Archives for April 17, 2019

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…