Archives for 2018

Tamron SP 24-70mm f2.8 DI VC USD with FREE Hoya Filter and $36 Rewards for $899 [C/N]

If you don’t want/need the latest model (the second generation G2 lens), the first generation, new condition Tamron SP 24-70mm f2.8 DI VC USD is on sale for $899 with free expedited shipping in the Nikon system and Canon system, along with a FREE Hoya 82mm UV Haze NXT HMC Filter and 4% promotional rewards (around $36 to be used in future B&H purchases).

For more B&H action, check their continually updated CES 2018 Pre-ordering page

Refurbished Olympus PEN-F for $700 (black) or $750 (silver)

If you are a fan of the Pen-F digital cameras, they are refilled too on the Olympus Outlet store and they are both in-stock as of the time of writing, but expedited shipping is not available for them (only slow free shipping). They come with a 90-day Olympus USA warranty as follows:

+ factory reconditioned Olympus PEN-F Black Body Only for $700

+ factory reconditioned Olympus PEN-F Silver Body Only for $750

Refurbished Olympus 45mm f1.8 for $174 [no coupon]

We start digging into the reload of the Olympus Outlet store. We start with the factory recondition Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 45mm f1.8 (Silver) going for $174 with free shipping and a 90-day Olympus USA warranty. No coupon is needed (thankfully!). It is shown as in-stock as of the time of writing, and with 1-2 business days for processing, with expedited shipping not available.

Coupons: $10 off $100+Textbooks at Amazon and Barnes and Noble

If you are looking to buy textbooks, there are coupons for them at two online booksellers…

+ at Barnes and Noble, coupon code STUDIOUS gets you $10 off for every $100 in purchases of new or used textbooks. Maximum $500 purchase.

+ at Amazon by Amazon itself coupon code TEXT10 gets you $10 off a $100+ purchase until Thursday 1/11/18 at 3pm eastern
+ Amazon’s coupon is $10 off only, not $10 off for every $100 in purchases like Barnes and Noble

What is a textbook? for the purpose of these coupons, the shopping cart is the ultimate decider of what qualifies. Add books of interest to the shopping cart, and the shopping cart will tell you whether something is eligible or not.

Pixomatic photo editor by Qube (iOS) for $3

The Pixomatic photo editor by Qube LLC is on sale for $3 for iOS through the iTunes store. This is a limited time offer. It was last updated in late December 2017, and requires iOS 8.0 and later. This latest version is doing very well review wise. It is a 121 MB download.

Pre-Order Canon PIXMA G4210 Wireless MegaTank All-in-One Inkjet Printer for $400

If you are a fan of MegaTank printers, Canon has revealed the brand new PIXMA G4210 Wireless MegaTank All-in-One Inkjet Printer at CES 2018, available for pre-ordering for $400 at B&H Photo and Adorama

Olympus Outlet Store refilled: 32 items now!

The Olympus USA Outlet store has been refilled since our last check yesterday. They now have a total of 32 items, up from 9 yesterday! The two not-working coupons that were shown yesterday are no longer mentioned. I will try to digest these later today, but I’m posting this now so you can check for any hard to find items that may sell out by the time I get around to “digesting” it all. I also have to “digest” today’s CES action, which is the official Day #1 of the Las Vegas trade show.

Four Left: 36-page Japanese Nikon D850 Brochure for $12.75 w/FS

Quantities are running down, four are left of the time of writing of this, which surfaced while updating the Stock Status Tracker

IF you want a piece of the Nikon D850, but you just don’t want to wait, or pay $3300, the wide world of eBay sellers have an alternative for you! The official Nikon D850 Japanese Brochure. This is no single page leaflet. It is a 36-page color publication, 21 by 29.7cm, roughly 8.25 by 12 inches, with the text in Japanese. It goes for $12.75 with free slow shipping from Japan. Faster shipping is available for $5 more.

Seven units are left. 19 of them have been sold already. There are multiple pictures from inside the brochure in the eBay gallery of the product listing… Screenshot of one of them below:

So you can get the Nikon D850 purchase out of your system, with just a $13 (instead of a $3300) hit on your wallet 🙂

PrimaPhoto Big Travel Kit Tripod for $50 w/free S&H

Colorful tripod action now. The new condition PrimaPhoto Big Travel Kit Tripod is on sale for $50 with free shipping at Adorama in the red (aforelinked) and silver color schemes. The other two colors are not on sale.

For more Adorama action, check their CES 2018 Pre-Ordering page

Ends Wedn PM: 15% back in Rakuten Rewards

Good until Wednesday night (1/10/18), Rakuten is offering 15% back in rewards on almost all purchases made at the Rakuten website. You must be a rewards member (free to join) in order to get the 15% back in rewards. You pay the price you see on the website. This is not a discount coupon. Infact a coupon is not needed.

(ENDED) Thursday: 7artisans 25mm f1.8 MF (Sony E system), Etc

These expired but for more Gold Box posts here, follow the Yellow Brick Road of Gold-Box tagged posts

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(ENDED) Gold Box Now: RAVPower 26800 USB-C for $60, Etc

These lightning deals expired…

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(ENDED) 7artisans 25mm F1.8 Manual Focus Lens for $56

This lightning deal expired…

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Pre-order various new Items from CES 2018: Rokinon 14mm f2.8 Auto Focus (Canon), Godox, Insta360, Etc

CES 2018 is here and a number of new photography accessories and related products have been announced! You can find all 50+ options at the B&H CES 2018 pre-ordering page. Among them:

+ Rokinon AF 14mm f/2.8 Lens for Canon EF for $799 (early February 2018 estimate)

+ Godox AD600Pro Witstro All-In-One Outdoor Flash for $899

+ Insta360 Nano S 360 degree camera for $239

+ various Small HD monitors, High Point and QNAP storage, Panasonic camcorders and more. See them all at the B&H CES 2018 pre-ordering page

Refurb Olympus 45mm f1.8 [m43] for $240 [UPDATE: coupon not working!]

UPDATE 6:54pm ET: the coupon code CYBERSAVINGS is not working! Their shopping cart says it is not valid, but the coupon is shown on the Olympus USA Outlet store page. It may be a technical issue, or an error in the coupon, or an error in the display of the coupon. Or they posted it too early or too late. Thanks to our readers for the alert! All apologies for the confusion…

The factory reconditioned Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 45mm f1.8 goes for $240 with free shipping and a 90-day Olympus USA warranty in the black color scheme at the Olympus USA Outlet store. It is in-stock as of the time of writing. The coupon is a limited time offer.

In new condition, this lens goes for $324 at authorized Olympus USA dealers such as Amazon itself and Adorama and B&H Photo.

Refurb Olympus ED 75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II for $360 [UPDATE: coupon not working!]

UPDATE 6:54pm ET: the coupon code CYBERSAVINGS is not working! Their shopping cart says it is not valid, but the coupon is shown on the Olympus USA Outlet store page. It may be a technical issue, or an error in the coupon, or an error in the display of the coupon. Or they posted it too early or too late. Thanks to our readers for the alert! All apologies for the confusion…

The factory reconditioned Olympus ED 75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II lens goes for $360 with free shipping and a 90-day Olympus USA warranty from their Outlet store. It is in-stock as of the time of writing. The coupon is a limited time offer.

In new condition at authorized Olympus dealers, this lens goes for $474, eg Adorama and B&H Photo.

Refurbished Olympus ED 40-150mm f4.0-5.6 R [m43] for $60

Zoom-zoom now, the factory reconditioned Olympus ED 40-150mm f4.0-5.6 R micro four third lens goes for $60 plus $5 flat shipping (or free shipping with $100+ orders) and with a 90-day Olympus USA warranty in the black color scheme at the Olympus USA Outlet store. It is in-stock as of the time of writing.

If you want to avoid the shipping fee, you can buy this together with something else over there, eg the $90 17mm f2.8 pancake.

In new condition, this goes as low as $99 during Olympus initiated instant savings sales. At the moment it goes for $124 at authorized dealers such as B&H Photo and Adorama.

Refurbished Olympus 25mm f1.8 [m43] for $200

They are both in-stock as of the time of writing! The Olympus M.Zuiko 25mm f1.8 Silver micro four thirds lens is offered in refurbished condition in the silver color scheme or the black color scheme for $200 w with free shipping and a 90-day Olympus USA warranty at the Olympus USA outlet store.

In new condition, at authorized Olympus USA dealers, this goes for $324 such as B&H Photo and Amazon and Adorama

Refurbished Olympus 17mm f2.8 [m43] for $90 (limit 1)

Nom-nom the pancakes! In-stock as of the time of writing is the manufacturer refurbished Olympus 17mm f2.8 silver pancake lens for $90 with a 90-day Olympus USA warranty at the Olympus USA outlet store. Shipping is $5 flat. I believe it becomes free shipping with $100+ orders (if memory serves me well). Limit one per customer.

Six Refurbished Olympus Lenses added to Outlet Store

It’s refill time! The official Olympus Outlet store has been refilled with six Olympus micro four thirds lenses!!!

RECOUNT: six refurbished lenses have been added, not eight. It already had two PRO lenses that had been there since the holidays along with the E-M1 II body.

We have separate posts for these lenses under our Olympus posts

Pre-order new Panasonic GH5S mirrorless for $2500

CES 2018 is here and with it we have our first major interchangeable lens camera announcement, it is the brand new Panasonic GH5S, yes, the S is part of the name, it is not plural, SAD that so many companies fail at such a simple thing in product naming 🙂 The new GH5S is a video-priority variant of the GH5, and it is available for pre-ordering for $2500 at B&H Photo and Adorama

Having won 2017 with a 13 vs 8 score, Mirrorless scores the first “goal” of 2018 against DSLRs. That D-Rebel T6 is a leaky goalie 🙂

PanaVise 301 Standard for $28 w/free S&H after coupon

The new condition PanaVise 301 Standard PanaVise currently goes for $33.66 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon itself. But that’s not all, there’s also a 15% off green clip-on coupon, dropping the price to $28.61 with free shipping. This is not a lightning deal.

Mon Daily Deals: Typhoon Q, WD HDDs, Vivitar Action Cam

In this post, we round-up some of the remaining Monday daily deals. The Amazon ones are under the Yellow Brick Road of Gold Box tagged posts

+ Vivitar 4K Action Camera with Remote for $50 by Best Buy, model DVR917HD-BLK-BB

+ Yuneec Q500 4K Typhoon Quadcopter RTF with CGO3 4K Camera, ST10+ & Steady Grip for $470 plus $5 flat shipping at Woot Electronics (new condition)

+ factory reconditioned Western Digital External MyBack HDDs for $83 to $143 at Woot Computers with six month WD warranty. Options: 4TB, 5TB, 6TB

Ends Mon PM: $5 Per Magazine Per Year: Digital Photo PRO or VideoMaker

The theme of this weekend sale at DiscountMags is a $5 sale. Of photography interest, “Digital Photo PRO” and “Videomaker” go for $5 per year each, for print subscription, which is a pretty good price for them… Outdoor Photographer and Digital Photo also go for $5 per year each, but sometimes the weekend sale has those under $5, so you can wait on those if you don’t want to sign up right away… Sale ends Monday night…

Starts 12pm ET Today and Tuesday (FREE to Watch): “Introduction to Alternative Processing in Photography”

Starting at 12pm ET today is a class streaming today and on Tuesday at CreativeLIVE by Daniel Gregory, running 12pm to 7pm eastern time on each day, “Introduction to Alternative Processing in Photography”. A total of 39 lessons are included, and you can see the list under the LESSONS sub-tab over there.

For more upcoming classes for today and the next few weeks, check their CreativeLIVE ON-AIR schedule page…

30% off Calendars with AdoramaPIX coupon

A new coupon is running until 1/15/18 night (a week-long coupon) at AdoramaPIX. Coupon PXCALEM gets you 30% off Calendars purchased over there. The coupon cannot be combined with other offers. Free shipping with $49+ orders.

B&N Buy More, Save More coupon (up to 20% off)

Good until Wednesday 1/10/18 night, coupon code MOREPLEASE gets you the following discounts based on the order total amount at the Barnes and Noble website:

+ 10% Off Orders of $35 or More
+ 15% Off Orders of $60 or More
+ 20% Off Orders of $100 or More
+ Coupon Exclusions apply as usual
+ free shipping with orders of $25+ or if you are a member

The Clearance section is another place to look for deals. You can drill down the sub-categories or go directly to the Photography Clearance section. There’s also this 30% – 75% off Clearance page.

Monday: 20% off $300+ Monoprice orders

If you are planning a big Monoprice purchase, coupon code RES18 gets you 20% off orders of $300+ in eligible items at the Monoprice website. You can test the coupon in the shopping cart over there without logging-in or creating an account. The $300 minimum must be reached with eligible items. Exclusions apply. One redemption per customer. This ends Monday night at 11:59pm pacific time (or so)…

Speaking of Monoprice, a number of their USB-C chargers are now in-stock and shipping.

PSA: resist the temptation of Nikon D850 listings by random “Just Launched” sellers!

I just updated the Stock Status Tracker and the situation remains. The Sony a7r III is in-stock at multiple authorized dealers, while the Nikon D850 remains elusive.

The pull for the hard to find Nikon D850 may be strong but resist the temptation to do something very risky/stupid, like buying the camera from random “Just Launched” sellers that offer it on Amazon. Nothing good will come out of such a purchase for you. Resist the temptation! Unfortunately these keep popping up faster than Amazon can take them down.

Starts Mon 4pm ET (FREE): Getting the Most Out of Lightroom

Starting at 4pm ET today (Monday 1/8/18), B&H Photo is hosting / live-streaming a two hour talk by Eric Wessman on “Getting the Most Out of Lightroom”. This is free to watch. It will be streaming live from the B&H Event Space in NY.