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Ricoh GR-D III: In-Stock in the EU, US Coming Soon [updated]

We have another in-stock alert, this time on the other side of the pond. The new Ricoh GR-D III big sensor prime is now in-stock for 899 euro at Amazon Germany, sold and shipped by themselves…

UPDATE 3/24/19 at 1:17am ET: in the US, Amazon itself is taking orders for its starting price of $899 in the all-encompassing “temporarily out of stock” status, while Adorama and B&H Photo are marked as “Coming Soon”…

UPDATED 3/22/19 at 1am ET: In the US, the camera is now in-stock and ready to ship for its starting price of $900 at Adorama with free expedited shipping … Amazon itself went from a March 22nd estimate to “currently unavailable”… B&H Photo has a March 25 release estimate… As it is often the case with higher-demand lower-availability cameras, there’s often a bit of chaos during the initial release, so dates and estimates may change early and often. A silver lining that it mayhaps is a great choice since others are jumping in early as well 🙂 ..

March 21, 2019 Filed Under: fixed lens cameras, ricoh Tagged With: , , ,

Weekend (B&H): Feiyu Gimbal, Orca bag, Oben Camera Grip w/Plate, Etc

The Friday B&H Photo daily deals last for 48 hours, so this group is until Saturday at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ ORCA OR-20 Video Backpack for $80
+ whale NOT included

+ FEIYU G360 3-Axis Panoramic Camera Gimbal for $139

+ Oben Camera Grip with Arca Plate for $20 each in your choice of Fuji X-T1, Fuji X100T, X100 and Olympus E-M10 I and II
+ check individual listing for each option for more compatibility information

+ Tenba Reload Mini-Battery/Phone Lens Pouch for $5

UPDATE: good until Friday at 11:59pm pacific, there is an ARRIS modem sale in the Amazon Gold Box with six models available and prices ranging from $56 to $140. I’m certainly a fan of owning the modem instead of renting some crabby gateway from the monopolistic ISP / cable company 🙂

March 21, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

In-Stock Alert: Fuji X-T30 Body for $900, with 35mm f2 for $1000

Fuji X fans, unite and open your wallets 🙂 The new X-T30 camera is now in-stock and shipping for its starting price of $900 as body only in the silver and black color schemes at Adorama… If you want a “take pictures with” kit, B&H Photo is offering it with the 35mm f2 lens for $1000 in the silver color scheme… Meanwhile amazon.com has a March 27 release estimate for itself, but there’s also plenty of 3rd-party sellers over there. With many colors and kit options, this is quite an adventure sorting them all over there…

March 21, 2019 Filed Under: fuji, mirrorless deals Tagged With: , ,

CreativeLIVE: 20 classes for $29 each

Creative LIVE is back with yet another promotion: this one offers a selection of 20 classes for $29 each. The price you see is the price you pay. Topics include Photoshop, CC, Macro Flowers, Nikon autofocus system, drone photography, commercial work, portraits, high-speed motion, various lighting classes including gels [but not jello]…

March 21, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Ends Fri PM: YMMV eBay Bonus Bucks: 6% or 8% on $25+

If you are participating in eBay Bucks, check your emails/messages for a new offer to manually opt-in to that runs until MAR-22-2019 at 11:59pm pacific time. With this offer you get 8% back in eBay Bucks on purchases of $25+, or 6% on purchases under $25.

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. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply as always…

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

March 21, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: , ,

Walgreens Photo: 75% off Everything Photo print options

Good until March-23 at 11:59pm central time, coupon code LUCKYDAY75 gets you a whooping 75% off on the Everything Photo category. This category includes canvas prints, wood hanger board prints, posters, floating frames, metal panels (AC/DC vinyl records NOT included), wood panels and such…

The usual coupon terms and restrictions apply. Check their website for details. Free store pickup. If you prefer the order shipped to your address of choice, there’s usually a fee unless they are running a special free shipping promotion…

March 21, 2019 Filed Under: photo prints Tagged With: ,

HB PWYW on Learning Various Languages (starts at $1)

If you are a traveling photographer or just want to learn new languages, there’s a new Pay What You Want promotion at Humble Bundle that offers online lessons on various languages. The $1+ tier including 3-month access to French, German and Spanish along with a quintet of digital travel guides. Meeting or beating the average (currently just under $16) gets you country guides while paying $25+ gets you 1-year access to the aforementioned languages plus Chinese and Japanese and Italian and Korean.

Note that the lessons are either 3-month or 1-year subscription. You don’t get to keep the lessons!

March 21, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Thursday: iKan, Bushnell, Etc

I slept through the initial posting window of the Thursday Thursday B&H dailies and of course the day I fell behind, two of the four sold out. So gone is the MeFoto tripod and the Think Tank lens bag. Still remaining until 11:59pm ET are the other two:

+ iKAN IFB576 Featherweight Bi-Color LED Light with Anton Bauer and Sony V-Mount Battery Plates for $199

+ Bushnell 2×40 Equinox Z Digital Night Vision Bi-Ocular for $159

And at the Best Buy dailies, the headliner is a $120 Miroir Element DLP projector…

March 21, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

KEH 5-Day Coupon: 25% off Overstock gear from many brands

KEH Camera is back with five day Overstock Coupon sale. Good until Sunday 3/24/19 at 11:59pm ET, coupon code OVER3A gets you 25% off on the price of the eligible and aforelinked overstock items.

You can filter the items using the various options on the left hand side of their website or browse through them the old fashion way. I spy products from Canon, Contax, Zeiss, Shiguma, Sony, Hassle-Blad, Schneider, PenTax, Waco-M, RockyNon, OlymPus and more!

As usual, Leica, NEw condition and “Used – Like New” products are not eligible. Their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies. You can test the coupon without signup/login by adding items and coupon to le shopping carteaux…

March 20, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: , , ,

In-Stock Alert: David Lynch class at Masterclass

This may be our first ever in-stock alert for a …class! David Lynch has just launched a class on creativity and film-making at the Masterclass website. You have two options at Masterpass, you can sign up for a 1-year prepaid all-you-can-eat Netflix-style plan for $200 (comes out to about $17 per month) OR you can digitally-purchase the individual class for $100.

As a refresher, here’s Lynch’s Filmography. In addition to various critically-acclaimed films (including “The Elephant Man”) and the Twin Peaks TV phenomenon, he also made a few music videos, including the pop popcorn “Wicked Game” with Chris Issak.

March 19, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Wednesday: Intl Note 9 (with 512GB) for $750, Mitakon 20/2 4.5X Super Macro for $139 [C/N/E/X/m43], Etc

Never fear, Hump Day is here and with it a big name set of B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ MITAKON ZHONGYI 20mm f/2 4.5x Super Macro Lens for $139 in Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony E, Fuji X, and Micro Eight Sixths [okay M43]

+ unlocked Samsung Galaxy Note 9 (model N960F) dual SIM with 512GB on-board storage [that’s right, half a terrabyte] for $750 in your choice of color with free Samsung fast-charger in bulk packaging
+ NOTE: this is an International Variant with a US compatible LTE

+ Photoflex StarFlash 150Ws Monolight for $80

+ JARV 10,000mAh Wireless Power Bank with USB Type-C & Wireless Charging for $17

March 19, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Kamlan 28mm f1.4 MF lens for $150 [X/E/m43/EF-M]

If you are a fan of mirrorless systems and manual focus prime lenses, the Kamlan 28mm F1.4 is currently offered for $150 at the Massdrop website for the next five days and change. This is available in four different mirrorless systems, Fuji X, Sony E-mount, Micro Four Thirds, and Canon EF-M.

Orders will ship in mid-April 2019. The product description has no mention of a warranty, so assume there is none. Shipping is free in the US. International shipping is around $5, with the exact amount depending on individual countries and regions. A prime lens is not that hard to ship after all 🙂

March 19, 2019 Filed Under: mirrorless deals Tagged With: , , , , , ,

Creative Live’s 2018 Photoshop Week bundle on sale for $99

If you are a fan of all things Photoshop, for a limited time, Creative LIVE is offering their 2018 Photoshop Week bundle for $99 total. This includes 42 classes, the complete list you can find over there by clicking on the “Classes” sub-tab over there.

There’s no coupon to enter. During the sale, the price on the site is $99. IF you already have this and like it, you can also purchase it as a gift option (for someone else) at the CL website…

Happy learnings 🙂

March 19, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Actual Tuesday: Tamrac, iKan VL35, ZIV, FLIR, etc [updated]

Today is Tuesday for realz, unlike yesterday, who was Tuesday according to this blog, but Monday for everyone else in the world 🙂 So here we go with the actual-Tuesday B&H Photo dailies which are a six-pack this time around:

+ Tamrac Nagano 12L Camera Backpack for $30

+ IKAN VL35 3.5″ 4K HDMI On-Camera LCD Monitor with Canon LP-E6 Battery Plate for $135

+ ZIV TTL Cord with Focus Assist for Nikon (Coiled, 3′) for $15

+ FLIR Scout TK Thermal Monocular (9 Hz) for $469

+ also $65 Polsen headphones and $45 XBox controller

UPDATE: a couple of Dells in the Tuesday WootLandia. At the main Woot theres’s a Dell Workstation laptop for $900 and at computers a Latitude Ultrabook for $360. Both refurbished.

And at the end of the Windows 10 spectrum, at the Worst Buy dailies, there’s a $210 ASUS laptop but thankfully it has 4GB of RAM, not 2GB. Even ChromeOS can’t run on 2GB these days as it is suffering from the inevitable fate of all software and OSes: b-l-o-a-t-i-n-g…

March 18, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Adorama Sale and Overstock sale

Adorama is running another sale, this one carrying onwards the Saint Patrick’s Day theme… Or if you are fond of the more clearance-kind sales, they have refreshed their Overstock sales with over 5,500 units available, so be sure to use their left-hand side for further filtering by topics and brands of interest…

March 18, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals

Staples B&M coupon: $20 off orders of $100+

Staples has a limited selection of camera gear in their B&M stores and they also have “degrees of separation” gear (storage, monitors, etc). Good until 3/23/19, coupon code 82991 gets you $20 off an order of $100+ at a Staples B&M store. You can find the coupon if you prefer to print it or show it on your digital device at the Staples coupons page…

NOTE that exclusions apply on the coupon, in terms of product types (eg computers, gift cards, etc) but also some brands are not eligible (Apple, Amazon, Bose, SquareTrade, EcoTank, etc). The whole text of exceptions can be found on the coupons page through the aforelinked page…

March 18, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

15% off on Peak Design camera bags with In-Cart discount

A shopping cart discount [no coupon needed, but you must add the item to the shopping cart] offers a variety of Peak Design camera bags for a 15% off discount at the Massdrop website. The price you see on the listing ($220) is the price before the discount for the 13L model.

When inside the shopping cart, you will have the option of selecting various kinds of bags including backpacks, slings, messengers and pouches. The listing is very detailed showing all the options and such…

This offer is running for the next six days and change from blog-posting date, with a mid-April shipment estimate. Massdrop will do the shipping. The bags come with a Peak Design lifetime warranty, however, all sales are final, meaning they don’t accept returns if you don’t like them or you picked the wrong color or size.

March 18, 2019 Filed Under: camera accessories Tagged With: , ,

International Olympus 40-150mm f2.8 PRO ED for $880 + S&H

If you are comfortable getting a PRO lens without a manufacturer warranty, Massdrop is offering for the next two days and change [from blog-posting time] the new condition Olympus 40-150mm f2.8 PRO ED M.Zuiko lens for $880 plus shipping which is under $10 for the US zipcodes I tried and varying around $20 depending on country.

There is no mention of warranty in the listing, so assume there is no warranty. This is the international version of the lens. This is how they explain it on their page.

The orders will be shipped in mid-April of 2019 by Massdrop…

March 18, 2019 Filed Under: mirrorless deals, olympus Tagged With: , , ,

Monday: 10% off many things at KEH Camera w/coupon

A new 1-day coupon is running at KEH Camera, good until Monday MAR-18-2019 at 11:59pm ET, coupon code PARTY3A gets you 10% off most things sold at the KEH Camera website. Exclusions apply as always: no Leica, no “NEW” and no “Used – Like New” products.

PS: I still catch myself writing “2018” instead of “2019” at times, so if you discern any, from the context, you can guestimate it is a mental auto-complete typo 🙂

March 18, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals

Monday [not Tuesday]: 12.9″ iPad PRO, Rokinon 50/T1.5 Cine DS (4 options) for $369, Sandisk Extreme SDXC (5 options), Printers, Dracast bundle, Etc

CORRECTION: the name of the day is Monday, not Tuesday 🙂

Green euphoria after Saint Patrick’s Day translates into a name-brand set of B&H daily deals for Monday MAR-18-2018 as follows:

+ Sandisk Extreme SDXC memory cards as follows:
++ yellow Extreme non-PRO: 64GB for $16, 128GB for $28, 256GB for $53
++ Extreme PRO: 64GB for $19, 256GB for $68
++ best bang for the buck of this quintet is the 128GB yellow Extreme for $28

+ Rokinon 50mm T1.5 AS UMC Cine DS Lens for $369 in Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony E, and Micro 4/3rds

+ 12.9″ iPad Pro (Mid 2017, 512GB, Wi-Fi Only) for $749 in three color options
+ with free screen protector

+ LED500 Plus Series Daylight LED Light for $299
+ with three FREE items included: barndoors, softbox, honeycomb grid
+ barn animals not included ~ you have to provide those yourselves 🙂

NOTE: B&H will be closed for holiday between Wednesday 5pm ET and Friday 9am ET of this week, so plan your purchases accordingly…

Meanwhile on the other side of Le Pond, there is a big printer sale [with some scanners mixed in for good measure] among the Amazon Germany Gold Box daily deals. Prices range from 59 to 651 euro, with models from Canon, Epson, Samsung and HP participating. A total of 15 options are available. The offers expire at the end of day in the German time zone…

UPDATE: meanwhile at the Best Buy daily deals, they have a sale on select MacBook Pro models, along with Surface PRO tablets and such…

And at the USA Amazon Gold Box, they have the certified refurbished 32-inch Samsung C32F397FWN curved monitor going for $180…

March 17, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

YMMV/Invited: 10% off eBay purchase (max disco $50)

There is a YMMV coupon offer from the eBay website, an invited-users type of a promotion, mayhaps to reactivate eBay shoppers who haven’t made a purchase in a while. Anyway, the offer goes live this: coupon code MYTENOFF gets you 10% off your purchase until March 31st in 2019. The maximum discount with the coupon is $50. In other words, purchases over $500 will get a flat $50 off discount.

Exclusions on what the coupon can be used for apply as always. The coupon may only be working for invited eBay users, so a very big YMMV…

March 17, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

Adorama: Bonus Finance Offers with select Camera Gear purchases of various brands

While reading through the previously posted “Nikon Z” post, I also run into this Adorama financing promotion that gets you special financing terms on select camera gear purchases from various brands. The various eligible products are listed at the long aforelinked page.

Participating products on the page include select Canons (cameras, lenses, printers), and Nikons (Z cameras) and Sony (APS-C a series) and BOSE (no cameras), and PenTax (K-1 II and 645 gear).

NOTE that items may get added and/or removed from the list as each offer has its own expiration date.

As always, read thoroughly the terms and conditions and restrictions of the financing offers and make sure you understand them before jumping in with both feets!

March 17, 2019 Filed Under: financial Tagged With:

Nikon Z: Free FTZ Mount Adapter and up to $400 Trade-In Bonus with Nikon Z purchase

Good until March 30 in 2019, Adorama is having a stackable Nikon Z promotion: you get a free Niokn FTZ mount adapter with the purchase of a Nikon Z-system full-frame mirrorless camera, and if you want to trade-in qualifying camera gear, you can get a trade-in bonus of up to $400 [in addition to the gear’s value]…

Optionally, you can get 18-month no-interest financing with select Z purchases when paying with an Adorama credit card – on approved credit and all that. Minimum monthly payments are required. Check the terms/conditions of this promotion over there or contact them if something’s not clear…

March 17, 2019 Filed Under: mirrorless deals, nikon Tagged With: ,

64GB Lexar C20c USB-C Flash Drive for $10 w/FS

Good until Monday at 11:59pm ET (MAR-18-2019), Adorama is having another snapshot type of a limited time offer, you can get the new condition 64GB Lexar JumpDrive C20c (USB 3.1 Type-C) flash drive for $10 with free US shipping. You can buy as many as you like at the sale price.

March 17, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

Sunday: 15% off select WD Digital Green SSDs

Good until the end of day on Sunday March 18 in 2019, the Central Computers website is offering a 15% off discount on the page on select WD Digital Green SSDs. The price you see is the price you pay. As of the time of writing, there are 120GB and 240GB options out there…

March 16, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

15 Classes for $15 each at C-LIVE

If you prefer digital “ownership” instead of streaming “rentals”, Creative LIVE is back with another promotion, it’s a limited time 15 classes for $15 each featuring a variety of topics including landscape, natural light, weddings, astro, posing, real estate, fake estate, color fundamentals, digital printing, podcasting, and more!

No coupon is needed, while this sale is going on, each on-sale class has an on-page price of $15.

March 16, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Sunday: Paintshop, 3TB WD HDD, Lumu, YI Action Cam, Etc

If it’s Sunday, it’s another day for daily deals 🙂 To the B&H Photo dailies we go wit a new quartet of offerings:

+ 3TB WD Elements USB 3.0 External Desktop Hard Drive for $70

+ Corel PaintShop Pro 2019 Ultimate (DVD with Download Card) for $30

+ Lumu Power Light & Color Meter for Photo and Video for $130

+ Think Tank Photo Steroid Speed Belt V2.0 (X-Large / XX-Large, Black) for $20

At the Best Buy dailies, among others, they have a 10-inch Insignia digital picture frame for $50 [the “espresso” is the color scheme, they won’t give you a bag of espresso coffee with it!], and a couple of Insignia single use batteries: the 33-pack assorted box of various sizes for $10.50, and a 6-pack of CR-2032 for $6…

In Wootlandia, under “Electronics” they have the new condition Yi 4K Action Camera with Selfie Stick & Bluetooth Remote for $100 with a 1-year YI warranty, while at “Clearance/Sellout” they have various “Maxpedition” bags of various kinds and sizes…

March 16, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Friday: Fuji Instax Mini 9 for $45 [also: refurb iPad PROs, Etc]

There is more action in the Friday Best Buy daily deals and of camera and photo interest, they be offerin’ the Fuji Instax Mini 9 instant film camera in the ice-blue and flamingo-pink color schemes for $45 per camera. The rest of the daily deals are audio-themed with brands big and small participating…

And it looks like those two colors have been price-matched by amazon.com with up to three per color per customer.

Speaking of Amazon, their USA Gold Box features refurbished iPad PRO models [sold by Woot], and more Anker options…

March 15, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Fri/Sat (B&H): Oben Tripod, Lensbaby 50/5.6 SF (Nikon only) for $40, Etc

It’s breakfast at Tiffany’s and weekend at the B&H daily deals with this quartet running until Saturday at 11:59pm ET (the Friday set runs for 48 hours instead of the usual 24 hours):

+ Lensbabies Spark 50mm f/5.6 Selective Focus Lens for Nikon F Mount for $40
+ only the Nikon is on sale

+ OBEN AC-2361L 3-Section Aluminum Tripod for $90

+ Auray M-LED18-CL 18-LED Clip-On Music Stand Gooseneck Light (Cool/Warm Light) for $30

+ OP/TECH USA Work Mat (Medium, 20 x 32″) for $10

March 15, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals Tagged With: , ,

10% off select Nikon Camera Gear w/KEH coupon (4-Day promotion)

It’s a Nikon coupon promotion 4-day extravaganza at KEH Camera. Using coupon code NIK3A you can get 10% off select Nikon camera gear up until 3/17/19 at 11:59pm eastern time.

Excluded are NEW and “Used – Like New” products. Their shopping cart, as always, is the ultimate decider on what qualifies for the coupon discount. You can test the coupon without having to login or create a KEH account ~ just add items of interest to the cart, enter the coupon and see what happens…

The sale includes full frame and APS-C dSLRS, a variety of Nikkor lenses but not just so ~ also participating are Nikon mount lenses from other manufacturers (Zeiss, Shiguma, etc). You can also use the filters on the left hand side to further filter the eligible items or increase the page-size of search-results to 100 (especially if you have a good interest connection and a desktop monitor…

March 14, 2019 Filed Under: dslr deals, nikon Tagged With: , , , , ,