Archives for April 2019

Update: Website problem corrected

The last few hours you may have seen a redirect problem with the blog (this particular camera deals blog, not the main blog/domain) with a destinywall.org and letstakemetoad.com redirect warning. This was caused by a WordPress plug-in for related posts that was retired/abandoned…

Related posts are widgets that go below each post and recommend other posts.

From the looks of it, the domain letstakemetoad.com was registered late on 4/15/19.

If you know anyone using this plug-in, you/they would probably want to deactivate and delete it as soon as possible…

This is one of the reasons some people prefer to write their own plug-ins instead of using publicly-available ones. Of course in order to do this you have to have the time, energy, knowledge and/or budget…

Monday: Storage sale with SD and Sandisk and G-Tech

Storage is the word of the day for Monday. In addition to the previously mentioned B&H storage dailies, we find the return of the WD x Sandisk sale at the Amazon USA Gold Box running until 11:59pm pacific (or earlier for any that may sell out ahead of time)…

+ 256GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for $31
+ Sandisk Extreme microSDXC: 64GB for $14~, 128GB for $22, 400GB for $86

+ Sandisk Ultra SDXC: 64GB for $9~, 128GB for $18~

+ 64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO CompactFlash for $50

+ various USB flash drives of various sizes

+ various hard drives from G-Tech and WD

+ SSDs from Sandisk

Up to two individual items per customer at the sale price which ends at 3am ET on Tuesday 4/16/19 or earlier if sold out…

Monday eBook: “The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA” for $4

Good until Monday at 11:59pm pacific time, one of the Kindle daily deals is the Kindle e-book The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA (258 pages, November 2017, Chronicle Books) going for $4. You can get a Kindle sample on your device or app OR to go deep inside the book, use the “Look Inside” feature on the Print Book page

Monday (EU): Canon Lenses sale (14 options, 85 to 1890 euro), Computer Monitors, Printers, ApeMan action cams, lots more

The Amazon Germany Gold Box Spring Sale concludes today, Monday April 15 in 2019 with lots and lots of offers including:

+ various computer monitors ranging from 99 to 599 euro from Samsung, BenQ, LG, AOC, Acer, and HP

+ Canon Lenses sale with prices ranging from 85 to 1890 euro with 14 lenses participating including:

+ EF 50/1.8 STM for 85 euro
+ EF 50/1.4 USM for 260 euro
+ EF 85/1.8 USM for 327
+ EF 28/3.5 Macro IS STM for 248
+ EF-S 24/2.8 STM for 124
+ EF-S 35/2.8 Macro STM IS for 309
+ EF-M 22/2 STM for 192

+ EF 100-400/4.5-5.6L IS II USM for 1890
+ EF 16-35/4 L IS USM for 905
+ EF 24-105/4L IS II USM for 945
+ EF 24-105/3.5-5.6 IS USM for 336
+ EF 70-300/4-5.6 IS II for 408
+ EF 24-70/2.8 f4L IS USM for 749
+ EF-S 10-18/4.5-5.6 IS STM for 213 euro

The sale also includes various other products including:
+ ApeMan budget action camera sale (30 to 67~ euro)
+ Printer and Scanner sale including Canon and HP options

+ 25% off Anker cables and power-banks
+ various LG TVs including 4K UHD
+ 1-Year Office 365 Home (six users) for 53~ euro

+ Windows laptop sale starting at 200 euro with Acer and Lenovo (also 400 euro Acer flip Chromebook)
+ Huawei M5 Lite tablets from 190 to 220 euro, also Lenovo tablets on sale

+ Nokia 5.1 for 125, 8.1 for 354 euro
+ Motorola G7 dual SIM for 220
+ Huawei Mate 20 Lite with Smartwatch for 259
+ Honor 8X for 249, 10 Lite for 199, 10 for 350

Monday (B&H): WD, G-Tech, Sandisk (SSD, microSDXC A2), Dracast kit, Etc

Monday brings with it a reloaded set [more were added later in the day, mayhaps price-matching the Amazon daily deals?] of B&H Photo daily deals:

+ WD MyBook Desktop External USB 3.0 HDD for $146 (10TB) or $126 (8TB)
+ G-Technology G-Drive USB 3.0 Type-C External for $250 (10TB) or $191 (8TB)

+ 1TB Sandisk Extreme Portable USB 3.1 Type C External SSD for $143
+ 1TB Sandisk SSD Plus SATA III 2.5″ internal for $96

+ Sandisk Extreme microSDXC A2 memory cards for $14~ (64GB) or $22 (128GB) or $86 (400GB)

+ SmallHD 702 Bright On-Camera Monitor for $799

+ Dracast LED1000 Kala Bi-Color LED Panel for $249 with FREE spring-cushioned Light Stand and V-Mount to dual NPF converter

(ENDED) EU: 128GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for 18 euro

Party’s over! As of a 4/17/19 recheck, the price jumped to 25 euro…

European photographers, especially if you are within shopping distance to Amazon Germany. They are offering the new condition 128GB Sandisk Ultra SDXC card in frustration-free packaging for 18 euro per card. The seller is Amazon Germany actual. You can buy up to 30 units at the sale price. This is not a lightning deal, so expiration time unknown…

KEH Camera Buy More to Save More Sale Returns (ends Tue PM)

Good until Tuesday 4/16/19 at 11:59pm eastern time, we have the return of the Buy More to SAVE More sale at KEH Camera. Using coupon code BMSM4A you get a discount depending on your order total:

+ Spend $1,000+, get 12% off
+ Spend $600+, get 10% off
+ Under $600, get 8% off

As usual, there are exclusions: no Leica, no “New” or “Like New” condition products. As usual, you can test the coupon in their shopping cart without the need to create an account or login to an account…

Multi-Year Sale at DiscoMags: 3yrs for $13 total, Etc

It’s the return of the Multi-Year sale at Discount Mags, where you get a better per-year price if you sign up for a 3-year subscription. Outdoor Photographer and Digital Photo go for $13 each for the 3-year period (that’s $4.25 per magazine per year), while Videomaker goes for $19 for the 3-year period and “Digital Photo PRO” goes for $20 (just under $7/year)…

As usual, these are printed magazines delivered to US addresses (shipping outside the US is cost-prohibitive considering the prices of these magazines). These are not auto-renewals.

Sunday: Manfrotto Tripod + Backpack kit, Browning, Etc

Sunday April 14 is international Game Of Thrones day, but there’s also a new quartet of offerings in the Sunday B&H Photo dailies running until 11:59pm eastern (or earlier if sold out):

+ Manfrotto BeFree Compact Travel Aluminum Tripod and Advanced Travel Backpack Kit for $200

+ Browning BTC-4P Command Ops Pro Trail Camera for $60

+ Pelican 1910B MityLite LED Flashlight for $15

+ AverMedia AM310 USB Microphone for $60

UPDATE: a camera accessories sale headlines the Sunday “Spring Sale” at Amazon Germany with a total of 26 products from Manfrotto, Rollei, WaliMex, Hama and more. It includes tripods and other related stabilizer-y things, lighting, a film scanner, bags of course, and more…

Friday (EU): Nikon DSLRs, Lenses and Coolpixies sale (and More)

Friday is here at the Amazon Germany Gold Box which is “Spring Sale” until April 15, and the camera-theme this time around is a Nikon DSLR & Coolpix sale:

+ Nikon D500 body for 1620
+ Nikon D750 body for 1330 euro
+ Nikon D750 with either 24-120 VR or 24-85 for 1800 euro
+ Nikon D5300 with 18-105 VR for 595

+ 35/1.8G for 139 euro
+ 20/4.5-5.6G VR DX for 270
+ 28-300 f3.5-5.6G VR for 845
+ 18-300 f3.5-6.3G VR DX for 629
+ 14-24 f2.8G for 1697

+ Z 35mm f1.8 for 715
+ Z 50mm f1.8 for 500

+ Nikon P900 superzoom for 450 euro
+ B500 superzoom for 210
+ Coolpix A1000 for 360
+ Coolpix A900 for 310

+ also a trio of Nikon binoculars

Not Nikon, but among the other items on sale:

+ 1-Year Adobe Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC with 20GB cloud for 114 euro

+ Huawei Mate Book x Pro for 1499

+ XP-PEN graphics tablet sale featuring 11 models with prices ranging from 26 to 449 euro

Weekend (B&H): $10 BR Lens Bag, 43″ Sharp for $200, etc

And just like that, it’s Friday again and with it we have a new quartet of B&H Photo deals running, as usual for Fridays, for 48 hours, until Saturday at 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out ~ two of Thursday’s six daily deals in fact sold out ahead of time]:

+ BlackRapid Lens Bag for $10 ~ because lenses want bags too!

+ XVENTURE Click N Vu Kit for $13

+ AZDEN PRO-XD 2.4 GHz Digital Wireless Lavalier System for $129

+ Sharp P5000 43″ Class Full HD Smart LED TV for $200

KEH coupon until Sat PM: 15% off 15 brands including Pentax, Olympus and Ricoh

KEH Camera is back with a Brand-a-holic coupon promotion. Good until Saturday 4/13/19 at 11:59pm ET, coupon code AB4A gets you 15% off products from 15 different brands. Excluded are “NEW” and “LN” (Like New) products.

The featured brands are:

  • Pentax, Olympus, Ricoh, Kodak
  • Metz, Quantum, Hoya
  • B+W, Tiffen, Cokin, Singh-Ray
  • HelioPan, Sunpak, RRS, Kirk

B&N coupons: $10 off $50+ online [15% off one item B&M]

Amazon is not the center of the shopping universe, despite the Bezos gazillions in probably a gazillion banks [there’s that $100K FDIC limit after all) 🙂 If you are fond of giving Barnes and Noble a chance, good until Sunday, coupon code APRILSHOWERS get you $10 off an online purchase of $50+ of eligible items.

For their B&M stores, a personalized coupon code for 15% off a single item can be found at their Offers page

For more deal ideas, check their Clearance/Outlet page or jump directly to the Photography page (over 700 options as of the time of writing)…

Exclusions and restrictions apply to both coupons…

256GB Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drive for 40 euro or $44

USB flash drives are one way for a quick backup, especially when you are not in the comforts of your home, office or studio. With storage prices dropping, higher capacities are slowly but steadily becoming more affordable. Which brings us to the 256GB Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Type A flash drives. These are really thumb-size, so care must be taken not to be lost, but they don’t take up a lot of space and you can store a lot on them.

It is currently on sale for 40 euro at Amazon Germany and for $44 by Amazon USA and Adorama and B&H Photo with free US shipping…

256GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC (170MB/s) for $78

If you have a need for speed, the newer 170MB/sec Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC memory cards are now on sale and the 256GB version is currently on sale for $78 with free US shipping at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon itself. It currently “defeats” in GB/$ the other storage option in its own sub-line of 170MB/sec cards…

Thur (EU): another big camera sale (Panasonic, Olympus, Ricoh, Sigma, Fuji), and much and more

The “Spring Sale” continues strong at Amazon Germany with many offers in their Angebote (Gold Box) as follows for Thursday April 11 in the German timezone:

++ another BIG camera sale including:
+ Fuji A5 with 15-45mm XC for 399

+ Ricoh GR II EU for 509 euro
+ Ricoh Theta SC for 175
+ Rollei Actioncam Fun for 39
+ Rollei DashCam-408 for 75
+ Rollei Actioncam 560 Touch for 120

+ Panasonic G70 with 14-42 for 429
+ Panasonic TZ58 travel zoom for 149~

+ Olympus E-PL9 for 539 euro in three colors
+ Olympus LC-37C auto lens cap for 28
+ Olympus 40-150 f4-5.6 R for 172

+ walimex pro AE 14mm f/2.8 for 210 euro in Canon EF, more for other systems

+ Sigma 10-20mm f3.5 EX DC HSM for 345 euro in Nikon and Canon
+ Sigma 70mm f2.8 DG Macro for 445 in Canon
+ Sigma 18-300 f3.5-6.3 DC Macro HSM for Sony E for 335 euro

+ 10.5″ Samsung Galaxy TAB A (T590) Android tablet with 64GB Kingston microSD card included for 189 euro

+ Huawei smartphone sale with P.Smart, Y7 and Y6 and some smartwatches too

+ HiSense TVs and lots of computer and gaming accessories in two different groups of sales there

+ LEABAGs sale (not camera-specific but they can be used/repurposed)

+ 25% off select AmazonBasics products including a 20pk of single-use AA for 5~ euro, monitor stand for 13~, cables galore, DSLR + laptop backpack for 29~, 50″ tripod for 11~, mice galore, phone stands, camera cleaning kit for 7~, and lots more

Thursday: Yongnuo YN560Li for $50, PeakD CaptureL, Oben Tripod w/BH, MacMini, Etc

Thursday brings with it a new six-pack of offerings at the B&H Photo daily deals running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Yongnuo YN560Li Lithium Speedlite for $50

+ PEAK DESIGN Capture:Lens for $45 in Canon EF, Nikon F and Sony E/FE

+ Mac mini 2.8 GHz Desktop Computer (Late 2014) for $529

+ OBEN CT-3521 Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod with BE-106T Ball Head for $100

+ JILL-E DESIGNS JACK Hemingway 15″ Leather Backpack for $50
+ Hemingway or his books are NOT included ^_^

+ TP-Link HS110 Wi-Fi Smart Plug with Energy Monitoring (2-Pack) for $22

Meanwhile in Woot Landia they have refurbished i5 MacBook PROs of the 13-inch kind, and TCL Roku TVs and a $200 refurb HP Chromebook, among others…

And at the Best Buy dailies the healdiner is a $360 14-inch HP SSD-only Windoze laptop (i3, 4GB RAM)…

Wedn: NISI, BlackRapid, HP ZBook Mobile Workstations, Etc

Wednesday brings with it a quartet of new B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ Black Rapid Sport Breathe Camera Strap for $44

+ NISI V5 Pro 100mm Filter Holder Kit for $119

+ QuickLOK LPH-001 Multi-Function Tripod Stand for $25

+ HP 15.6″ ZBook 15 G3 Mobile Workstation for $1449 to $1769 (Xeon, DreamColor, etc)

Among the Best Buy dailies, the Epson WorkForce PRO WF-4740 all-in-one wireless printer is going for $150…

And in Woot Landia, under “Computers”, the refurbished 10.5″ iPad PRO (64GB, 2017 model, 1-Year Apple warranty) is offered for $430…

Tuesday: Hasselblad True Zoom Moto Mod for $100

Patience is a virtue when it comes to dropping prices of previous generation tech. If you are one of the Moto Mod fans, among their Tuesday daily deals, Best Buy is offering 50% off on Moto Mods including the Hasselblad True Zoom going for $100, the Insta-Share projector for $100, and a trio of speaker mods.

Tuesday (EU): Sony Camera Sale, Xperia XZ2, Budget Action Cams

Until April 15, Amazon Germany is having a big “Spring Sale” with a large number of offers rolling out every day. For Tuesday April 9 in 2019 they have, among others:

++ Sony Camera Sale which includes:
+ Cybershot HX90 superzoom for 259 euro
+ HX400v superzoom for 319
+ RX100 Mark III with Vlogger Grip for 499
+ a6500 body only for 1079 euro
+ 18-200 f3.5-6.3 (18200LE) OS APS-C for 579
+ 55-210 f4.5-6.3 OSS for 222
+ 24-240 f3.5-6.3 OSS for 749

There’s also a Sony Xperia smartphone sale there with the XZ2 going for 600 euro and the XZ2 Compact for 400 euro.

On the budget side of things, there’s a Victure action camera sale with prices starting at 30 euro, and they have some wildlife cameras there too.

Tuesday: SYRP, SmallHD, Dracast, Manfrotto Nitro, Etc

Tuesday is a busy day at the B&H Photo daily deals with a six pack of offerings running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Manfrotto Nitrotech N12 & 545B Dual-Leg Tripod System with Half Ball Adapter & Bag for $600

+ Small HD 5.5″ FOCUS OLED Monitor (SDI) for $549

+ INDIPRO TOOLS 2 x Micro-Series 98Wh Li-Ion V-Mount Batteries with Dual V-Mount Battery Charger Kit for $399

+ SYRP Genie Motion Control Time-Lapse Device for $299, with Ball Head for $389

+ DRACAST BoltRay LED600 Plus Bi-Color LED Light for $149, without battery plate $99

+ IZOTOPE RX Elements Audio Restoration and Enhancement Software (digital download) for $10

Monday (EU): Canon cameras sale, Printers, Etc

Monday is a big day in the Amazon Germany Gold Box headlined by a big Camera and Video sale that includes:

+ Canon EOS 200D with kit lens for 445 euro
+ 80D 18-135 for 1125
+ 6D III body only for 1670 euro

+ Canon M50 with 15-45 mirrorless for 585 euro
+ M50 body only for 495 euro
+ M50 two lens kit and EF adapter for 702

+ Canon G9X II for 313 to 323 euro depending on color
+ G7X II for 473 euro
+ G3X for 698

+ Canon SX 620 HS superzoom for 144 euro
+ SX 540 HS superzoom for 208 euro

+ also a few Canon video cameras/camcorders

Apart from Canon, the Monday sale also includes a variety of HP and Epson printers, Huawei smartphones and smartwatches, Sony audio products, Lenovo tablets, Office, bags, software and a lot more!

Monday: Dracast, Tiffen VND filters, Tangerines, Sony

Monday too brings with it a quartet of new B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ DRACAST LED1000 Pro Daylight LED Light with V-Mount Battery Plate for $349 with FREE Light Stand

+ Tiffen Variable Neutral Density Filter, 77mm for $50 after $20 MIR, 82mm for $70 after $20 MIR
+ MIR = mail-in rebate of course

+ BRIGHT TANGERINE Misfit Atom 4 x 5.65″/4 x 4″ Ultra Lightweight 2-Stage Clip-On Matte Box for $250

+ Sony UWP-D11 Camera-Mount Wireless Omni Lavalier Microphone System (UC14: 470 to 542 MHz) for $400

UPDATE: of the Amazon USA Gold Box, there’s a sale on Sylvania lighting that includes a variety of light bulbs, smart and dumb 🙂

Sun ebook: James Aldred Wildlife Cameraman adventures for $3

I almost missed this. There are over 80 e-books featured in today’s Amazon USA Gold Box daily deals. One of them is of camera-photo-video interest, it is a book about wildlife BBC camera man James Aldred, “The Man Who Climbs Trees: The Lofty Adventures of a Wildlife Cameraman” (272 pages, May 2018) going for $3 until Sunday at 11:59pm pacific time. eBooks don’t sell out 🙂 It averages 4.6 out of 5 based on 28 customer reviews.

Sunday: Fat Gecko, Anton Bauer, Moose Peterson, Etc

Sunday is here with a new 4-pack of B&H Photo dailies as follows:

+ ANTON BAUER Digital 150 Gold Mount Battery (14.4V, 156 Wh) for $299

+ Delkin Fat Gecko Dual-Suction Camera Mount for $40

+ Mind Shift Gear Moose Peterson MP-7 V2.0 Three-Compartment Backpack for $100

+ Senal studio headphones for $45

UPDATE: a big computer monitors sale (99 to 599 euro) headlines another big day in terms of volume of offers at Amazon Germany. The sale also included UHD TVs, high end coffee machines (up to 1599 euro), smartwatches, Bosch, travel bags and more…

Meanwhile at the Best Buy dailies it’s the return of the 48 packs of single use AA or AAA batteries of the Insignia house brand for $8 per 48-pack… Also there, at the other end of the coffee price-spectrum, there’s a $10 Caribou 5-cup french press… Needless to say, price of coffee gear is not directly linked to brewing quality, some argue it’s hard to beat a $20 pour-over set with any kind machine out there…

20% off “UGLY” and “AS IS” Camera Gear with KEH Camera coupon [ends Sun PM]

Ugly fans unite and take over! Good until Sunday April 7 in 2019 at 11:59pm ET, KEH Camera is having a sale on products in “UGLY” (UG) or “AS IS” condition. Using coupon code GS4A you can get 20% off their shown price.

Leica products are excluded. As usual, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies. Add items of interest to the cart and enter the coupon and see what happens. There’s no need to login/signup to test les couponeaux…

Friday: refurb Apple Laptops, Surface 2 Laptop, Etc

Meanwhile of the Friday daily deals, in WootLandia there are 13 options in this big refurbished Apple laptops sale in “Computers” with prices ranging from $500 to $1540… For the sporty photographer, the main Woot has a Mizuno Wave running shoes sale going for $51 (Women’s Sky) to $63 (Men’s Shadow)…

These two names could make for a best selling romance novel title, “Women’s Sky and Men’s Shadow” 🙂

On the other side of the pond, among the loaded Friday Amazon Germany Gold Box deals you can find:

+ Surface 2 Laptop for 999 euro (13.5″ Gorilla 3, 8GB, i5-7200U, 256GB SSD, HD 620 Graf, W10 Home, four Alcantara color options)
+ Blackberry KEY2 line of smartphones for 318 euro (Lite) to 518 euro (dual SIM)
+ Toshiba and Telefunked TV sale
+ various budget tabletop lamps for DIY lighting
+ massive Marmot outdoor gear sale (12+ pages, 16 to 560 euro)

Weekend (B&H): Sunpak Slave flash for $25, Avinair, Freehands, Etc [also: refurb Apple Laptops (13 options)]

There’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s and then there’s Weekend at B&H’s which brings us to this set of 48 hour B&H Photo deals that run until Saturday at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Sunpak PF20XD Digital Slave Flash for $25

+ Avinair 7S Mini Portable LED Projector for $75

+ FREEHANDS Stretch Thinsulate Gloves for $20 in five options (Men and Women options)

+ Pelican 2640CB Heads-Up Headlamp for $16
+ also handy if you have an old e-book reader that doesn’t have a built-in light; unlike phones/tablets, older ebook readers are usable, especially for text-only books and if you don’t leave 1000+ notes per book [not that I did that 🙂 ]

Thursday: DJI Mavi PRO, Small HD 502, Sachtler, Etc

Thursday is flying under the radar, between the excitement of Friday and the promise of Hump Day. But it too has its own daily deals at B&H Photo as follows:

+ DJI Mavic Pro (Special Combo, Alpine White) for $779

+ SmallHD 502 Bright On-Camera Monitor for $849

+ SACHTLER Lite Case (Large) for $180~

+ CHARGEWORX Qi Wireless Charging Pad for $8

Meanwhile at the Best Buy daily deals you can get the new condition Fuji instax SHARE SP-2 wireless printer for $70… Also there, they have an HP 15.6″ 2-in-1 Envy as the headliner for $650 (8GB RAM, i5, 256GB SSD, Touchscreen, etc)…

Grey-market Fuji XC 50-230mm f4.5-6.7 OIS II for $189

The new condition Fuji XC 50-230mm f4.5-6.7 OIS III goes for $399 at authorized Fuji USA dealer such as B&H Photo

But if you want to pay half the price but not get any warranty, AND you are okay with the second generation (II) of the lens, for the next five days you can get it as international grey-market for $189 with free US shipping at Massdrop… Orders will ship at the end of April by Massdrop… This offer is only available to US addresses…

PS: speaking of Massdrop, they have brought back the Peak Design camera straps sale with the straps dropping to $40 ONCE you select a specific option in their shopping cart. The price you see on their website before these steps is $50… There are optional add-ons for $more$ as well… All available options are listed in the product description… They come with a Peak Design limited lifetime warranty… They will ship in late April 2019 by Massdrop…