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eBay has a brand new CEO, Ser Jaime Lannister! Okay, close but not quite. The new CEO is Jamie [not Jaime] Iannone, coming to them as COO of the Walmart e-commerce division… More on this via Techeme…
Does that mean we’ll get “People of eBay” books published? 🙂
UPDATE: OOPS, I didn’t notice the expiration date, these are 72 hour deals, not 24 hour deals…
Good until Thursday 4/16/20 Tuesday 4/14/20 at 11:59pm ET, Tax Eve 2020 [kind of] is a new trio of B&H daily deals as follows:
+ Miggo 3-in-1 Agua Versa Backpack 90 for $89
+ because X-in-1 is all the rage in bags these days 🙂
+ Sunpak 6630LX Medium-Duty Aluminum Tripod for $15
+ GVM Professional Video Carbon Fiber Motorized Camera Slider (32″) for $240
Keep in mind, orders placed at B&H will be shipped on 4/20+ when they return from the holidays…
Speaking of dailies, good until 4/17/20 at 10am ET is the Adorama daily deal for the Passover Holiday season, a bang for the buck entry into the M43rds system, the new condition Olympus E-M10 II with 14-42 R going for $299 with free US shipping in your choice of silver or black…
Good until Tuesday 4/14/20 at 11:59pm eastern, coupon code SALE4A gets you 10% off on many many things at the KEH Camera website. As usual you can test the coupon in their shopping cart without login/signup, as their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies for the coupon…
Speaking of qualifies, the usual exclusions apply, no “NEW” condition, no “USED – Like New”, no Leica-branded, no FujiX branded, no SonyE branded products are eligible. Non-X and non-E Fuji and Sony products are eligible for the coupon. As I said above, in case of confusion and such, their shopping cart will decide whether you get the discount…
Since there are exclusions, the blog-post title is “many many many things” instead of a blanket 10% off sale 🙂
Monday is here with a non-alcoholic six-pack of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET on Monday 4/13/20 but keep in mind all orders placed at B&H this time period will ship 4/20+ as the company is closed for the Passover Holiday:
+ LensPen DSLR PRO kit for $14
+ Cartoni Focus HD Smart Deployment System Tripod with Mid-Level Spreader for $1499
+ or for the same money you could buy 107 LensPen kits 🙂
+ Impact FRC-RLSLB Fluorescent 19″ Ring Light with Dimmer Kit for $74
+ HPRC 2400 Hard Case for DJI Mavic Pro (Red) for $80
+ Senal SCI-3212MP Small-Diaphragm Condenser Microphone with Interchangeable Capsules (Matched Pair) for $75
+ Overboard Waterproof Large Phone Case for $20 in two color options
+ these are general-use, not made for a specific phone
+ PSA: don’t throw your phone …Overboard, it is not a magical floating self-homing case 🙂
UPDATE: at the Woot daily deal, the main Woot has a big sale on Apple products (iPads, iMacs, MacBooks) ranging from $80 (iPad Mini 1st generation) to $1400 [most are refurbished, check each listing for details], and “Computers” has a refurbished 32″ curved 4K Samsung monitor for $290, and “Electronics” has a 2pk of Blink XT home security cameras for $70…
The headliner of the Sunday 4/12/20 FREE-to-Stream classes starting at 12pm eastern (9am pacific time) at CreaitveLIVE ON-AIR is a 15-hour class on Final Cut X PRO with Vanessa Joy and Rob Adams…
In the meantime, the Saturday headliner good until 12pm ET on Sunday is a near 4.5 hour class on Setting Up a home photography studio by John CorniCello…
While CreativeLIVE is down for maintenance, they have left up and running 17 FREE-Streaming Classes…
But that’s not all; to make up for the inconvenience, they are offering coupon code HUG-AN-ENGINEER that gets you $15 off orders of $20+, running until Sunday night [it doesn’t specify day, it says “end of day tomorrow”, so if this was posted at 11pm pacific, it should mean Sunday 11:59pm pacific; but that’s just my guess…
This is a very good way to handle a planned outage. You offer the customers some alternatives to watch AND you give them a discount on future purchases!
PS: the various Bootcamp classes are on sale for $29, so this coupon should drop them to $14 [I haven’t tried it]
IF you are looking for longer and more in-depth classes at a good price, CreativeLIVE is running a Top Bootcamp Classes sale for $29 each covering some of the major topics in photography including:
But that’s not all. Many other classes are included including Final Cut X PRO, prints, lighting, Premiere Pro CC, more portraits, weddings and photoshop, along with more general business/creative classes…
NOTE that every class has one or more chapters streaming for FREE, so you can get a general feel of the instructor(s) and the level and style of the teaching…
NOTE that CreativeLIVE is having a 3-hour maintenance between 11pm to 2am pacific time on Saturday, which translates to 2am to 5am eastern time on Sunday 4/12/20…
A new 4-pack of B&H daily deals are here until 11:59pm ET tonight (Sunday 4/12/20) as follows:
+ Lowepro DryZone 200 Backpack for $130 in a yellow-jacket color-scheme
+ IndiPro Micro-Series 98Wh Li-Ion Battery Kit with Dual Fusion Charger (V-Mount) for $450
+ Vello Universal Pop-Up Diffuser for SLR Pop-Up Flashes for $5.50
+ Vixen Optics Nature Eye 50mm f/7 Refractor AZ Telescope for $23
CONTINUING as the Adorama daily deal until 4/17/20 at 10am ET is the new condition Olympus E-M10 II with 14-42 R for $299 in your choice of black or silver. The daily deal lasts longer as a Passover Holiday deal special…
Ugly is IN! Good until Sunday 4/12/20 at 11:59pm ET, coupon code UG4A gets you 25% off on select UGLY and AS-IS camera gear at KEH Camera, excluding Leica-branded products…
NOTE that “UGLY” products are in working order and include the KEH 180-day warranty…
NOTE also that “AS IS” products are NOT in working order (parts only, etc) and DO NOT include [obviously] a 180-day KEH warranty…
PS: if you want a trip down memory lane, for less than the price of a [tall] cup of plain coffee, you can get the Nikon Coolpix P2 for the price of $1.66 🙂
UPDATE 4/12/20 at 00:15am ET this offer is good until 4/17/20 at 10am eastern, giving you play of time to research and compare the camera [or earlier if sold out]…
UPDATE 4/10/20 at 12:45pm ET as of this recheck, the $299 price continues!
Woohoo! It’s a camera day at the Adorama daily deal, you can get the new condition Olympus E-M10 II with 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 II R lens for $299 with free US shipping. This is good for the black color scheme (aforelinked) but also the silver color scheme…
Optionally, when you click on the “Special Offer Create Your Bundle and Save Up to $345!” link, you have options to get a combined purchase discount of this camera kit with various Sigma and Rokinon M43rds lenses…
This is a great deal given the price and it will expire on Friday at 10am eastern OR earlier for either color option that may sell out ahead of its expiration time.
NOTE that orders will ship April 17+ in 2020 after Adorama returns from the Passover Holiday…
UPDATE 4/10/20 at 12:43pm ET: as of this recheck, the $3 sale price continues for this ebook that was a Wednesday daily deal…
Everything old is new again! There’s a brand new book about shooting on film and it is one of the Amazon Wednesday ebook deals of the day, good until 11:59pm pacific time on 4/8/20. The author is Andrew Bellamy and the 192-page Princeton Architectural Press ebook is on sale for $3 for the Kindle. The ebook is titled “Analogue Photography: A Reference Manual for Shooting Film”…
The Kindle sample will show you the first few pages of the book (including the table of contents) but if you go the the paperback page and “Look Inside” you will be able to jump around inside the book.
There are a couple of international reviews on it (one UK, one Italy) while the only USA review is a two-word review titled “Beautiful Design” but with a 1-star rating. This type of confusion sadly is prevalent (for various reasons) at Amazon, where the text of the review does not match the star rating. In this case, this novice reviewer may have gotten confused because on the same day (Nov 30, 2019) he reviewed a physical product with a 1-star for which he wrote actual meaningful text that matched the review title of “Total Rip-Off”.
Regardless, you can return e-books if you don’t like them. You can go to amazon.com/myk and select “Digital”, locate the ebook you want to return, click on the dots and select “Return for Refund”. The return window for ebooks is one week (or something like that, I don’t recall the exact duration)…
Canvas time at Groupon, this time it is a Canvas On Sale promotion, where $5 gets you a 16×12 inch custom canvas print, or $11 for 20×16 inch or $22 for a 36×24 inch, and so forth. Shipping is extra!
Speaking of Groupon, they are having another BJ Warehouse membership promotion. For $20 you get a 1-year Inner Circle membership at their stores and website. This includes a second card for a household member. This is good for new members only!
As usual, be sure to read the terms, conditions, restrictions, deadlines, etc before jumping in on a Groupon offer…
If you are interested in food photography, real photography, not smartphone-food-bloggies, and available light photography at that, using real food, not props and such, using manual exposure for everything, starting on Thursday 4/9/20 at 12pm eastern at the Creative LIVE ON-AIR they will be streaming the “Food Photography” with photographer Penny De Los Santos.
If you can’t wait to get started, Lesson #4 is streaming for FREE all the time as part of the class’s promotional material. Lesson #4 is 43 minutes long and it is titled “Principles of Food Photography” and it will give you a very good idea whether you would be interested in watching the class in full…
NOTE: this is a 14-hour class, so it will only air once in full during the 24-hour streaming window. Its second airing will begin around 2am ET but there’s only 10 hours until the next rotation, so the second airing will be incomplete. If you like it well enough, it is on sale for $39.
PS: the photographer, Penny de los Santos has already co-authored a number of published print cookbooks…
UPDATE: another solid class will be offered on Thursday starting at 12pm ET, if you are interested in music mastering, there is a nine hour DIY Mastering class with Jesse Cannon [not Nikkon] 😉
These daily deals expired…
For Nikon and Canon APS-C photographers (and the occasional 35mm FF photographers who like to experiment with smaller imaging circles), B&H Photo is offering the new condition Tokina 12-24mm f2 PRO DX AT-X lens for $399 with free US shipping when they return on 4/20/20. This is available in Canon EF-S and Nikon DX only.
PS: the usual blanket caveat, the names “Tamron” and “Tokina” are so close I often confuse them, so this is a blanket correction for past, present, future, alternate realities, Westworld simulations, and higher dimension posts 😉
If you feel like today’s lenses are so big they block out the Pink Super Moon, then you may mayhaps be potentially interested in considering considering the SLR Magic MicroPrimes. And what a coincidence, they are currently on a $70 OFF instant savings promotion at B&H Photo.
The promotion drops the prices as follows:
+ $429: Cine 12mm T2.8, 15mm T3.5
+ $529: Cine 18mm T2.8, 21mm T1.6, 25mm T1.5, 35mm T1.3, 50mm T1.2, 75mm T1.5
The lenses are available in the Sony E, and Fuji X and to a lesser extend for Micro Four Thirds. Note that the 50mm is a T1.4 for M43rds, but T1.2 for the two APS-C systems. A total of 19 options are available…
If you are looking for a non-entry-level Nikon APS-C DSLR, the D7500 body only is offered in as refurbished at B&H Photo for $599 with a 90-day Nikon USA warranty. This ships 4/20/20 when B&H returns…
Pentax fans of the world, unite and K-ate over! The Pentax K-70 body only is bundled with two different set of freebies while going for $547 with free US shipping when the retailers return from the holidays on 4/20/20:
+ at Adorama you get the Pentax AF-200FG hot shoe, a Pentax Adventure gadget bag, and a Pentax padded strap
+ at B&H Photo you get a 32GB Sandisk Extreme SD card, a Rugged Journey DSLR shoulder bag, Corel Paintshop PRO 2020 Ultimate (DVD with download card), and the Pentax padded strap
If you are looking for an element-proof digital cameras [yes, some of them still exist ~ because smartphones can’t do it ~ good luck having those beautiful flagships or the trendy new foldables survive the elements, at least cosmetically] B&H Photo is bundling the new condition Ricoh WG-6 elementproof with a 32GB Sandisk Extreme SD card and a camera case for $247 with free US shipping (4/20/20) in your choice of the more conservative black color scheme or the more outdoorsy-shouting orange color scheme…
B&H Photo is also running 46 STEM offers and with the current downtime, it’s for kids of all ages, not just actual students. Anyone willing to learn can learn in this decade! It includes products from DJI, AstroReality, MakeBlock, Sony and more… Orders placed now will ship 4/20/20…
If you are looking to jump into the promise and premise of “more compact than before” in the E-system, Olympus has created a new zoom kit based on the Olympus E-M5 III. It is the camera bundled with the Olympus 12-45mm f4 ED PRO lens (which currently goes for $649 on its own), all together for $1599 available for pre-ordering at B&H Photo. The E-M5 III body only on its own goes for $999. All three official E-M5 III kits include the Olympus FL-LM3 flash. This kit too is available in the two usual color schemes (black, silver-black)… The shipping estimate is currently early June 2019…
PS: the “Raiders edition” is not likely unless the Raiders win three Superbowls in a row 🙂
Going 35mm full frame has brought the Sony FE system additional lenses. Hot off the e-presses is a brand new Tamron 70-180mm f2.8 Di III VXD lens for the Sony E system only, with a pre-order price of $1199 at B&H Photo. No exact release estimate yet…
More details on the lens at the B&H Explora blog…
Sony E fans, the wait is almost over! The new condition Venus Laowa 4mm [not a typo] f2.8 fisheye lens is in-stock for $199 at B&H Photo. Orders will ship on 4/20/20. The lens remains in-stock for Fuji X and M43rds as well, while the Canon EF-M is in the “Coming Soon” status…
Not as expensive as the latest Canon [HA!], the brand new Leica SL2 body only is now in-stock for $5999 with free US shipping at B&H Photo… Orders placed now will ship April 20 in 2020…
Vroom-vrooooom! If you want/need the brand new Canon 1D X Mark III body only, it is now in-stock at B&H Photo at its starting price of $6499. You also earn 2% promotional rewards, which comes out to a respectable $130~.
Note that B&H is closed for Passover, but the earlier you order it, the earlier you get in line. The orders will ship on April 20 when they return from the holiday…
CreativeLIVE is back with another 60% off site-wide sale on most classes offered on their website. A few are excluded from discounting and couponing per prior contractual agreements. The price you see is the price you pay while this limited time promotion is running…
The sale includes the Camera Guide Classes, which C-LIVE calls “Fast Starts” and the majority of them are $11 each by John Greengo. They cover most of the intermediate and advanced/pro cameras, along with select entry-point cameras from most manufacturers.
The sale also includes more gear-y classes on lens systems and autofocusing (eg for Nikon). Most of the lens-y classes are $19 each, except for Olympus which is $11.
Speaking of couponing, for a limited time, you can use coupon APRIL10 for $10 off a class purchase. Not sure if there’s a minimum purchase amount required for the coupon. Their shopping cart is the ultimate decider. You need an account to test the couponing…
If you prefer to pay $0.00, the Wednesday round of “Free to Stream” classes at CreativeLIVE are headlined by Todd Owyoung’s “Getting Started In Music Photography” (4 hours long, he’s using the Nikon Z system he says). There’s a class on creating a creative’s Etsy store, a writing class, and more… [check our earlier post for a TL;DR schedule].
Dxo is also in the free streaming classes and seminars game and they already have seven previously recorded seminars, a mix of DXo software and general imaging. They also have Upcoming Webinars, the next one going live on Thursday at 1pm eastern, “How to reveal details in shadows and …”.
More seminars are coming in April 2020, including “hyper real landscapes”, “Nik Collection 2.5”, “enhance color and drama with VIVEZA” (not to be confused with a vuvuzela)…
OR if you prefer a different user interface, you can find them on their YouTube Channel…
In the real-world, there’s the power of love. In the world of digital cameras, there’s the power of CaNiKoN 😉 Case in point, good until Wednesday 4/8/20 at 11:59pm ET, coupon code CN4A gets you 10% off Canon and Nikon camera gear participating in this promotion. As usual, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies…
EXCLUDED are “NEW” condition, “USED – Like New” and digital starter kits…
If you are a fan of the way of the Newegg, you are in luck because they have launched a new 72 hour sale that features the usual assortment of computer-y and technogy-y items. Items that require a promo code mention so next to the offered items…
We forgot about Groupon! For a limited time, Shutterfly is offering through Groupon 20-page 8×8″ hardcover custom photo books for $5 plus shipping. Shipping depends on location and option selected. If you want more than one, they have pre-filled bundles with small volume discounts.
As usual with Groupon offers, be sure to read the terms, conditions and restrictions and make sure your questions are answered to your satisfaction before buying or gifting…
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