Archives for September 2019

KEH 3-Day Sale: 20% off select cameras, 10% off select Lenses

Good until Wednesday 10/2/19, KEH Camera is back with a 3-Day Sale promotion: coupon code CL9A gets you a discount as follows:

+ 20% off Featured cameras/items

+ 10% off SLR and DSLR LENSES

+ the usual exceptions apply: no Leica-branded products, no “NEW” condition, no “USed – Like New” condiiton

+ as usual, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies; you can test it there without signing-up or logging-in

Corel Software Returns to Humble Bundle starting at $1

If you are a fan of COREL and Humble Bundle, for the next ten days or so [as of the time of writing] they have brought back the COREL Humble Bundle

Paying $1+ gets you three software titles:
+ Photo Mirage [Windows]
+ Particle Shop plug-in
+ Brush Pack – Animation

Meeting or beating the current average price [$22.51 as of the time of writing] gets you additionally:
+ Paintshop PRO Ultimate
+ 1-year of Gravit Designer PRO
+ Brush Pack – Superheroes

Paying $25 or more [very close to the average price] gets you all of the above plus the following:
+ Corel Painter 2019
+ Pinnacle Studio 23 Ultimate
+ Brush Pack – Manga
+ Brush Pack – Concept Design

They have two featured charities for this “bundle” but you can also select your own charities from a long list of options…

Sunday: 512GB Centon USB 3.0 Flash Drive for $40

Good until Sunday at 11:59pm central time (or earlier if sold out) WOOT is offering the new condition 512GB Centon USB 3.0 DataStick PRO USB flash drive for $40, or the 1TB version for $90. The 512GB “wins” on GB/S. Limit up to ten per customer at the sale price. They come with a 5-year Centon warranty… Free shipping for Prime members [you have to connect your Amazon-Woot accounts as a one-time activity if you haven’t done so]. Otherwise shipping is $6 flat for everything purchased during the calendar day…

Speaking of daily deals, at Best Buy they have new “mug technology”, temperature control mugs because your beverage needs its own TLC!

Ends Tue PM: CaseLogic TBC-410 Sling for $20; D&S CF Tripod w/BH for $90

This set of B&H dailies runs until Tuesday at 11:59pm ET because B&H is closed for the Rosh Hashana holiday:

+ Davis & Sanford TR654C-36 Traverse Carbon Fiber Grounder Tripod With Ball Head for $90

+ Case Logic TBC-410 DSLR Camera Sling for $20

1st Year of Prepaid CreativeLIVE Netflix-style Plan for $150

It feels like a CreativeLIVE day with all these offers. This offer is if you are a fan of the Netflix-style consumption. If instead of purchasing classes individually you prefer to pay for a subscription to almost the whole library (without any digital ownership after the subscription expires), then you have until the end of September 2019 to use coupon code 150VIPGIFT to drop the price of the first year of the Creator Pass subscription to $149.

For that you can watch almost all current and future classes as many times as you want as long as you are a paying member. There are however some exceptions ~ some classes because of prior agreements are not eligible to join the streaming package.

On the other hand, if you don’t have time to watch their whole library and prefer to catch some classes whenever you can find a small window of time, they also have the free-to-stream classes at their ON-AIR schedule

Ends Fri PM: 8% eBay Bucks on $25+ (YMMV, activation)

Good until Friday at 11:59pm pacific time, it’s yet another bonus rewards offer if you are participating in eBay Bucks. Check your emails/messages for the new offer because you have to manually opt-in to activate it in your account. With this offer you get 8% back in eBay Bucks with a $25+ minimum purchase amount required…

You must first opt-in to the offer, if you have been targeted for it. And you must be a member in the free to join eBay Bucks rewards program. Maximum rewards you can earn are $100 per transaction and $500 for the duration of this promotion. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply as always…

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

CreativeLIVE: 16 bundles for $49 per bundle

It’s bundle up time once again at Creative LIVE, they are offering 16 bundles of classes for $49 per bundle. Topics include food photography, lighting, outdoor, compositing, DIY, headshots, weddings, night photography, portraiture, etc. There’s also bundles centered around specific photographers such as Sue Bryce and Ben Willmore.

Panasonic G85 with 12-60 and 45-200 for $700 after coupon

A rare occasion, a snapshot deal at Adorama that requires a coupon code! The subject of the deal is the new condition Panasonic G85 two-lens kit (with the 12-60 and 45-200 lenses) going for $698 after entering coupon code ADPAN2019 in their shopping cart. This is a limited time offer but I don’t know the exact expiration time!

60% off Adobe classes at CreativeLIVE

If you are interested in Adobe-related classes, for a limited time only, CreativeLIVE is running a 60% off Adobe sale. The price you see is the price you pay while this promotion is running. No coupon needed. Topics include the “Photoshop CC Complete Guide”, retouching, workflow, Lightroom, post-processing, histogram, digital printing, Photoshop of course, Premiere PRO and loads more!

Dell 24 Hour Flash Sale: 10% off extra on computers

For fans of the Dell Way of Things, they are running a 24 hour flash sale that gets you an extra 10% off select participating computers. Check their website for details!

Weekend (B&H): LumoCube, Background Kit, iKan Saga 7″, Etc

Looks like I got lost in a time vortex on Thursday but we are back with the Friday B&H daily deals which, as usual, last for 48 hours (instead of the usual 24 hours), until Saturday at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out).

NOTE also that B&H Photo will be closed from Sunday 1pm ET through Tuesday October 1st for the Rosh Hashana holidays, so plan your purchases ahead if you have time-sensitive needs…

+ General Brand Background Stand Support Kit for $49

+ LumeCube Portable Lighting Kit Plus for $119

+ iKan Saga 7″ High-Brightness On-Camera Monitor for $370

+ DELL Inspiron 3000 Series 3670 Desktop Computer for $499
+ 2.8 GHz i5-8400 Six-Core, 8GB of 2666 MHz DDR4 RAM, 1TB 7200rpm, NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (2GB GDDR5), etc

Wedn: Rotolight NEO2 Explorer Kit, HP 15.6″ ZBook Workstation

Happy Hump Day with a new quartet of B&H dailies running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if and only if they individually sell out):

+ RotoLight NEO 2 Explorer Kit for $830

+ HP 15.6″ ZBook 15 G3 Mobile Workstation for $949
+ 2.8 GHz Xeon E3-1505M v5 Quad, 16GB of 2133 MHz DDR4 ECC RAM, 15.6″ DreamColor UWVA IPS Display, etc

+ Anker Roav Viva Alexa-Enabled Car Charger with Universal Magnetic Mount for $40
+ because who doesn’t want to talk to their car charger? 😉

+ HollyLand Mars 300 Dual HDMI Wireless Video Transmitter & Receiver Set for $349
+ despite the name, you can still use it on Earth

18 best-selling classes for $29 each [CL]

If you are a fan of the CreativeLIVE way of teaching, for a limited time only, they have a 18 best-selling classes sale for $29 per class. The price you see is the price you pay…

Topics include Lightroom, Lighting, Story-telling in portraiture, retouching, docs, “art of seeing”, business/marketing, drone photography, and more…

KEH coupon: 10% off select 3rd-Party Lenses (including ZEISS, Sigma, Tamron, Tokina, Voigtlander, Roki-Samyang, Etc) [ends Wedn PM]

KEH Camera fans, you have another coupon promotion! Using coupon code LENS9A you get 10% off on select Third Party Lenses until Wednesday night at 9/25/19 at 11:59pm eastern.

Excluded are NEW condition, “USED – Like New” condition lenses. Also excluded are Leica-branded lenses.

Participating brands include ZEISS-ZEISS Baby (okay, Zeiss) with 79 lenses, Tamron with 161 lenses, Tokina with 85, Shiguma with 282 lenses, Voigtlander with 17 lenses, Rokinon + Samyang with 78 total, Mitakon, Kiron, Promaster, Quantaray and many more you can see using the left-hand side filters at the Promotional Page over there…

AS usual, you can test the coupon code in the shopping cart – it is the ultimate decider on what qualifies for the coupon code after all…

Tuesday Gold Box action: Bushnell Trophy, Feiyu WG2X, Neewers, NixPlay, Etc

And now let’s take a look at Tuesday at the Amazon USA Gold Box. Of the daily deals (running until 11:59pm pacific ~ or earlier if sold out) of potential interest:

+ Bushnell Trophy Roof Binoculars for $77 [limit 4 per customer]

+ KROSER backpacks from $23 to $31 (five options)

+ Blink XT2 Outdoor/Indoor Smart Security Camera for $135 for Prime members
+ with cloud storage included, 2-way audio, 2-year battery life – 2 camera kit

And now off to the Lightning Deals of the Camera and Photo kind:

+++ IN_PROGRESS BELOW (as of the time of writing):

+ Neewer PRO i-TTL Camera Flash Kit for $64 (Nikons)
+ 5000 mah PowerBank with …spy camera included for $28
+ Neewer T-shape support for $22

+++ COMING LATER IN THE DAY (as of the time of writing):

+ Feiyu WG2X waterproof gimbal stabilizer

+ Neewer 8.5×10 ft background support system, action cam 50-in-1 accessories kit, 3-axis gimbal stabilizer, photo studio in a box, camera backpack, 2pk dimmable U-bracket BiC light panels, 61″ tripod, etc

+ Feelworld Master MA5 5-inch camera field monitor

+ 10″ Nixplay Seed and Feelcare wifi digiframes

+ Victure trail camera, APEman A66 and CoCoAU action cams

+ Wingspan binos

+ QiPi camera backpack

+ Nixplay Seed

Olympus E-PL8 with 14-42mm II R for $349 [three colors]

If you are looking for a small and affordable new-condition entry-point into the world of Micro Four Thirds, for a limited time, as one of their snapshot deals, Adorama is offering the Olympus E-PL8 with 14-42mm II R for $349 with free expedited US shipping in your choice of black, brown or white color scheme. You also earn 4% promotional rewards.

Best Buy Flash Sale for Rewards members only!

Best Buy has launched a 24-hour flash sale for MyBestBuy Rewards member. The actual sale is behind a login wall ~ you have to be signed up to the free-to-join “My Best Buy” rewards program. Unfortunately I don’t have my Best Buy password on this laptop so I can’t check what’s included in the sale…

Tuesday: INTEL i7, AMD Ryzen 7, IDX, Batteries, ONA Prince, Etc

Tuesday brings its own set of B&H dailies ending at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ INTEL Core i7-9700K 3.6 GHz Eight-Core LGA 1151 Processor for $320

+ ONA Prince Street Camera Messenger Bag (Black, Italian Leather) for $169

+ IDX CUE-D150 147Wh V-Mount 2-Battery Kit with Dual-Battery Charger for $449

+ Celestron Ultima 80 20-60x80mm Spotting Scope Kit (Angled Viewing) for $130

Processors are a theme today as the Best Buy dailies are headlined by the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X octo-mom (okay, octa core) with Wraith Prism LED going for $220, while the Ryzen 5 2600 six-core with wraith stealth cooler goes for $120.

In other action, Woot Plus has a Batteries sale that has also become the Electronics deal of the day. It has a mix of different batteries on offer:

+ 2-pack Duracell CR-V3 for $10
+ Canon NB-6LH for $20
+ 20pk AmazonBasics single-use AAA for $5
+ Duracell GoMobile charger with car adapter
+ single use: Energizer Lithium, Duracell ProCell and Energizer Max

Since this is Woot Plus, I suspect whatever does not sellout given the higher profile of a daily-deal will continue until the end of the Plus deal.

Another way to check up on what’s happening at Woot is to check their Best Sellers List headlined by a Kodak-branded SSD sale starting at $21 (120GB) and going up to $85 (960GB). Limit one per customer. They come with a 3-year Kodak-branded warranty.

The Woot best sellers are like a box of chocolates ~ you don’t know what you are going to find there ~ just about anything but a …box of chocolates 😉

AND if you like to read fiction e-books that include photographers, and read them in German, The Photographer’s Daughter

Monday C&P Lightning Deals: Lighting, Action Cams, Stabilizer-y things, Bags, Etc

UPDATE: among the Gold Box deals of the day there is this new condition Anker PowerCore 13,000 mAh two-port power-bank going for $25. It can go up to 3A but does not support Qualcommn’s Quick Charge protocol. It comes with an 18-month warranty. I got of their previous 10,000 mAh square power-banks and I have no problem with it…

And now let’s have a peek at the Camera and Photo section of the Lightning Deals of the Amazon Gauld Bawx for the next 24 hours or so ~ as of the time of writing:

+++ IN_PROGRESS BELOW (as of the time of writing):

+ Hpusn softbox lighting kit for $48

+ APEMAN action cam for $42~, COOAU action cam for $51~
+ around 20% claimed each as of 9:35am ET

+ NEewer carbon fiber dolly-slider thing for $36~
+ Neewer equipment bag (rectangular type) for $37~
+ Neewer Nikon-equivalent charger with batteries for $28~

+ Suptig underwater LED light panel for $31~

+++ COMING LATER IN THE DAY (as of the time of writing):

+ BonFoto Q111 55″ flexible tripod

+ MountDog 16″ ring light

+ APEMan and Tec.Bean action cams

+ Kattee PU leather canvas camera bag

+ FotoPRo UFO2 flex-pod thing

+ Neewer dimmable light panel and dolly-slider-thing and more

+ starts 8:55pm ET: GoPRO Hero 5 Black in e-commerce packaging

+ ESDDI umbrella continuous lighting kit

Dell Home Clearance sale in-progress

If you are a fan of the Dell Home website, in-progress now they have a Clearance sale featuring a variety of computers including Inspirons and Alienware, along with a 2-in-1 11.6-inch Chromebook with 4GB RAM for $230. Laptops dominate the sale but there are some AiOs and desktops as well… Clicking on the other visual tabs at the top of the page you can find other products by category of interest, eg Monitors…

Monday: Ruggard Camera Parka, HP Z2 Mini, AccSoon 5G, Etc

Another Monday, another exciting start of a brand new week [#DailyAffirmations] and with it we have four new B&H daily deals as follows:

+ Ruggard DSLR Parka Cold and Rain Protector for Cameras and Camcorders for $40

+ DraCast LED500 Pro Bi-Color LED Light with V-Mount Battery Plate for $200 with FREE “V-Mount to Dual DNF Converter”

+ HP Z2 Mini G3 Desktop Workstation for $469
+ 3.4 GHz Intel Core i5-7500 Quad, 8GB of 2400 MHz DDR4 RAM, Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630, etc

+ AccSoon CineEye 5G Wireless Video Transmitter for Mobile Devices for $169

Costco new 1-Year membership deal returns: Pay $60, Get $20 store card and more

The Costco deal is back at Groupon Goods. For new members only (not good for renewals), you pay $60 and for that you receive a 1-year Costco membership and a $20 Costco store gift card and free detergent and paper towels and two coupons, one of which is $25 off an order of $250+ at the Costco website (of interest for camera and technology gear that has the same prices everywhere). Check their website for all the terms, conditions and restrictions for the offering…

Sunday: MyGeckoGear E100, Vello Screen Protectors (various cameras)

Sunday at B&H Photo has three items left because the fourth sold out already (Jill-E backpack):

+ MyGeckoGear E100 1080p Dash Camera for $35

+ Vello Umbra Screen Protector with LCD Shade for $14 (five options, Canon and Nikon cameras)

+ Vello Umbra Screen Protector with LCD Shade for various other cameras for $14 (five options, select Sony, Fuji and Olympus cameras)

Weekend Sale: Four Photo Mags for $4.80 each per year (including Digital Photo PRO and VideoMaker)

These days a “Fall Sale” has became a polite stand-in for Black Friday and Thanksgiving sale but it’s a bit too early (about two months) to utter those words. So the nudge-nudge is a fall sale and this is a good one for the weekend at DiscountMags as each one of the four camera-n-photo magazines they typically feature is on sale for $4.80 per magazine per year. The titles are:

+ Digital Photo PRO (mayhaps it’s lowest price ever at DiscoMags?)
+ VideoMaker
+ Outdoor Photographer
+ Digital Photo

Each one is $4.80 per magazine per year and good for renewals, new-subs or gift-subs. You can adjust the options for each magazine individually. These are printed magazines that can be shipped to US addresses only.

As usual, various other “six degrees of separation (from photography)” magazines are participating in the $4.80/mag/year sale including Popular Science, Wired, Backpacker, Homes & Gardens, Arch. Digest, Conde Nast Traveler, Dreamscapes and plenty of fashion-n-lifestyle magazines include VOGUE, Cosmo, GQ, and of course Bridal Guide and various sports.

The four camera and photo magazines are at the very bottom of the page ~ or you can get to them by clicking on the “Photography” tab below the harvest-banner at the top of the weekend sale page

20% off select items with KEH Camera coupon [ends Mon PM]

Good until Monday 9/23/19 at 11:59pm ET, coupon code SALEA (or SALE9A or SALE9) at KEH Camera gets you 20% on accessories, lighting & tripods and it can also get you UP TO 20% off on select featured products. Find the eligible items at the Promotional page

As usual, their shopping is the ultimate decider on what qualifies for the discount ~ you can test the coupon without creating an account or logging in.

Saturday: refurbished Canon 6D body only for $1100

If of all the Canon 35mm full frame DSLRs it is the refurbished Canon 6D body only the one you want, it is one of the Woot deals of the day for Saturday 9/21/19 going for $1100 with free shipping for Prime members [or $6 flat] with a 90-day Woot warranty with up to three per customer at the sale price… Meanwhile at “Computers” they have refurbished Dell 11.6″ 2-in-1 Chromebooks for $200 to $210…

And at the Best Buy dailies, they have among others:

+ Canon Pixma TS9520 wireless AiO printer for $150

+ Brother INKtastic (or something like that) MFC-J995DW XL [mayhaps they need to work on their model names?] wireless AiO printer for $220

+ 1TB Seagate mobile drive for Chromebooks for $44

Meanwhile at NewEgg, they are offering the new condition 128GB Team Elite microSDXC card (UHS-I, U3, V30, A1, 4K UHD, SD adapter, up to 90MB/sec, model TEAUSDX128GIV30A103) for $15 with free US shipping with up to three per customer at the sale price, sold and shipped by NewEgg itself.

New Amazon Feature: FREE Samples (not just Prime members)

If you had been a regular Amazon shopper, you may have noticed and participated in some of the more complicated ways Amazon was using to giveaway free samples (store credit promotions, etc). Now they’ve decided to simplify things even further. They have launched the Amazon Product Sampling feature that lets any Amazon shopper (not restricted to Prime members) to sign up and receive free product samples. The freebies will be sent to your default address, so make sure your default address is the one you want the samples to arrive at (mayhaps they are doing this to prevent abuse of the freebies?).

To join the program, you go to the Preferences page [link in the page above] and select the product categories you are interested in and save the choices to your Amazon account. You cannot select individual products, products will be randomly sent to you as determined by randomness and/or-probably Amazon’s ever-evolving-and-devolving AI 🙂

Joining this may put you in Amazon’s AI good graces and that may lead to invitations to participate in other more interesting Amazon programs and services ~ although this is pure speculation and there’s no guarantee that anything will come out of this…

Friday C&P Lightning Deals: Godox MS300, 15.4″ digiframe, stabilizer-y things, Etc

Lettuce take another looxie inside-y the Camera and Photo lightning deals section of the Amazon Gauld Bawx:

+++ in-progress as of the time of writing:

+ APEMan 4K action cam for $40

+ GVM lighting options from $68 to $255

+ Victure 4K action cam for $64

+ NEewer waterproof camera backpack for $21~

+ FotoPRO UFO2 [Bob Lazar NOT included] flex-pod-thing for $15

+ Feelworld F6 Plus 5.5″ on-camera monitor for $196~

+++ coming later today [as of the time of writing]

+ Hohem smartphone gimbal stabilizer 3-axis

+ Feelcare 10″ digiframe, 8″ generic digiframe, 15.4″ APESIN digiframe

+ Akaso V50 action cam, generic camcorder; Suptig housing for GoPRO

+ 3x10ft foil fringe curtain backdrop

+ GVM camera slider

+ SmilePowo, Neewer and generic charger/batteries for various Sonys

+ Godox MS300 studio strobe (300W, GN58, 5600K, Bowens)

+ E-Mart 10ft backdrop kit

Weekend (B&H): Browning Trail Cameras, RucPac Strap, Etc

Fright Day (Friday the 13th) was last week, this week it is plain old September 20 and this 4-pack of B&H dailies, as usual, lasts until Saturday at 11:59pm ET but note that B&H is closed between Friday PM and Saturday PM [check their website for exact times]:

+ Browning BTC-4P Command Ops Pro Trail Camera for $59

+ RucPac Sentinel Camera Strap for $30

+ Pelican 3rd-Generation 1910B LED Flashlight for $15

+ TP-Link Archer A6 AC1200 Wireless MU-MIMO Gigabit Wi-Fi Router (Refurbished) for $30

50% off site wide at Creative LIVE

It’s the return of the site-wide sale at Creative LIVE, it is a 50% off sale on the standard/list prices of the classes. The price you see is the price you pay during this promotion. There is no coupon code to enter. The strikethrough price is the one that is cut by 50% off. This is a limited time offer but I do not know when it expires…