Archives for August 2020

Never fear, Monday is here with a new set of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ DataColor SpyderX Elite Colorimeter for $170

+ SirUI T-1204SK Carbon Fiber Tripod with G-10KX Ball Head Travel Tripod Kit for $150

+ TechArt PRO Leica M Mount Lens to Sony E-Mount Camera Autofocus Adapter for $230

+ LitePanels Carry Case for LP1x1 Four Light Kit for $138~
+ the Universal Law of Bags: if a company sticks around long enough, they will eventually sell bags 🙂

Meanwhile the Adorama daily deal is Slinger Electronic dry cabinets with prices ranging from $119 to $999…

With Back to School season in theoretical full swing, the Amazon Gold Box is having a computer/gaming sale along with an Intel i7 and i9 sale, and a Brevelle Duo Temp PRO espresso machine for $350 as well…

High-end Chromebooks are the theme of the “Computers” sub-Woot at the Woot website with prices going up to $1070 for an ASUS Flip with an Intel i7 processor (!?!?!?)…

And at the Bestest Buy they offer the 128GB PNY SDXC Elite Performance card for $21

And just like that, Sunday is here headlined by six name-brand centric B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]:

+ Tamrac Rally 5 V2.0 Shoulder Bag (Black) for $40

+ 16GB Sandisk Ultra CompactFlash Memory Card for $25 minus a 40% off automatic in-cart coupon, which according to my back of the envelope math [no actual envelopes used, just my bird-brain], $15 after coupon

+ Samsung Galaxy Note 10 + SM-N976B (12GB RAM, 512GB on-board, microSD) smartphone for $770 with FREE Samsung charger kit and 3rd party lanyard
+ note that this is the International Variant with the Samsung Exynos 9825 processor [not the Qualcomm Snapdragon the USA variants get]
+ no headphone jack but the box includes USB-C earphones

+ 1TB Samsung 860 QVO SATA III 2.5″ Internal SSD for $90 after automatic in-cart coupon

+ also Audio-Technica bluetooth earphones and sport face masks

IF you are fishing for older Amazon Kindles and Fire tablets, there’s refurbished Woot daily deal with nine in-stock options [four have already sold out] that includes the 2017 Kindle Oasis e-reader for $130, and the 7″ Kindle Fire HDX tablet for $25…

And among the Amazon USA Gold Box deals of the day [not a lighting deal] there’s this 10″ Selfie Ring Light with 50″ Extendable Tripod Stand & Flexible Phone Holder offered for around $36.50 with free US shipping. The brand is, I think [or it’s the store name] “UBeesize”. Not that it really matters 🙂 Regardless, as of the time of writing it averages 4.3 out of 5 based on over 10,000 customer ratings and it has 400+ answered questions, and it has the coveted “Amazon Choice” algorithmically-produced (I think) black tag…

Speaking of e-readers, among the Sunday Kindle Daily Deals there’s Asimov’s “Foundation” and “Ready Player One” [“Two” is coming because everything eventually gets a sequel] for $3 each…

Lettuce take a look at some of the currently-running daily deals starting with the Adorama dailies which is the ORLIT Rover RT TTL 300ws Off-Camera Flash Kit With Bowens Mount going for $199 with free US shipping until Sunday at 10am ET or earlier if sold out. Adoama among only a few retailers that does not have a daily-deal that covers a calendar day but rather it spans two calendar days – in their native time zone…

Among the Saturday 8/29/20 NewEGG dailies there’s a 120GB Lexar 2.5″ SATA III SSD going for $20 with free US shipping…

The headliner of the Best Buy dailies is the Intel i7-9700F 8-core 9th-generation CPU going for $250…

Another retailer whose daily deal spans two days is Musician’s Friend and their current offer, good until Sunday 8am ET [or earlier if sold out] is the ZOOM H1n handy recorded in the “Red Edition” going for $80 with free US shipping…

At the Amazon USA Gold Box there’s another variant of the Anker accessories sale…

Speaking of Amazon, they are now running a pre-Labor Day sale… *GASP* just like that it’s Labor Day. This crazy year is moving at a breakneck speed, it’s as if we are living on a VHS tape on fast-forward!

We forgot about Dre, and we also forgot about Thursday, but time won’t stand still [TM Pink Floyd], it’s Friday now and as usual there’s a new set of 48-hour B&H offerings good until Saturday at 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] as follows:

+ GVM Bi-Color LED Video Light G100W for $209

+ Sensei DOC-CK Deluxe Optics Care and Cleaning Kit for $13

+ iKan IBS-970 Battery for $50

+ Amazfit GTS Smartwatches for $115 after automatic in-cart coupon [six options]

Friday ONLY
Meanwhile of the Friday-only offerings, we have:

+ Best Buy: 1TB WD MyPassport Encrypted SSD for $140, Intel i5-9600K 9th Gen for $180, ASUS ROG Strix G15 gaming laptop for $880, etc

+ at the Woot website it’s an Apple party at the main Woot and the Computers sub-Woot with prices ranging from $10 to $1890

UPDATE: the latest Adorama daily deal [changes Saturday by 10am ET] is a duology as follows:

+ Gaems M155 15.5″ 16:9 Full HD Performance Gaming E-LED Monitor for $100

+ 27″ LG 27UD68-P 27″ 16:9 4K Ultra HD FreeSync IPS Monitor for $390

Tuesday 8/25/20 brings us a six-pack of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier for anything that may sell out ahead of its designated expiration time]:

+ Capture ONE PRO 20 (Download) for $179

+ Tamrac Anvil T0375 M.A.S & M.O.L.L.E Modular Accessory Slim Belt (Medium) for $8
+ do memorize this product name, it will be on the mid-term!

+ Sandisk Extreme PRO CFexpress Card Reader $70 minus 42% in-cart coupon
+ the reviewers don’t seem to like it though

+ EDELKRONE SliderPLUS Long (21″) for $359

+ also IDX battery and A&K audio player

Never fear, Monday is here to start an exciting new work week 🙂 And with it we have four new B&H daily deals, good until 11:59pm ET {or earlier for any that manages to sell out} as follows:

+ Lowepro HighLine BP 400 AW 36L Backpack for $80

+ GVM P80S LED 4-Light Kit with Umbrellas, Softboxes, and Backdrops for $439

+ ZHIYUN-TECH WEEBILL-S Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer for $329

+ TP-Link ARCHER C8 Dual Band WirelessAC1750 Gigabit Router for $40

The Zhiyun Weebill-S is also part of the Best Buy deals du jour, where we also find the 64GB SAndisk Extreme PLUS SDXC card going for $20.

Sunday is here with a new 4-pack of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] as follows:

+ 32GB Sony CFast 2.0 G for $60
+ or buy a 2-pack for $115

+ DataColor SpyderLensCal Autofocus Calibration Aid for $39

+ Porta Brace PB-2500EP Hard Case & Camera/Lens Case Kit for $129

+ 50-Pack VISIBLEDUST Ultra MXD-100 Green Sensor Cleaning VSwabs for $100
+ you too can start that sensor-cleaning business you always dreamed about!

The Adorama daily deal [changes Monday 10am ET] is very utilitarian, the Orbit Powerbank Charger and Bluetooth Tracker going for $10…

And for those who like to e-read, over 100 e-books are participating in the Sunday Gold Box daily deals…

Friday is here and the calendar says August 21 in 2020, that’s just 4 months until Christmas 2020! Until then, until Saturday at 11:59pm ET [or earlier for anything that may sell out] we have these B&H daily deals, which, as in every Friday, last for 48 hours because B&H does not accept orders Friday PM to Saturday PM [check their website for exact times]:

+ Impact 5-in-1 Collapsible Circular Reflector Disc – 32 inch – for $19
+ these are handy; and if all else fails, you can use them in the car as well 😉

+ Feelworld 7″ 2200 cd/m² Full HD 3G-SDI/HDMI On-Camera Monitor with 4K Support for $269

+ VORTEX 8×42 Crossfire HD Binoculars for $110 with FREE Vortex Harness

+ Tether Tools ONsite USB Type-C 87W PD Battery Pack for $100

+ flash deal: Tamrac TamLoc Tether for $6

Thursday is here and with it we get a new set of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] as follows:

+ Tenba messenger bags, three options, $120 to $130

+ 256GB PRO Grade CFexpress 2.0 Type B Gold Memory Card (Gen 1) for $200

+ Smith-Victor SmartLED Spectrum Bi-Color LED Light with RGB for $90
+ Smith designed the LED, and Victor the RGB 😉

+ disposable 3-ply masks, 50-pack to 1000-pack, $17 (34c per mask) to $300 (30c per mask)

Budget microSD action at the NewEGG dailies where you can get the 256GB Team Group Elite U3 V30 A1 4K for $26 with free US shipping…

This time around only one offer is happening at the Adorama daily deal [changes Friday 10am ET], it is the new condition QNAP TS-230 2-Bay NAS Enclosure offered for $150 with free US Shipping…

Never fear, Hump Day is here and with it we have a new string quartet of B&H dailies good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] as follows:

+ Porta Brace Hard Case with Six 4″ Lens Cups for $100

+ MoVo GH800 Carbon Fiber Professional Gimbal Tripod Head for $130

+ ASUS Designo MZ27AQL 27″ 16:9 IPS Monitor for $279
+ HDMI + DisplayPort Inputs, 2560 x 1440 Resolution, 1000:1 Static Contrast Ratio, etc

+ 64GB iPad Pro 12.9″ with Wi-Fi and 4G LTE, the previous generation model, for $669
+ additional options for $more$: with Apple Care, with the Magic Mystical Surreal and Whimsical Keyboard and both together

The ASUS party continues at the Best Buy dailies where the headliner is the $470 ASUS X512DA-BTS2020RL laptop [they need better names!] with Ryzen 5 3500U, 8GB RAM, 512GB PCIe SSD, 1920 x 1080, Vega 8, Windows Goodbye [okay, Hello], etc… Also in the Best Buy offerings is a 2TB WD external USB 3.0 portable hard drive going for $55, while the 1TB WD SSD external for $100 has sold out…

Among the Amazon USA Gold Box options there’s the slim Anker 10,000 mAh portable power bank going for $20. The defining feature here is that it is a slim powerbank…

Meanwhile at the Adorama daily deals [end by Thursday 10am ET] they have a mini Lexar theme:

+ 128GB Lexar CFexpress Type B with Lexar reader for $170

+ 32GB Lexar USB 3.1 flash drive for $7.50

This is not a daily deal but it’s too small to garner an individual post, among the Top 20 of Woot best sellers is a sale on 2-packs of Centon microSD cards. The 64GB duo goes for $30 while the 32GB duo goes for $22. Sale ends in about 12 days or earlier if sold out….

Tuesday is here and this time around we have six B&H daily deals, good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if soldout] as follows:

+ 2-Pack 16GB SanDisk Ultra CompactFlash cards for $30 total

+ Tamrac Goblin Lens Pouches for $7 in three color options

+ SirUI T-1004SK Tripod with G-10KX Ball Head Travel Tripod Kit for $100

+ Lowepro HighLine RL x400 AW 37L Rolling Luggage for $100

+ QNAP TS-453Be 4-Bay NAS Enclosure for $379

+ and of course reusable fabric masks
+ are there enough “Mask Review” sites yet or should I start one? 🙂

All kinds of randomness at the Woot website from Chromebase All-in-One desktops [ChromeOS] to suitcase record players [LOL] to bluetooth speakers…

And among the Tuesday German-time zone Amazon Germany Gold Box deals there’s a couple of new condition Eanling drones ranging from 64 to 94 euro-dollars…

Meanwhile the Adorama daily deal is a single this time aroumd, it is the Apai Genie S1 Auto Smart Shooting 360 Degree Object Tracking Smart Phone Holder going for $29 with free US shipping. Offer ends by Wednesday 10am ET….

Monday is upon us already and with it we have four new B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]:

+ Peak Design CaptureLENS for $40 in your choice of Canon EF, Nikon F and Sony E

+ Sublue Swii Electronic Kickboard (Sunrise Orange) for $240
+ I have no idea what this thing is

+ HP ProDesk 600 G4 Mini Desktop Computer for $469
+ 2.3 GHz Core i5-8600T, 8GB of 2666 MHz DDR4 RAM, Intel UHD Graphics 630, 256GB NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD, etc

+ OnePlus 7T 128GB Smartphone (Unlocked, Glacier Blue) for $400
+ GSM + CDMA / 4G LTE Compatible North American Variant

Tired of costly annual cloud software subscriptions from companies that make billions in profits per year capitalizing on their virtual monopoly without regard for the average photographer?

Well, if you prefer one-time purchases, then head on to the Adorama daily deals where their headliner is the Phase One Capture One Pro 20 imaging software on sale for $79 as a digital download. This is marked as “for Nikon”…

There are a couple of other daily deals at Adorama as well:

+ Polar Pro LiteChaser Pro Visionary Kit for iPhone 11 for $120

+ Pictar Webinar Kit with 18mm Wide Angle Lens for Smartphones, Splat Flexible 3N1 Tripod(Blue), and Smart Light for $85

The above offers end on Monday 8/17/20 at 10am eastern, or earlier if sold out…

PS: speaking of daily deals, this Discount Mags weekend sale is a “default” sale, where three photography-related magazines are on sale at their “default” sale prices, $5/yr for Outdoor Photographer, $7/yr for VideoMaker and $8/yr for “Digital Photo PRO”…

Sunday is here with a new round of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] as follows:

+ Gift Trenz Woodsum Pinhole Camera for $30

+ Nanuk 930 Case with Foam for $85 after automatic in-cart coupon

+ 64GB Kingston Datatraveler DT50 USB 3.0 Flash Drive for $7
+ or buy a 6-pack for $33

+ ZILR HDMI-related cables, four options, $15 each

FriYAY is here for those still not despondent enough to celebrate. But you can also sale-a-brate because a new day brings a new hope [by George Lucas, not the other un-canon pew-pew emo Kylo nonsense LOL]…

The B&H daily deals on Fridays, as always, last until Saturday at 11:59pm ET but B&H does not accept orders Friday PM to Saturday PM [check their website for exact hours], thus the 48 hour window:

+ Rechargeable afficionados this is for you!!!
+ PowerEX 8-Cell Smart Charger Kit with 8 Precharged Rechargeable AA 2600 mAh NiMH Batteries for $40
+ LCD with individual battery charge levels
+ 8-battery carry/storage AA/AAA case included
+ charges in 1 hour [Rapid Charge] or 2 hours [Soft Charge]
+ charges 1-8 batteries independently
+ charges AA or AAA, NiMH or NiCD
+ as of time of writing, averages 4.5 out of 5 based on 128 customer reviews

+ Tenba messenger bags, three options, $60 to $160
+ we haven’t had a “bag the bags” dedicated post in a while! SAD! ~ but there’s a new blog-post after this with BAGS 🙂

+ Ruggard round floating wrist straps,four options, $4 to $11

+ bomb da bass: JBL portable bluetooth speaker for $120

Thursday is here and with it we have a new round of B&H dailies, good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] as follows:

+ Porta Brace Large Wheeled Case for Grip Equipment for $189

+ ACCsoon CineEye Wireless Video Transmitter with 5 GHz Wi-Fi for up to 4 Mobile Devices for $149

+ DraCast Boltray LED600 Plus Daylight LED Light for $139

+ PapaGO GoSafe 230 1080p Dash Camera for $40
+ looks like a good old P&S digital camera

+ Edelkrone HeadPLUS kits for $2199, two options

+ COVID deal of the day: Contec Deluxe Pulse Oximeter Blood Oxygen Level Monitor for $27

Sandisk is back at the Best Buy dailies where the 32GB Extreme PRO SDHC goes for $13… And if you don’t want to use up your toilet paper supplies, they have a bidet offer as well 🙂

Wednesday is here and we have a new round of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ GenAray Beacon LED Wand-Style Light for $139 with FREE Genaray Battery for Beacon LED Light and Genaray Barndoors for Beacon LED Wand

+ Samsung 2TB 860 QVO SATA III 2.5″ Internal SSD for $175

+ also CAD mic system and ION battery kit

There’s a couple of Woot-OFFs running under “Clearance” and “Shirt” at the Woot website…

Storage action at the Best Buy dailies where the 1TB Sandisk Ultra internal PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD for $110…

And for those shopping in the EU, Amazon Germany is having an Anker accessories sale including power-banks, chargers, cables and such…

Last but not least, among the Adorama daily deals [change Thursday at 10am ET] they offer the Datacolor Spyder-Lens-Cal Autofocus Calibration Aid for $31 but also the Sublue Whiteshark MIX Underwater Scooter with Floater for $419…

Hello Tuesday with a new round of B&H dailies good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out) as follows:

+ GVM Aluminum 5-Section Monopod with Video Fluid Head for $89

+ open-box Peak Design Everyday Tote Bag (Charcoal) for $70

+ also Saramonic mic and bullet camera offers

A trio of offers is currently running at the Adorama daily deals (changes Wednesday at 10am ET) and it includes a Sony headphone, a Green Extreme HD webcam, and for $100 you can get the Benro X-Series 3XS 3-Axis Handheld Smartphone Gimbal Stabilizer…

If budget microSDXC cards are your thing, among the Tuesday NewEgg dailies is the 256GB Patriot EP series microSDXC going for $30 with free US shipping [V30, A1, UHS-I, U3, 4K, C10]…

If Samsung is your brand, it’s all about Samsung at the Best Buy dailies with a mix of TVs, appliances, a 1TB T5 SSD Type C portable drive for $140, and microSD EVO Plus cards on sale as well (64GB to 512GB)…

If you are fond of OnePlus phones and you want to give them a try, but were not impressed with the 8 series, under “Electronics” of the Woot dailies you can get the unlocked One Plus 7 PRO (256GB, GSM LTE unlocked) for $450, while “Computers” has a refurbished 15.6-inch FHD IPS touchscreen HP Chromebook for $300 with a 90-day warranty. This has a Core i3-8130U dual-core processor and this platform will get ChromeOS updates until June 2025. It certainly ticks a lot of wishlist items for budget laptops (IPS, full HD, touchscreen, 15.6″ display, 4GB RAM {which is a must now that ChromeOS also has Android and Google Play and a Linux option built-in}, 128GB on-board storage, card reader, backlit keyboard with numeric keypad, USB-C and USB-A ports, Intel 620 graphics, etc)…

And for Meh fans, they have a 2-pack of rotating wireless chargers with USB ports for $12 total with free shipping for members, otherwise shipping is extra…