Archives for June 2021

Thursday: $25 on-camera light, Manfrotto bluetooth tripod, Lexar 1066x microSD, Sublue, Gaming Chairs, Etc

The Mega Deal Zone 3-day party is over at B&H Photo and now we are back to the regularly-scheduled B&H daily deals, good until Thirst-DAY at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out).

Yes dear readers, we [or rather COVID] ate up half of 2021 already! As of today, we are barreling down towards 2022!

+ ViltRox L116T On-Camera Bi-Color LED Light with LCD Display for $25
+ yes, Mr Vilt rocks 😉

+ Manfrotto Element MII Mobile Bluetooth Aluminum Traveler Tripod (Red) for $110
+ does your tripod have bluetooth? 🙂

+ 2pk of Lexar Professional 1066x UHS-I microSDXC Memory Card with SD Adapter (SILVER Series)
+ 64GB for $25 ($12.50 per card)
+ 128GB for $42 ($21 per card)
+ 128GB wins in GB/$

+ SuBlue Us Swii Electronic Kickboard (Sunrise Orange)
for $200

+ Spieltek 100 Series Gaming Chair for $100 in seven color scheme options

+ Spieltek RL Gaming Recliner (Cream/Brown) for $130
+ because everything can be sold for a higher price if we attach a “gaming” label to it

+ Welcome to the new Camera Gaming Deals blog 😉

DJI Pocket 2 Gimbal Camera w/freebies for $349

The current Adorama daily deal (changes Thursday at 10am ET) has a DJI theme:

+ DJI Pocket 2 Gimbal Camera for $349 with FREE 32GB Sandisk Extreme microSD and an Octapus/Tripod/Ballhead type of creature-thing

+ DJI Expansion Kit for Osmo Pocket Camera, Includes Controller Wheel, Wireless Module, Accessory Mount and Samsung 32GB microSD Card for $39

Mega Deal Zone ENDS on Wedn 11:59pm ET

The all-star game of former daily deals that goes by the name of B&H Photo Mega Deal Zone ends tonight, Wednesday June 30 in 2021 at 11:59pm eastern (or earlier for any item that may sell out ahead of time). You can buy as many as you want. Each item of course may (or may not) have an individual unit limit…

Meanwhile among the Wednesday Best Buy dailies there’s a sale on a Sunpak tripod for $10, vlogging kit for $20 and a heart-shaped vlogging kit for $15…

Mitakon Zhongyi Speedmaster 50mm f0.95 III MF for $499 [Nikon Z]

Nikon ZZ Top fans, you got LENZ and you know how to use them! Good until Wednesday 6/30/21 at 10am ET (or earlier if sold out) you can get the new condition Mitakon Zhongyi Speedmaster 50mm f0.95 III lens of the manual focus kind for $499 with free US shipping. The sale price is only available in the Nikon Z…

The Canon RF and Sony E remain at regular pricing…

Tuesday: Mega Deal Zone Day #2, Bags, Etc

Tuesday June 29 in 2021 begins with a “Bag the Bags” at the Meh website. No, not camera bags but general-use bags. You can get 2-packs of select bags (Ful or Ivory Air) for $19 total plus shipping if you are not a paying Meh member. Details at 11 (okay, at the Meh website).

As expected, today is DAY #2 of the B&H Photo MEGA DEAL ZONE, an all-star game of their previous daily deals. You can buy as many as you like! You can browse by manufacturer or price-range…

At the Woot dailies they have iPhone 12 Mini and Pro options, Intel i9-9900K for $310, a $300 8″ Samsung Galaxy Tab Active2 and more…

And at the Best Buy dailies, the headliner is the Adobe Elements 2021 combo (Premiere and Photoshop) for $90 in either download or boxed.

Datacolor SpyderX Elite Color Calibration for $199

Adorama is back with another round of their daily deals, this round good until Tuesday at 10am ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Datacolor SpyderX Elite Color Calibration for $199

+ Tether Tools AD7 Air Direct Wireless Tethering System – Bundle With Tether Tools Air Direct Arca Clamp for for L-Bracket , Capture One Pro 21 Photo Editing Software for $479

YMMV: PayPal giving you a $5 balance gift

If you have a PayPal account and if their computer AI servers decided to offer you this promotion (mayhaps you haven’t used PayPal in a while) they are sending an offer by email, which you can also see if you login to your PayPal account, that gets you a $5 PayPal balance. You can even transfer it to your bank account! Check the offer details for more.

The promotion (to add the freebie to your account) expires on June 30 in 2021…

I just did it, and it looks like this in my PayPal account:

B&H Mega Deal Zone Returns: Most of the Daily Deals are LIVE at the SAME TIME! Get Yours NOW!

Hooray-hooray B&H fans! The Mega Deal Zone is back! This is like an all-star game of the daily deals, except almost all of the players are invited! You can buy as many individual deals as you want! Time to start the holiday shopping season preparation 😉

You can browse the listings or filter them by price-range or by manufacturer name!

This Mega Deal Zone is scheduled to last for 72 hours. In other words, it expires on Wednesday at 11:59pm ET!

PS: if you want to get some idea of what’s being offered you can also browse through our previous daily deals posts

PS2: among the Monday Amazon USA Gold Box offerings they have a GE Direct Connect Smart LED sale ($12 to $49), daily essentials sale (Amazon brands, Prime only), a Bissell creature for $250, Google Nest for $100, Margaritaville blenders, and more…

SLR Magic Anamorphot 1.33x 50 Anamorphic Adapter + SLR Magic Rangefinder CINE Adapter with Witness Markings (Imperial) for $849

It’s Magic time at the Adorama daily deal good until Monday 6/28/21 at 10am eastern you can get the new condition SLR Magic Anamorphot 1.33x 50 Anamorphic Adapter + SLR Magic Rangefinder CINE Adapter with Witness Markings (Imperial) for $849 with free US shipping…

Yes, this is a Star Wars device with Imperials and Anamorphots 😉

National Parks eBook: Leave Only Footprints for $2

If you are fond of the National Parks and nature and all that sticky and smelly stuff that you see when go outside {*GASP*), for a limited time Amazon is having a sale on the Random House “Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park” ebook by Conor Knighton going for $2.

This is 325 pages long. As of the time of writing it averages 4.7 out of 5 based on nearly 900 customer ratings and it is currently the #1 best seller in Travel Writing

Sunday: ThinkTank Vision 10, 1TB Delkin CFexpress, Hoya NXT CPL, Etc

How time flies! I once again get to recycle my Sunday joke (if Sunday is not a Sun-ny day, you get your money back!) 😉

We start at the B&H Photo dailies where this time we have a 4-pack that runs until Sunday 6/27/21 at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ ThinkTank Vision 10 Shoulder Bag (Dark Olive) for $50

+ 1TB Delkin CFexpress POWER Memory Card for $550 after automatic in-cart coupon with FREE Delkin card reader

+ HOYA NXT Plus Circular Polarizer Filters, two options, 40.5mm for $25, and 49mm for $27

+ Apexel 4-in-1 Cell Phone Camera System for $18

Hidden among the offerings at the Woot website is a 32-inch factory reconditioned HP ENVY 4K IPS All-in-One Windows computer going for $1400 with a 90-day Woot warranty. You get 16GB RAM, 256GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD + 1TB 7200RPM SATA, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB GDDR5 graphics, Intel Core i7-10700 2.9GHz 8-core processor, etc…

Arteza Art supplies ($7 to $104) is the headliner of the Amazon USA Gold Box

Shopping News: Meh flat shipping increases to $6

If you like to shop at Meh and you are not a paying member, they have just increased their flat shipping from $5 to $6. Announcement and discussion in their forums.

If you are a paying member, nothing changes ~ you continue to get free shipping as before…

PortaBrace, Oben Ballhead, 3pk 32GB Kingston microSD, Shimoda, RODE, Parrot, Etc

Good until Saturday 6/26/21 at 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out; with the usual Sabbath Fri PM to Sat PM closing] you can haz these B&H Photo daily deals:

+ PortaBrace Semi-Rigid Cargo-Style Camera Case for $120
+ if you want it to become full-rigid, sign up for my IndieGoGo for a new camera accessory, Bagialis 😉

+ O’Ben BC-166 Ball Head for $100

+ 3-pack of 32GB Canvas Select Plus UHS-I microSDHC Memory Card with SD Adapter for $12
+ once upon a time we paid a lot more for a 32MB Smartmedia card!

+ RODE Vlogger Kit USB-C Edition Filmmaking Kit for Mobile Devices with USB Type-C Ports for $109

+ MyGekoGear Orbit 960 4K UHD Dash Cam with 16GB microSD Card for $120

+ SennHeiser CX 2.00i Earphones for $15

+ flash deal: Shimoda Explore 60 Backpack (Sea Pine) for $220
+ it is a beautiful color, this “sea pine”, at least it looks beautiful on my screen 🙂

iPhones with an order of magnitude price range, Parrot drones and Peet’s Coffee capsules are among the current Friday Woot daily deals

A Logitech webcam bundled with a Yeti Nano condenser mic are among the Friday Best Buy dailies

PS: yes dear readers, we are at the half-way point until Christmas 2021! Where did all the time go? And have you began planning your Christmas gifts for 2021? Should we include masks and gloves and Purrells and plexiglass in them once again? Or just Walgreen’s gift cards and they can buy them on their own (in case COVID subsides and does not resurface in full force in the winter). These and more important questions must needs be answered before the gift-buying season begins!

UPDATE: among the Amazon Gold Box dailies there’s a 1-year $60 auto-renewing subscription for Microsoft 365 Family with up to six users (1TB OneDrive per user)… Also part of the dailies is Sylvania smart light bulbs of the bluetooth kind…

The streak of lens dayz has ended at the Adorama dailies, the current offer is Core SWX Powerbase EDGE Small Form 49Wh 14.8V Cine V-Mount Battery Pack for Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro going for $139 with free US shipping. This changes on Saturday at 10am ET…

Thursday: Mehrathon under $19, Lighting, Pan/Tilt, Rechrg AA, Bags, Etc

Yes dear netizers, we are just six months away from Christmas Eve 2021. Did you start your Christmas shopping or have you fallen behind already? 😉

We start with a Meh-rathon of a specific kind at the Meh website, all items offered are priced $19 or less each. Shipping is free only for paying Meh-meh-meh-mehmbers. Items change every 30 minutes. You can purchase any of the previously offered items as well by following the links over there. The only exception being items that have sold out…

Next up we have a fresh six-pack of offerings at the B&H Photo dailies as follows:

+ 8pk of multi-colored Watson Chroma rechargeable 2500 mAh AA batteries for $18
+ you pay for those beautiful colors 🙂

+ Apexel 36x Telephoto Zoom Lens with Tripod for Smartphones for $40

+ GEnaray LED-7100T 312 LED Variable-Color On-Camera Light for $119

+ Edelkrone FlexTILT Head 2 Pan/Tilt Camera Head for $69

+ MindShift Gear Exposure 13 Shoulder Bag for $80 in two color options
+ bag the bag before the bagman bags you 😉

Meanwhile at the Woot website under the “Tools & Garden” segment there’s a big sale on factory reconditioned Philips Hue lighting with prices ranging from $15 to $230, with a total of 24 options and a 90-day Woot warranty.

Which raises the question, how do you refurbish a light bulb? 🙂

Mitakon Zhongyi Creator 85mm f2.8 1-5X Super Macro Lens for $299 [Nikon F]

Hooray-Hooray, for the third day in a row it’s a LENS DAY at the Adorama daily deals, a big plus for Super Marco (okay, Macro) fans! This offer is good until Thursday 6/24/21 at 10am eastern or earlier if sold out…

“It” refers to the Nikon F version of the new condition Mitakon Zhongyi Creator 85mm f2.8 1-5X Super Macro Lens going for $299 with free US shipping…

The Canon EF and Pentax K versions remain at their standard prices (around $450)…

Wedn: camRade, WiseAdvanced CFX-B, Synology, Nest, Manfrotto 504X, Etc

Until Wednesday 6/23/21 at 11:59pm ET {or earlier if sold out} we have the following B&H Photo daily deals in progress:

+ camRade camera cases, four options, $69 to $99

+ Wise Advanced 128GB CFX-B Series CFexpress Memory Card with USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C Card Reader for $170

+ Falcon Eyes PockeLite F7 mini RGB & Variable Color LED Light with Diffuser & Grid for $49
+ fear not, you do not get a falcon, and you do not get a pair of eyes in the box 😉

+ combined purchase discount on a couple of Manfrotto 504X tripods and Ultrasone headphones; add to cart to see the final price of the combos

+ Synology DiskStation DS420+ 4-Bay NAS Enclosure for $400 after in-cart coupon

+ Dahle 558 Professional Rotary Trimmer (51″) for $300
+ decidedly more effective than a Dollar Store papercutter 🙂

+ flash deal: Google Nest Cam IQ Indoor Security Camera for $398

AND NOW something totally different. If you like to read long and complicated fantasy book series, good until 6/25/21 at 11:59pm, TOR (the book publisher) is offering for FREE Book #1 of the Malazan book series by Steven Erikson. All you have to do is sign-up to their e-newsletter. You get the ebook for FREE, without DRM, in MOBI (Kindle) and/or ePUB (everything else). You can get both too.

Refurbished Nikon 18-55mm DX VR AF-P w/90-day warranty for $70

It’s back to back LENS DAYZ at the Adorama daily deals but today is not the type of lens most of you may have been expecting. It is an 18-55 APS-C kit lens 🙂

+ refurbished Nikon 18-55mm f3.5-5.6G DX VR AF-P for $80 with a 90-day Nikon USA warranty

+ GoDox Flashpoint FV200 R2 Hybrid Continuous LED Light and HSS Flash (Godox FV200) for $349

+ Glow 12×12′ Portable Butterfly Light Modifier Collapsible Kit for $500

+ Lian-Li PC-O11DW Dynamic Mid Tower Tempered Glass Computer Case for $145

Tuesday: ASUS, Nintendo, Sunpak, Genaray, MeFoto, GVM, Etc

And now back to the B&H Photo daily deals good until Tuesday 6/22/21 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ Sunpak Action Camera Accessory Kit for $5

+ GenAray 2 x SL-57 Soft LED Lights & 2 x MicroPod Tabletop Tripods Kit for $70

+ MeFoto BackPacker S Aluminum Travel Tripod for $55 in red or green

+ GVM Professional Video Carbon Fiber Motorized Camera Slider (32″) for $239

+ Nintendo Switch Lite Kit with US Power Adapter (Yellow, European Version) for $178

+ ASUS VG27AQ 27″ 16:9 WQHD IPS Gaming Monitor for $330

Prime Day: Rokinon and Samyang Lenses on sale (139 options)

Prime lenses for Prime members! Most of these lenses show the regular price with verbiage that says “save an additional 20%” for Prime members, so keep that in mind when you are looking at the search-index listing pages below. Or add them to the shopping cart.

For example, the first lens in the Samyang listing below is a $629 14/2.8 AF (RF) lens. If you are a Prime member and you add it to cart, you will pay 20% off that price, making it $500 and something

A total of 139 prime Rokinon and Samyang lenses of all kinds are on sale during Prime festivities. I obviously cannot list them all, so I will not list any of them per the Fairness Doctrine 😉

+ 20% off 94 Rokinon Lenses

+ 20% off 45 Samyang Lenses

+ note that the numbers are lens options, meaning that if a particular Samyang lens is made for five different mounts, it shows as five separate listings, so it counts as five of the 45 above

Prime Day: Zeiss Batis 25mm f2 for $1040 [Sony E]

Do not bat an eye 😉 Prime members get a 20% off discount on the current price ($1299) of the new condition Zeiss Batis 25mm f2 for the Sony E system dropping it to $1040…

You can start a free 30-day Prime trial if you want to grab it…

NOTE: that some of the Prime Day deals show the sale price on the Amazon page, while others show the standard price with a 20% off for Prime members signage (the price will be adjusted in the shopping cart). I’m guessing this might be because of MAP?

EU Prime Day: Camera Accessories Sale (three pages)

NOTE: this is at Amazon Germany!

Please note that I will not be doing “summary posts” of Prime Day deals this year. You can find all the previously posted deals in the blog’s timeline (aka page-down)…

We continue looking at Prime Day action with a three page (three Amazon Germany pages of offers) Camera Accessories sale that includes:

+ tripods and pods, many of the National Geographic and Rollei branding

+ lots of Lowepro bags including the current best seller at Amazon Germany the Lowepro LP36892-PWW Tahoe BP 150 Backpack for 29 euro

+ various other things such as remote releases, heads/plates, Hama lens filters, etc

+ the obligatory cleaning kits

NiSi 15mm f4 Sunstar with $50 GC for $499 [X/E/Z/RF/L]

Hooray-Hooray, it’s a LENS DAY at the Adorama daily deals good until Tuesday at 10am ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ NiSi 15mm f4 Sunstar Full Frame ASPH Lens for $499 with FREE $50 Adorama gift certificate added automatically to the bundle during this promotion
+ lens is available in Fuji X, Sony E, Nikon Z, Canon RF, and Leica L

+ Flashpoint XPLOR 300 Pro TTL R2 Battery-Powered Monolight Outdoor 2-Flash Kit for $749

+ Flashpoint FV150 Hybrid R2 Continuous LED Light and HSS Flash (Godox FV150) for $259

+ LG 27UK670 27” 16:9 4K Ultra HD IPS Monitor with USB Type-C for $349

Prime Day: GE, HP, DJI, Neewer Lighting Kits ($16 to $118, 10 options)

On we go with the Prime Day 2021 action where we have a sale of 10 Neewer lightning kits ranging from $16 to $118. There’s a bit of everything, LED lights, backdrop supports, backdrops, stands, ringlights, tripod/monopod hybrid and even a 50-in-1 action camera accessorapalooza kit…

In other photo-related Prime Day offers (that I did not include in the general purpose mega post you may find:

+ GE Smart Lightbulbs and LED Grow Lights, 18 options

+ Sylvania lighting options, 12 of them, about half of which are lightbulbs

+ DJI sale with the OM4 for $119 and the Mavic Mini Combo for $397

+ NixPlay digiframes, $126 to $133

+ HP Sprocket and Lifeprint photo printers, $78~ each, three options

Prime Day: FUJIFILM Instax Mini 7s Instant Camera Bundle for $55

Available in four different adorkably-pastel color-schemes, the new condition FUJIFILM Instax Mini 7s Instant Camera Bundle is on sale for $55 with free US shipping by Amazon itself during the Prime Day 2021 festivities.

In addition to the camera, you can see a detailed list of what else is included on the side of the box in gallery picture #2. Screenshot-grab included below, after the jump/break:

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Prime Day: Sony a6000 Body for $345

Also part of the Prime Day 2021 sales, more specifically at the Outdoorsy and Photography sale you can get the new condition Sony a6000 body only for $345 with free US shipping.

This is the silver color scheme, sold and shipped by Amazon herself.

Prime Bag the Bag: Lowepro Truckee BP 250 LX Outdoor Camera Backpack for $70

As part of the Prime Day festivities, Amazon herself is offering the new condition Lowepro Truckee BP 250 LX Outdoor Camera Backpack for $70 with free US shipping. This is model LP37238-PWW.

Of course we have a “bag the bag(s)” post 🙂

Prime Day: Rokinon Lenses and NatGeo Tripods

As part of the Prime Day 2021 festivities, Amazon has a Photography & Outdoorsy sale (two pages of options) with 35 options including the following Rokinon lenses:

+ Rokinon 14mm f2.8 for $189 in Sony E, $222 in Canon EF, $245 AE chipped for Nikon

+ Rokinon 14mm f2.8 II weather sealed for $280 in Sony E, for $315 in Canon EF

+ Rokinon 12mm f2 NCS CS for Sony E NEX for $224, for Fuji X or Canon EF-M or M43rds for $231

+ Rokinon 12mm f2 for $175 in Sony E NEX

+ Rokinon 135mm f2 ED UMC in Canon EF or Nikon F for $350

+ Nanuk cases

+ various National Geographic branded tripods

Prime Day: GoPRO HERO8 Black retail bundle for $279

GoPRO action for Prime Day 2021! For $279 you can get this GoPRO HERO8 Black retail bundle which includes:

  • GoPRO HERO8 Black actioncam
  • Shorty (tripod thing)
  • 32GB microSD
  • two rechargeable batteries
  • headstrap

Prime Day 2021 is here at Amazon USA!

*** LIVE UPDATE IN PROGRESS ***
*** MORE COMING UP ***

Prime Day 2021 is here, Day #1, Monday June 21 in 2021 at the Amazon website and the Prime Day Gold Box!

REMINDER!!! all offers marked as PRIME DAY are only available to Prime members. If you are not a current Prime member, you can still take advantage of the sales by starting a 30-day FREE TRIAL

+ Memory Card sale including Sandisk, PNY and Lexar, most of them SD and microSD options
+ a total of 30 options, $13.49 to $183

+ Chromebooks, 19 options, $190 (Samsung Chromebook 4, HP 11.6″) to $1149 (Google Pixelbook Go)

+ two pages of Computers and Monitors from $80 to $2000, including LG, Acer, HP, Lenova, Dell, Samsung, AOC, ASUS, etc
+ mostly laptops but also includes a Chromebox

+ unlocked Samsung Galaxy smartphones including S21 and S20 Ultra, Note 20 Ultra and regular, S21 and S21+, S20 FE, etc

+ two pages of desktops, monitors and tablets including Acer, Lenova, alienWare, Sceptre, ASUS, LG, ViewSonic, BenQ, etc

+ two pages of Razer gaming sales including keyboards and mice and a couple of Blade 15 laptops (on the 2nd page)

+ two pages of Samsung electronics including:
+ 256GB EVO Select microSD for $26, 512GB for $52
+ tablets of all price ranges
+ computer monitors
+ SSDs internal and external
+ 256GB EVO Plus SDXC for $25, PRO Plus for $30

+ three pages of PC Accessories components including Ryzen, WD, Intel, Crucial, TP-Link, ASUS, Cooler Master, Corsair, Gigabyte, MSI, Netgear, LG, Thermaltake, Toshiba, eVGA, PNY, etc

+ Big Smartphone sale with 31 options including Motorola (from Moto G to RAZR), TracFone, OnePlus, etc
+ prices $35 to $1160

+ five pages of AmazonBasics kitchen products

+ Nespresso sale for $100, three different machine options
+ some consider Nespresso to be half a step above Keurig
+ of course Keurig is a bit more chaotic in options than Nespresso, so it’s easier for Nespresso to quality-control their vendors

+ various sales on Kindle e-readers including the Basic Kindle ($55+), Paperwhite ($80 with Ads), Oasis ($205+), etc

+ FireTV Recast (1TB) for $180
+ DVR for cord-cutters with 1TB storage included

+ FireHD 10 tablets (2021 models) start at $80

*** LIVE UPDATE IN PROGRESS ***
*** MORE COMING UP ***

EU Prime Day Camera Gear: Canon, Sony, Pentax, Samyang, Zeiss Batis, Panasonic S5, Storage, Etc

It’s already Prime Day in Europe and at the Amazon Germany website there’s among others a Canon gear sale that includes the 90D, the G3X, and lenses of different kinds (EF, EF-S, EF-M, RF)… A total of nine options is available as of the time of writing…

But that’s not all! There’s also a big (two page) Sony-priority camera gear sale that includes various Sony lenses, the RX100 III, the 7R II body only, lenses from Samyang, Zeiss Batis, Pentax (eg 50/1.8 SMC DA for 100 euro), and Tamron, Panasonic S5, Steiner binos, and more!

There’s also a sale of action cameras and drones

Next up we have the Storage Sale that includes Sandisk SD and microSD, Samsung, Lexar, Axe and more, three pages of them! There’s even some CompactFlash UDMA7 of the Lexar kind!

The interesting thing with Prime, even if you live in a country that does not get Prime delivery (eg within the scope of Amazon Germany), you can still sign up for the 30-day Prime free trial and get the sale price. But you won’t get the free shipping benefits or any of the other DRM-restricted benefits (video, ebooks, etc)…