Archives for June 2019

$25 off Photoshop Week with CL coupon = $174

For a limited time, coupon code PSW25OFF gets you $25 off the purchase price of the bundle that consists of the 17 classes that were launched during this year’s Photoshop Week 2019 at Creative LIVE. The coupon drops the price from $199 to $174.

Pre-order new Olympus MC-20 2X TeleConverter for $430

Olympus fans, it is time to convert your wallet cash to a converter lens 😉 The new Olympus MC-20 2X teleconverter lens is now available for pre-ordering for $430 at B&H Photo and Amazon and Adorama among others… Lens compatibility in the aforelinked listings… This is a M43rds, aka M.Zuiko product…

Nik Collection 2 Launch Offer for $100 or 100 euro [w/free PhotoLab 2 Essential]

DXo is having a special launch offer for their Nik Collection 2 software. You can get them for $100 in the US and 100 euro in Europe. With it, you get the PhotoLab2 Essential software for FREE at the DXO website… This is a limited time offer that expires June 30 in 2019…

Day #3 of the B&H Mega Deal Zone

If you had missed any of the previous daily deals at B&H Photo, your chance to grab them is upon us! Day #3 of the B&H Photo Mega Deal Zone where almost all of the previous daily deals are available at once. You can buy as many as you like. These run in 24 hour increments so they are good until Thursday 11:59pm ET or earlier for anything that may sell out.

60% off One Class of Your Choice with CreativeLIVE coupon

You can make your own deal! Coupon code 60OFFONE gets you 60% off one class of your choice at Creative LIVE. Rules and restrictions apply. The coupon expires on June 30 in 2019…

Best Buy Rewards members Flash sale (ends Wedn PM)

Good until Wednesday at 11:59pm (I’m not sure if it’s Eastern or Central) Best Buy is running a Reward members only sale. You only see the sale items if you are logged on with your Best Buy account that is signed up for the Rewards program… Unfortunately I don’t have my BB login on this computer, so I can’t see the sale items, so this is a bit of a YMMV…

Nature eBooks in the latest Humble Bundle PWYW offer

If you are a fan of nature and DRM-free eBooks, this new pay-what-you-want (PWYW) Humble Bundle offer has a variety of nature ebooks without DRM. The $1+ tier includes five ebooks (three on backpacking, two on the night sky). The $8+ tier adds 12 more ebooks (all kinds of topics) and the $15+ tier adds another eight ebooks (more variety including a very practical-sounding ebook, “fixing your feet”)…

Speaking of eBooks, they are also running a Programming PWYW with ebooks from Packt on a variety of subjects…

Day #2 of the B&H Mega Deal Zone

B&H Photo daily deals fans, rejoice! We are now in Day II of the Mega Deal Zone, a better way to do a Woot-OFF: many previous B&H daily deals are all offered live at the same time, without the goofy Woot-Off ticking clock! I do not know how many days this will go on, but it runs in 24 hour increments, so it’s good until at least Wednesday at 11:59pm eastern [except of course any individual items that sellout themselves]…

Adorama Inspire 2019 Specials (359 options)

Adorama is having its Inspire show and with it they are having a number of specials promotions using coupon code INSPIRE19 entered in the shopping cart over there. You don’t need to signup or login to test the coupon. A total of 359 items are participating in this sale

$200 prepaid VISA GC w/select PCs & Monitors at Dell

Dell Home is running a limited time promotion, you will receive a $200 prepaid VISA gift card with the purchase of select PCs and monitors as shown at the Dell Home website. Check their website for more of the details…

Kamlan 50mm f1.1 APS-C mirrorless lens for $139 [limited time]

Good for another day and change, Massdrop is offering the new condition Kamlan 50mm f1.1 APS-C lens for $139 with free US shipping and a 1-year warranty from Kamlan. It is available in your choice of Fuji X, Sony E, M43rds and Canon EOS-M.

Orders will ship in mid-July 2019 from the vendor. Massdrop has sold over 430 units so far from their listings per the website over there…

CreativeLIVE: $15 off Masters of Photography classes

For a limited time, coupon code MM15 gets you $15 off any Masters Photography class at CreativeLIVE. The current price is $170, so the coupon will drop it to $155. This is a “secret sale”. It will officially launch on 6/17/19. Not that online classes are going to sell out 🙂

Launch coupon discount on new Monoprice Zero-G monitors

Monoprice is launching two new Zero-G Computer Monitors and for a limited time, as part of the launch promotion, they have two limited time coupons that get you discounts as follows:

+ coupon NEW38035 drops the 35-inch model from $500 to $460

+ coupon NEW38576 drops the 27-inch model from $280 to $255

Speaking of Monoprice, for a limited time, they are offering the new condition Monoprice 20,000 mAh power bank for $25.49 with free US standard shipping. It is available in two color options. This has two power outputs and goes up to 2A total. Up to twenty units per customer at the sale price…

Pre-order discount: $5 off Jasmine Star Social Media Bootcamp

If you are a photographer and you want to get a jumpstart into the chaotic world of social media (as a photographer), photographer Jasmine Star will be launching a Social Media Bootcamp class at CreativeLIVE between June 24-26 in 2019. The pre-order price is $99 but for a limited time, using coupon code JSTAR5 you can get $5 off that price.

The class will be streaming live for free during its recording/premiere between June 24-26, so if you have schedule-flexibility, you can watch it for free…

Dell Outlet Clearance sale until 6/24/19

Good until 6/24/19 (or earlier for anything that may individually sell out), the official Dell Outlet store is having a Clearance Sale featuring a variety of laptops (regular and gaming), desktops, computer monitors (27 to 34 inch options), and more…

Tuesday: another Sandisk/WD sale includes SD, microSD, Etc

IF you are a fan of the Sandisk and WD storage brands, you are in luck because the headliner deal of the day for Tuesday 4/18/19 at the Best Buy daily deals is a Sandisk and Western Digital storage sale featuring select external hard drives, SSDs, flash drives and memory cards from their respective line-ups…

Of card interest, the 64GB Sandisk Extreme Plus V30 UHS-I U3 C10 goes for $18, while the 128GB version goes for $30. They also offer these in microSD for the same price at the same capacities. And they also offer them at the same price/capacity combo with the “for Nintendo Switch” branding.

Free with the purchase is the customary Best Buy gift, $25 to spend towards an 8×8 inch custom photo book at Shutterfly. This is not cash but essentially a coupon off a specific purchase…

Mega Deal Zone returns at B&H Photo!!!

Deal fans, your time has come! It’s that time of the year again, it’s the return of the “Mega Deal Zone” at B&H Photo where a large number of previous daily deals are live, all at once, all waiting for you, with arms wide open! That’s like three ballads mixed in one 🙂

There are various ways to filter the offers, by price-range using the horizontal bar above the listings over there. Or using the rightmost “By Brand” filter. But that’s not all ~ further up the page (horizontally) you can sort by various options (by price, by best seller, by discount percentage). You can also look at them by category, eg Photography, Lighting, Computers, Video, etc…

Happy deal hunting! A great opportunity to scoop up something you may have missed in previous daily deals…

Monday: Wacom Intuos PRO, 128GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC for $33, Etc

It’s not a “Big Monday” (TM ESPN) but there is some name-brand action in the Monday B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ WaCom PTH451 Intuos Pro Professional Pen & Touch Tablet (Black, Small) for $150

+ 128GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC V30 UHS-I U3 C10 (up to 170MB/sec) for $33
+ 64GB Ultra microSDXC for $10
+ 128GB Ultra black microSDXC for $17

+ Vello Wireless ShutterBoss III Remote Switch with Digital Timer for $50~ for five different systems/options

+ TP-Link HS200 Smart Wi-Fi Light Switch (3-Pack) for $55, KL120 Kasa smart light bulbs in tuneable white 2pk for $28

10% off KEH Cameras with Affirm Financing [ends Sun PM]

It’s coupon time until 11:59pm ET on Sunday at KEH Camera BUT only if you are willing to use the Affirm financing option when you make your purchase: using coupon code AFF6A at checkout you can get 10% Off at KEH Cameras.

As usual, excluded are NEW condition products and “Like New”. Also excluded are LEICA branded products.

Sunday: 1TB WD HDD for $40, Epson WF-3730 for $90, Etc

Sunday is upon us with a new quartet of B&H daily deals as follows:

+ WD 1TB Elements Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive for $40

+ LG Watch W7 (Cloud Silver, Black Rubber Band) for $190
+ yes, smartwatches still exist!

+ LG LJ500B 32″ Class HD LED TV for $120
+ note that this is 720p!!!

+ Ruggard 14″ Ultra Thin Netbook Sleeve with Handles for $10

But that’s not all ~ there’s action in the Best Buy dailies for Sunday 6/16/19 as well:

+ action camera accessories on sale ($9 to $25)
+ Epson WorkForce PRO WF-3730 AiO printer for $90

And if you are a fan of the Google-style smartphone camera, there’s a refurbished Pixel 2 and 2 XL sale at Woot Electronics with prices ranging from $190 to $270.

Weekend (B&H): Hubsan X4+ Quad for $16, DashCam, $10 flextripod, Etc

FriYay is here which means, as usual, the B&H daily deals last for 48 hours instead of the 24, so this quartet below is good until Saturday at 11:59pm ET {or earlier for any that many sell out ahead of its designated time}:

+ Hubsan X4 Plus H107P Quadcopter for $16

+ MYGEKOGEAR P500 1080p Dash Cam with 8GB microSD Card for $40

+ MAgnUs MaxiGrip Flexible Tripod for $10 in red

+ Blue Snowflake Compact USB Microphone for $30
+ now owned by Logitech

Meanwhile among the Friday daily deals at Woot, there’s budget Samsung tablets on Sellout, a near-$1000 ASUS ZenBook in Computers, and various SainSmart 3D printers in the Main woot…

Speaking of computers, there’s a trio of them in the Best Buy Friday dailies: a $300 Windows laptop (HP, 14″, 4GB, i3, 128GB SSD), a $350 Chromebook laptop (HP, 12.3″, 2-n-1, Core M, 4GB RAM, 32GB storage) and a $700 iBuyPower gaming desktop (i5-8400, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GTX-1060 (3GB), 120GB SSD + 1TB HDD, etc)…

Thursday: Kodak Film and Slider Scanner, PNY memory and storage

Grab your Amazon e-wallets! There are two potentially interesting on-topic deals of the day for Thursday 6/13/19 at the Amazon USA Gold Box:

+ the KODAK SCANZA Digital Film & Slide Scanner goes for $128, sold by 3rd-party seller “DB Roth” and fulfilled by Amazon. The shipping estimate has shifted to a few days away, a sign typically that it is starting to run out

+ Ride the P(o)NY memory card and storage sale including among others:
++ SDXC Elite Performance: 128GB for $23, 256GB for $44, 512GB for $90
++ 512GB microSDXC for $81 in Elite and $90 in Elite PRO
++ all kinds of USB 2.0 and 3.0 flash drives
++ a couple of internal SSDs

The PNY items are limit of up to three per shopping cart per customer at the sale price…

Thursday: DJI Mavic Air for $599, 17″ SmallHD, TTP, LG, Etc

NEver fear, Thursday is here with a new 4-pack of B&H Photo daily deals running until 11:59pm ET on Thursday (or earlier if/for any of them manages to sell out):

+ DJI Mavic Air for $599

+ SmallHD 1703 P3X 17″ Studio Monitor for $2299
+ small in name, big in price 🙂

+ LG 43MU79-B 43″-Class UHD Commercial LED Monitor for $499
+ UHD (3840 x 2160), 60 Hz Refresh, 8 ms Response, 1000:1 Typical CR, DisplayPort, USB, four x HDMI Inputs

+ ThinkTankPhoto Steroid Speed Belt V2.0 (X-Large / XX-Large, Black) for $20
+ Speed Belt V2.0 for $15
+ PSA: Steroids are dangerous for your health!

eBay Bucks: 8% to 13% on $25+ purchases (ends Thur PM)

eBay fans, unite and take over! Good until Thursday 6/13/19 at 11:59pm, eBay is offering a new round of bonus “eBay Bucks”, extra points earned in their free-to-join and easy-to-join rewards programs when you make eligible purchases of $25+. The reward is 13% if you purchase using the official eBay apps or 8% if buy on their website/browser.

As usual, you have to be invited to participate in this offer and then you must needs activate the offer in your account before you earn the bonus bucks…

For ideas on what to buy, check the latest eBay Deals and the latest Trending Deals

Wednesday: Zeiss Batis 25/2 (Sony E) for $899, ONA Backpack, E-Image Tripod, 55″ LG, Zoom, Etc

It’s a Lens Day at the Wednesday B&H Photo daily deals with a six-pack of offers running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if any of them manages to sell out ahead of its designated expiration time):

+ Zeiss Batis 25mm f/2 for $899 for the Sony E system

+ E-Image 2-Stage Aluminum Tripod with GH03 Head for $159
+ with Dolly for $219

+ ONA The Leather Clifton Camera and Everyday Backpack for $169

+ Zoom H1n 2-Input / 2-Track Portable Handy Recorder with Onboard X/Y Microphone for $80

+ LG C7C 55″ Class HDR 4K UHD Smart OLED TV for $1000
+ UHD 3840 x 2160, OLED, HDR10, Dolby Vision, HLG HDR, Wi-Fi & Ethernet, etc

+ THRUSTMASTER T-GT Racing Wheel for $400

In other daily deals action, at the Amazon USA Gold Box there’s a sale of Estalon laptop bags, an Audeze gaming headphone for $299, a Roomba 860 for $270, and of more practical and mundane interest, various Gilette razors and blades…

Meanwhile at the Best Buy dailies the headliner is the new condition 12.3″ Surface PRO, 6th generation, going for $699. This is without the Pen and without the keyboard-case-thing. It has 8GB RAM (which should really be minimum for any Windows computer without a single core processor), 128GB SSD, Core i5 processor, and things like that…

Having said that, the promise and premise of a Surface is kinda defeated when it is sold without the pen and keyboard-cover ~ you are essentially buying an expensive Windows tablet. When you add the Type Cover, the Pen, and the Moon Dial, the prices goes up up and away.

On the other hand, Surface fans can become Surface households, so they may already have the necessary accessories and they just need more devices. Oops, this is turning into an out of control post, so the time is writing to stop writing in this post, stop writing NOW 🙂

Sony Summer Kick Off sale includes a6000 2-lens kit, a7 II, a7R II

It’s the summer and the marketing team at Sony USA looked outside their windows and discovered so. Inspired by such change in the weather, they decided to launch a Summer Kick Off sale that includes a mix of Sony electronics and camera gear, including their all-star WH-1000X-M3 headphones for $298, the ones many think are beating Bose on noise cancellation (!!!)

Of camera and photo interest:

  • a6000 with 16-50 and 55-210 for $648, a potentially interesting “take pictures with” getting-started with E type of a bundle
  • Alpha A7 II body only for $998
  • Alpha A7R II body only for $2600

Tuesday: RucPac, Kwilt Personal Cloud Hub, 32″ LG UHD, Etc [Updated]

B&H Photo is back from their 4-day holiday with a new quartet of daily deals running until Tuesday at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if any of them individually sells out) as follows:

+ RucPac Professional Tech Headlamp for $25
+ when you can’t afford a light stand, your head will do!

+ Kwilt Kwilt2 Personal Cloud Hub for $50
+ no internal storage but plenty of ports and card readers
+ however, someone in their infinite wisdom decided to make the ports USB 2.0 ~ mayhaps an homage to the previous decade?

+ 32MU99-W 32″ 16:9 4K UHD IPS Monitor for $640
+ 32″ IPS, HDMI / DisplayPort, 3840 x 2160 Resolution, 1300:1, etc

+ Lorex DVR/security-camera system for $150 to $290
+ I am planning to start a Security Camera Photo Exhibition, because that too is a form of art 😉

Meanwhile, across the pond, Amazon Germany is having a sale on Uml picture frames ~ they too have caught the Dads=n=Grads bug 🙂

UPDATE:

+ at the Best Buy dailies you can get the refurbished Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1080p 3-LCD projector for #$380 and the PNY XLR8 Nvidia GeFORCE RTX-2070 overclocked edition (8GB GDDR6, PIC Express 3.0) graphics card for $550. You don’t pay extra for the railroad name 🙂

+ at Woot Sellout/Clearance you can get the new condition Celestron 71378 Granite ED 7X33 Roof Prism Binoculars for $148 with free shipping for Prime or $6 flat shipping and a limited lifetime warranty from Celestron

+ and at Amazon, you can get the new condition Fire HD 8 tablet (16GB, with Special Offers) for $60, available in different colors. Optionally on the same listing, you can select the bundle with a free 3-month Kindle Unlimited subscription. It converts to a paying subscription if not cancelled on time. Now there’s enough fiction and non-fiction at Kindle Unlimited where you can strategically sign-up for a few months in a row, devour all interesting and potentially-interesting ebooks, then cancel, and a few months/years later, sign-up again, devour new additions, rinse and e-peat…

Monoprice 2-port 10,000 mAh Power Bank for $13 w/free S&H

If you need portable power without breaking the bank or carrying a mega battery with you, for a limited time, the Monoprice website is offering their new condition Select Plus USB Power Bank for $13 with free standard USA shipping. This has two power output ports with up to 2A combined and 10,000 mAh capacity. Limit up to twenty per customer at the sale price. It averages 4.5 out of 5 based on 670+ customer reviews at the Monoprice website.

Speaking of which, if you don’t want to wait for the 2020 X-Box, Monoprice is offering for a limited time the new condition Xbox One S 1TB Console (Battlefield V Bundle) for the very specific price of $207 with free standard US shipping,,,

Complete Sue Bryce Bundle for $99 at CL (18 classes)

If you are a fan of photographer Sue Bryce, rejoice! For a limited time, Creative Live is offering the Complete Sue Bryce Bundle of online classes for $99. This is a digital ownership, not a Netflix-style subscription. A total of 18 classes are included in this bundle that focus on portraits and related topics as they pertain to portaiture (lighting, etc).

You can watch these classes online (streaming) with a desktop or laptop or tablet. iOS users can also download them for offline viewing on compatible iPhones and iPads. Not sure where there’s no option for Android or Windows yet…

Monday: Aluratek digital picture frames $50 to $155

B&H Photo will be re-opening for orders on Monday night, but in the meantime, Aluratek has a couple of slots in the Monday Best Buy daily deals with their 10.1″ LCD digital picture frame going for $50 and their 15.6″ LCD Wifi model going for $155…