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With all the COVID-19 craziness time got “compressed” and just like that, it’s Memorial Day Weekend, and to sale-a-brate that, DiscountMags has a Memorial Weekend sale that includes three photo-related magazines, prices per print-magazine per year, for US addresses only, no auto-renewal:
+ Outdoor Photographer for $4.87/yr
+ Digital Photo PRO for $7.86/yr
+ VideoMaker for $6.65/yr [they didn’t want it to be 3 6s!]
If you have been eyeing any camera and photography related for-pay Google Play apps, or any other for-pay Google Play apps, if you are participating in the free to join (and you can join immediately) Google Play Points rewards program, purchases made until Sunday night 5/24/20 earn you 4X rewards points instead of the usual 1X points. There’s no coupon code to enter. If you are participating in the rewards program you will earn the extra points automagically…
If it’s Sunday, it’s Meet The Daily Deals with a new set of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ Lowepro Pro Runner BP 450 AW II Backpack (Black) for $150
+ Tamrac Goblin lens pouches, ten options, $5 to $7 each
+ DraCast LED500 Pro Bi-Color LED Light with V-Mount Battery Plate for $200
+ SingTrix Party Bundle Stadium Edition Karaoke Kit for $300 after automatic in-cart coupon
+ ZIV Universal Wired and Infrared Remote Release for $16
+ SOLD OUT: Velbon Shepra tripods
Meanwhile the NewEgg Fried Eggs daily deals have some potentially interesting items:
+ DEERC DE22 drone for $160
+ 512GB Patriot EP microSDXC for $70
+ 5GB ADATA external USB 3.2 hard drive for $120
+ MagicLight Smart Light kit for $30
+ RAM, SSD, ASUS Mesh, Radeon, Etc
Elsewhere at the Best Buy dailies you can get the official Google Pixel Stand for $60, while at the Woot dailies it’s Amazon devices and HP monitors…
The current Adorama daily deal (changes Sunday 10am ET) is the new condition Haida 105mm NanoPro MC Circular Polarizer Filter going for $90 with free US shipping. No coupon, no rebate, a straight up sale…
At the Best Buy dailies there’s the GoPRO Travel Kit going for $30 among others…
And at NewEGG there’s the 256GB TEamGroup microsDXC going for $31, a TerraMaster RAID, and the usual tech options…
Meanwhile among the Woot daily deals there’s a MacBook PRO sale, an iPhone XS MAX sale, and a Viewsonic DLP HT projector among others…
All along the Micro Four Thirds Tower, we have a new offer! B&H Photo is offering this Panasonic G7 bundle for $598 with free US shipping. This includes the G7 camera with the 14-42 and 45-150mm lenses along with the option to triple the original 1-year warranty by filing paperwork with Panasonic [the Bureaucrats Rule the World!]
But that’s not all, you also get some free accessories included automatically in the bundle from B&H. So in total, you get:
Do you need a camera bag for your camera gear? Or a camera bag to put inside your smaller camera bags? 🙂 Well, you are in luck because B&H Photo is having a limited time sale on the new condition Manfrotto Street Camera camera and laptop backpack for $80~ with free US shipping. This is in the nature-y looking green-gray color scheme…
You hate switching memory cards and want the largest available storage option in the microSD world and you are willing to pay a premium for it? Well, you’ve found the right post because B&H Photo is currently having a sale on the new condition 1TB Sandisk Extreme microSDXC card for $260 with free US shipping. This is an A2 card, with V30, U3, etc…
Speed demon time! The Canon 1D X Mark III CFexpress bundle is now in-stock and ready to ship from B&H Photo for $6499 with free US shipping. This bundle, as the CFexpress name hints at, includes a 64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO Type B Card and a Sandisk Extreme PRO CFexpress card reader. This speed-demon camera runs up to 16fps with the OVF and up to 20fps with Live View…
PS: me personally, I’m holding out for the Smartmedia bundle 🙂
Rumors of the upcoming Pixel 4a smartphone are swirling across the universe, but if you don’t want to wait, B&H Photo is having a sale on the current generation, the Pixel 3a. The standard 3a model goes for $279 in various colors, while the larger Pixel 3a XL goes for $319…
Picking a phone these days is hard if you are not predisposed to particular brands or features (eg S-Pen). Let’s not forget the Pocophone F2 PRO is coming too starting at $500!
On the limited time offer front, in a while-supplies-last type of a deal, B&H Photo is offering the new conditino Zhiyun-Tech WEEBILL LAB Handheld Stabilizer for Mirrorless Cameras going for $349 with free US shipping…
PS: do learn how to spell the name, it will be on our Annual Camera Gear Spelling Bee competition 😉
PS2: speaking of B&H, they have a sale on the new condition Surface PRO X tablets with up to $200 off discount [depending on sub-model]…
CreativeLIVE is back with another flash sale, 18 classes for $18 each. The price drops to $18 when you visit the individual product page of that particular class. Classes include Lightroom Classic CC, wedding photography, the art of seeing, light, lifestyle, table-top photography, outdoors, strobe lighting, Illustrator CC, and mo(i)re…
Meanwhlie at the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR, high-school/senior photography continues to be the theme, while in other topics, there are classes on branding and such…
Separately from the “ON AIR schedule”, CreativeLIVE recently launched a life-streaming channel, aka CL-TV, which has live-streams and re-runs, separate from the above ON-AIR classes. There is a weekly schedule for the live-streams, and also on-demand replays of previous recordings. This includes the actual Chase Jarvis live show…
FriYAY is here and with it we have the new round of B&H daily deals, which, as usual, runs until Saturday at 11:59pm ET but, as usual, B&H does not accept orders Friday PM to Saturday PM [check their website for exact hours]:
+ Moultrie M-4000i Trail Camera Bundle with 8 single-use AA Batteries & 16GB SD Card for $70
+ Vanguard VEO 37 Shoulder Bag for $23
+ Vello LCD hoods, two screen size options, $10 each
+ CAD USB microphones, $50 to $80
+ also $12 headphone stand
+ flash deal: Mackie PA system with automatic in-cart discount
+ next flash deal: no teaser available as of the time of writing
UPDATE: at the other daily deals for Friday 5/22/20, Best Buy has a Sony audio products theme, while the Woot website has iPhones, bluetooth trackers, 21.5″ iMacs, and such…
IF you are a fan of Leica-blessed smartphone camera-lenses, and you can live without the Google Play store and apps that depend on Google’s services, the Amazon Germany Gold Box has loaded bundles of Huawei P40s with freebies…
NewEgg’s Egg Salad daily deals include the 400GB Sandisk Ultra microSD card for $57 after promo code, and the 128GB Elite Team microSD for $16. Sale items include an ASUS triangle-offense wifi system [Tex Winters NOT included], Patriot RAM, Kingdom SSD, 4TB WD RED PRO, Intel processor that was strangely submerged in a …coffee lake, and more…
Tired of your broken and unreliable memory cards? Will they blend? Among the Amazon USA Gold Box deals du jour there’s a small Magic Bullet blender for $30 [PS: DON’T put your tender memory cards in the blender ~ unless you want to ruin the blender for the hope of a viral video!!!!]
I hope you don’t have a fear of …spiders, because the current Adorama daily deal is the new condition SpiderHolster SpiderPro Single Camera System v2 going for $100 with free US shipping. These come with “Lifetime Limited” warranties… The daily deal ends/changes at 10am ET on Friday ~ or earlier if it manages to sell out…
IF you have some classes in mind at Creative LIVE, you are in luck, they are having for a limited time a 60% of site-wide sale. No coupon needed. You see the final price on the individual product page of each class. For example John Greengo’s 24.5 hour “Fundamentals of Photography” class goes for $79, Ben Willmore’s Complete Guide to Photoshop CC for $39, etc…
And if you are a fan of camera classes, most of their Fast Start Camera Guides go for $11 each. These include most of the mid-range and above cameras, APS-C and full-frame, along with a few consumer-tier models. And it’s not just Nikon and Canon. There’s plenty of classes for Sony and Fuji and Olympus, and a few Leica and Panasonic too… Meanwhile the Canon and Nikon AutoFocus system classes go for $19 each…
Sony was doing the “New Editions” thing before Huawei (out of mordant need) made it cool with their Google Play “New Edition” smartphones. So back to Sony, their new RX100 VA edition (buffer size boost and other fixes and improvements) goes for $848~ in new condition at authorized dealers, but if you want a nice bundle with extras, for a limited time, B&H Photo is offering this VA bundle for $909. So that extra $61 gets you:
+ extra Watson-brand battery
+ 32GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SD card
+ 2-year Square Trade Spills-n-Drops warranty
On their own, the three items go for $20 + $13 + $64, so basically if you want the Square Trade warranty, you are paying less with the bundle and get the card and battery as a bonus…
PS: speaking of the RX100 cameras, they have amazing staying power for a digital camera, even defeating Leica! Despite all the newer RX100-series models, even the first generation continues to be available as a current product ($399 new, $279 used, at B&H)…
If you are a fan of all things Fuji, another round of Fuji Instant Savings is running at Adorama, with 201 options available that are part of the X-system, their Medium Format system, and there are some fixed lens cameras too… In addition to the instant savings discount, check also the USED prices if you are a fan of used camera gear. Adorama offers a 90-day warranty of their own for used items (those in usable condition; for example, the “spare parts only” obviously do not get a 90-day warranty)…
And if you are jumping on the COVID-19 Gadgets Hype Train, Adorama is offering their new condition Green Extreme TH-100 Digital Non-contact Infrared Forehead Thermometer for $49 with free US shipping. You can also use it with your Star Trek cosplays! It’s a 2-in-1 🙂
Did you know Pearl Jam had a song called “Don’t Call Me Lexar”? 😉 On a totally unrelated note, a 2-pack of 64GB ProGrade UHS-II SDXC memory cards is on sale for $45 with free US shipping at B&H Photo. This comes out to $22.50 per card…
Lens Rentals is back with a new promotion. It’s a 15% off coupon code AND also TWO FREE DAYS if your order spans the Memorial Day weekend. All the offer details in the annotated screenshot crop below [it’s faster than typing it all in ~ and making a mistake/typo along the way!]
Thursday is here and we have a new set of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ Angler CatchLight Reflector with FREE White Fabric for $100
+ Ruggard Fabric Camera Rain Cover (Black) for $28
+ open-box Peak Design Everyday Tote Bag (Charcoal) for $70
+ Shape VCT Tripod Plate for $189
+ Pelican 3rd-Generation 1910B LED Flashlight for $15
+ Polar PRO Vivid Collection ND/PL Filters for DJI Osmo Pocket Gimbal (Set of 3) for $35
UPDATE: a trio of Epson Workforce scanners are one of the Woot deals of the day, prices ranging from $470 to $550. These are factory reconditioned with a 1-year Epson warranty…
Zoom-zoom Nikon APS-C photographers! The current Adorama daily deal, good until Thursday at 10am ET (or earlier if sold out) is the refurbished Nikon 10-24mm f3.5-4.5G DX lens for $447 with free US shipping. It comes with a 90-day Nikon USA warranty and assorted accessories (lens hood, caps, case).
If you are interested in Photoshop-related learnings, for a limited time only, Creative LIVE is running a Photoshop Tutorials sale with prices ranging from $14 to $29 per class. It has a mix of basics and beyond-basics classes, general and specific Photochop topics, and there’s even a class dedicated to Adobe Camera RAW. There are multiple pages of classes, not just the first page you see there…
The latest Woot Liquidation sale has the Leica Sofort instant film (2x 10-exposures = 20) for $26.46 BUT you can get it for less, $21.95 at Adorama and B&H Photo…
Yesterday there was a Tokina macro but no lenses today at the new six-pack of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET on Hump Day (or earlier for anything that manages to sell out ahead of its designated expiration time):
+ DataColor SpyderX Pro Colorimeter for $100
+ VanGuard VEO 2 235AB Aluminum Tripod with Ball Head (Red, 4.75′) for $65
+ NaNuk 923 15″ Laptop Case (Black) for $130
+ Mandela Effect Alert: Robin Williams was saying Nanuk-Nanuk 🙂
+ TamRac Pro Compact 2 Camera Bag (Black) for $12
+ one bag, “2” is the model numbers 🙂
+ companies really need to hire me to “test and fix” their product names and model numbers 🙂
+ GVM 50RS2L RGB 2-Light Kit for $340
+ SmallHD 702 Touch 7″ On-Camera Monitor for $899
+ personally I’m holding out for BigHD 🙂
UPDATE: former Android flagship phones and MSI laptops are among the Woot deals du jour, while at Best Buy the headliner is a 14TB WD EasyStore [fans of Earth 2 call frequently call this Easy Sto’or] for $250, and the 64GB Sandisk Extreme PLUS [yellow] SDXC going for $20… Computer-y things as usual can be found at the NewEgg boiled eggs…
UPDATE #2: oops, I didn’t notice it on first pass, but the scratch & dent Android phone sale includes the original Pixel for $50, the Pixel XL from $70 to $120, the Pixel 2* (regular and XL) from $100 to $160 and the Pixel 3* from $190 to $240. This if you are interested in Google’s highly-acclaimed phone-cameras… Keep in mind the latest model is the Pixel 4, and the Pixel 4a is coming soon….
At the NewEgg daily deals we find the 128GB Team UHS-I U1 C10 microSDXC card going for $15 with free US shipping, up to three per customer, sold and shipped by NewEgg itself…
There you will also find a 15.6″ ASUS gaming laptop for $1570, a $440 Acer desktop, memory, and more…
At Amazon, you can get the Anker PowerCore 10000 mAh battery-charger for $18, and a 10-pack of LiCB CR-2032 3V Lithium batteries for $5 per 10-pack…
And if you like speculative-fiction ebooks, good until 5/23/20, Tor Books (the publisher) is giving away DRM-free e-copies of the book “Tooth & Claw” by Jo Walton (available in Kindle (mobi) and ePUB formats)… For more e-reading, Amazon has a sale of 100 kindle ebooks under $2…
UPDATE: the latest Adorama daily deal (changes Wedn 10am ET) is the new condition GigaByte AERO 15.6″ gaming laptop for $1999 with free US shipping. Lots of high-end specs obviously, headlined by the NVidia RTX 2070 with 8GB of GDDR6 dedicated memory…
It’s that time of the year once again, the start of the Grads & Dads season, and to celebrate that, the next few days at the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR are headlined photography-wise by high-school related photography classes. A plus if you are interested in this market segment, a minus if you are not interested…
It’s a LENS DAY at the B&H daily deals for Tuesday May 19 in 2020, good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier for anything that sells out ahead of its designated time)…
+ Tokina 100mm f2.8 MACRO full-frame AT-X-i lens for $379 in Canon EF or Nikon F
+ NISI V6 100mm Filter Holder Kit with Filter, two choices, $120 to $160
+ Peak Design Everyday Backpack (20L, Ash) for $150
+ Smith-Victor Edge Light Portable LED Light Stick for $43
+ GVM GT-120WD Wireless Carbon Fiber Motorized Camera Slider (47″) with Bluetooth Remote for $330
+ Vello Extenda camera remotes, three options, $80 to $190
UPDATE:: meanwhile at the BEst BuY DaiLies they have the new condition 128GB sandisk Ultra PLUS microSDXC card going for $25…
The current Adorama daily deal (changes Tuesday at 10am ET) is a loaded GoPro HERO8 Black bundle with lots of extra accessories, all together now going for $399 with free US shipping…
Meanwhile at the Woot Best Sellers, in addition to the obligatory face masks and “sterilizing wands”, there’s 72-packs of single-use Sony Stamina Plus alkaline AA and AAA batteries, with each 72-pack going for $20… Paging further down you’ll find a 12-pack of 9V single-use for $19…
Further down in the top 10, there’s the HP (Toad the Wet) Sprocket 2-in-1 camera and instant printer device type thing going for $50 with a 1-year warranty. It’s available in three color schemes with up to ten per customer. It is new condition. You also get a 8GB microSD card and 30 sheets of photo paper…
NOTE that these are part of the longer-running Woot offers, not their daily deals, so check each individual product listing to find the expiration date…
Monday is here with a new set of B&H dailies good until 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out (already the 14″ Acer Aspire S laptop got sold out)…
+ Delkin Fat Gecko Triple Mount for $60
+ WD drives, five options, additional discount with automatic in-cart coupon
+ ManFrotto 504HD Head with 535 2-Stage Carbon Fiber Tripod System for $650
+ also Aminon Connex thing and NuForce earphones
If you are looking for a sub-$500 Windows laptop with a touch-screen, $450 gets you headliner of the Best Buy dailies, an 15.6″ HP with 12GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Ryzen 5, etc. Note that this has “Windows 10 in S-mode” from which you can switch to “normal” Windows [but you can’t go back to “S” again]…
Other Best Buy daily deals include a Surface PRO X, HP FreeSync monitors in various sizes, Victor dual-monitor standing-desk stand, Western Digital portable hard drives and SSDs… And Logitech keyboards and mice if you want to complete your setup based on today’s deals 😉 Oh there’s also a 14″ Lenovo YOGA for $900…
AND a mild surprise, among the NewEgg deals of the day is a full frame mirrorless camera, but it is (most likely) the international edition, because the seller is known importer “6ave”. The camera in question is the Sony a7 III body only offered for $1619…
In EUROPE, Amazon Germany is having a Fuji Instax sale with the Mini 9 going for 49 euro, while the Square SQ EX D [who comes up with these names?] goes for $94. Multiple colors are available…
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