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20% off with Barnes & Noble coupon

Barnes and Noble is not going to let Amazon run “unopposed” during Prime Day, so the Barnes & Noble website is offering 20% off your order using coupon code JUNEREADS until 7/16/19. The usual restrictions and exclusions apply. There is no minimum order amount for this promotion…

For bargain book ideas [think of the B&M bookstore “clearance section” with those giant colorful coffee table books], check their Outlet page and if you don’t feel like digging into the various categories, check their Photography Section…

July 14, 2019 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With: ,

1-Year of Adobe CC Training Bundle for $29 [Stacksocial]

Stacksocial has another Adobe-related bundle, this time they are offering the The Complete Adobe CC Training Bundle for $29. This bundle consists of seven courses with a total of 247 lessons between them all. These are “Beginner to Advanced” type of classes and include Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Animation, Illustrator, Flash and InDesign. The classes are offered by “Academy of Design”.

NOTE that this is a 1-year subscription to the courses. You do not have lifetime access to them but one year only (365 days from purchase/activation).

July 14, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

REI Outlet: $20 off $100+ order until 7/22

REI fans, unite and take over! Good until 7/22/19, orders of $100+ at the REI Outlet will get an automatic shopping cart discount of $20 off. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply…

Separately, they have a seasonal sale on North Face products. Sorry to say but fans of “East Face” and “West Face” and “South Face” will have to wait for a future sale ^_^

PS: REI is a (hippy) co-op, so unlike annual membership plans, with REI, you pay a one-time fee to join the cult collective, and then you are a lifetime member. You also earn annual dividends on select (non-sale) purchases…

July 14, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

Sunday: GoPRO HERO7 Silver for $200, Pixma TS8120 for $50

There is some Sunday action at the Best Buy daily deals, in the central time zone, with the following items:

+ GoPRO HERO 7 Silver HD waterproof action camera for $200
+ keep in mind the camera colors are _different_ models with GoPRO; because life should never be easy 😉
+ it currently goes for $215 at B&H, Amazon, Ado with the “add to cart” song and dance

+ Canon PIXMA TS8120 Wireless AiO Printer (Red color scheme) for $50

July 14, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Sunday: 360 Rize Pano Cam $119, Luxli BiC OnC LED $70, Etc

Sunday is upon us and with it, 7/14/19 brings us a neuvo quartet of B&H daily deals as follows:

+ 360 Rize 360Penguin Panoramic Camera for $119

+ Luxli CNS-40B Constructor Large Block Bi-Color On-Camera LED Light for $70

+ Ruggard Five Pocket Filter Pouch (up to 4 x 6″) for $15

+ HPRC Watertight/Waterproof Hard-Shell Case for DJI Mavic 2 Pro/Zoom (Black) for $74~

July 14, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

15 Classes for $29 (or less) each at CreativeLIVE

For a limited time (as usual), Creative Live is running another flash sale, the theme this time around is 15 classes for $29 [or less] each and the list includes:

+ Photographing National Parks with Shive for $24

+ Commercial Portraiture with Joey L

+ Nature and Landscape photography with John Greengo

+ Fine Art portraits with Brooke Shade

+ and eleven more including fine-art portraits, volume sports, lighting, photoshop (or fauxtoshop as haters like to call it), flower photography and mo(i)re…

If any of the above are not of interest, fear not, they also have a 50% off site-wide sale. This too is a limited time offer, no coupon code is needed: when the sale ends, the price will change…

Speaking of educational matters, and totally unrelated to the above, for a limited time Amazon is offering the Kindle version of the The Reluctant Healer by Andrew D. Hemmell for $0.99 (315 pages, October 2018)…

July 13, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Friday Birthday Woot-OFF is 7am to 10pm Central Time

CORRECTION: today is Friday, not Thursday ^_^

Woot is celebrating its 15 year anniversary [sorry Woot, you still can’t drink ~ probably why they ended the “Woot Wine”] and as part of the festivities they are planning a WOOT-OFF between 7am and 10pm Central Time on Friday 7/12/19… Speaking of the date, did we miss the 7/11 slurpees? 😉

Also part of the festivities they have 15,000 “Bags of Crap” and also special “Birthday Bags of Crap”.

As usual, I have no advance notice of what is coming up, so YMMV on what you find and at which prices…

July 12, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

Weekend (B&H): Wireless Trigger, Hubsan, Mic, Etc

There’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Weekend at B&H, with its customary 48-hour Daily deals good until Saturday at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if anything sells out):

+ VeLLO FreeWave Fusion Wireless Flash Trigger & Remote Control for $40 in Canon or Nikon

+ Hubsan X4 H107C-HD Quadcopter with 720p Video Camera for $28

+ BlackVue DR490-2CH 2-Channel 1080p Dash Camera with Night Vision for $69

+ SeNaL MC5-MS Dual-Channel Stereo Condenser Microphone for $130

July 12, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Thursday: Lowepro BP-300 AW for $50, Hollyland, Bauer, Anker

Never fear, Thursday is here, just a day away from Friday, but then again, just four days away from Monday 😉 Anyways, we have a new quartet of B&H daily deals running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out) as follows:

+ LOWEPRO HighLine BP 300 AW 22L Backpack for $50
+ you also receive an additional 5% B&H rewards

+ Hollyland COSMO 600 Wireless HDMI/SDI Transmission System (L-Series) for $1149

+ Antonio Bauerini Dionic XT90 Gold Mount Battery for $349~
+ okay, this is not fashion, it’s Anton Bauer 🙂

+ refurbished TP-LINK TL-PA4010KIT AV600 Nano Powerline Adapter Starter Kit for $20

Meanwhile at WOOT, they have an Anker Accessories sale that includes 20,000 mAh power bank, a USB-C wall charger, cables, wireless charging, bluetooth speakers, and more. These are new condition with a 1-year Anker warranty. Sale ends at 11:59pm central time or earlier if sold out…

Keep in mind this is Woot Birthday Week, so if you have time to spare, check them out for birthday specials throughout the week…

July 11, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Olympus 40-150mm f4-5.6R M.Zuiko for $100

Woot is running yet another Garage sale, and among the Electronics garage items you can find the new condition Olympus 40-150mm f4-5.6R M.Zuiko micro.four.thirds lens in the silver.color.scheme going for $100 with free shipping for Prime members or $6 calendar-day flat for non-members. It comes with a 1-year Olympus warranty…

The aforementioned sale also includes the previously-mentioned Zeikos Deluxe Medium Hard-Shell Camera-Case going for $28 with the same shipping terms/fees as above… There’s also a Canon NB-6H battery going for $20, and the BB-8 Droid with Force Band for $56…

NOTE also that Woot is celebrating its birthday and there are various sale-a-brations happening over there this week… Among other things, they are planning on selling 15,000 “Boxes of Crap” aka BOCs…

July 9, 2019 Filed Under: mirrorless deals, olympus Tagged With: , , ,

Wednesday: Revo Stabilizer for $25, Porta Brace, Acer Swift 3, Etc

Hump day brings with it a quartet of B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ Porta Brace Carry Case for DJI Ronin-S for $140~

+ ReVO ST-500 Handheld Video Stabilizer (Black/Green) for $25

+ ACER 13.3″ Swift 3 Laptop for $629
+ 1.8 GHz i7-8550U Quad, 8GB DDR4, 512GB PCIe SSD, 13.3″ 1920 x 1080 IPS, Intel UHD Graphics 620, Windoze, etc

+ Powerbeats3 for $75 wireless earphones

UPDATE: the Best Buy dailies are headlined by the Epson Workforce WF-7710 all-in-one printer for $130 with free shipping and/or free store pickup…

July 9, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Tuesday: Two 32GB Sandisk Ultra microSD cards for $7 [Prime] or $12

Amazon’s “Prime Day” [which is really “Prime Month” ~ sprawling like the Black Friday and Christmas holiday sales do] expands to Woot as well, where one of their Tuesday 7/9/19 deals of the day is the 2-pack of 32GB Sandisk Ultra microSD cards (UHS-I, C10, adapter) going for $12 per 2-pack…

BUT if you are a Prime member and your Woot account is connected to your Amazon Prime account (a one-time thing), then the price will automatically drop to $7 in the shopping cart. Not bad for $3.50 for a 32GB name-brand microSD card 🙂

The offer is limited one 2-pack per customer. Per the listing, the cards get a 90-day Woot warranty. Not sure why there’s no Sandisk warranty. Mayhaps it’s the price or Amazon sourced them from elsewhere in order to offer them at this low price?

July 8, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals, memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

Tuesday: Rokinon 24mm f2.8 Auto Focus (Sony E) for $269

If you are Starbucks Rewards member, Tuesday is Double Stars day, but of more on-topic interest, Adorama is running a snapshot / daily-deal with a 24 hour countdown on the new condition Rokinon 24mm f2.8 Auto Focus lens for the Sony E system for $269 with free US shipping. On the same listing you will also find options with free Mac or PC software BUT those are selling at the regular price of $349, not the sale price of $269.

July 8, 2019 Filed Under: mirrorless deals Tagged With: , , ,

Tuesday: 27″ LG IPS, Core SWX Powerbase, EzViz, Etc

Tuesday is upon us and with it we have a new round of B&H Photo daily deals running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ LG 27MK430H-B 27″ 16:9 FreeSync IPS Monitor for $100

+ Core SWL Powerbase EDGE Battery for Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K for $189

+ EzViz 8-Channel 4K UHD NVR with 2TB HDD & 4 4K Outdoor Night Vision Bullet Cameras for $200

+ EzViz Mini O 1080p Wi-Fi Camera with Night Vision for $35

+ yes, you too can become a NightVisionoGrapher!

July 8, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

LTO: 60% off sitewide at CreativeLIVE

The Creative LIVE website is running another limited time offer (LTO), you get 60% off most classes offered at Creative LIVE. The sale price is what you see on the website ~ there’s no coupon to enter. If you don’t see a 60% off discount, then it means the LTO expired…

July 8, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

KEH Sell Your Own Gear Bonus 5% to 10% with coupon

Do you have camera gear to sell without hassle and don’t want to deal with eBay and Classifieds and haggling with the local photographer groups?

If so, until July 14 in 2019, KEH Camera is offering you a 5% bonus on the transaction using promo code MW7A during the sell-your-gear checkout process. So for example if KEH pays $100 for a “Used – Like New” Fictitious 50mm f0.01 lens, using the coupon code will get you an extra $5, so $105 instead of $100.

But wait, there’s more! If the gear you are selling is in the KEH Most Wanted List, using coupon code MW7A as well, you will receive a 10% bonus instead of a 5% bonus. So if the aforementioned Fictitious 50mm f0.01 lens is a “KEH Most Wanted”, the coupon will get you a $10 bonus and a $110 total instead of $100 (no bonus) and $105 (5% bonus).

During the sell-your-gear checkout process KEH will prepare printing labels for you, so you can box your items and take them to the appropriate place (eg UPS stores) or have them pick them up ~ depending on how your local and regional delivery services are doing things…

A total of 500 items are currently in the “Most Wanted List” and you can filter them by brand or you can search for them using the search-box over there, or you can just page-down on the list like the good old days of text-based internet 🙂

July 8, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

Class: “Travel Photography with Ian Shive” for $10

For a limited time, the Creative LIVE class “Travel Photography: Landscapes, Aerials, & Skylines” with Ian Shive is on sale for $10 as a digital purchase through Stacksocial for $10. It is 1.5 hours long with 11 lessons…

A number of other Creative LIVE classes are also available through Stacksocial…

Speaking of Stacksocial, they are offering this speed-reading bundle (three items, lifetime subscription and/or license) for $19…

July 8, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Early Prime Day Specials: $15 Echo Input, $130 FireTV Recast, $160 LG Stylo 4, Etc

With Prime Day 2019 approaching (July 15-16), it may not be a bad idea to strategically start a Prime 30-day Free Trial, so you can participate in the festivities. That is after all one of the main goals of the Prime Day festivities, because, like Hotel California, you can never leave Hotel Prime 😉

But you don’t have to wait for July 15 for the deals to come. Amazon is also running a variety of limited time Prime-member-ONLY offers including:

+ Fire TV RECAST for $130 instead of $230
+ the 500GB 75 hour OTA DVR box; all you need is an (HD) antenna and a Fire TV compatible device (actual Fire TV box or stick, Echo Show, Fire TV television set, etc).
+ details and set-up diagrams and Q&A at the aforelinked page

+ Echo Input for $15 instead of $35
+ this turns any speaker into an “Alexa” device ~ or something like that

+ $10 off a $40+ Prime Pantry offer with coupon PANTRY

+ LG Stylo 4 unlocked smartphone for $160 instead of $250

+ $10 off if you spend $50+ on books at select Amazon B&M stores (their “Amazon Books” bookstores and their “4 Stars” stores until July 16 in 2019

+ lots of other offers on foods, consumables, etc

July 8, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals Tagged With:

Monday (fiction eBook with Photographer): Lightkeepers for $2

Photographers are rarely the “stars” of movies and books and TV show but in this case, they are! The “star” of the Lightkeepers: a Novel”, a mystery novel by Abby Geni is a Kindle daily deal for Monday 7/8/19. It is a 370-pager that came out January 2016 and averages 4.1 out of 5 based on 135 customer reviews…

I have sent the Kindle sample to the Kindle but have not read it yet, so I can’t tell you what to expect…

July 8, 2019 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With:

Monday: 64GB Sandisk Ultra Plus for $15 (SD and/or microSD)

Sandisk returns to the Monday Best Buy dailies with 64GB cards, going for $15 each: the Ultra Plus SDXC (UHS-I, C10, etc) and/or the Ultra Plus microSDXC… Also part of the Monday dailies is a 48-pack of Insignia single-use AA or AAA batteries going for $9.49 per 48-pack…

There’s some potentially interesting Woot action as well for Monday:

+ scratch and dent iPhones for $100 to $650 at the main Woot
+ Rocketbooks $30 to $44 at “Electronics”
+ Kindle Paperwhite (2016 model) for $70 in “Computers” (new with 1-year warranty)

July 7, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals, memory cards and storage Tagged With:

Monday: Impossible I-1 Instant Film Camera for $20, SmallHD, 4TB LaCie USB-C HDD, 15.6″ HP ZBook 15, Etc

And now that we are back, the time is right for the Monday B&H dailies running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if and only if they sell out):

+ Impossible I-1 Instant Film Camera for $20
+ limit up to four per shopping cart

+ SmallHD 502 Bright On-Camera Monitor for $779

+ LaCie 4TB Porsche Design USB Type-C Desktop Drive (Worldwide) for $90

+ HP 15.6″ ZBook 15 G3 Mobile Workstation for $999
+ 2.8 GHz Xeon E3-1505M v5 Quad, 16GB of 2133 MHz DDR4 ECC, 15.6″ DreamColor UWVA IPS Display, Etc

July 7, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

And we are Baaaaack!

All apologies for the outage of the last 24 hours. I forgot to renew the annual web hosting package and it cancelled 🙂 Now it has been renewed as you can see from the Return of the Blog Episode IV: The Billing Menace.

The hosting company is not to blame ~ they sent multiple alerts and warnings. But I forgot to put that email on my phone, so I wasn’t checking it often ~ we are all turning into phone zombies after all 🙂

July 7, 2019 Filed Under: website news

Sunday: ONA Clifton, Energizer, Printers (Canon, Epson), Prime Only, Etc [UPDATED]

Sunday is here with a new four pack of B&H dailies running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ ONA The Leather Clifton Camera and Everyday Backpack (Smoke) for $160
+ this is the smoke color-scheme, you are not buying a backpack made of smoke ^_^

+ Xcellon 3-Port USB 3.0 Type-C Hub and SD Card Reader for $15

+ Canon imageCLASS MF733Cdw All-in-One Color Laser Printer for $270
+ this is a canon laser, not a laser canon ^_^

+ Swann 4-Channel 1080p DVR with 1TB HDD & 4 1080p Outdoor Night Vision Bullet Cameras for $160

Meanwhile at Woot, under Electronics, they are selling 24-packs of either AA or AAA single-use Energizer alkaline batteries for $10 per pack…

More printing action at the BEst Buy dailies as follows:

+ Epson Expression ECOTank ET-2650 wireless AiO printer for $160
+ Canon Pixma TS-6220 wireless AiO for $60

UPDATE: more Sunday action, as Amazon gears up for the July 15-16 Prime (Double) Day, today’s Gold Box dailies have a few Prime-members-ONLY exclusives:

+ Kids Echo bundle for $130 (Echo Dot, Fire 7 Kids tablet, Lion King headphones)
+ talk about indoctrinating kids to the Amazon ecosystem ^_^

+ Echo 2nd generation for $70 to $90

+ Amazon Music (four months for 99c total trial) and 3-month Audible membership discounted

July 6, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Friday: Aluratek digiframes, $25 Vixen, Infocus XGA DLP for $230

As usual, the Friday B&H dailies run for 48 hours, until Saturday at 11:59pm ET ~ but orders are not accepted between Friday PM and Saturday PM, thus the extra 24 hours:

+ Vixen Optics Nature Eye 50mm f/7 Refractor AZ Telescope for $25

+ InFocus IN114xa 3800-Lumen XGA DLP Projector for $230

+ refurbished TP LINK TL-WPA4220KIT Wireless-N300 Range Extender AV600 Powerline Edition for $28

+ Pioneer HDJ-2000MK2 Professional DJ Headphones (Silver) for $199

Meanwhile among the Friday Best Buy dailies deals there are a couple of Aluratek digital picture frame ranging from $70 to $140…

July 5, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Refurbished Nikon D810 body w/90-day warranty for $1750

The new condition Nikon D810 price is too close to the D850 BUT if you are willing to go manufacturer refurbished, then $1000 gets shaved off the price! For $1750 with free US shipping, Adorama is offering the manufacturer refurbished Nikon D810 body only with a 90-day Nikon USA warranty… Optionally you can get a $100 off combined purchase discount if you purchase it together (in the same shopping cart) with select Profoto lights [see “Buy Together & Save” over there]…

Meanwhile if you or your friendly camera technician need some D810 parts, there is a “Parts Only” listing with detailed description (“body is cracked open near …”) going for $309 at Adorama (USED). Note that this $309 does NOT function ~ it is for parts, repairs, experiments, and such…

July 4, 2019 Filed Under: dslr deals, nikon Tagged With: , , ,

DJI Mavic Pro (Standard Bundle) with Extras for $779

Fly our friendly skies but make sure your drone does not run into fireworks 😉 The new condition DJI Mavic Pro (Standard Bundle) is bundled with two freebies (propellers and shoulder bag) all together going for $779 with free US shipping at B&H Photo…

July 4, 2019 Filed Under: other cameras Tagged With: ,

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 (International / US compatible) for $600

The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is going to be officially revealed next month, but if you do not want to wait and/or pay four figures for the next Note flagship, B&H Photo has a “buy it now” proposition. For $600 you can get the new condition international version (US compatible) Samsung Galaxy Note 9, model SM-N960FD, with Samsung Adaptive Fast-Charging Wall Charger and a Google Fi (formerly known “Project FI” SIM kit). It comes with a 1-year B&H warranty.

This model has dual cameras, 6GB RAM, SnapDragon 845, 128GB storage, micro-SD slot, the S-Pen included of course [hint hint Microsoft Surface], dual SIM, etc…

July 4, 2019 Filed Under: samsung, technology deals Tagged With: ,

Panasonic LX100 II with FREE Travel Bundle (Charger, Extra Battery) and Various Other Free Extras for $898

The RAWsumers are alive and kicking and getting freebies too! The 1-incher Panasonic LX100 Mark II is currently on sale for $898 with free US shipping and it includes the Panasonic Travel Pack for free, an extra DMW-BLG10 Li-Ion Battery and a Panasonic charger (the “Panasonic Travel Bundle”). But that’s not all! These two retailers below are ALSO including freebies of their own:

+ at B&H Photo you get a 32GB Sandisk Extreme SDHC card and a Ruggard camera pouch

+ at Adorama you get the Corel software kit (select Mac or PC in the options over there; includes AfterShot PRO and Painter among others), and 32GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDHC, and a small 24/7 TC holster, and a card reader, card wallet and the obligatory cleaning kti

July 4, 2019 Filed Under: fixed lens cameras, panasonic Tagged With: ,

GoPRO HERO7 Black for $339 [limit 2]

For a limited time, the new condition GoPRO HERO7 Black is currently on sale for $339 with free shipping by Amazon itself with up to two on-sale units per customer at $339. The in-stock estimate has already shifted one week forward, a sign that mayhaps the offer is nearing its end…

If they run out, it goes for $349 at B&H Photo and Adorama…

July 4, 2019 Filed Under: other cameras Tagged With: ,

Apple 4th of July sale at B&H with 17 options

The 4th of July sale is in-progress at B&H Photo featuring a variety of products and bundles as you can see over there ~ and you can filter by categories of interest (eg “Photography”, “Pro Video”).

Since we previously mentioned Dell and PC offers, the “OS Fairness Doctrine” requires us that we mention Apple offers as well, and B&H helps that out with a 17-item Apple sale with Minis (no, not Cooper, but Late 2018 Mac Minis), and MacBooks and various 27-inch Retina 5 AiO Macs of early 2019.

UPDATE: speaking of the “OS Fairness Doctrine”, Android fans want their deal too, so here it is, FREE $350 headphones (the Sony WH-1000X Mark III) when you pre-order the new Sony Android flagship, the Xperia 1, for $950 at B&H Photo and Amazon itself…

July 4, 2019 Filed Under: technology deals Tagged With: ,