Archives for July 2020

As usual the Friday B&H daily deals last until Saturday at 11:59pm but their website does not accept orders between Friday PM and Saturday PM [check their website for exact times]:

+ Tamrac accessory belts, three options, $8 each

+ Impact Hexi 24 Speedlight Softbox for $75 with FREE Impact Grid For Hexi 24 Speedlight Softbox

+ refurbished Nikon 8×42 Aculon A211 Binoculars for $50

+ Black Magic Design Mini Converter Heavy Duty – SDI to HDMI for $175

+ flash deal: ONA Presidio Camera Strap for $39

Meanwhile at the Adorama daily deals (change Saturday 10am ET) you can get a $10 USB headset, and a $410 Nintendo Switch bundle…

At the Newegg dailies there’s the 256GB Samsung EVO microSDXC card going for $39 with free US shipping…

If you want a hardware encrypted external hard drive and you are willing to pay the premium for the feature, among the Best Buy dailies there’s the 512GB WD MyPassport USB 3.1 Gen II SSD drive for $80… Also there you can get the Polaroid Originals OneStep 2 VF analog instant film camera for $60…

Among the Woot daily deals the headliner is a sale on refurbished 13.3″ Intel i5 MacBook PROs (2019) ranging from $900 to $1290… And for the Windows included, under “Computers” there’s a refurbished detachable Dell laptop for $300…

For the charging crowd, the Amazon USA Gold Box has a Anker sale including a 13,000 mAh powerbank for $20~, and such…

And for those in the EU, the headliner at Amazon Germany is the new condition DJ Osmo Mobile 3 smartphone stabilizer thing going for 77 euro…

Also at Amazon Germany, they have a Sandisk / WD sale that includes the 256GB Ultra microSDXC for 25 euro, an 8TB WD MyCloud EX2 Network Storage for 283 euro, a 12TB WD external HDD for 201 euro, a 2TB Extreme SSD for 240 euro, a 5TB WD Black for 107 euro, and more…

Thursday is here and with it we have four new B&H daily deals good until 11:59m ET or earlier if sold out as follows:

+ Lowepro m-Trekker BP150 Backpack (Gray) for $45

+ NuanGuang LuxPad22 Bi-Color Slim LED Panel for $25

+ SmallHD 1703 P3X 17″ Studio Monitor Kit (Gold Mount) for $3199
+ small screen, big price!

+ RAVpower Luster Mini 3350mAh Power Bank (Black) for $5 in four color options
+ not for today’s flagship phones for sure!

But if you want a RAVpower with a lot more powerful, head on to the Electronics deal du jour at the Woot website where you’ll find the 16750mAh Portable Charger Ultra-Compact External Battery Pack for $18…

Samsung is back with another microSDXC card at the NewEgg dailies, it’s their 256GB EVO going for $35 with free US shipping… And on the budget flash drive front, a 128GB Team USB 3.1 Type A goes for $17 with free US shipping…

And at the Amazon Germany Gold Box there’s a sale on various computers (laptops, desktops, tablets) from Lenovo, Acer and friends ranging from 96 euro [tablet obviously] up to 1066 euro [Lenovo Yoga]…

It feels like yesterday was Wednesday and YET, today is Wednesday as well. We must be living in some weird times 🙂 But onwards we go with a new round of B&H daily deals, good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]:

+ Porta Brace HIP-3LENS Hip-Pack Lens Case (Black) for $69

+ GVM 672S-B Bi-Color LED Video 3-Light Kit for $480

+ also: $15 Audio Technical wireless earphones and SOLD OUT an LED speaker type thing

At the Amazon USA Gold Box there is a sale on select Brookstone digital photo frames, with prices ranging from $80 to $88…

Some storage action is happening at the Best Buy daily deals [CORRECTED LINK!] as follows:

+ 128GB Samsung EVO microSDXC for $20 with free US shipping

+ 4TB Toshiba Canvio Basics portable external hard drive for $88 after promo code

And a couple of items of interest at the Amazon Germany Gold Box as well:

+ DJI Osmo Pocket for 259 euro

+ Crosstour CT9700 True 4K 50 FPS Action Camera for 100 euro

And just like that we have Tuesday with a new set of six B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] as follows:

+ DataColor SpyderX Photo Kit for $199

+ QNAP TS-453Be 4-Bay NAS Enclosure for $439

+ ONA The Leather Clifton Camera and Everyday Backpack (Camouflage) for $150

+ NISI 100 x 100mm Nano IRND 3.0 Filter for $119 [choice of 3-stop or 6-stop or 10-stop]

+ AtomOS Connect Convert TC | SDI to HDMI for $98

+ GoPLUG Smart Power Bank (110V) for $169

Nintendo microSD cards may want to head on over to the Best Buy dailies where the 256GB Sandisk Nintendo Switch microSDXC goes for $55 with the usual Shutterfly coupon…

Kindle lovers in the EU may be thrilled to learn that there is a Kindle e-reader sale at Amazon Germany with the basic touchscreen Kindle starting at 58 euro, while the latest Paperwhite starts at 88 euro, and the latest Kindle Oasis starts at 180 euro [or a pay a little bit more to get the 32GB version IF you plan to use it for audiobooks [has bluetooth audio output] or read lots of manga/comics… PS: don’t get the 32GB and fill it to the brim with ebooks and documents. It will likely grind to a halt from the indexing and overhead of way too many files…

UPDATE: the Adorama daily deal [changes Wednesday 10am ET] is a sale on Quasar Science LED lighting with four options, ranging from $70 to $165 with free US shipping…

Everybody loves Mondays, especially those working Monday-Friday or Monday-Saturday or Monday-to-Monday! And with it we have six new B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] as follows:

+ Apple 13.3″ MacBook Pro with Touch Bar (Mid 2019, Space Gray) for $1049
+ i5 quad, 8GB RAM, 128GB PCIe SSD, 2560×1600 Retinue [ha!] display, Intel Iris Plus 645, etc
+ note: coming in the future: Apple’s own silicon

+ unlocked ZTE Axon 10 Pro Dual-SIM smartphone for $299 (8GB RAM) or $330 (12GB RAM)
+ LOL most Windows and MacOS machines don’t have that much RAM!

+ CoreSWX TorchLED Bolt 300 On-Camera Light for $159 to $449 (two options)

+ ACER B247W bmiprzx 24″ 16:10 IPS Monitor for $130
+ this is the less common 1920 x 1200

+ Ruggard Electronic Dry Cabinets (8 options) for $70 to $1000
+ also of potential interest to cigar and puerh cults afficionados

+ AmazFIT Bip Smartwatch (Onyx Black, Black Silicone Band) for under $50 after automatic in-cart coupon

Egging along as usual it’s a parade of tech gear at the NewEGG dailies including a $90 HP 22″ monitor, Intel i7-10700, SSDs, RAM, Lenovo Legion Tower, ASUS VivoBook, 2TB WD MyPassport external HDD for $65 after coupon, internal HDD, Beyerdymanic headphones and lots mo(i)re…

Of European shopping interest, the Amazon Germany Gold Box (aka Ange Bote) has a sale on Anker cables and powerbanks, and a sale on Samsung flagship phones (S20, S20+, S20 Ultra, prices starting at 730 euro-dollars)…

Lettuce see what the “Sunday Cat” brought it starting with the B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]:

+ RotoLight RL48 Interview Kit V2 for $70

+ KenSingTon Wireless Presenter with Red Laser for $27
+ yes, Ken Sing(s) (a) Ton!

+ AuRay UHC-725 Universal Headphone Case for $12
+ you can also repurpose this “Golden Ray” for similarly shaped camera gear

+ WandRD HEXAD Access 45L Duffel (Black) for $179

Meanwhile the current Adorama daily deal [changes Monday 10am ET] is FotoPro X-Go Max 4-Section Carbon Fiber Tripod with Built-In Monopod, FPH-62Q Ball Head going for $140 with free US shipping…

Elsewhere, under “Electronics” at the Woot website you can get the new condition GoPRO CHDRB-801, aka HERO8 Camera 2019 Special Bundle (with tripod thing, 32GB Sandisk, extra battery, etc) for $330 with a 1-year warranty. Limit one per customer…

Insignia single use batteries (assorted sizes and CR-2032 options) are among the Best Buy daily deals, headlined by the 15.6 Adata gaming laptop for $1200 [ i7-9750H , 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics, 4 lbs, Wifi 6, 15.6″ 1080p, no touchscreen, etc, etc, etc… model XENIA1660]

UPDATE: on the magazines side of things, the DiscountMags Weekend Sale is an “Employee Discount” variant that includes “Digital Photo PRO” for $6.49 per year, “Outdoor Photographer” for $4.88 per year and “Videomaker for $6.67 per year. Barely avoided the three sixes 🙂

The headliner for Friday at the Woot website is a sale on various iPads with prices ranging from $300 to $940. Two of the six have already sold out but remaining are iPad Air 3, iPad 7th gen and iPad PRO (2018, both sizes)…

Leading the way at the Best Buy dailies is the new condition GoPRO Karma Grip stabilizer going for $200 with the usual Shutterfly coupon-freebie… Also part of the day’s sales are the 1TB Sandisk internal PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD going for $130… There’s also a sale on colorful $13 basic Logitech mice…

Also part of the Best Buy dailies is a $50 Best Buy e-gift card bundled with the 11.6″ touch screen Kano PC going for $300 [4GB RAM, 64GB eMMC storage, 720p screen, Celery N4000 dual core, USB-C, USB-A, etc]

Flagship Samsung is the name of the game at the Amazon USA Gold Box where they offer the new condition factory-unlocked Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus [no 3.5mm headphone, BETRAYED by Samsung!] going for $950 (128GB)

As usual, the Friday B&H daily deals last until Saturday 11:59pm ET but they don’t accept orders between Fri PM and Sat PM [check their website for exact times]. The offerings are:

+ RAVpower 5200mAh Portable Charger for $8
+ not for today’s flagship phones but handy for older and lower power devices

+ Porta Brace SL-1GP Sling Pack for GoPro Camera and Accessories for $80

+ Browning Strike Force 850 Extreme Trail Camera for $90

+ Xcellon 2-in-1 Dancing Water Speakers for $10

+ flashdeal: LensCoat LensPouch (Medium Wide, Black) for $10

It’s not a LENS DAY at the B&H daily deals today (Thursday July 23 in 2020) but it is an INTEL DAY! Offers end at 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]:

+ Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7 GHz 6-Core LGA 1151 Processor for $300

+ BLACKMAGIC DESIGN converters, two options, $99 each

+ CAMbee LED lights, two options, $50 to $90

+ ManFrotto 509HD Video Head & 545B Aluminum Tripod Pro Middle-Twin Kit 100 for $1160

Of temporal interest, starting on Tuesday July 21 at 10am eastern is the live streaming of the new OnePlus Nord more affordable smartphones that had the tech-world buzzing. You can watch it live on YouTube through various channels…

Tuesday brings with it a new set of B&H daily deals, good until 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ GVM 520S-B Bi-Color LED 2-Panel Kit for $289

+ Vello FreeWave Fusion Basic 2.4 GHz Wireless Trigger System for $28 in your choice of Canon, Nikon, Sony

+ Boling Pocket LED RGB Video Light Kit (2-Pack) for $199

+ Intel NUC 8 Pro NUC8v5PNK Kit for $419 with FREE Bitdefender

Meanwhile the Adorama daily deal (changes Wednesday at 10am ET or earlier if sold out) is the XBox Wireless Control for $55 to $58 in three different color options…

And at the Best Buy dailies there’s the 64GB PNY Elite Turbo Attache 4 USB 3.0 Type A flash drive going for $10. That’s a long name for just a flash drive 🙂

I mangled up yesterday’s link, so here it is again with a working link:
Speaking of daily deals, the official Google Store has “discovered” daily deal technology [CORRECTED LINK] and while there, coupon code GOOGLESTORE2DAY gets you free 2-day shipping on all orders of there for a limited time…

PS: CORRECTION: the last three B&H daily deals links were unfortunately incorrect again, one was blank, two pointing to Best Buy. Also the Google Store link was mangled… I’m getting OLD!

Sunday is here and the B&H dailies [CORRECTED LINK] bring us four utilitarian items, good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if any happens to sellout]:

+ Oben ATM-2600 6-Section Aluminum Monopod for $35

+ Ruggard Red Series Scarlet Tech Messenger Bag for $30

+ GenuTech 82mm Variable Neutral Density and Circular Polarizer Filter for $89

+ Celestron Night Vision Red LED Flashlight for $6
+ of potential light painter interest as well

MEanwhile at the Woot website, you have Surface Books under “Computers” and a 17.3″ $550 HP touchscreen laptop under “Clearance”. And it’s a Stoopwafel-palooza under Grocery/Household 🙂

On the budget side of storage, one of the Sunday NewEGG deals du jour is the 256GB Team C188 USB 3.1 flash drive going for $25 with free NewEgg shipping…

Speaking of daily deals, the official Google Store has “discovered” daily deal technology [CORRECTED LINK] and while there, coupon code GOOGLESTORE2DAY gets you free 2-day shipping on all orders of there for a limited time…

Yes, the guy you see in the auto-play video looks familiar, you may have seen him on SNL or the severely underappreciated PORTLANDIA!

Never fear, Thursday is here and with it we have a utilitarian 4-pack of B&H daily deals, good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]:

+ Vello FreeWave Plus Wireless Remote Shutter Releases for various systems, six options, $30 each

+ SirUI T-2004SK T-S Aluminum Travel Tripod for $86 after mail-in rebate
+ mail-in rebates and cockroaches will be the last ones standing on Planet Earth 😉

+ NanLite MixWand 18 RGB Hard and Soft LED Light Painting Wand Battery Kit for $159

+ SaraMonic VMIC Pro Super Directional Video Condenser Microphone for $79

A camera is leading the way at the Best Buy daily deals, it is the new condition
Polaroid Originals OneStep 2 VF Analog Instant Film Camera going for $60 and it comes with the Shutterlag coupon…

To the NewEgg dailies we go now where they have, among others, the following potentially interesting items:

+ 512GB Team microSDXC card for $60

+ 6TB Seagate Expansion external USB drive for $105 after coupon but the reviewers are not very happy with it (3 out of 5 based on 300+ ratings as of the time of writing)

+ ASUS ProArt PA90 Mini PC Workstation for $1500 with add to cart
+ Core i7-9700K, Nvidia Quadro P4000, Thunderbolt 3, 16GB DDR4 [supports up to 64GB], 512 GB M.2 SSD + 1 TB HHD. bluetooth 5.0, Advanced Cooling features, etc

Meanwhile Amazon has a digital magazine sale [with auto-renewals] with the first year of National Geographic going for $9 in Kindle format. The print edition is for six months with auto-renewal. Auto-renewal will be at the futurely current price…

And for those in the EU, Amazon Germany has a Nikon Z summer sale with 16 options…

And we close with the Adorama daily deal, going with a $99 webcam with auto-focusing, the Green Extreme T300 HD…

Hump Day is back once again and with it we have four new B&H daily deals, good until 11:59pm ET, or earlier if sold out:

+ Tamrac Nagano 16L Camera Backpack (Charcoal) for $70

+ SmallHD 502 Bright On-Camera Monitor for $579

+ Roxio Game Capture HD Pro for $40

+ APC Back-UPS Pro BR1500MS Battery Backup & Surge Protector for $174

At the Best Buy deals du jour the headliner is the 64GB Sandisk Extreme SDXC [yellow] card going for $20 with the usual Shutterbug coupon included… Also on sale is a YI dashcam, various coffee & kitchen items, and the Logitech Harmony 950 for $200…

And at the Woot website there’s the 2018 iPad PRO under “Main”, Amazon’s own hardware (Fire tablets for $20+, Paperwhite (2016) for $60) under “Electronics” and HP monitors under “Computers”…

For the Europeanly-included, there’s a Canon sale at Amazon Germany that has the white EOS 250D dSLR with the 18-55 going for 519 euro-dollars, while the EF 24-70mm f4L IS USM lens goes for 724 euro-dollars and the EF-M 32mm f1.4 STM goes for 409 euro-dollars… There’s also a Canon camcorder…

Also at Amazon Germany’s Gold Box but part of the longer-running deals is an Instant Camera sale that has multiple colors of the Fuji Instax Mini 9 going for 48~ euro, and the HP Toad the Wet Sprocket printer going for around 100 euro… There’s also Mini 9 bundles with paper and a “green travel kit”…

Six is the magic number for the Tuesday B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]:

+ 8pk Watson colorful rechargeable 2500mAh 1.2V AA batteries for $18

+ Vortex 8×42 Diamondback HD Binoculars for $160
+ season tickets for the Arizona Diamondbacks NOT included 🙂

+ SaraMonic VmicLink5 5.8 GHz SHF Wireless Lavalier System and Receiver (5725 to 5875 MHz)
for $150

+ NOGA Cine Arm DG Hold-It Arm for $99

+ Christie Access Series UHD651-L 65″ Direct-Lit LED 4K UHD LCD Display for $995

Meanwhile at the Woot website, under Clearance/Sellout there’s a refurbished Microsoft Surface Studio 2 for $2700, budget HP laptops under Computers, Sony headphones under Electronics [they go well with your Sony-Style cameras!], and in case you ever run out of toilet paper, BioBidets under the main Woot 🙂

Surprise! The Adorama daily deal now has four items instead of one, and this lot is good until Tuesday at 10am eastern [or earlier for any of them that sells out]:

+ Quasar Science Q-Lion Q10 Lithium Ion Battery 10W Bi-Color LED Lamp, 12″ for $100

+ Apple 16″ MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, 9th-Gen 8-Core Intel i9 2.3GHz, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 4GB, Space Gray, Late 2019 Z0Y0005GJ / Z0Y000061 for $2849

+ XPG GAMMIX S11 Pro 1TB PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 SSD, 3500MB/s Read, 3000MB/s Write for $128

+ Meural Canvas 27″ Widescreen LCD WiFi Digital Photo Frame – Winslow Walnut for $395

Monday is here and with it we have four new B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]. It’s not a “lens day” but it is an “Apple Day” 🙂

+ iPad Pro 12.9″ (256GB, Wi-Fi + 4G LTE, Space Gray, Previous Gen) for $849
+ it is compatible with the new “magical mystical supernatural superserious sweet delirious…” [it’s starting to sound like an REM song?] keyboard 🙂

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

+ Ruggard Red Series Ruby 33 Tech Backpack for $50

+ GVM LS-150D LED Daylight Video Light for $235

Elsewhere, the Woot website is offering an “iPhones galore” sale as the main deal of the day with prices ranging from $100 to $1100. Get your 30-pin connectors and accessories ready 😉

Meanwhile at Amazon Chermany’s Gold Box, there’s a Lenovo Laptops Etc, lighting gear [general purpose, not photograhy-centric], and a couple of LG Gram laptops (1049 to 1149 euro-dollars).

Not part of the daily deals, but part of the limited time Gold Box deals, also at Amazon Germany, is the new condition GOPRO HERO 7 Black action camera going for 235 euro-dollars… One per customer at the sale price…

As usual, the Friday B&H daily deals last for 48 hours, until Saturday at 11:59pm ET, however, B&H does not accept orders [as usual] Friday PM to Saturday PM [check their website for exact times each week]:

+ flash deal: Yongnuo Speedlite YN600EX-RT II for Canon Cameras for $95 after automatic in-cart coupon

+ NanLite MixPad 11 Tunable RGB Hard and Soft LED Panel for $84

+ Vello FreeWave Fusion Wireless Flash Trigger & Remote Control for Canon SLR for $30

+ NaNuk 933 Case with Dividers and Lid Organizer (Black) for $180

+ Celestron Mars Observing Eyepiece Filter (1.25″) for $25