Archives for January 2019

Ends Sun: 15% off Canon gear at KEH w/coupon (360+ options)

Good until Sunday JAN-20-2019 at 11:59pm ET, coupon code CANON1A gets you 15% off select Canon gear at the KEH Camera website. Over 360 options are eligible for this promotion… As always, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies for the coupon code…

Ends Fri PM: 15% off Canon and Nikon Gear at KEH

Good until Friday JAN-18-2019 at 11:59pm ET, coupon code NIKCAN1A gets you 15% off Canon and Nikon gear at KEH Camera. AS usual, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies for the coupon code…

Weekend (B&H): Dr Bag, Joby GorillaPod, Etc

As usual, the Friday B&H daily deals last for 48 hours instead of the usual 24, so this group is running until Saturday JAN-19-2019 at 11:59pm easter time:

+ Joby GripTight XL Gorillapod Stand for Smartphones for $15

+ SACHTLER Dr. Bag #3 for $100
+ this is not an actual doctor; not covered by MediCare or by your insurance plan

+ Senal pro microphones $70 to $120

Wedn Dailies: DJI Phantom 4A, Elements 2019, 128GB Sandisks

Welcome to the Wednesday daily deals round-up. We start with B&H Photo where name brands are featured:

+ Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019 for $65 in your choice of download or mail-delivery

+ DJI Phantom 4 Advanced+ Quadcopter for $1050

+ Doftec Z-96K Professional Photo & Video LED Light Kit for $80
+ I’m assuming the name is DOFtec as in Depth of Field Tec/hnology?

At the BEst Buy daily deals it is the return of Sandisk Extreme cards. This time they are offered in the 128GB denomination for $45 per card, in your choice of SDXC or microSDXC… Speaking of which, I hope this new nanoSD thing doesn’t catch on. Enough already 🙂

KEH Camera Coupon: 10% off Cameras, 15% off Lenses, 20% off Accessories [exclusions apply]

KEH Camera fans, unite and take over! Good until JAN-15-2019 at 11:59pm eastern time, coupon code GEAR1A gets you a discount depending on product type at the KEH website:

+ 10% off Cameras
+ 15% off Lenses
+ 20% off Accessories

Exclusions and limitations apply. “New” and “Like New” products are NOT eligible for the coupon. Leica brand products are NOT eligible. Their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies. You can test the coupon in the shopping cart without having to login/signup…

Tue dailies: 13″ SmallHD, C/N Triggers, Etc [updated]

Tuesday is upon us as we’ve already almost reached the half-way point of January 2019 with a new trio of B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ SmallHD 1303 HDR 13″ Production Monitor for $2299

+ Vello FreeWave Fusion Wireless Flash Trigger & Remote Control for $40 in your choice of Canon or Nikon
+ not to be confused with Velo, french for bicycle

+ Tascam TM-ST1 Mid-Side Stereo Microphone for $15

Meanwhile at the Amazon Germany Gold Box there’s TP-Link, various Leabags of various sizes [not dedicated camera bags], and an airy locking laptop stand…

UPDATE: Among the Kindle deals du jour of the Amazon USA Gold Box there is a sale on the “Trail of Broken Wings” e-book (377 pages) by Sejal Badani, whose protagonist is a photographer. The book is not about photography from what I can tell ~ I previously purchased it but have yet to begin reading it… The ebook is also available in Kindle Unlimited (KU), so if you currently have an active KU subscription, you can read it for free… They are currently offering a 30-day free trial of KU…

Canon Instant Savings until February 2nd (201 options)

The latest iteration of the Canon Instant Savings (manufacturer initiated discounts at authorized dealers) includes 160 Canon cameras (DSRLs, mirrorless, Powershots), along with 31 lenses and ten flashes. They are obviously too many to list here individually, but you can find them nicely organized over there at B&H Photo…

Staples B&M coupon: $15 off purchases of $75+

Coupon code 88720 gets you $15 off a purchase of $75+ in eligible products at Staples brick and mortar stores. The coupon cannot be used at the Staples website or the Los Angeles Staples Center ~ unless they lose to the Cavs 🙂 Restrictions apply as usual. They typically have a limited selection of camera-related products, but there’s always six-degrees-of-separation (printer inks, storage, photo paper, etc)…

Semi-annual Adorama lighting sale

Adorama is having their semi-annual Lighting sale featuring a variety of their house and house-adjacent brands such as Flashpoint, 3Pod, Green Extreme and more. A total of 110 products are participating in this sale…

Meanwhile their on-going Sale and Clearance page has over 5000 items, which you can filter in various ways using the left-sidebar and you can also adjust the sorting/display using the options on the main screen window…

50% off all CreativeLIVE Bootcamps

CreativeLIVE is back with another promotion, this time, this new limited time offer gets you 50% off their Bootcamps, with Lightroom, Photoshop, Fine Art Photography, Outdoor, Beginners, Lighting, Wedding, Portrait, Premiere PRO, NewBorn, Photography Business, Boudoir, Yoga [for photographers], and more…

Meanwhile if you have flexibility in terms of your schedule, CL continues to offer free-to-watch during their streaming window classes at their Creative ON-AIR page. Today’s free-to-watch classes include Yoga for photographers, studio systems, Etsy 101 and more…

Upcoming classes in the next few days include a “build your photography business for $3,000” class, outdoor photography, online portfolio, lots of Etsy, and the world premiere on March 20 of “The Art of Photographing Birds” with Franz Lanting…

Monday (B&H): LitePanels, MeFoto, Etc

A new week is upon us and the Monday B&H Photeaux daily deals running until 11:59pm eastern time are:

+ MeFOTO RoadTrip Air Travel Tripod for $40 in five delicious flavors
+ PSA: do not eat the tripods!

+ LitePanels Brick Bi-Color On-Camera LED Light for $190
+ LitePanels Brick One Bi-Color On-Camera Light Kit for $350

+ Browning Strike Force HD 850 Trail Camera for $100 with free EOS flashlight
+ EOS is NOT related to Canon EOS; millions of products and only so many ways to rearrange letters in TLAs
+ TLA = three letter acronym

Meanwhile at the Woot website, at “Computers” there’s a refurbished 12-inch intel i5 512GB MacBook of the year 2017 going for $1050…

And at the Best Buy daily deals there’s an Insignia (house brand) charging kit going for $20, with a case, car and wall charger attachments and 3-in-one 4-foot cable that has the three major mobile charging connectors (micro-USB, Apple USB (okay, Lightning), and USB-C). Sadly there’s no mini USB, so your good old Sandisk Clips will need their own…

Weekend (KEH): 15% off select Camera Gear (160+ options)

There’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s and there’s Weekend at KEH’s! Good until Saturday JAN-13-2019 at 11:59pm ET, coupon code CAMERA1A gets you 15% off select camera gear at KEH. A total of 164 options are available as of the time of writing. It includes the Nikon Df and D600, Canon 5D III and 7D II, Fuji X-T2, BlackMagic Design, Pentax K-50, Canon G3X, Sony RX10, Panasonica LX100, etc. The link above is sorted by price, but if you want you can sort it alphabetically, ascending or descending… You can also filter them even further by brand, mount, condition, etc using the various options in the left side-bar over there…

PS: and now some flashback, look at this good old Sony Cybershot P93, a AA point-and-shooter for $13 minus 15% off coupon 🙂 No, that’s not a stamp in the middle-left of the camera ~ it’s the screen 🙂

15% off first year of new Flickr PRO memberships

The latest “new Flickr” is upon us and Flickr is offering 15% off the first year of the new paying-subscription scheme using promo code FLICKRPRO15 (as in FLICKR PRO 15% off). The promo code expires JAN-15-2019. Screenshot crop below…

Weekend (B&H): Peak Design, SYRP, etc

The Friday B&H Photo daily deals last for 48 hours, so this group is running until Saturday at 11:59pm ET as follows:

+ Peak Design Everyday Messenger 15″ Version 1 for $130

+ Vello Hand Grip Strap for Vertical Battery Grip for $9 to $10

+ SYRP Magic Carpet 5.2′ Long Track Kit with Carriage, End Caps, and Soft Bag for $229

10% off your order with B&N online coupon

If you are a Barnes and Noble fan, coupon code JANREADS gets you 10% off your next order at the Barnes and Noble website. This is for the whole order, not just one item. Coupon expires Sunday night 1/13/19 at 11:59pm eastern time…. And if you happen to be near any of their B&M stores, their Coupons and Offers page has a printable coupon for 15% off a single item at their B&M stores [yes, there are plenty left!]… Exclusions apply for both online and offline sales…

20% off Olympus accessories with coupon

Good until 1/19/19, coupon code NEWYEAR gets you 20.19% off various camera accessories at the (Get) Olympus USA website. These are new condition products BUT there are some exceptions, such as the …Barber Shop (!!!) products. As it is often the case in these type of situations, the shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies for a coupon and what doesn’t…

PS: corrected ~ in case you were confused too, 20.19% is the discount percentage, the number of which is that of the current (new) year 🙂

Thursday: Benro tripod kit, 32GB Sandisk, etc

Thursday is here already as the first full working week of 2019 is running full speed towards 2020. With it, Thursday brings a new round of B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ Benro FIF19CIB0 Carbon Fiber Transfunctional iFoto Series 1 Tripod Kit for $169

+ also $60 Senal passive monitor controller and $100 TP-Link Deco

Meanwhile among the Woot daily deals there’s a $30 endoscope kit under Electronics and various 15″ MacBook PROs under Computers…

Sandisk cards return at the Best Buy daily deals with the ULTRA PLUS variety on offer at the 32GB storage option. They go for $11 each, the SD and the microSD…

And at the Amazon USA Gauld Baux there’s a $150 pre-assembled Halter height-adjustable desk, and night driving glasses ~ not sure what their ISO range or what NR they apply 😉

Wedn: Rotolight, DJI Mavic PRO, Holy Stone, Etc

Rotolight returns with a different product in the Wednesday B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ Rotolight NEO 2 Explorer kit for $899
+ DJI MAvic PRO (standard bundle) for $649
+ Tascam portable MC recorder for $299

Meanwhile at the Amazon USA Gold Box there’s a featured sale on Holy Stone drones, with prices ranging from $25 to $231 with a total of eighteen options available…

Tuesday: Pilotfly, Genaray, Light Bulbs, Etc

It’s not Super Tuesday, it is Soup Tuesday today and with it we can haz a new round of B&H Photo daily deals as follows, running until Tuesday at 11:59pm ET:

+ Pilotfly C45 3-Axis Gimbal Stabilizer for $279
+ GenAray SpectroLED SP-S-800D Daylight Studio LED Light for $299
+ various LensCoat RainCoat ($28 to $40)

Meanwhile among the Woot website offers there are a couple of refurbished Dell laptops (2-in-1 touch Chromebook for $300, SSD Wintel Ultrabook for $370), a Sphero bundle, and a 32-pack of Tenergy 60W-equivalent LED A19 light bulbs for $30… Shipping is free for Prime members on most things Woot (except for things shipped/fulfilled by other companies – eg the Shirt and Gourmet). Non-Prime members pay a flat shipping fee for everything they buy in a single calendar day [in the Hello-Central time zone]…

Mon: Sunpak $17 tripod, Rotolight, HP Tower Workstation, etc

Monday is here, and it’s the official eve of the 2019 CES Trade Show, aka Announcement Day [see Trade Show Calendar for the rest of the year’s scheduled events]… Speaking of Monday, the latest B&H Photo daily deals include:

+ Sunpak 6630LX Medium-Duty Aluminum Tripod for $17
+ Tascam DR-40 4-Track Handheld Digital Audio Recorder for $120
+ Rotolight RL48 Interview Kit V2 for $100
+ HP Z8 G4 Series Tower Workstation for $8500 (2x 3.0 GHz Xeon Gold 6136 12-Core, 128GB 2666 MHz DDR4 ECC RAM, NVIDIA Quadro P5000 Graphics Card (16GB), etc

Meanwhile at the Amazon USA Gold Baux, they be offering the refurbished 27-inch HP 2XN62AA IPS LED computer monitor for $150 (sold by Woot, fulfilled by Amazonia)…

CL: 19 classes for $19 each: choose right lens, babies, etc

More action at CreativeLIVE, their latest limited time promotion is another variation of their 19 classes for $19 each. Topics include choosing the right lens(es), baby photography, outdoor flash, green screen, travel photography, Lightroom CC, Pho Basics [Photoshop that is, not Pho the phood [okay, food]], etc…

Sunday: Ruggard, 21.5″ HP, iPhone 6*, Etc

2019 is speeding along, it’s already the sixth (!!!) of the new year, and the Sunday B&H Photo daily deals include the following:

+ Ruggard Compact DSLR backpack V2 for $23
+ various Hoodman Hoodeye eyecups for various brands for $12 each (ten options)

At Woot Electronics there’s scratch and dent (S&D) iPhone 6* models ranging from $160 to $275, and at Computers there there’s a $60 refurbished HP 21.5″ LED monitor and a refurb Lenovo T530 notebook for $265 (15.6″, 256GB)…

Tamron 70-210mm f4 Di VC USD with FREE Silk PRO II Tripod for $599 [C/N]

It’s Tammy time! No, not Tammy Wynette, but Tamron! Their new condition Tamron 70-210mm f4 DI VC USD DSLR lens is bundled with
the FREE Slik Pro II Tripod (with Ball Head & Case, gunmetal finish), all together going for $599 with free shipping at Adorama in your choice of Nikon system or Canon system.

No coupon, no rebate; just add to cart and proceed to checkout. During this promotion, the free Silk tripod is mentioned and included automatically by Adorama. If you don’t see the offer mentioned at the aforelinked pages, it means the promotion expired. Screenshot below if you are not familiar with the way Adorama does these type of offers…

Save the Date: B&H’s Depth of Field conference is February 5-6 in 2019 [RSVP for FREE]

Save the date! February 5 and 6 in 2019 is when this year’s B&H Photo Depth of Field conference is taking place. The event will take place physically at the New Yorker Hotel in New York, but it is also streaming for FREE on the interwebs, a much easier and cheaper way to attend 🙂 RSVP if you are certain you are going (it is FREE)…

It has also been added to our Trade Show Calendar, where you may learn or be reminded that the historic CeBIT has been cancelled…

Friday: official GoPro accessories, 8TB WD EasyStor, Etc

As usual, the Friday B&H Photo daily deals last for 48 hours, so this group ends on Saturday at 11:59pm ET:

+ official GoPRO accessory bundle for $20
+ also Beats earphones and Polsen mic

Among the Friday Worst Buy daily deals, you can get the new condition 8TB WD EasyStore external USB 3.0 hard drive for $130 with free shipping or free store pickup where possible/available…

Thur: Canon XF100, SmallHD, Softbox; EU: Sony E-system

It’s already Thursday, already because New Year’s Day typically feels like Sunday ~ or something like that. Regardless, we have a new round of B&H Photeaux daily deals running until Thursday JAN-3-2019 at 11:59pm eastern time:

+ Canon XF100 HD Professional Camcorder for $1499
+ SmallHD 1703 P3X 17″ Studio Monitor for $2299
+ Impact Hexi 24 Speedlight Softbox with FREE Grid for $75

On the other side of Le Pond, the Amazon Germany Gold Box brings back the Sony E-system sale including:

+ Sony a7 II body for 1019 euro
+ Sony a6500 body for 1059
+ Sony RX100 II for 349

+ six E-system Sony lenses ranging from 545 to 999 euro; one prime, the rest are zoom-zooms; two are “Zeiss blessed” including the prime…

15% to 20% off Rentals at BL

Good until 1/13/19, coupon code SAVE2019 gets you 15% to 20% off camera gear rentals at BorrowLenses depending on your rental order total amount. Details on the offer much easier to convey in this annotated screenshot crop than words 🙂

49 classes under $49 each at CreativeLIVE (including some Bootcamps)

CreativeLIVE is back with another promotion, this time the theme is 49 classes under $49 each for a limited time as usual. The price you see is the price you pay. The sale includes various Bootcamps (Photoshop CC, Lightroom Classic, Portrait, Beginner, Final Cut Pro X, etc)…

Wedn: Extension Tube, Genaray, 32GB Sandisk cards

A trio of new daily deals are running at B&H’s Deal Zone for Wednesday the 2nd of January in good ole 2019 as follows:

+ Savage Macro Art Extension Tube for $40
+ Genaray Beacon LED Wand-Style Light for $134
+ Samson USB mic for $20

Meanwhile at the Best Buy deals du jour, there are a couple of 32GB Sandisk memory cards: the SDHC Extreme PLUS goes for $17 each, and so does the microSDHC Extreme Plus U3…