curated daily deals

Fuji X-H1 body with Battery Grip and $500 GC for $1949

Adorama has a new round of expanded and curated daily deals and the headliner of this group is something of interest to Fuji X fans, it is this Fuji X-H1 body with Power Booster Kit bundled with a $500 (yes, five hundred) Adorama gift certificate going for $1949…

So assuming you have no problem spending the $500 Adorama gift certificate on things you want/need, that’s beating the X-H1 body only (without the power booster grip) which currently goes for $1649 on its own (eg B&H Photo and Amazon….

Sun (B&H): Canon Pixma TS9120, Vanguard, Etc

Sunday is here and Santa is now furiously busy packaging and taping presents and putting gift cards in envelopes 😉 Sunday also means a new round of B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ Canon Pixma TS9120 AiO wireless inkjet printer for $50

+ Vanguard Sedona [mountains not included] 43 sling bags for $30 (three options)

+ also NuForce earphones and Samsung QLED UHD

Sat: Sabrent Accessories, Budget Action Cams

There is camera and photo action in the Saturday Amazon Gold Box as there is a featured sale of Sabrent (brand name) camera accessories. There are nine options with prices ranging from $5.50 to $60 (56″ aluminum tripod with 360 full motion). The rest are small camera-related accessories (card reader, small stabilizery things, and GoPro accessories)…

Meanwhile the Woot Electronics daily deal is the XtremePro XP4KB 4K Ultra HD Sports Camera Bundle with Wireless Wrist Remote and 20 Accessories going for $45 with free shipping for Prime members or flat shipping for the calendar day for non-members. This is accessor-a-palooza, most of which I presumably assume can be used with other action cams and things as well…

64GB Samsung EVO Select microSD for $11

If 64GB is your favorite microSD size, the 64GB Samsung EVO Select microSD card is currently on sale for $11 each, with up to five per customer, at Amazon by Amazon itself… In terms of bang for the buck though, the 128GB goes for $20 each, while in terms of low price, the 32GB goes for $6 but it is an Add-On item… Meanwhile the 256GB option goes for $45… This is not a lightning deal, so expiration time and price-change is unknown [especially if prices are determined by Amazon’s AI/bots]…

Weekend (B&H): Sunpak Slave Flash for $25, Etc

Friday is here and as always, the B&H Photo daily deals run for 48 hours instead of the usual 24. So this group ends on Saturday at 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]:

+ Sunpak PF20XD Digital Slave Flash for $25

+ Savage Collapsible 5 x 7′ Backdrop for $60 in three options

+ also Tascam podcast studio kit, iPad cover, Xeror laser

19 Classes for $19 each at Creatives Live

A new offer has gone live at CreativeLIVE, a selection of 19 classes going for $19 each, although a couple of them are $17 each, including the “Yoga for Photographers” class 🙂 Note that this grouping of classes is of general/creative/communication/business interest, the only photography class I’ve found is the aforementioned YOGA for Photographers [a 6-day class, each lesson under 1 hour, so it’s not demanding time-wise]. Lenovo Yoga NOT included with purchase 🙂