Friday is here and the Best Buy dailies have at the bottom of it all the 64GB Sandisk Extreme micro-SDXC memory card for $20, and the 10TB WD EasyStore external USB 3.0 hard drive for $160
Archives for 2019
Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 XR Di for $369 [C/N]
This trio of B&H Photo offers is running for the next three days, running until Sunday at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out). NOTE however that B&H is closed for the Passover Holiday, so any orders placed after Thursday 4/19 at 6pm ET, they will ship after Sunday April 28…
+ Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 XR Di for $369 in Canon and Nikon
+ JILL-E DESIGNS JACK Hudson Leather Camera Bag for $50
+ GVB Gear 162 Bicolor On-Camera LED Light with LCD Display and Shoe Mount Adapter for $40
Thursday: 8TB Seagate for $100, 10.5″ iPAD PROs for $550+, Etc
Among the other daily deals, Woot Landia features a new condition 8TB Seagate Backup Plus external USB hard drive for $100 with a 90-day Woot warranty, and a $230 refurbished HP i5 Windoze laptop…
The headliner of the Best Buy dailies is a 10.5-inch iPAD PRO sale starting at $550 for 64GB, $600 (Rose Gold) to $620 for 256GB, and $700 to $720 for 512GB… There’s also open-box options (YMMV) starting at $478… There’s so many iPads nowadays I need to look up the line-up in Wikipedia, I can no longer remember them :)… Given the storage/usability jump from 64GB to 256GB and the lack of microSD, the +$100 Apple tax to jump from 64GB to 256GB is not unreasonable. Unlike the old days where +$100 got you from 16GB to 32GB or 32GB to 64GB 🙂 That’s what happens when sales start stagnating 🙂
Meanwhile in Europe…
Unless it gets extended again, today is the last day at the Amazon Germany Spring Sale Gold Box and this set does not have a dedicated camera sale, but there are some photo-related items:
+ various styles and sizes of old-fashioned (not digital) picture frames, from 11 to 24 euro
+ Samsung Frame TVs from 800 to 1130 euro – in studios and exhibits and such they could be used to digitally showcase photography and video work?
+ the 700 euro is not a “Frame” TV
+ there’s Lenovo and Samsung laptops and tablets on sale
+ networking gear, Fire 7 tablets, Echo gear,
Thursday: Manfrotto Nitro system, PowerEGG, ARCO, Etc
Thursday is here with a new quartet of B&H Photo daily deals running until Thursday at 11:59pm ET.
NOTE however that the order cut-off for orders that will ship before the B&H Passover closing is Thursday at 6pm eastern. Orders placed after that will be processed/shipped after B&H returns from the holiday on Sunday April 28.
+ Manfrotto Nitrotech N12 & 545GB Dual-Leg Tripod System with Half Ball Adapter & Bag for $550
+ PowerVision PowerEgg Drone for $369
+ perfect for those difficult Easter Egg hunts?
+ ARCO V15G Camcorder Shoulder Bag for $40
+ gas refills NOT included
+ JBL M-Patch 2 Passive Stereo Controller and Switch Box for $59
Canon 50mm f1.4 USM International for $270
The new condition with USA warranty of the Canon 50mm f1.4 USM lens goes for $330 with free accessories at some Canon USA authorized dealers like Adorama, or if you want to venture into the used market, it starts at $238~ at B&H Photo and KEH Camera…
But if you prefer new condition for less than the USA model, the international model is currently offered in new condition for $270 with free US shipping at Massdrop. There’s no mention of warranty in the listing. It will ship in mid-May 2019 from Massdrop. The offer runs for the next seven days [from posting date here]. Shipping outside the US hovers around $10 (varies depending on country/region/continent obviously)…
Plan Ahead: Adorama order cut-off for Passover is Friday at 12:30pm ET
We previously mentioned the B&H Photo Passover shopping schedule. Now we have the shopping schedule for the Adorama website. It is a bit different, so pay attention to the cut-off dates below:
Orders placed by Friday 4/19/19 at 12:30pm eastern will be processed on the day they are submitted (unless they hit a snag during the verification process or the products are not in-stock and things of that nature). Ideally, don’t wait until 12:29pm ET to place your order 🙂
Orders placed after that will be processed when Adorama returns from the Passover holiday on Monday April 29 in 2019.
Online ordering and phone sales and customer service are available on some of those days. Check their website for the detailed schedule…
Peak Design Everyday Bags for $89 to $134 w/FS
Massdrop is back on again with another Peak Design Everyday Bags sale. They offer two models, the Sling 5L for $89 and the Sling 10L for $134. The price drops to this level AFTER you add it to the shopping cart and AFTER you select one of the bag options. Before that, the price you see is $219 ~ so don’t let that scare you away 🙂
Optionally in the shopping cart you can add a Field pouch or a Tech pouch for more. Various color options are available. You can see all options available in the product listing, you don’t have to add them to the shopping cart and read about them one by one.
Free US shipping. This particular offer does not ship outside the US. The offer runs for the next five days and change from blog-posting time. Orders will ship in mid-May 2019 by Massdrop. There are no exchanges offered for the promotion. But the bags come with the Peak Design lifetime warranty…
The Sue Bryce Collection for $99 (Portraiture, Etc)
For a limited time, Creative LIVE is offering a $99 class bundle, the Sue Bryce collection, a total of 18 classes by
the photographer. Portraiture features heavily in the topics, along with fashion, lighting, and the business/marketing of a studio/photographer.
Back of the envelope math averages this at around $5.50 per class. Not bad at all if these topics are of current or future interest…
20 classes for $29 each at C-LIVE
For a very limited time, Creative LIVE is offering 20 classes for $29 each. The sale price is shown over there while this sale continues… Topics include Adobe (general (eg painterly) and specific (eg Lightroom CC)) and camera-related classes (DIY lens accessories, TTL flash, tabletop photography) and people-n-pets photography, and the classes that help pay the bills (marketing and “making money as an artist”)…
OR if you prefer FREE and you have schedule flexibility, check out all the free-streaming classes at their ON-AIR schedule…
Panasonic ZS60 travel zoom for $250 [limit 3]
Zoom-zoom! For a limited time, Amazon itself is offering the new condition Panasonic ZS60 travel zoom in the black color scheme for $250 with free shipping with up to three cameras per customer at the sale price. This is a limited time offer but not a lightning deal, so there’s no ticking clock on the offer.
With many and more superzoom cameras out there, there are plenty of choices out there, making it a pleasant headache in deciding which one(s) to get 🙂
Speaking of Amazon, one of their Wednesday daily deals is a sale on renewed Microsoft Surface Studios of the first generation kind with prices ranging from $1359 (i5, 8GB, 1TB) to $1885 (i7, 32GB, 2TB)…
Wedn (EU): Canon and Sony and M43rds and more camera sale
Amazon Germany decided to continue their Gold Box Spring Sale until Thursday instead of its previous ending of Monday. The Wednesday group of daily deals includes a Canon and Sony camera sale among other things:
+ Canon camera sale
+ 80D with 18-135 for 1125 euro
+ M50 body for 495 euro
+ M50 with lens for 585 euro
+ M50 two lens kit for 720
+ XC10 4K professional camcorder for 1420
+ G9 X II for 313 to 323
+ G7 X II for 473
+ also superzooms and camcorders
+ Sony and Friends camera sale
+ Sony a6500 body for 1055
+ Sony HX90 superzoom for 249
+ Sony RX100 III w/selfie grip for 499
+ various Sony and Sigma and Olympus lenses
+ Olympus E-PL9 with kit lens for 539
+ Panasonic G70 with kit lens for 429
+ Panasonic TZ58 superzoom for 149
+ camcorders
Among the other sales, it’s the return of the PC Gaming sale featuring many accessories, from keyboards/mice to headsets to mics and audio. There’s LEGOs and cat food and Fire tablets and coffee machines and various kitchen-y things of all sizes…
Plan Ahead: B&H Photo Closing for Passover on Thursday PM
This is a heads-up so you can plan ahead your purchases. B&H Photo will be closing for the Passover Holiday on Thursday April 18 at 7pm ET and will re-open on Sunday April 28 at 10am eastern. That’s ten days, so indeed one must needs place an order now if they want to receive it this month!
Online ordering will be available during some of the closing BUT orders placed AFTER 6pm eastern on April 18 will be shipped on/after April 28…
Online ordering is available:
+ Fri April 19 at 7:30pm ET until Sun April 21 at 9pm ET
+ Thu April 25 7:45pm ET until Sat April 27 at 9:15pm ET
So to summarize for the speed-readers, the deadline to place your online orders if you want them to ship this week is Thursday April 18 at 6pm eastern. Best not wait until 5:59:59pm ET though 🙂
Wedn: InCase Messenger, Tascam DR-100 III, 55″ LG, etc
WEdnesday is here with a quartet of B&H Photo daily deals as follows:
+ INCASE DESIGNS Compass Messenger Bag for $15
+ Tascam DR-100mkIII Linear PCM Recorder for $269
+ LG C7C 55″ Class HDR 4K UHD Smart OLED TV for $999
+ Pioneer DJ headphones for $99
10% off Lenses at KEH with coupon (ends Sun PM)
KEH Camera fans, a new 5-day coupon is upon us! Using coupon code LENS4A you can get 10% off most lenses at KEH Camera. The coupon expires on Sunday APR-21-2019 at 11:59pm ET.
As always, there are exclusions: the coupon does NOT work on “New” and “Like New” condition products. LEICA branded products are also excluded from the promotion. You can test the coupon by entering it in their shopping cart without the need to login or signin…
Tuesday: D&S, Jill-E, Promise Tech, Robox, Zotac, Etc
Tuesday is here with the B&H Photo daily deals offering this sixtet until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if any sells out]:
+ JILL-E DESIGNS Smart Laptop Tote for $70
+ the previous time there was a Jill-E featured in the B&H daily deals it sold out before the end of the day
+ PROMISE TECHNOLOGY Pegasus3 R8 Mac Edition 80TB 8-Bay Thunderbolt 3 RAID Array (8 x 10TB) for $5771
+ ROBOX 3D Printer for $399
+ DAVIS & SANFORD Provista 7518B Tripod with V18 Fluid Head for $80 after a $20 mail-in rebate
+ ANTON BAUER NP-F976 7.2V, 6600mAh L-Series Li-Ion Battery (47Wh) for $40
+ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 2080 AMP Graphics Card for $650
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…
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