Archives for April 2019

IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT I-1 INSTANT CAMERA BUNDLE for $60

To keep marketing and legal departments busy, companies often decide to change names. Such is the case for “Massdrop” which is now just “Drop” 🙂

Which brings us to one of their latest offerings, the new condition IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT I-1 INSTANT CAMERA BUNDLE offered for $60 with free US shipping.

This is currently only shipping to US addresses, so if you are outside the US, try forwarding services or long lost cousins 🙂

1-Year Creative LIVE Creator-Pass for $199 with coupon

For a limited time only, coupon code CREATENOW100 gets you $100 off the 1-year Creative LIVE Creator Pass subscription, making it $199 instead of its regular price of $299.

If that expires, there’s also coupon code CREATENOW50 that drops $50 off, making it $250. Obviously $200 is better than $250.

This is a 1-year prepaid subscription that includes almost everything (but not everything) available at CreativeLIVE. Exclusions are based on previous agreements with the class instructors and such. New content will also be included in the subscription unless its explicitly excluded by prior agreements.

However, just like Netflix, once the subscription expires, you no longer have access to the classes…

Wedn: Manfrotto N8, Atomos 19″, Dry Cabiner, DraCast bundle

A quartet of offerings is the “get” of the Hump Day B&H daily deals as follows, running until 11:59pm ET [or earlier for any that manages to sell out ahead of time]:

+ Manfrotto Nitrotech N8 Video Head for $300

+ Atomos SUMO19M 19″ HDR/High-Brightness Monitor for $995

+ Ruggard Electronic Dry Cabinet (18L) for $70

+ DRACAST LED500 Plus Series Daylight LED Light for $279 with three FREE items included by B&H: Barndoors, Softbox and Honeycomb grid
+ Barn Animals NOT included 🙂

Ends Wedn PM: 10% off lots of used Canon and Nikon w/KEH coupon

Good until Wednesday International Labor Day (May 1st) at 11:59pm ET, coupon code CN4A gets you 10% off a lot of Canon and Nikon camera gear at KEH Camera. Excluded are NEW condition and “Like New” products. You can test the coupon in the shopping cart without logging-in or creating an account…

Tuesday: Sandisk Extreme SDXC, Jill-E, CeleStron, Etc

Tuesday is here and with it it brings a nuevo round of B&H Photo daily deals running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC (UHS-I) for $33 (128GB) or $68 (256GB) or $180 (512GB)
+ on the same daily listing, Extreme non-PRO: 128GB for $28, 256GB for $53

+ JILL-E DESIGNS Jack Backpack Insert for $15 in two options

+ Celestron AstroMaster LT 80AZ 80mm f/11 Alt-Az Refractor Telescope for $70

+ SmallHD, three options, $379 to $429

Monday: Manfrotto NitroTech N8 and N12, HP 15.6″ Z-Books, Etc

A new trio of offers find themselves in the Monday B&H Photo daily deals, running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Manfrotto Nitrotech N12 & 536 Carbon Fiber Single Legs Tripod System for $700
+ Manfrotto Nitrotech N8 Video Head & 535 Carbon Fiber Tripod for $600

+ HP 15.6″ ZBook 15 G4 Mobile Workstation for $749 to $1549 (five options in-between)

+ Westone earphones for $230

Of the Best Buy dailies, they have the 128GB Sandisk UltraFit USB 3.1 flash drive for $20, and headlined by a $480 HP desktop computer (i7, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, Win)

Sunday: Pelican 1730, Vello 2-Trans Kit, Rotolight I/V, Etc

B&H Photo is coming back later on Sunday from the Passover Holiday Closing and orders previously placed during their break will begin getting processed/shipped…

And we have the Sunday trio of B&H daily deals running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold-out) as follows:

+ Pelican 1730 Case with Foam Set, TSA Lock, Desiccant Gel for $300

+ Vello FlashBoss TTL 2-Transceiver Kit for $80 in your choice of Canon
or Nikon system

+ RotoLight RL48 Interview Kit V2 for $100

And among the Best Buy dailies you can find the new condition Epson Workforce PRO WF-4740 wireless AiO printer for $130 with free shipping or store pickup. You have to do the “add to cart” thing to see the price but you don’t have to sign-up or login to see it…

16TB WD MyBook Duo External RAID HDD USB-C for $500

The Thursday Best Buy daily deals including the new condition 16TB WD MyBook Duo External RAID HDD USB-C offered for $500 with free shipping or free store pickup where possible…

But that’s not all, this has also been price-matched by Amazon itself, with up to three per customer at the sale price…

Ends Thur PM: 12% off EX and EX+ Used Gear at KEH Camera

Good until Thursday at 11:59pm eastern, coupon code EXP4A gets you 12% off used camera gear in “EX” or “EX+” (EX = Excellent) condition at KEH Camera. Leica branded products are NOT eligible for the coupon promotion…

You can test the coupon in their shopping cart without the need to create an account or login to an existing KEH account…

End Sat PM: InCase Case w/strap for $20, Browning $90, Etc

This trio of B&H Photo deals are running until Saturday at 11:59pm ET, a 72-hour set. Orders will ship after the 28th…

+ INCASE DESIGNS DSLR Case with Shoulder Strap for $20

+ Browning Recon Force Extreme Full HD Trail Camera for $90

+ Pelican 2430 MityLite Xenon Flashlight for $10

Wedn: 13″ SmallHD, DAvis & Sanford ProVista, Jill-E clutches, Leupold Binos

Never fear, Wednesday is here in the B&H Photo dailies running until Wednesday at 11:59pm ET but note that orders will ship AFTER April 28…

+ DAVIS & SANFORD ProVista Tripod with FM18 Fluid Head for $100
+ they also have a band, Sanford & Sons which makes arena rock muzak 😉

+ LEUPOLD 10×25 BX-1 Rogue Compact Binocular for $65

+ SMallHD 1303 HDR 13″ Production Monitor for $2050

+ JILL-E DESIGNS Smartphone Clutch for $25

Get 5% Cash (check in the mail) or 10% Trade Bonus (store credit) when you Sell Your Own Gear to KEH Camera w/coupon

This is a sell your own gear promotion, not a buy new/more gear! To celebrate Earth Day, KEH Camera is encouraging us all to sell them back any camera gear we have no use or interest in anymore. The encouragement comes in the form of a coupon: coupon code SYG4A gets you a bonus on the quoted amount depending on you decide to take your payment:

+ if you take cash (a check in the mail), you get a 5% bonus

+ if you select a trade-in bonus (think of it as KEH store credit), you get a 10% bonus.

In other words, let’s say through the years, you have given up on tilt-shift lenses, and you decide to sell your Fictitious 5mm f0.5 lens. Let’s say the initial KEH quote, based on your description and included accessories, is $1000. Using the coupon code, you will get $1050 if you select cash (check in the mail) OR you will get $1100 in KEH store credit to spend on future KEH purchases. Because that Fictitious 7mm f0.7 MACRO OIS DG AF-Z Typ-M you’ve had your eye on for the last seven years costs more than $1100 for sure ^_^

The promotion expires Sunday 4.28.19 at 11:59pm eastern time

PS: I do not know if you can use this coupon more than once during this promotion, so if you have multiple items to sell, mayhaps wait until you can include them all in your sell.

PS2: if you are having a hard time deciding whether to go for cash or KEH store credit, look at your previous KEH purchases (how often do you buy, what gear, what price ranges, etc). Also look at what camera gear you are planning to buy in the next few months and then look at the KEH inventory to see whether the gear you may want to buy are actually available and at what prices and compare to prices from other sellers [considering included or not included warranties in the price].

PS3: note that KEH includes a 180-day warranty on camera gear in USED conditions “BGN” (bargain) and better (Excellent, Like New, etc). However gear in “UG” (Ugly) and “AS IS” and gear that are inoperable do not get a warranty [for obvious reasons]. Check their warranty page for all the details..

Tuesday: DraCast BiC LED, HPRC Watertight, Tascam, Etc

The Tuesday B&H daily deals run until 11:59pm ET on Tuesday BUT the orders will begin shipping on April 28+, so keep that in mind if you need something soon…

+ DraCast (Dragon Cast?) LED500 Plus Series Bi-Color LED Light for $279

+ HPRC Watertight/Waterproof Hard-Shell Case for DJI Mavic 2 Pro/Zoom for $90~

+ TASCAM CD-200iL Professional CD Player with 30-Pin and Lightning iPod Dock
for $250

Monday: Intova DUB Action Camera for $20

Monday is here with a new trio of B&H Photo daily deals who run until 11:59pm ET tonight BUT will ship starting April 28, so keep that in mind if you are in hurry:

+ Intova DUB Action Camera for $20 in two color

+ also $20 Tascam microphone and $80 Sennheiser bluetooth earphones

Sunday: Epson FF-680W for $500, 1TB Sandisk Extreme SSD

Best Buy is back with more camera-related offers in their daily deals including:

+ 1TB Sandisk Extreme USB 3.1 (Type A to Type C) portable external SSD for $170
+ Leica calls them “Typ C” and charges 10X more for the cables #meow

+ Epson Fast Foto FF-680W wireless photo printer and scanner for $500

Friday: 64GB Sandisk Extreme microSDXC for $20

Friday is here and the Best Buy dailies have at the bottom of it all the 64GB Sandisk Extreme micro-SDXC memory card for $20, and the 10TB WD EasyStore external USB 3.0 hard drive for $160

Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 XR Di for $369 [C/N]

This trio of B&H Photo offers is running for the next three days, running until Sunday at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out). NOTE however that B&H is closed for the Passover Holiday, so any orders placed after Thursday 4/19 at 6pm ET, they will ship after Sunday April 28…

+ Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 XR Di for $369 in Canon and Nikon

+ JILL-E DESIGNS JACK Hudson Leather Camera Bag for $50

+ GVB Gear 162 Bicolor On-Camera LED Light with LCD Display and Shoe Mount Adapter for $40

Thursday: 8TB Seagate for $100, 10.5″ iPAD PROs for $550+, Etc

Among the other daily deals, Woot Landia features a new condition 8TB Seagate Backup Plus external USB hard drive for $100 with a 90-day Woot warranty, and a $230 refurbished HP i5 Windoze laptop…

The headliner of the Best Buy dailies is a 10.5-inch iPAD PRO sale starting at $550 for 64GB, $600 (Rose Gold) to $620 for 256GB, and $700 to $720 for 512GB… There’s also open-box options (YMMV) starting at $478… There’s so many iPads nowadays I need to look up the line-up in Wikipedia, I can no longer remember them :)… Given the storage/usability jump from 64GB to 256GB and the lack of microSD, the +$100 Apple tax to jump from 64GB to 256GB is not unreasonable. Unlike the old days where +$100 got you from 16GB to 32GB or 32GB to 64GB 🙂 That’s what happens when sales start stagnating 🙂

Meanwhile in Europe…
Unless it gets extended again, today is the last day at the Amazon Germany Spring Sale Gold Box and this set does not have a dedicated camera sale, but there are some photo-related items:

+ various styles and sizes of old-fashioned (not digital) picture frames, from 11 to 24 euro

+ Samsung Frame TVs from 800 to 1130 euro – in studios and exhibits and such they could be used to digitally showcase photography and video work?
+ the 700 euro is not a “Frame” TV

+ there’s Lenovo and Samsung laptops and tablets on sale

+ networking gear, Fire 7 tablets, Echo gear,

Thursday: Manfrotto Nitro system, PowerEGG, ARCO, Etc

Thursday is here with a new quartet of B&H Photo daily deals running until Thursday at 11:59pm ET.

NOTE however that the order cut-off for orders that will ship before the B&H Passover closing is Thursday at 6pm eastern. Orders placed after that will be processed/shipped after B&H returns from the holiday on Sunday April 28.

+ Manfrotto Nitrotech N12 & 545GB Dual-Leg Tripod System with Half Ball Adapter & Bag for $550

+ PowerVision PowerEgg Drone for $369
+ perfect for those difficult Easter Egg hunts?

+ ARCO V15G Camcorder Shoulder Bag for $40
+ gas refills NOT included

+ JBL M-Patch 2 Passive Stereo Controller and Switch Box for $59

Canon 50mm f1.4 USM International for $270

The new condition with USA warranty of the Canon 50mm f1.4 USM lens goes for $330 with free accessories at some Canon USA authorized dealers like Adorama, or if you want to venture into the used market, it starts at $238~ at B&H Photo and KEH Camera

But if you prefer new condition for less than the USA model, the international model is currently offered in new condition for $270 with free US shipping at Massdrop. There’s no mention of warranty in the listing. It will ship in mid-May 2019 from Massdrop. The offer runs for the next seven days [from posting date here]. Shipping outside the US hovers around $10 (varies depending on country/region/continent obviously)…

Plan Ahead: Adorama order cut-off for Passover is Friday at 12:30pm ET

We previously mentioned the B&H Photo Passover shopping schedule. Now we have the shopping schedule for the Adorama website. It is a bit different, so pay attention to the cut-off dates below:

Orders placed by Friday 4/19/19 at 12:30pm eastern will be processed on the day they are submitted (unless they hit a snag during the verification process or the products are not in-stock and things of that nature). Ideally, don’t wait until 12:29pm ET to place your order 🙂

Orders placed after that will be processed when Adorama returns from the Passover holiday on Monday April 29 in 2019.

Online ordering and phone sales and customer service are available on some of those days. Check their website for the detailed schedule…

Peak Design Everyday Bags for $89 to $134 w/FS

Massdrop is back on again with another Peak Design Everyday Bags sale. They offer two models, the Sling 5L for $89 and the Sling 10L for $134. The price drops to this level AFTER you add it to the shopping cart and AFTER you select one of the bag options. Before that, the price you see is $219 ~ so don’t let that scare you away 🙂

Optionally in the shopping cart you can add a Field pouch or a Tech pouch for more. Various color options are available. You can see all options available in the product listing, you don’t have to add them to the shopping cart and read about them one by one.

Free US shipping. This particular offer does not ship outside the US. The offer runs for the next five days and change from blog-posting time. Orders will ship in mid-May 2019 by Massdrop. There are no exchanges offered for the promotion. But the bags come with the Peak Design lifetime warranty…

The Sue Bryce Collection for $99 (Portraiture, Etc)

For a limited time, Creative LIVE is offering a $99 class bundle, the Sue Bryce collection, a total of 18 classes by
the photographer. Portraiture features heavily in the topics, along with fashion, lighting, and the business/marketing of a studio/photographer.

Back of the envelope math averages this at around $5.50 per class. Not bad at all if these topics are of current or future interest…

20 classes for $29 each at C-LIVE

For a very limited time, Creative LIVE is offering 20 classes for $29 each. The sale price is shown over there while this sale continues… Topics include Adobe (general (eg painterly) and specific (eg Lightroom CC)) and camera-related classes (DIY lens accessories, TTL flash, tabletop photography) and people-n-pets photography, and the classes that help pay the bills (marketing and “making money as an artist”)…

OR if you prefer FREE and you have schedule flexibility, check out all the free-streaming classes at their ON-AIR schedule

Panasonic ZS60 travel zoom for $250 [limit 3]

Zoom-zoom! For a limited time, Amazon itself is offering the new condition Panasonic ZS60 travel zoom in the black color scheme for $250 with free shipping with up to three cameras per customer at the sale price. This is a limited time offer but not a lightning deal, so there’s no ticking clock on the offer.

With many and more superzoom cameras out there, there are plenty of choices out there, making it a pleasant headache in deciding which one(s) to get 🙂

Speaking of Amazon, one of their Wednesday daily deals is a sale on renewed Microsoft Surface Studios of the first generation kind with prices ranging from $1359 (i5, 8GB, 1TB) to $1885 (i7, 32GB, 2TB)…

Wedn (EU): Canon and Sony and M43rds and more camera sale

Amazon Germany decided to continue their Gold Box Spring Sale until Thursday instead of its previous ending of Monday. The Wednesday group of daily deals includes a Canon and Sony camera sale among other things:

+ Canon camera sale
+ 80D with 18-135 for 1125 euro
+ M50 body for 495 euro
+ M50 with lens for 585 euro
+ M50 two lens kit for 720
+ XC10 4K professional camcorder for 1420
+ G9 X II for 313 to 323
+ G7 X II for 473
+ also superzooms and camcorders

+ Sony and Friends camera sale
+ Sony a6500 body for 1055
+ Sony HX90 superzoom for 249
+ Sony RX100 III w/selfie grip for 499
+ various Sony and Sigma and Olympus lenses
+ Olympus E-PL9 with kit lens for 539
+ Panasonic G70 with kit lens for 429
+ Panasonic TZ58 superzoom for 149
+ camcorders

Among the other sales, it’s the return of the PC Gaming sale featuring many accessories, from keyboards/mice to headsets to mics and audio. There’s LEGOs and cat food and Fire tablets and coffee machines and various kitchen-y things of all sizes…

Plan Ahead: B&H Photo Closing for Passover on Thursday PM

This is a heads-up so you can plan ahead your purchases. B&H Photo will be closing for the Passover Holiday on Thursday April 18 at 7pm ET and will re-open on Sunday April 28 at 10am eastern. That’s ten days, so indeed one must needs place an order now if they want to receive it this month!

Online ordering will be available during some of the closing BUT orders placed AFTER 6pm eastern on April 18 will be shipped on/after April 28…

Online ordering is available:
+ Fri April 19 at 7:30pm ET until Sun April 21 at 9pm ET
+ Thu April 25 7:45pm ET until Sat April 27 at 9:15pm ET

So to summarize for the speed-readers, the deadline to place your online orders if you want them to ship this week is Thursday April 18 at 6pm eastern. Best not wait until 5:59:59pm ET though 🙂

Wedn: InCase Messenger, Tascam DR-100 III, 55″ LG, etc

WEdnesday is here with a quartet of B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ INCASE DESIGNS Compass Messenger Bag for $15

+ Tascam DR-100mkIII Linear PCM Recorder for $269

+ LG C7C 55″ Class HDR 4K UHD Smart OLED TV for $999

+ Pioneer DJ headphones for $99

10% off Lenses at KEH with coupon (ends Sun PM)

KEH Camera fans, a new 5-day coupon is upon us! Using coupon code LENS4A you can get 10% off most lenses at KEH Camera. The coupon expires on Sunday APR-21-2019 at 11:59pm ET.

As always, there are exclusions: the coupon does NOT work on “New” and “Like New” condition products. LEICA branded products are also excluded from the promotion. You can test the coupon by entering it in their shopping cart without the need to login or signin…

Tuesday: D&S, Jill-E, Promise Tech, Robox, Zotac, Etc

Tuesday is here with the B&H Photo daily deals offering this sixtet until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if any sells out]:

+ JILL-E DESIGNS Smart Laptop Tote for $70
+ the previous time there was a Jill-E featured in the B&H daily deals it sold out before the end of the day

+ PROMISE TECHNOLOGY Pegasus3 R8 Mac Edition 80TB 8-Bay Thunderbolt 3 RAID Array (8 x 10TB) for $5771

+ ROBOX 3D Printer for $399

+ DAVIS & SANFORD Provista 7518B Tripod with V18 Fluid Head for $80 after a $20 mail-in rebate

+ ANTON BAUER NP-F976 7.2V, 6600mAh L-Series Li-Ion Battery (47Wh) for $40

+ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 2080 AMP Graphics Card for $650