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It’s a quartet of offerings in the Tuesday B&H Photo daily deals as follows:
+ GIGAPAN EPIC Pro Robotic Camera Mount for $596
+ DRACAST LED500 S-Series Daylight 3-Light Kit with NP-F Battery Plates and Soft Case all together for $480
+ Leupold 10×25 BX-1 Rogue Compact Binocular for $65
+ also Senal wireless mic system for $250
Of the other daily deals, no photo-related action at Best Buy, Woot or Amazon.de…
KEH Camera is back with another coupon promotion, this time celebrating Valentine’s! It is the return of the “buy more to save more” promotion. Using coupon code BMSM2A you get a discount depending on your order total:
+ 15% off orders over $1000
+ 10% off orders over $500
+ 5% off orders under $500
Restrictions and limitations apply as usual. NEW items and “Like New” are EXCLUDED from this promotion. Leica is also excluded. Their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies – add items of interest to your shopping cart and see what happens. You don’t need to signup/login to test the coupon!
The promotion expires on Tuesday FEB-12-2019 at 11:59pm eastern time…
If lenses are kings, it’s the Return of the King at the Monday B&H Photo daily deals with a lens leading the way. It is the new condition Shiguma 35mm f1.4 DG ART HSM lens going for $749 with free shipping in five different systems. Yes, there are at least four young mirrorless-generation of photographers: Canon, Nikon, Sony A, and Pentax K. The lens is also available for Sony E… I don’t know if it’s foreshadowing or a bad omen, but the lens has …404 customer reviews as of the time of rating 🙂
There’s two more items in the B&H daily deals, the MeFoto GlobeTrotter (not from Harlem through) Air Travel Tripod going for $50 in your choice from five trendy/trending color schemes of the pastel-inspired kind. There’s also a TP-Link smart-something thing…
Of potential interest to EU shoppers in the Monday Amazon Germany Gold Box, it’s the Huawei P20 going for 399 euro, the P Smart+ [mayhaps they didn’t think of the giggle-inducing name in casual-speak english] for 219 euro, and the 10.1-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab A (T585) tablet with LTE going for 190 euro…
Meanwhile at the Woot website there’s yet another MacBook sale, some HP Pavilion desktops, and an Android blast from the past with an unlocked Droid Turbo 2 smartphone…
This is a make your own sale type of a coupon promotion at Creative LIVE. Use coupon code 50OFF to get 50% off one class over there. The promotion expires before FEBR-16 at midnight. Unfortunately that’s what it says, so I don’t know if that means 11:59pm or 12:01am 🙂 Restrictions apply as usual…
If you are a fan of the DxO software, they are running a Valentine’s promotion (in other words, it ends at the end of Valentine’s day, aka FEB-14), you can get the DXo PhotoLaB 2 software for $110 or the Elite version for $170…
Also part of the sale is the FilmPack 5 for $70 and the ViewPoint 3 for $70… The Elite editions of the aforementioned software cost more [as it is often the case with these type of things]…
You are not imaging things. The KEH website looks different indeed! That’s because there is a website remodel/redesign, and as per the rotating ticker on their site over there, they are actively looking for feedback on the new design, especially if you are having problems…
With so many viewports these days with desktops, laptops, 4K screens, AiOs, tablets, smartphones of all sizes, 2-in-1s, browsers of all sorts, etc, etc, etc, it’s a herculean task for a website design to cover all bases. Thus the request for feedback 🙂
Black Friday begins in September these days, so of course Presidents Day sales begin before Valentine’s. And Valentine’s sales begin before the SuperBOWL 🙂 Anyways, the Dell website is running a Preview sale featuring an assortment of laptops, desktops, AiOs, mortal computer monitors and UltraSharps, and some TVs for good measure…
But that’s not all. When you scan through the page you will also notice an Intel Optane promotion that gets you a $100 VISA gift card with the purchase of select systems.
What is Intel Optane? Wikipedia does not have a good page on it, but the search engines are your friend, here’s what Duck Duck Go finds… In case you are looking to do a “Seven Days challenge” like the Gizmodo journalist tried [via Techmeme]…
CreativeLIVE is running another limited time sale, this one gets you up to 60% off select Fashion Photography classes. The price you see is the price you pay.
If you are not fond of paying though, CreativeLIVE has you covered as well. You can watch for FREE select classes when they are streaming live at the ON-AIR LIVE page. There is a detailed schedule over there, with world premiers clearly marked… A variety of topics are coming up in the next week, from heavy wedding focus [it’s Valentine’s after all] to wine tasting. Wine tasting vs ISO comparisons, are they really the same thing? 😉
Speaking of world premieres, if you are a fan of bird photography, save the date! March 20 is the live free-to-watch world premiere of Frans Lanting’s “The art of photographing birds”. This classes will decidedly be more useful than my work-in-progress class “Bird Posing 101” 😉
If you are a fan of Nikon-branded lenses and tripods, you are in luck! For a limited time, Adorama is running a free Tripod with select Nikon lenses promotion. The free tripod depends on which lens you buy. The MeFoto Roadtrip tripod is free with either the Nikkor 14-24/2.8G or the 24-70/2.8G, while the Fotopro X-Go is free with either the 24-70/2.8E or the 70-200/2.8E… So the aforementioned G lenses get the MeFoto while the aforementioned E lenses get the Fotopro…
Amazon Germany is back with more Sandisk memory card sales! These are limited time offers but they are not tied to the daily deals [which occur in the German time zone], so the expiration date/time is unknown to me…
We start with the SDXC memory cards, their new condition 128GB Ultra SDXC (C10, UHS-I, up to 80MB/sec) is on sale for just 20 euro. This is sold and shipped by Amazon itself and it is available in your choice of frustration-free packaging or standard packaging. The limit is up to five per customer at the sale price. Not sure if you can buy five of each packaging, or five total.
Next up we move to the microSD cards. The new condition 200GB Ultra microSDXC (A1, C10, U1) goes for 33 euro with up to five per customer. This defeats the 128GB for 23 euro in terms of $/GB. You pay less than 50% more, but you get more than 50% in extra storage…
Or if you can to solve for a lower price, the new condition 128GB Transcend microSDXC (C10, UHS-I) goes for the very specific price of 18.79 euro per customer…
MicroSD is not just for smartphones any more as the number of digital cameras (including a few iLCs eg Panasonic GX800) take the microSD cards. Most of them include full-size SD adapters, or you probably already have a drawer full of them from previous memory card purchases…
This weekend’s DiscountMAGs sale includes two printed photography magazines, Digital Photo PRO for $7 per year [a very good price] and “Outdoor Photographer” for $5 per year [the “default” sale price]… You can sign up for up to three years per magazine at the per-year sale price… This also works for gift-subscriptions and renewals of existing ones… This is good only for US postal addresses and these are printed magazines, not digital… No auto-renewals, they only renew if you manually renew them…
If you are a fan of refurbished camera gear, Adorama is currently running a limited time refurbished sale featuring 120+ products, a number of which is manufacturer refurbished Nikons. About half of them are Nikons, the rest are from a variety of brands including Sigma, Epson, Wacom, etc…
UPDATE: for some reason this did not post when I wrote it…
Another Sunday is upon us and with it we can haz a new round of B&H Photo daily deals as follows:
+ Impact FRC-RLSLB Fluorescent 19″ Ring Light with Dimmer Kit for $89
+ Tenba camera inserts for $10 to $20 (three options)
+ Auray audio bag for $10, NuForce truly wireless earbuds for $80
Meanwhile at the Best Buy daily deals, $100 gets you the new condition Monument Diskless Personal Cloud Server for Photos and Videos. I have not heard of this before this post, so YMMV…
It’s time to ride the Pony in the Amazon USA Gold Box. Good until Saturday at 11:59pm pacific time (or earlier if they sell out) they are running a sale on select PNY storage products including:
+ Elite Performance SDXC cards: 64GB for $15, 128GB for $27, 256GB for $55, 512GB for $110
+ 512GB microSDXC cards for $150 in Elite and $180 in PRO Elite
+ various USB flash drives
+ limit three units per individual product per customer
Never fear, KEH is here! Coupon code KEHSONY2A gets you 15% off the current price of select Sony camera gear. There are at least five pages of options over there. The coupon ends on Friday at 11:59pm eastern… AS usual, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies for the coupon. You can test the coupon by adding items of interest in the cart and entering le couponeaux. You don’t have to signup/login to test the coupon…
Until someone comes up with smartphones that include a built-in film camera [who knows, the industry is in an exploratory mood these days], instant film cameras have not much to fear from smartphones ~ unlike the decimated army of digital cameras. Which brings us to the Best Buy daily deals where four different color schemes of the Fujifilm (Fuji for digital, Fujifilm for film) Instax Mini 9 is on sale for $40 with free shipping or free store pickup where available/possible…
Not far from B&H, the latest Adorama snapshot deal is the new condition offered for $159 with free shipping. Snapshot deals are almost like daily deals ~ they are of limited time…
Further away, at the Woot website a $70 Raspberry bundle includes a 32GB Sandisk microSD card with it..
Meanwhile the B&H daily deals, which, as always on Fridays, last for 48 hours ~ until Saturday at 11:59pm ET ~ include the following:
+ Manfrotto camera slider for $260
+ Vello Octa Softbox for $12 to $15
+ LumiQuest solar-powered lamp for $7
+ morphie encore 20,100 mAh powerbank for $28
If you like to watch/listen to meta gear discussions, you are in luck because there are two free-to-watch classes available at CreativeLIVE with John GreenGo:
+ Camera Buyer’s Guide (2018 edition)
If you are a fan of camera guides to be presented on video instead of reading them in a book, CreativeLIVE is currently having a sale (the price you see is the price you pay) on their Camera Guides, which they call “Fast Starts”. Many fan-favorite cameras have classes on them, not just Canon and Nikon and Sony [as expected] but also Fuji and Olympus and Leica and Panasonic. But nothing for PenTax. Mayhaps they don’t believe in taxing pens? ^_^
For a limited time, coupon code BUNDLE20 gets you 20% off Bundles and Conferences at CreativeLIVE. Bundles are groupings of classes under one photographic umbrella (ha!), such as Photoshop, Night Photography, Beginners, Lighting, Architecture, Portraiture, Weddings of course, Foodies, Outdoorsies, etc.
To go with the 2019 Depth of Field online conference, B&H Photo is also running a number of DoF Show Specials, nicely organized in six broad categories. There are over 75 options in Cameras and over 240 options in Lenses, with more in the other categories…
Thursday is upon us and with it we have a new round of B&H Photo daily deals as follows:
+ SmallHD FOCUS Sony Bundle for $429
+ FEIYU WG2 Water Resistant Wearable/Mountable Gimbal for Action Cams for $100 or with table-top-tripod for $110
+ TASCAM mixing headphones for $20
Film camera gear fans, unite and take over! Good until FEBR-06-2019 at 11:59pm eastern time, coupon code FILM2A gets you 15% off select camera gear at the KEH Camera website… As usual, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies for the coupon. You can test the coupon in the shopping cart without signup/login…
And just like that, mid-week is upon us, and a new trio of B&H Photo daily deals, with today too headlined by a camera lens, this time it is Tokina’s turn, their AT-X 116 PRO DX-II 11-16mm f/2.8 going for $329 with free shipping in your choice of Canon or Nikon SLR systems. We must needs start saying that now that they both have full frame mirrorless too 🙂
The other two daily deals are:
+ Think Tank Retrospective 10 Shoulder Bag for $70 with free Pocket Rocket (???) in your choice of color scheme
+ Impact Cruiser ACDC-500-TTL 2-Light Kit for $999 in your choice of Canon or Nikon or Sony systems
For Tuesday FEB-05-2019, as a one-day sale, CreativeLIVE is offering 19 classes for $19 each with a variety of topics of potential interest such as beginner classes (studio basics, craft pho, food pho, retouching) along with business and freelancer topics, DIY lighting gear, headshots, etc…
Speaking of CL, you can watch {stream} for FREE during the designated days the various classes shown at the CL On-Air schedule…
In other Tuesday news, there’s a new Trader Joe Fearless Flyer 🙂
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 8% back in eBay Bucks with a $50+ minimum purchase amount required… If you use the official eBay app, you get 10% instead of 8%… Terms and conditions and exclusions apply as usual…
You must first activate the offer using the links in the eBay email/message before you can earn the bonus. Promotion ends FEB-05-2019 at 11:59pm pacific time…
For ideas on what to buy, check the latest eBay Deals and the latest Trending Deals…
For a limited time, Woot is running a Random PC sale that includes the new condition 1TB G-Tech USB 3.0 External HDD going for $30 with up to ten units per customer. It comes with a 90-day Woot warranty… Also part of the sale ASUS GeForce and MSI Radeon cards, a $40 Corsair headset, Intel Z170A, a $100 3rd-gen iPad, and a $120 8″ Galaxy Tab A…
Gong Xi Fa Cai! To celebrate Chinese New Year, today, Tuesday February 5 in 2019, various retailers in Asia, including the western-facing retailers (those that are setup/organized to ship products world-wide) are having various sales, including GearBest and Ali Express. Look also for Valentine’s specials, and for limited time coupons or free or faster shipping upgrades…
Note however that because of the holidays, shipments will take a bit longer than usual to arrive, so if you need something to arrive to your location quickly, pay attention to the estimates or buy locally…
Gong hei fat choi but red lenses are hard to find, so we make do with silver and black…
If you are a fan of the Fuji X-system and you are just getting tired of prime lenses [MEOW!!?!] the Fuji XF 10-24mm f4 OIS lens is currently on sale for $749 at authorized dealers and it is bundled with a variety of lens-a-holic free accessories at Adorama (filter set, trinkets, etc), while B&H Photo goes the Hoya freebie route with two 72mm Hoyas (Haze, CP)… Amazon itself does not offer any freebies [other than the usual 5% statement credit with a Prime credit card] but various 3rd-party sellers offer their own bundles of lens-y joy…
As of the time of writing, according to the shopping cart, there are 18 units of these available… There is a $18 off clip-on coupon on the listing of this Photoolex WFC-05 1/8000s 2.4G Wireless Flash Trigger set for Canon cameras. The price of the item is $27~, so after you clip the clip-on coupon [you must be logged on to your Amazon account so it will add the coupon to your account for current or future use while the coupon is alive], the price drops to around $9. Not bad!
Here’s an annotated screenshot with all the interesting parts to pay attention to if you are not familiar with Amazon’s clip-on coupons…
If you are planning a larger Amazon order, or if you want to add something to get to the free shipping tier, as of the time of writing, there is a 2pk of generic Nikon 52mm lens caps going for $2.72. You can buy as many as you like. They average 4.5 out of 5 based on over 880 customer reviews, so they are not a fly-by-night generic item. The brand name is “South Bay Camera”. There are many bays in the world, and there’s always south relative to the north 🙂
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