Archives for 2019

Weekend Print Photo Magazine sales start at $4.53/yr

DiscountMags is back with another weekend sale with better than “standard” deal pricing. The following four are print magazines delivered to USA addresses only. No auto-renewal on these. The price is per magazine per year. You can sign up for up to three years and/or renew existing subscriptions or gift them to others…

+ Outdoor Photographer for $4.53

+ Digital Photo for $4.83
+ Digital Photo PRO for $6.89

+ VideoMaker for $6.49

Various other “six degrees of separation” (from photography) magazines are also on sale, such as fashion, sports, bridal, nature, travel, architecture, technologie, etc…

Saturday Lightning Deals: GVM slider, NixPlay, Neewers, CrossTour, Victure, FeeYa, Etc

Saturday is upon us and during the next 24 hours or so, among others, the following Amazon Gold Box Lightning Deals of the Camera and Photo kind are happening:

+ NixPlay Advanced digiframes, various options, $62~ to $115~

+ Neewer OCtagon for $26~, Softbox lighting kit for $59~ to $85~, multi-disc reflector for $17

+ the above are live and in-progress as of the time of writing; the ones below had not yet gone live as of the time of writing:

+ action cams from CrossTour, Victure, Akaso, etc

+ generic charger and two batteries for Sony NP-FW50

+ APESIN 8-inch digiframe, MRQ 10-inch digiframe

+ Neewer T-Shape backdrop support, LED ringlight, dimmable panel light, etc

+ GVM slide track dolly rail system, GVM video panel light kit

+ FeeYa kids digital camera

Friday Lightning Deals: Jintu 420-800mm f8.3-16 (Canon), lots of Neewer gear, etc

Thunderbolt and lightning but the Camera & Photo lightning deals are not very frightening 😉 These are some potentially interesting offers running for the next 24 hours or so (as of the time of writing of this post):

+ starts 11:24am ET: JINTU 420-800mm f/ 8.3-F16 Lens for Canon
+ price before sale $99
+ it averages 4.2 out of 5 with 10 customer reviews and with nine answered questions

+ Neewer PRO i-TTL flash, 63-inch carbon fiber tripod, waterproof backpack, Lighting/Background mega kit, movie kit, macro ring light, charger with two batteries replacements for the Canon LP-E6, bi-color with U, reflectors, etc

+ LED panel, monocular, etc from various brands

+ Nixplay Seed 13.3-inch digiframe

+ action cams from Apeman et al

18 classes for $18 each at CreativeLIVE [limited time]

Speaking of limited time sales, Creative LIVE too is back with another offering, the theme this time around is 18 classes for $18 each… Topics including wedding photo-journalism, Lightroom CC, composite photography, posing and lighting, nature photography, boudoir, experimental, social media and of course the money-maker, business and marketing classes for creatives…

Rylo 5.8K 360 Degree Video Camera for $249

For a limited time, Adorama is running another “snapshot deal”, this time around it is the new condition Rylo 5.8K 360 Degree Video Camera offered for $249 with free US shipping…

Vanguard VEO 37 shoulder bag for $25, Etc

It’s Friday which means the B&H daily deals last until Saturday at 11:59pm ET but ~ as usual ~ B&H does not accept orders between Friday PM and Saturday PM (reason):

+ Vanguard VEO 37 Shoulder Bag for $25

+ ElVid OptiView 250 3.2″ LCD Viewfinder for $60

+ iKan Compact 95Wh Li-Ion Battery with Anton Bauer Mount for $130
+ Gold Mount for $140

+ Auray microphone stands, $25 to $40

In other daily deal action for Friday, one of the Worst Buy offerings is the 512GB PNY Elite X USB 3.1 flash drive going for $80 with free US shipping or store pickup… Also there, further down the page, they have the 4TB Seagate Expansion external USB 3.0 portable hard drive going for $80 as well… The Best Buy offers end on Friday at 11:59pm (not sure which timezone) as usual…

Thursday: Manfrotto PRO kit, Fujinon bino, 24″ Acer IPS, Etc

Thursday is here with a new quartet of B&H Photo dailies runnin’ ’til 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Manfrotto 509HD Video Head & 545GB Aluminum Tripod Pro Ground-Twin Kit 100 for $1099

+ Fujinon 8×42 KF Binocular for $100

+ VELLO FreeWave Plus Wireless Remote Shutter Release for $30 in your choice of various camera and camera systems combinations [check details over there for compatibility]

+ ACER B247W bmiprzx 24″ 16:10 IPS Monitor for $115
+ IPS, HDMI | DisplayPort | VGA, 1920 x 1200, 100,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio, etc

UPDATE: meanwhile at the Best Buy dailies we have:

+ Photoshop Elements 2019 for $40
+ 64GB Sandisk Ultra Plus for $15 in SDXC or microSDXC
+ 128GB Sandisk for the Nintendo Switch for $15
+ the usual Shutterfly coupon is included for free with each purchase

15% off select Canon Camera Gear with KEH Camera Coupon [ends Thursday at 11:59pm ET]

Canon fans, it’s time you reload your wallet canons! Good until Thursday August 8 in 2019, coupon code CAN8A gets you 15% off select Canon camera gear. You can test the coupon in the shopping cart without creating an account or logging in. Only the featured items are eligible for the coupon during this promotion… Remember that KEH includes a 180-day warranty on items that are in conditions better than AS-IS and “UG” (ugly)… Happy deal fishing 🙂

PS: poor us uglies, we don’t even get a warranty #UglyRights 😉

Wednesday Lightning Deals: Action Cams, Studio/Lighting, NixPlay, FeelWorld, lots of Neewer, Etc

And now let’s take a look at some of what’s in the pipeline in the Camera et Photoeaux at the Amazon USA Lightning Deals…

+ Neewer octagon umbrella, Panel Lightning kit, Ring Light kit, waterproof camera case, umbrella studio kit, PRO i-TTL flash for Nikons, Film kit, 400W Strobe Monolight, studio kit carrying bag, etc

+ Action Cams from COOAU (or something like that) and CrossTour and Apeman and Akaso and DBPOWER

+ NixPlay Seed Ultra 2K 10-inch and non-Ultra digital picture frames

+ FEELWORLD 7″ IPS 4K HDMI camera field monitor

+ other brands: digiframe, ring lights, budget camcorder-type things, studio in a box, etc

Wednesday: Peak D Capture Lens (C/N/E), Aputure BiC LED Flood, SmallHD, Etc

And we are back, and just like clockwork, Hump Day is upon us once again and this time around the B&H Photo dailies feature a quartet of offerings running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out) as follows:

+ Peak Design Capture Lens for $40 in your choice of Canon, Nikon and Sony E/FE

+ Aputure Amaran AL-528C Bi-Color LED Flood Light for $99

+ SmallHD 702 OLED 7″ On-Camera Monitor for $799
+ or in some British english, ZmallHD 😉

+ IDX SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY Two 96Wh High-Load Battery Kit with 2-Bay Battery Charger for $429

SCHEDULE NOTE: B&H will be closed throughout (physical store, web orders, phone sales, customer service, etc) on Sunday August 11…

Tuesday: Elements 2019 Combo, Bolt (C/N), InFocus DLP, Etc

Tuesday is here and with it it brings a new quartet of B&H daily deals running until 11:59pm or earlier if sold out:

+ Adobe Elements 2019 combo (Photoshop and Premiere) for $90

+ BOLT Compact Battery Pack for Select Canons and Nikons for $40 each

+ InFocus IN119HDxa Full HD DLP Projector for $329

+ Tascam studio headphones for $50

UPDATE: meanwhile at the Best Buy dailies they have the Paintshop PRO 2019 Ultimate on sale for $35…

And for Amazon Germany shoppers there’s a AmazonBasics sale that includes among others single-use and rechargeable AB batteries…

Monday: Aputure, GenAray, Dell, 3TB WD for $60, more WD internal/external HDD

Just like clockwork, Monday is here and with it it brings us a six-pack of B&H Photo dailies running until Monday at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Aputure VS-2 FineHD 7″ Field Monitor for $129

+ GEnAray Ultra-Thin Bicolor 288 SMD LED On-Camera Light Basic Kit for $80

+ DELL 15.6″ Inspiron 15 5000 Series 5570 Laptop for $599
+ 1.8 GHz i7-8550U Quad-Core, 8GB DDR4, 16GB Intel Optane, 1TB HDD, 15.6″ 1920 x 1080, Intel UHD Graphics 620, etc

+ 3TB WD Elements USB 3.0 External Desktop Hard Drive for $60

+ 1TB WD My Passport Ultra USB 3.0 External Hard Drive for $45

+ 2TB WD My Passport USB 3.0 Secure Portable Hard Drive for $60

+ 8TB WD Ultrastar 7200 rpm SATA 3.5″ Internal Data Center HDD (Retail) for $210
+ 14TB version for $400

+ find them all at the B&H Photo dailies

Saturday: refurb HP 2-in-1 Sprocket Bundle for $50, various digital magazines

One of the deals of the day for Saturday 8/3/19 at the Amazon USA Gold Box is a digital magazine sale that includes a 6-month subscription to National Geographic for $9, NG Travel for $5, NG History for $9, etc. There’s also a 6-month WIRED subscription for $1.50 total. Keep in mind their subscription are auto-renewing, you must needs manually cancel them if you don’t want them to auto-renew in the future…

In other Saturday daily deal action, Woot Electronics is offering the factory refurbished HP Sprocket 2-in-1 Portable Photo Printer & Instant Camera Bundle with 8GB MicroSD Card and ZINK Photo Paper for $50 with free shipping for Prime members or $6 flat shipping. They come with a 1-year HP warranty. Limit up to ten sets per customer at the sale price. Three color schemes are available for the unibody printer + camera hybrid critter…

Weekend (B&H): Revo Slider, Thule x Macbook, etc

It’s FriYAY again which means the B&H daily deals run for 48 hours, until Saturday at 11:59pm ET. But this is a rather modestly modest quartet of offers, won’t cause many to excitedly jump out of bed to order them quickly 🙂

+ Revo 23″ Camera Track Slider with Adjustable Feet for $40

+ Dymo LabelWriter Value Pack for $30
+ label printer NOT included

+ Thule Gauntlet 3.0 13″ MacBook Pro Sleeve for $13

+ iK Multimedia iRig Mic HD Digital Condenser Microphone for iOS/Mac/Windows for $50

Thursday Lightning Deals: Flashes, Action Cams, Ring Light, LEDs, Etc

Thursday has a total of 49 Camera & Photo listings in the lightning deals of the Amazon Gold Box covering the next 24 hours or so. Of potential interest among them:

+ DBPOWER, Crosstour and other action cams

+ Neewer 2-pack video light kit, popup tent, BiColor LED, CN-160 power LED, NP-F550 charger for select Sony batteries, etc
+ Neewer flashes: TT560 and NW565EX

+ various ring lights, bags, backdrop kit, etc

Thursday: WD, Sandisk, Tamrac Stratus 10 Shoulder for $85

The headliner of the Thursday Best Buy dailies is a WD x Sandisk storage sale featuring among others a 1TB WD USB 3.0 external HDD for $45, 4TB WD Easystore external for $90, internal HDDs, and Sandisk SSDs and single-figure colorful USB 2.0 flash drives too.

But that’s not all, they also feature separately the new condition Tamrac Stratus 10 shoulder bag for $85 with free US shipping and/or free store pickup where possible…

PS: speaking of deals, retailers often (ab)use the “Christmas in July” theme but once in a while a “Christmas in July” sale-a-bration is “Christmas canon” (as Comic Con canon-obsessed fans like to say). Such is the case with this Monoprice sale which is full of Christmas lights and ornaments and stockings and stocking stuffers 🙂

Thursday: Vello Battery Grip Sale (29 options, five manufacturers, $30 to $60)

And just like that, Thursday is here, and with it, it rings in a new set of B&H daily deals and with this set, we have a theme: Vello Battery Grips for a variety of cameras from five different manufacturers. Each battery grip lists its compatibility with specific models. A total of 29 options are available with prices ranging from $30 to $60. Too many to list here individually… Sale ends at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out…

Wedn Lightning Deals: Moza Air 2, NixPlay, FeelWorld, Action Cams, Etc

A quick look at the Amazon Camera and Photo Lightning Deals for the next 24 hours shows, among others:

+ starts 4:15am ET: Moza AIR 2 with case bundle

+ various action cameras, and waterproof housings for GoPros

+ NixPlay Seed 10 digital picture frame

+ Neewer TT560 flash

+ Feelworld Master MA6f 5.5″ on-camera monitor

+ various ring lights and studio accessories

Wedn: HP Omen Gaming Computers and Red Dragon kbd/mice

Wednesday action in the Amazon USA Gold Box, it’s another variant of the Computer Sale, this one featuring gaming HP desktops and laptops, along with Red Dragon keyboards and mice (I’m assuming that by now the internet decided that “mices” is the plural of “mice”, and “casted” is the past tense of “cast”) 🙂 A total of 14 computers and 8 keyboards/mice are participating in this sale…

Wedn: Elements 2019, Aputure, Bushnell, CoreSWX

And just like that, another hump day is upon us, and this lot of B&H dailies brings us a new quartet running until 11:59pm ET or rstlier if sold out:

+ Adobe Elements 2019 (photoshop or premiere) for $60 each

+ Bushnell Trophy Cam HD Aggressor Low-Glow Trail Camera for $75

+ Aputure Amaran H198C On-Camera LED Light for $29

+ Core SWX Fleet Q Gold Mount Four-Position Charger for $449

Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drive: 64GB for $9, 128GB for $18, 256GB for $30

It’s hard not to find uses for USB flash drives these days (although USB-C and Lightning adapters may be necessary in certain cases). If that is so, there’s an organic sale again of the new condition Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 flash drives going for $9 in the 64GB option, $18 in the 128GB option and the bang for the buck is $30 in the 256GB option.

Of these, the 128GB ships almost right away, while the 64GB is TOOS (temporarily out of stock), while the 256GB has an August 7 shipment estimate. Amazon tends to be on the conservative side of estimates, but that’s not a guarantee they’ll arrive on time or earlier ~ many things can happen that delay the arrival of something that should have been there earlier (from driver flat tires to confused new hires who can’t find your home or apartment). So if you have a hard deadline (eg the plane leaves at 9pm tomorrow) keep that in mind…

There is a limit of up to three per customer. Not sure if it’s three per storage option or three overall. I have a trio of these and they have performed quite well ~ one of them was permanently used as the “hard drive” of one of those $30 OTA basic DVRs.

This is not a lightning deal so the price can (or cannot) change at any time…

Tuesday Lightning Deals: Moza Air 2, Action Cams, Neewer, Etc

Thunderbolt and lightning but no so very frightening for your wallet as Amazon has gotten way too big to be able to offer name-brand products are ridiculously low prices like it used to do back in the glory days of internet shopping. These days the lightning deals are more about modest discounts and not-famous manufacturers…

… which brings us to the Tuesday Camera and Photo Lightning Deals with the following potentially interesting items going live in the 24 hours (from the time of writing of this blog post):

+ all kinds of Neewer camera and photo accessories (studio, umbrella kits, C-shape system, C-stand, ring light, softbox, etc) ~ even an action camera

+ FeelWorld f5 5-inch on-camera field monitor

+ Moza AIR 2 with hard case

+ Victure wild life action camera

+ dBPOWER 4K and APEMAN and other action cameras

Top 10 Classes for $20 each at CL [and up to 60% off site-wide]

We have another limited time offer running as of the time of writing at Creative LIVE, they are offering their Top 10 Classes for $20 each. Topics include bird photography, portraiture, Lightroom CC, creating Art through Photography, making short docs, starting a photography business, and more…

At the same time, they are having a near site-wide sale of up to 60% off, with the following “trending” class offers:

+ “Fundamentals of Photography” for $79 with John Greengo (the guy who teaches many of the camera tutorial classes)
+ seven of the 107 lessons are available to preview-stream without buying it

+ “Lightroom Classic CC” with Ben Willmore for $49

+ Fine Art Compositing” with Brooke Shaden for $59

+ “Photoshop CC the Complete Guide” with Ben Willmore for $49

+ and a whole lot more since it is a near-site-wide sale…

Tuesday: 128GB Sandisk Ultra Plus SDXC or microSD for $25 each

Among the Tuesday Best Buy daily deals you can get the 128GB Sandisk Ultra PLUS memory cards for $25 each , in your choice of SDXC or microSDXC… I don’t recall the difference between the PLUS and the non-PLUS models…

Tuesday: PowerEgg Drone, Rhino Slider Bundle, KOWA Scope

No lenses today in the B&H daily deals BUT there are six featured items instead of the usual four ~ running until 11:59pm ET on Tuesday (or earlier for any that manages to sell out ahead of its designated expiration time):

+ PowerEgg PowerEgg Drone for $349
+ it does NOT cook scrambled eggs

+ Rhino Essentials Slider Bundle for $740

+ Porta Brace Lightweight Camera Case for Canon EOS C200 Camera for $165~
+ not sure how well it may fit other cameras ~ check description, reviews, etc

+ KOWA TSN-883 88mm PROMINAR PFC Spotting Scope (Angled Viewing, Requires Eyepiece) for $1699

+ Senal SCI-3212 Small-Diaphragm Condenser Microphone with Interchangeable Capsules
for $40

+ Sony God of War: Collector’s Edition (PS4) for $60

Now shipping: all new Kindle Oasis e-reader ($250 to $350)

We have another in-stock alert, this time of the technology kind, the all new Kindle Oasis is in-stock and shipping starting at $250 for the 8GB Wifi-only with Special Offers model. Going to the 32GB model is +$30 and removing the special offers is +$20 [you can also remove them later ~ at any point during the lifecycle of your device). The Wifi + Cellular option is +$50, a far cry from Apple’s “cellular tax” of +$130 🙂 So you can max out at $350 for the 32GB model with Wifi + Cellular…

The review score only has four customer reviews, one of which is mad (1-star) because it doesn’t have USB-C and the other 1-star reviewer is mad because… it’s not a tablet 🙂 There is one long in-depth review from a user named “Honest Reader”.

Personally I know nothing about the new model. I am still at the Voyage…

Monday Lightning Deals: Action Cams, Tripods, Neewer, Gimbal Stabilizers, Etc

Sunday’s Neewer Fest is almost over (although there’s still a few of them scheduled for Monday) but there are other options in the Monday Camera & Photo Lightning Deals.

The items shown below are in the order they will appear but finding and writing the exact start-times is very painful with a small laptop keyboard, that’s why you don’t see them. If I post them using a mechanical keyboard, then you’ll definitely get the start times 🙂

+ APEMan action cam
+ Moza iFocus wireless follow focus
+ Hohem Action Cam Gimbal
+ Neewer NW-670 TTL flash kit
+ Veroyi kids camera
+ Zhiyun Smooth 4 3-axis handheld gimbal stabilizer
+ Crosstour and Cooau Action Cams
+ Tycka 55″ travel tripod
+ various ring lights through the day
+ Neewer GN36 2.4G flash
+ Geekoto 79-inch carbon fiber tripod
+ Neewer 750II TTL flash for Nikon
+ Neewer 600W 5500K umbrella kit
+ DBPOWER 4K action cam

The above cover the next 24 hours as of the time of writing ~ I’m posting as many as the Gold Box shows as “Upcoming”. I’m not cutting them off at the 11:59pm pacific time like I used to do…

Monday: Anker Charging Sale

Since almost everything needs to get powered and charged these days (even toothbrushes), it is of general interest, inside the Amazon Gold USA Box for Monday 7/29/19, there is another sale on Anker charging products including 60W USB-C wall chargers, cables, hubs and such. The “theme” of this sale is the alienation of upper middle class creatives USB-C 🙂

Monday: Sigma 70-200/2.8 DG OS HSM Sports (C/N) for $1199 [also: Benro, SmallHD, DLP]

It’s a Lens Day at the B&H Photo daily deals as fans of the Canon and Nikon DSLR systems have the option to purchase the new condition Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 DG OS HSM Sports lens for $1199 with free US shipping…

This and the other offers below expire on Monday at 11:59pm ET (or earlier for anything that may sell out ahead of time):

+ BenRo FIF28CIB2 Carbon Fiber Transfunctional iFoto Series 2 Tripod Kit for $199

+ SmallHD 1303 HDR 13″ Production Monitor for $2050

+ InFocus IN2136 4500-Lumen WXGA DLP Projector for $379

10% off many cameras and lenses with KEH Camera coupon

Of course it’s Christmas in July, it’s after all just under five months until XMas 2019! To sale-a-brate that, KEH Camera is running a promotion for 10% off on cameras and lenses using coupon code XMAS7A in the shopping cart. You can test the coupon without signing-up or logging-in.

There are exclusion: no LEICA branded products, no “NEW” condition, no “USED – LIKE NEW” condition are eligible.

The offer expires on Wednesday 7/31/19 at 11:59pm eastern…