It’s e-Learning time! For a limited time, Creative LIVE is having a 19 classes for $19 each sale… Classes include Peter Hurley’s “Build your Light Knowledge”, Lindsay Adler’s “Location Lighting 101”, Fine Art Photography Complete Guide, Wedding Photography, Final Cut PRO X [not to be confused with the Pink Floyd album], landscape photography, retouching, and things of that nature…
Archives for July 2020
Thursday: Gitzo, GVM, SmallHD, Gabor, Smith-Victor, COVID, Etc
Thursday is upon with a new 6-pack of B&H daily deal, good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] as follows:
+ Smith-Victor Edge360 18″ Daylight LED Light for $170
+ the great mystery continues, which part Victor designed, and which part Smith designed???
+ Gitzo GT2542 Mountaineer Series 2 Carbon Fiber Tripod with GHF3W 3-Way Fluid Head Kit for $900
+ or you can buy 90 Ritz Camera tripods for the same price 😉
+ GVM 2D 2-Axis Wireless Carbon Fiber Motorized Slider with Bluetooth Remote (32″) for $420
+ an interesting price 🙂
+ SmallHD Reference Grade 17″ Production Monitor with Teradek Sidekick II Receiver for $3999
+ or you can buy 100 17″ computer monitors from eBay 😉
+ Gabor Fixed Wall Mount for 32-50″ Flat Panel Screens for $14~
+ COVID deals: Landou Reusable Fabric Face Masks, PM2.5 Filters & External Valve Kit for $22 in multiple color scheme combinations
If your interests intersect at Nintendo and microSDXC, one of the Best Buy deals du jour is the 256GB Nintendo Switch yellow Sandisk microSDXC card for $55… And a Pikachu case for the Switches for $15 for the inner child inside… While I’m a big fan of all sorts of coffeeware/teaware, I have a hard time understanding the need to pay $80 for a “temperature control” travel mug, which is one of their daily deals. It’s a 12oz mug, it’s not like you have a day’s worth of coffee/tea. And neither coffee, nor tea are ideally suited for this type of temperature manipulation [essentially reheating]… #SoapBoxENDS
Meanwhile at the Woot website the headliner is an Apple sale (iMac, iPad, MacBooks), while “Electronics” has another variant of their “former Android flagships” sale…
Wedn: Inkeltech Ring Light, Sublue SeaBow, Macro Ring Light, 1TB Samsung SSD, 256GB CF 2.0, Browning, Manfrotto, Etc
And just like that, Wednesday is here, another Mon-Fri work-week is at its middle point and with all that we have new B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] as follows:
+ BOLT VM-160 LED Macro Ring Light for $40
+ because macro is where it’s at!
+ 1TB Samsung 860 QVO SATA III 2.5″ Internal SSD for $100
+ Sublue Seabow Underwater Scooter for $699
+ MAnfrotto MVMXPROA4US Aluminum XPRO Video Monopod+ for $140
+ 256GB PROGrade CFexpress 2.0 Gold Memory Card for $230
+ Browning Recon Force 4K Trail Camera for $120
+ not to be confused with the Kodak Browni(ng)
Meanwhile at the Amazon USA Gold Box, an actual photography product is one of the deals du jour, it is the new condition Inkeltech Ring Light going for $91, sold by the company and fulfilled by Amazon… It averages 4.7 out of 5 based on 320+ customer ratings as of the time of writing…
A storage option can be found at the Best Buy dailies it is the new condition 4TB WD EasyStore external USB 3.0 HDD going for $75… There’s also an APC UPS because Photoshopping never stops!!!
Prime Day Update: Moving to October 2020, Still Subject to COVID change
One of the main Prime Benefits is the annual Prime Day which typically happens in the early summer. This year, because of COVID-19 seasons, it had been moved to September, and now according to new updates via Techmeme, the sale-a-bration is tentatively moved to October 2020. But still subject to change…
Considering that Black Friday is November 2020 and singles day is mid-November, the end of October is mayhaps the latest Amazon can do it without colliding with pre-existing sale-a-brations. On the other hand, this year could be Amazon’s embrace of Singles Day which could also be Prime Day. This paragraph being speculation of course…
Save the Date: Week starting July 12 has Woot Birthday Specials
If you are a fan of the way of the Woot, they are planning a variety of sale-a-brations for their 16th birthday on Sunday July 12 in 2020, and continuing during the rest of the week. They are teasing a number of the offerings, along with whatever else goes live on the actual dates.
Of note, Friday July 17 will have a Birthday Woot-OFF running from 7am to 10pm central time… During the week of sale-a-brations they’ll also have Prime exclusive deals and more… Check the aforelinked forum link for all the details…
Tuesday: Moza AIR 2, SmallHD Focus, CoreSWX, Vello, Tether
Tooozdei is here with four new B&H daily deals that’s good until 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out as follows:
+ Moza Air 2 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer for $349
+ SmallHD FOCUS SDI Monitor Cine Kit for $369
+ CoreSWX NPF-970, 6600mah L-Series Battery Kit for $40
+ Vello Eyeshades and Eyepieces, 14 options
+ sorry, Eyelashes not available 🙂
I forgot to post this earlier, there’s 3 hours left on it as of the time of writing, the Adorama daily deal (changes 10am ET) is the Tether Tools Case Air Wireless Tethering System going for $110 with free US shippings…
And if you are humble and you like to bundle, Humble Bundle has just launched a new offering, Data Science Essentials ebooks, with six ebooks at the $1+ tier, and more at the higher tiers… The previously mentioned film maker’s bundle also continues…
Meanwhile at the Woot website there’s a sale on Parrot drones ($144 to $360) under “Electronics”, while under “Computers” there’s the refurbished 14″ HP 360 Chromebook going for $270 with a 90-day HP warranty [4GB DDR4, 32GB eMMC, microSD card reader, 1366 x 768, 220 nits, 45% NTSC, UHD 600, bluetooth 5, 802.11ac, one USB-A and two USB-C ports, 3.5 lbs, updates until June 2026, etc]
FREE-Streaming This Week at Creative LIVE
If you like free-streaming content and you have the time-flexibility to be able to watch them [some of those classes are looooong], here’s the schedule for the next few days of the free-to-watch classes at Creative LIVE ON-AIR:
- Monday: Creative Portraits with Props, Creating your own stamps, YouTube ads, etc
- Tuesday: LIVE LAUNCH: Black Women Photographers, Color Theory for Photographers, Illustrator, Stamping, etc
- Wednesday: Sony a7 III Fast Start (over 5 hours long) with John Greengo, Facebook, Mixing Music, etc
- Thursday: LIVE: Capturing History and Herigate; Posing 101 with Lindsay Adler, WordPress Themes, Snapchat, etc
- Friday: Composition Basics, Instagram, Interactive PDFs, etc
- Saturday: Black and White film photography, Linked IN (with bonus clipboard clips LOL), Graphics for the web and social media, etc
- Sunday: Photography 101 with SLR Lounge, social media plan, etc
As usual, each day’s free-streaming classes begin at 12pm eastern and end 24 hours later. Classes that are under 24 hours in length continue repeating immediately after their end during the 24 hour window. There are no “Netflix controls”, so you have to watch the classes sequentially, you can’t jump around or rewind…
Monday: “Picture This – How Pictures Work” Expanded Molly Bang classic for $3 [eBook]
The 1991 classic book “Picture This: How Pictures Work” by Molly Bang is now available in an expanded and revised edition (2016, 154pp, Chronicle Books), and it is one of the Monday 7/6/20 Kindle daily deals going for $3. It averages 4.3 out of 5 based on 170+ ratings [rating is the (weighted? who knows) sum of written reviews and plain star-ratings].
Speaking of Amazon, it’s a very busy day of tech in the Germany Gold Box where the sales including a stunna ASUS Zen Ultrabook for 899 euro, MSI gaming, TP-Link, 15 euro multimeter kit, Oppo’s Find X2 smartphone line (PRO, NEO, Lite), Huawei MateBook 13, EGLO lighting, refurbished iPhones, IBRA cables, Amazon hardware, SodaStream, Melitta shiny coffee machines, Fitbit, Sennheiser, Bosch and Samsung Galaxy M31 smartphones…
Monday: GVM 2-Light Kit, Sirui Tripods, Litra GoPro filter kit, Pelican, Etc
Monday is here and with it we have four new B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] along with one flash deal:
+ GVM MB832-2L Bi-Color LED 2-Light Kit with Stands for $399
+ because it’s hard to have photography without light
+ Sirui Aluminum Video Tripod with Fluid Head, two options, $110~ to $127~ AFTER mail-in rebates
+ JollyLand Mars 400S SDI/HDMI Wireless Video Transmission System for $449
+ Litra LitraTorch 2.0 Filter Kit with GoPro Mount (Limited Edition) for $70
+ not to be confused with Lytro 🙂
+ flash deal: Pelican 1520NF Case without Foam (Silver) for $100
Outdoor Photographer for $4.72/yr
It’s the 4th of July sale at DiscountMags, and among the print-magazines delivered-to-USA-addresses offers they have, without autorenewal, they have:
+ Outdoor Photographer for $4.72/yr
+ VideoMaker for $6.69/yr
+ Digital Photo PRO for $6.82
+ various other “six degree of separation” magazines as well
Sunday: Lowepro Runner, Camera Muzzle, ElVid, Noca, Etc
Sunday is here and with it we have four new B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] as follows:
+ LowePRO Pro Runner BP 350 AW II Backpack for $130
+ Camera Muzzle Sound Blimp for $90
+ ElVid SkyVision WCM-758G 7″ Wireless LCD Monitor for $120
+ NOCA Cine Amrs, three options, $100 to $150
Meanwhile the Adorama daily deal [changes Monday 10am ET] is the AKG K702 headphone with a clamp going for $150…
Among the Best Buy dailies you will find another sale on their house brand single use Insignia batteries…
And at the Amazon USA Gold Box there’s a sale on factory renewed 15.4″ MacBook PROs going from $1630 to $1900…
Rokinon 85mm f1.4 MF for Nikon Z for $149 [ends Sun 10am ET]
Today is Zee Day for Nikon Zee fans, because the current Adorama daily deal, good until Sunday at 10am ET [or earlier if sold out] is the new condition Nikon Z version of the Rokinon 85mm f1.4 UMC lens, a manual focus lens of course, going for $149 with free US shipping…
It’s hard to argue for the price, unless you hate manual focus with the passion of a thousand suns 🙂
Luxli LED Light, Vello Softbox, HPRC for Nikon D850, RAVpower, Manfrotto, DigiPower Batteries, Etc
As usual, the Friday B&H daily deals last until Saturday 11:59pm ET but note that, as usual, B&H does not accept orders between Friday PM and Saturday PM [check their website for exact times]:
+ Luxli CNS-20D Constructor Medium Block On-Camera Daylight Balanced LED Light for $30
+ Vello Octa Softbox for Portable Flash, 8 inch for $12, 12 inch for $15
+ optionally buy it together with a cinch strap for a combined purchase discount
+ HPRC 2460 for Nikon D850 Filmmaker’s Kit (Black) for $124
+ RAVpower 20,000mAh RP-PB006 Power Bank for $19
+ flash deal: Manfrotto Pro Light Bumblebee-130 Camera Backpack for $140
Meanwhile at the Best Buy daily deals they have a sale on 13 Digipower camera batteries for various Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus and GoPRO cameras. Check each battery page over there for compatibility…
UPDATE: the Adorama daily deal (changes Saturday 10am ET or earlier if sold out) is the new condition Philips Hue White &Color Ambiance A19 LED Starter Kit Multicolor W/E26 Base Bulb offered for $199 with free US shipping and handling…
Save the Date [starts Friday 12pm ET]: 12-hour Nikon Lenses Complete Guide [FREE to Watch]
Save the Date if you are into Lenses or the Nikon system! There’s a 12-hour marathon coming! Per the Creative LIVE ON-AIR schedule, starting on Friday at 12pm eastern, they will be live-streaming for FREE the 11 hour and 36 minute “Nikon Lenses the Complete Guide” [CORRECTED LINK] class with their resident camera-gear-guru John Greengo. Lessons #1 and #4 are always available to stream for FREE, so you could watch them and see whether this class might be of interested.
Given the duration of the class, there are two full planned airings:
+ starts Friday at 12pm ET
+ starts Friday at 11:36pm ET
+ streaming ends Saturday around 11:50am ET
UPDATE: speaking of Creative LIVE, and for “post economy”, they have another limited time sale, 12 classes for $12 each that includes a class on Macro Flowers [Franz Lanting, 5 hours], portraiture, speedlights 101, long exposure, narrative, and more…
Keep in mind, almost all classes have at least one chapter/lesson available to stream for free always, so you can get some feel for the instructor and the nature of the class…
Humble Bundle: Focal Press eBooks for Film-Making [$1 gets you 6 ebooks, pay more, get more]
If you are interested in film-making, good for the next 13 days (as of the time of writing), Humble Bundle has a Film-Maker Book Bundle by Focal Press. These are DRM-FREE ebooks available in multiple formats [you can download all the formats, you don’t have to choose one format].
The $1+ tier includes six ebooks including sound, cloud, indie, genre, and screenwriting.
The $7+ tier adds seven more ebooks, from the general film-related topics to the specifics.
And then the $13.50+ tier adds eight more ebooks, making it a total of 21 books, and it includes single-camera production, low budget, visual effects, on location, and more…
Of other potential interest at Humble Bundle they have the following:
- Technology essentials for non-techies in business
- Apress ebooks on digital security (cybersecurity and such)
- Circuits and Electronics ebook bundle (DSP, Engineering principles, etc)
- Map Software Bundle
- Learn Python with PyCharm
- Image Comics showcase
- each of the above bundles has its own expiration date
Thursday: refurb Canon SX720 HS zoom for $150, $50 Bolt flash (5 systems), Sirui, Bushnell Trophy, FeelWorld, LensCoat, Polaroid OneStep 2, WD, Etc
Thursday is upon us with 4+1 B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]:
+ BOLT VS-570 Wireless TTL Flash for $50 in your choice of Nikon, Canon, OlyPan, Sony (MIS), and The Fujees
+ Sirui P-424SR Photo/Video Monopod with VH-10X Head for $170 after mail-in rebate ; also a shorter version for less
+ BushNell Trophy Cam HD E3 Low-Glow Trail Camera for $120
+ FeelWorld FW703 7″ IPS 3G-SDI 4K HDMI On-Camera Monitor for $189
+ flash deal: LensCoat LensPouch (Large Wide, Black) for $12
+ no teaser for next flash deal aottow [as of the time of writing]
Meanwhile at the Woot dailies they have:
+ Clearance/Sellout: Polaroid OneStep 2 Viewfinder i-Type Camera Bundle with 3 Color i-Type Film Packs (8 Instant Photos/per pack) for $80 [limit three per customer; 1 year Polaroid warranty]
+ Electronics: Aduro U-Stream Ring Lights for $19 to $38
+ Computers: refurbished Surface PRO 4 (12.3″, i5-6300U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Win10 PRO, etc) for $500 [1 year Microsoft warranty, up to three per customer]
+ Surface Pen NOT included;
The headliner of the Best Buy deals du jour is the 4TB WD EasyStoooor external USB 3.0 HDD for $87~, but there’s also the refurbished RED Canon SX720 HS compact-zoom going for $150, and things like that…
UPDATE: the Adorama daily deal (changes 10am ET on Friday) is the new condition Alctron UM900 USB Condenser Microphone going for $50 with free US shipping…
Wedn: 13″ Daylight LED, AB battery, WD, Netflix, 1TB Samsung SSD, Etc
And just like that it’s Hump Day once again and with it we have new daily deals, these for July 1st in 2020, which means exactly half of the darned 2020 is done. Lettuce hope the second half is less dramatic and more peaceful!
Four are the deals du jour at B&H Photo good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier for any that sells out):
+ Smith Victor Edge360 13″ Daylight LED Light for $100
+ AntOn BauER Edge360 13″ Daylight LED Light for $380
+ Gabor Fixed Wall Mount for 27-42″ Flat Panel Screens for $15
+ Senal Cardioid Gooseneck Microphone for $59
It’s streaming time at the Best Buy daily deals, for $100 you get a $100 Netflix gift card [you can load it up to your own account, you don’t have to gift it to others] and a $10 bonus Best Buy electronic gift card… There’s also a 128GB Sandisk Extreme PLUS microSDXC for $34, a 24″ Dell IPS for $160, a popcorn maker, an espresso machine, a 14TB WD EasyStooor for $200, and more…
And at the Amazonian Gold Box, the headliner is a 1TB Samsung 860 QVO SSD going for $100, while the “Kids editions” of the Kindle and Echo are $30 and $20 off respectively.
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