Archives for November 2020

Tuesday: Glyph, Peak D CaptureLENS, Bushnell, Tamrac, Etc

Cyber Monday is over, here comes “Leftovers Tuesday” with a new set of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier for any that sells out):

+ 128GB LExar Professional SDXC UHS-II for $110

+ 3TB Glyph Blackbox Pro 7200 rpm USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C External Hard Drive for $130

+ PEAK DESIGN CaptureLENS for $40 in your choice of Canon EF, Nikon F and Sony E/FE

+ Tamrac Tradewind Zoom Bag 1.4 (Dark Gray) for $10

+ BushNell Trophy Cam HD Aggressor No-Glow Trail Camera (Brown) for $99

+ also Netgear router and Senal headphones

Flash Deals
+ ends 7am ET: NANGUANG CN-100FC Bi-Color LED Fresnel for $599
+ starts 7am ET: Sirui N-2204SK N-S Series Tripod (Carbon Fiber)
+ starts 12pm ET: Zhiyun-Tech Remote Control for Crane 2

UPDATE: a six-pack of factory reconditioned Parrot drones are part of the Tuesday Woot daily deals, with prices ranging from $60 (Bebop) to $535 (Anafi Extended)…

Fuji X100F Big Sensor Prime for $749 [UPDATED] {ends Tuesday 10am ET}

UPDATE Tuesday 12:42am ET
The black color scheme has sold out at Adorama and it cannot be ordered. BUT the silver Fuji X100F remains in-stock and orderable for $749!

Also, when you expand the optional “Special Offer” section, there are combined purchase discounts on select Fuji memory cards. For example you can add a 128GB Fuji microSDXC for +$11 to your order. The discounts of the six cards offered are stackable with each other and you can buy anywhere from zero to six (one of each) of them…

As of this recheck, this offer has not been price-matched at B&H Photo (both colors remain at $899), nor Amazon herself…

ORIGINAL POST
Cyber Monday has something big in the Adorama daily deals. This set is good until Tuesday at 10am ET (or earlier if sold out)…

+ new condition Fuji X100F Big Sensor Prime in the aforelinked silver color scheme or the black color scheme for $749 with free US shipping
+ plus, Adorama includes for FREE a 32GB Fujifilm USB 2.0 (two point zero) flash drive
+ the flash drive will be included automatically by Adorama while this promotion is running
+ but if you want more flash drives, it goes for $4.25 on its own

+ Datacolor SpyderX Elite Color Calibration for $170

+ Qnap TS-230 2-Bay NAS Enclosure (Realtek RTD1296 ARM Cortex-A53 Quad-Core 1.4 GHz, 2GB RAM) for $130

+ LG Ultra PC 17″ WQXGA IPS Notebook for $1130
+ i7-10510U 1.8GHz, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (4GB), W10, etc

For more Adorama Cyber Monday action, check their Cyber Monday deals or if you don’t want to swim in information overload, here’s their Top 100 CM deals

Cyber Monday: 10% off USED with coupon at KEH Camera

Cyber Monday is here at KEH Camera, offering 10% off many things until Cyber Monday 11/30/20 at 11:59pm ET using coupon code BF20A in the shopping cart over there.

They have exclusions are usual: no NEW condition products, no Leica-branded products, no “USED – Like New”, and no “Digital Photography Starter Kits”. If there’s anything left that is not excluded, enjoy the coupon 😉

Cyber Monday Camera and Photo Lightning Deals: GoPro Hero7, Neewer, And The Usual

As of the time of writing there are over 130 items in the Camera and Photo Lightning Deals of the Amazon Gold Box. Still no cameras and lenses but there is an older name brand action camera offered most likely by a 3rd party seller:

+ starts 12pm ET: GoPro HERO7 White – E-Commerce Packaging
+ note however that there are six different options on the same listing, and sometimes the Gold Box points to the “root item” instead of the item that will be on sale
+ sometimes more than one of the options is on sale, sometimes all of them, occasionally they get cancelled or rescheduled

+ the rest of the offers is the usual party of lightning kits of all kinds, tripods, camera bags, budget action cams, and such with the usual suspects, Neewer, Akaso, E-Mart, GVM, Geekfoto, etc

Cyber Monday 1-Day Sale for Canon, Nikon, Fuji and Sony [226 options]

Cyber Monday sale-a-brations at B&H Photo. This set of promotions is good for Cyber Monday 2020 only. They expire on Monday at 11:59pm eastern:

+ Sony Lenses, 30 options, including primes, zooms, FE, PZ and of course some Zeiss-blessed lenses

+ Fuji Camera and Lens sales, 39 options including X-System cameras and lenses, an XP-series Finepix, and a medium format too

+ Canon Cameras, Lenses, Etc, 107 options, including EF, EF-S, RF, EF-M cameras and lenses, Powershots and various accessories

+ Nikon DSLR and Mirrorless, 50 options, cameras and lenses and a battery grip too

+ for more action, check all their Cyber Monday Deals for 2020

Cyber Monday at DiscountMags: Buy More Save More (as low as 10 magazines for $30 total per year)

If you like to read magazines or have them at your office/studio/home, or support the print-publishing industry, or gift magazines, the Cyber Monday deal at DiscountMAGS is a BUY MORE to SAVE MORE offer. These are print magazines delivered to USA addresess. No auto-renewal…

+ buy any 3 from the list, pay $12 per year total ($4 per magazine)

+ buy any 5, pay $18 per year total ($3.60 per magazine)

+ buy any 10, pay $30 per year total ($3 per magazine)

+ if you fall somewhere in-between, their bundle-builder widget will give you the total

Two photography magazines are participating, “Outdoor Photographer” and “Digital Photo PRO”, along with the usual assortment of “six degrees of separation” (from photography) magazines including WIRED, Popular Mechanics, Cosmo, Vogue, GQ, Bazar, weddings, Essence, Vanity, sports, Backpacker, Traveler, Car and Driver, foodies, Better Home and Gardens, Southron Living, etc

Cyber Monday at the Amazon Gold: NixPlay, Anker, Build Your Own PC, Etc

Cyber Monday has arrived at the Amazon Gold Box. No cameras or lenses, but some potentially interesting items. As usual, offers end at 11:59pm pacific time, or earlier for anything that sells out:

+ NixPlay digiframes, $115 to $180, multiple options on the same listing
+ Brookstone digiframes, $70 to $133, multiple options on the same listing as well

+ Laptops for Content Creators: ASUS Zen PRO, ConceptD and MSI Creator
+ HP computers
+ Gaming Laptops and Desktops and Monitors too, 18 options including ASUS/ROG, Acer, LG, Dell/Alienware, HP, Evoo, CyberPower, iBuyPower, Skytech, etc

+ Build Your Own PC, 24 options, including ASUS, Ryzen, Intel, Crucial, WD internals, Toshiba, Gigabyte, Thermaltake, MSI, EVGA and CoolerMaster

+ another Anker sale, 8 options, including four powerbanks, wall chargers, etc

+ Echo Show 5 for $45 among 160+ Amazon Hardware sales

+ electronics include 75″ and 82″ Samsung 4K UHD, Ring doorbell 3, Sabrent Internal & External storage, etc

+ other sales include RoboRock robotic vacuums, $80 9-in-1 Instant Pot [winter stews and such!], five pages of kitchen sales, etc

+ Samsung Androids including Galaxy S20* and Note10+ among others

+ two pages of Android phones from Moto, OnePlus, Sony, LG, Google Pixels, and budget-carrier phones

+ this is just a sampling, I can’t post them all, find them all at the Cider Monday Amazon Gold Box

PS: it becomes “Cider Monday” if you are drinking any kind of cider 🙂

B&H launches their Cyber Monday Deals too!

B&H Photo has launched their Cyber Monday 2020 deals too, which you can find by paging down and paging down and paging down until your mouse gets tired 🙂 Too many to list individually here… [for a breakdown of their daily deals check our earlier post…]

Separately they have a No Interest IF Paid in 24 Months promotion using the B&H Financing Credit Card. Check the terms and conditions and restrictions (they have nice FAQs) at the aforelinked page.

Note that the B&H Financing Card mentioned in the paragraph above is a SEPARATE product from the previously mentioned B&H PayBoo card…

Mon: Adobe Elements 2020 (both Photoshop/Premiere) for $60

Adobe is back at the Woot dailies, they are having Adobe Elements 2020 as one of their Cyber Monday deals of the day (expires Monday at 11:59pm central or earlier if sold out).

The price is this: $50 each package BUT if you add both to the shopping cart, you get a $40 off combined purchase discount [automatically happening in the shopping cart when both are present], making both of them be $60.

Adorama launches their Cyber Monday Deals (1800+) and their Top 100 Cyber Monday Deals

Adorama has launched their Cyber Monday deals with over 1800 options participating. You can use the categories and options on the left hand side to filter them (eg by brand). Over 1140 of them are in Photography and another 210+ are in Video.

But if you are pressed for time and don’t want to go through 1800 items, Adorama has you covered as well, they have also launched their Top 100 deals. Just like their Top 100 Black Friday, these are organized in blocks by product category (eg cameras, lenses, computers, etc). If you want to see a lot more click on the “See All” at the top right corner of each category block…

Capture One PRO 20 for $175 w/$25GC, Litra Torch and PRO, Godox [end Mon 10am ET]

Forgot to post the current set of Adorama daily deals this set is good until Monday at 10am eastern or earlier for any individual item that sells out ahead of its designated expiration time [it’s so nice to type on a mechanical keyboard, the words flow, when you see longer (superfluous) sentences, it probably means I’m using a mechanical keyboard LOL]:

+ Phase One Capture One Pro 20 Photo Editing Software, Download for $175
+ includes a $25 Adorama Gift Certificate

+ Litra LitraPro for $150

+ Litra LitraTorch 2.0 Filter Set Limited Edition – Adorama Exclusive Kit for $57

+ Godox SL-60 LED Video Light (Daylight-Balanced) for $99

UPDATE: I didn’t notice it initially (or it was added later in the day) but the Neewer Ring Lights Etc recurring sale has returned to the Amazon Gold Box deals of the day [not Lightning Deals] with six options, $51 to $160. Offer ends Sunday at 11:59pm pacific time…

LAST CALL (Mon PM): $25+ Kindle ebooks, Get $6 back

This is a last call alert, Monday 11/30/20 at 11:59pm pacific time is the last day to take advantage of the Amazon Kindle Buy $25+ in ebooks, get $6 promotional ebook credit promotion. The details are at the aforelinked page, the two things to remember is that you must activate the promotion. The other thing is actually a nice thing, once you activate the offer, it works retroactively for ebook purchases between November 23-30 in 2020, and the ebooks can be purchased on different days and times, not a single transaction.

This works on ebooks of all kinds since Amazon’s digital arm is the only one selling ebooks, there are no 3rd-party sellers like there are with physical products. So whether you buy fiction, non-fiction, camera guides, “Understanding Exposure”, Photoshop/LR books, etc, Harlequins, sports e-almanacs, etc…

Cyber Monday: Acer, Apple, WD, Monitors, Studio Lights/Acc, MeFoto, Flash Deals, Etc

Cyber Monday (or Cider Monday depending on your preferences) is here, and with it we have a name-brand-centric edition of the B&H Photo daily deals good until 11:59pm ET on Monday 11/30/20 or earlier for any that sell out [flash deals only last a few hours]…

+ Acer 15.6″ Predator Triton 300 Gaming Notebook with FREE Bitdefender for $1229
+ 2.6 GHz i7-10750H Six-Core, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB M.2 SSD, 15.6″ 1920 x 1080 240Hz IPS,NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q, etc

+ MeFoTo BackPacker S Travel Tripod (Titanium, Carbon Fiber) for $90 in four color options

+ Studio Lights and Accessories, seven options, $60 to $239 featuring different brands and types

+ WD hard drives, nine options, $42 to $170, from the MyBook, MyPassport and Elements lines

+ Google Pixel 3a for $239, 3a XL for $299

+ Apple 13.3″ MacBook Pros, various options (some Retina, some Touchbar, mid 2020 and one mid 2019), from $$1279 to $1799

+ computer monitors, eight options, $90 to $399,including LG, HP, Dell, Acer

+ flash deal ends 6am ET: 12.9″ iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard Kit (Early 2020, 256GB, Wi-Fi Only, Space Gray) for $1299
+ next flash deals
+ starts 6am ET: Tamrac Speedroller
+ starts 12pm ET: DJI Mavic Mini with nanuk 910
+ starts 6pm ET: Manfrotto Monopod+
+ starts 9pm ET: CoreSWX

+ find them all at the B&H Photo daily deals

Sunday: Presidential Photography of Pete Souza, “Obama: An Intimate Portrait” for $7 [Kindle, eBook]

Presidential Photographer Pete Souza [Wikipedia], chief white house photographer for two presidents, Reagan and Obama [one film, one digital we can assume], is one of the Kindle daily deals for Sunday, with his presidential photography e-book “Obama: An Intimate Portrait” covering all eight years (327 pages, November 2017). The sale price is $7 but you get a $0.70 “Great On Kindle” promotional store credit as well. You can “Look Inside” to see if this mix of presidential photography and text is something of interest. Offer ends Sunday at 11:59pm pacific time. eBooks don’t sell out… This is currently #1 in the Photography & Video category at Amazon…

B&H Online Checkout is OPEN again!

IF you had been waiting to finalize and place your order at B&H Photo, they are back after their customary Sabbat closing and their website is accepting orders once again!

Check out their Black Friday / Cyber Monday offerings for ideas…

Sunday C&P Lightning Deals: Neewer and GVM party once again

In the Sunday Camera & Photo Lightning Deals it’s once again a Neewer and GVM party with lighting kits of all kinds, along with an Akaso action camera… Sadly no cameras/lenses 🙁

UPDATE: here’s a potentially good deal, Hulu is offering a 12-month $2 per month subscription. After the first 12 months, it increases to the standard monthly fee ($6/mo) unless cancelled… These days streaming has gotten cable-like fragmented with so many streaming services splitting between them the various movies and TV shows…

Sunday: Peak D, Spider, Vello Battery Grips, Lensbaby Velvet 56/1.6 for $295, 28/2.5 for $360, Etc

Sunday is here, and it’s Cyber Monday Eve already, but it’s also another “daily deal day” , this round of B&H daily deals is good until Sunday at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out)…

+ Vello Battery Grips, 30 options, $30 to $60 each

+ LensBaby Velvet 56mm f/1.6 for $295 in Canon EF, Nikon F after automatic in-cart coupon

+ Lensbaby Velvet 28mm f2.5 for $360 after automatic in-cart coupon in Canon EF and Nikon F

+ Peak Design Everyday Messenger 15″ Version 1 for $100 in two color options

+ Spider SpiderPro Hand Strap for $25

+ also TP-Link, Sandisk mp3 player and Motorola earphone offers

+ flash deal: Samsung 500GB 860 EVO SATA III 2.5″ Internal SSD for $50
+ next four flash deals: various Sirui BCT-series tripods

+ for more action check the B&H Black Friday deals

75% off Tile Pix w/Walgreen Photo coupon [exp Sat PM]

In addition to the previously mentioned coupons, Walgreens Photo has launched some more action:

+ coupon code THANKFUL75 gets you 75% off Tile Pix with free same day pickup. Coupon expires at 11/28/20 at 11:59pm central time

While we are talking drugstore photo prints, coupon code SUPER50 gets you 50% off holiday photo orders at CVS Photo

Sigma 56mm f1.4 DC DN [Sony E] for $339

Hooray hooray, it’s a LENS DAY at the latest incarnation of the Adorama daily deals, this lot good until Sunday at 10am ET (or earlier if sold out)…

+ Sigma 56mm f1.4 DC DN for Sony E only for $339

+ Dolica 62″ Proline Aluminum Alloy Tripod and Ball Head for $35

+ Flashpoint eVOLV 200 TTL Pocket Flash Exclusive HexaPop Kit (Godox AD200 TTL Pocket Flash) for $319

+ AKG K-701 headphones for $159

Black Friday arrives at DXO: PhotoLAB4 ($120, $60 upgrade), NiK 3 ($75, $40 upgrade)

Black Friday has arrived at the DXO Online Store, good until 11/30/20, so you have plenty of time to research the software and read reviews and comparisons and such since these are digital downloads. The BF pricing is:

+ DXO PhotoLAB 4 for $120
+ Upgrade price is $60

+ NiK Collection 3 for $75
+ Upgrade price is $40

+ Dxo Filmpack 5 Elite for $65
+ Upgrade price is $35

+ DXo ViewPoint 3 for $40
+ Upgrade price is $25

+ see them all at the DXO Online Store

CreativeLIVE introduces monthly billing with annual commitment for their “Netflix-style” plan

Some people prefer to pa for things monthly, not prepay annually for plans (think car and home insurance for example). For those who prefer the monthly billing option, CreativeLIVE has now launched a monthly billing option of their Netflix-style Creator Pass. You pay $15 per month WITH a 12-month commitment… On the other hand, if you don’t mind prepaying ahead of time, the annual one-payment option is $129, which is less than $15×12 = $180… The month to month plan (no commitment) is currently at $40/month…

Meanwhile continuing is their Black Friday sale that is 80% off site-wide. Don’t forget to try coupon code CART10 for a potential $10 off stackable discount…

Fuji X-T30 Body Only with Leather Case and Extras for $799

The Fuji X system has resisted the full frame mania, and if you are cool with that, there’s a new promotion on the Fuji X-T30 body only, you can have it for $799 with free US shipping with lots of freebies at Adorama:

+ Fuji leather case
+ 32GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXc
+ shoulder bag (Adorama house brand)
+ Corel software
+ various trinkets

Optionally, by clicking on their “Create Your Bundle and Save Up” you can buy it together with other gear for combined purchase discounts. Options include Fuji flashes for a $30 off combined purchase discount each, along with some storage options and 7artisans and Kamlan MF prime lenses ($15 to $20 off per lens). There’s also a $40 off combined purchase discount on the Fringer Auto Focus Adapter (Canon EF To Fuji X), and a $25 off on the Kirk L-bracket…

Elsewhere, Amazon has the same price but no freebies, while at B&H Photo you get a 64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC and a holster bag…

PS: don’t forget our previously mentioned offering, the Big Sensor Prime Fuji X100F for $899

Nikon Black Friday Savings (51 options, DSLR, Z, Lenses, etc)

Nikon too has joined the Black Friday Instant Savings with 51 options DSLRs and mirrorless cameras of the 35mm full frame and APS-C kind, along with prime and zoom lenses for the aforementioned systems. There are some Coopixies too (eg B500), accessories of course (battery grips, etc)… Prices range from $137 (the previously mentioned MB-D16 battery grip) to $3647 (the Z7 II with 24-70/4 and FTZ)… Sorry to disappoint, but no offers in the 1-inch mirrorless system 🙂

Canon Black Friday Offerings (107 options, EF, EF-S, RF, EF-M, G-series)

Canon of course could not not participate in the Black Friday offerings and their set has 107 options that feature full frame and APS-C cameras from both their DSLR and Mirrorless worlds, along with lenses from EF/EF-S, RF and their Jon Snows (EF-M). There’s some fixed lens cameras too (eg G-series, SX-series) and some accessories too (flashes, battery grips, etc)… Too many to list here individually and stay sane 🙂

Sony Black Friday Instant Savings (86 options)

We already mentioned some of them individually, but there’s plenty more in the Sony Black Friday offers. There are both full frame and APS-C mirrorless cameras, E and FE prime and zoom lenses, the ZV1 creature for $698, a couple of camcorders, flashes and other accessories, and of course some of the RX-series fixed lens cameras… Too many to list here individually…

Keep in mind a number of these qualify for our previously mentioned Sony “buy more save more” mail-in rebate promotion which gets you money (in a prepaid VISA gift card) for each qualifying lens you buy during the promotional period. You must have one of the participating Sony full frame mirrorless cameras. The details through the aforelinked link which has links to other links with other info 🙂

Zeiss Lenses Instant Savings (66 options, C/N/E/X/M)

Black Friday is also a time for singing, o/~ Zeiss, Zeiss Baby! o/~ That’s right a total of 66 options are participating in the Zeiss Black Friday offers. You won’t find a zoom lens here no matter how hard you try 🙂

They have options for Sony E, Nikon F, Canon EF, Fuji X, and of course the good old rangefinders (ZM). Prices range from $610 (32/1.8 for Fuji X) to $4999 (Otus 100/1.4 ZE (EF)). Some of them get freebies (Zeiss lens filters)…

Sigma Lenses Instant Savings (74 options, C/N/E/K/A/SA/L/m43)

Sigma is participating in the Black Friday festivities with an Instant Savings promotion that includes 74 options. While it may sound like a lot, keep in mind that Sigma makes lenses for various camera systems, and each one is a separate listing. There’s also some mount adapters and flashes too. Oh, and a couple of dp-series Quattro Big Sensor Primes!

Most of the lenses get either one or two freebies. The freebies are mainly a Sigma USB Dock or some filter kit (Sigma or Tiffen or other ~ partially depending on the price of the lens)…

There are options for Canon EF and EF-M, and Nikon F, and Sony E, and M43rds and Pentax K and Sony A and Sigma SA and Leica L too!

There are too many options to list here individually, here are some examples:

+ Sigma 17-50mm f2.8 EX DC OS HSM for $369 in C/N/K/A

+ Sigma 70-200mm f2.8 DG OS HSM Sporty Spice for $1339 with FREE USB Sigma Dock and B+W 82mm filter in C/N/SA

+ Sigma 85mm f1.4 DG HSM Art for $1049 with FREE Sigma USB Dock and B&W 86mm filter in C/N/SA

Panasonic GH4 body only with freebies for $698

Remember the good old Panasonic GH4? It remembers you too with a $698 offer in new condition at authorized Panasonic dealers, and Adorama has various freebies, four different options of freebies in fact you can browse through at the aforelinked page. One of the options is the V-Log. The others are the usual assortment of accessories (memory cards, Marantz mic, Corel software, etc)… Same price but no freebies at Amazon and at B&H Photo… This too you can triple the original warranty by registering with Panasonica…

Friday C&P Lightning Deals: Neewer, Zhiyun, no cameras/lenses

To the Amazon Gold box we geaux ~ as of the time of writing there are 131 items in the Camera & Photo Lightning Deals but none of them this year are a camera or lens. In previous years, even if we didn’t have a camera, you could count on some Samyang/Rokinon lenses. Mayhaps they too are too good for lightning deals now? 🙂

Of potential interest, in order of scheduling:

+ Victure action camera for $34
+ GVM RGB Video Lights with APP Control, 50W Full Color Studio for $438
+ GVM GVM RGB LED Video Lighting Kit with APP Control, 50W 360° Full for $319
+ also more GVM and Neewer lighting kits
+ Neewer ball head, tripod, more RGB light kits
+ Mohoo backgrounds
+ Zhiyun Weebill S Gimbal Stabilizer
+ Neweer bi-color LED, Bowens-mount soft-box
+ Neweer T-shape support, 2pk Advanced lighting kit
+ K&F Concept 62″ tripod
+ various ring lights of all sorts
+ Akaso action cams
+ ZHIYUN Crane M2 3-Axis Gimbal Stabilizer for Light Mirrorless
+ etc

Olympus E-M1 Mark II Body Only for $849 [or USED for $637]

It’s the same song and dance every time. When a new flagship comes out, the prices of the previous flagship go down. And as of the time of writing, the new condition Olympus E-M1 Mark II body only is down to $849 at authorized Olympus USA dealers such as B&H Photo and Amazon and also at Adorama’s where you can optionally hit the “Create Your Bundle and Save” and purchase together with the camera various Sigma, Rokinon, 7artisan and Kamlan lenses for small combined purchase discounts. The discounts are small ($15 to $30 per lens, but some of these lenses are very low cost), but the discounts are stackable, so if you buy three different lenses, you’ll stack three different discounts.

On the other hand, if you believe in “The Way of The Used”, you can get it for $638 in “Condition 9 – minor scuffs and surface marks” at B&H Photo USED