Archives for 2021

Sun-DAY is here and we are almost halfway inside August 2021, and we have a new 6-pack of ice cold B&H Photo daily deals running until 8/15/21 at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Powerex MH-C204GT Smart Charger for $8

+ WD Gaming Hard Drives, 5 options, prices further discounted by automatic in-cart coupons

+ DIYP Camera Cookie Cutters (Set of Three) for $10
+ or three sets of the above (total nine cookie cutters) for $20
+ a fun treat for your clients/guests at the studio!

+ Audio Technica AT2020 Cardioid Condenser Microphone (Limited-Edition Silver) for $99

+ Carson JC-1000 2.4″/60mm Refractor Telescope Kit for $60
+ better chances to find aliens than SETI 🙂
+ per the late Stanton Friedman, SETI = Silly Effort To Investigate 🙂

+ IndiPRO 14.8V 95Wh Lithium-Ion Battery & Pro Charger Kit (V-Mount) for $150

Apple iMacs ($325 to $800) are among the Sunday Woot daily deals…

Bag the other bags at the NewEgg dailies, a 3-pack of NewEgg-branded non-woven shopping bags for $5… Also there they have the 128GB Sandisk Extreme PRO (up to 170MB/s, V30, U3, UHS-I, C10) going for $30 with free US shipping…

And for those of you who like to read e-books, there are over 110 options under the Sunday Kindle daily deals…

UPDATE: the current Adorama daily deal [changes Monday at 10am ET] is the new condition K&F Concept SA254M2 Aluminum Camera Tripod Portable Monopod going for $50 with free US shipping…

Thirst-DAY is here and running until 8/12/21 at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out) you can have the following B&H Photo daily deals [UPDATE: LINK ADDED!]

+ Luxli Fiddle Pocket RGBAW LED for $169

+ Axler Remora Shoulder Rig for Blackmagic Design URSA Mini Series for $229

+ Reikan Focal Pro Lens Calibration for $90

+ ARCO AS-A10G Small Bag for Audio Field Recorder for $100

+ 10″ Kodak Digital Picture Frame with Wi-Fi and Multi-Touch Display (Ocean Blue) for $110

+ TP-Link switches, four options, $11 to $48

+ Ausounds true wireless from $15 to $45

MEANWHILE the current Adorama daily deal (changes Friday 10am ET) is the
NiSi M75 75mm Starter Kit with Pro CPL for $199 with free US shipping…

And just like that dear friends and enemies, we have reached Hump Day once again! If the earth was flat, would the same days keep returning? Obviously not!

We start with a new 6-pack of B&H Photo daily deals running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ 128GB Sandisk Ultra SDXC UHS-I Memory Card for $17

+ Davis & Sanford & Mumford & Sons ProVista 6510 Aluminum Tripod with V10 Fluid Head (65mm Bowl) for $70

+ LEDgo LG-E2686 Bi-Color LED Large Pad Light Kit with Eggcrate Grid and Bag for $99
+ actual eggs NOT included in the eggcrate 🙂

+ Moza Air 2 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer for $279
+ despite the name, this is not self-levitating 🙂

+ TetherTools ONsite USB Type-C 87W PD Battery Pack for $88

We have a new entry in the world of “Bag the Bags”. NewEgg itself! Among their Wednesday 8/11/21 Shell-Shocker daily deals they offer a 3-pack of NewEgg-branded black backpacks for $23 total… These are standard backpacks, not camera backpacks…

IF you are shopping from the EU, Amazon Germany is having a big AmazonBasics LED Light Bulb sale with two pages of offers, multi-packs of E27 (including Globe-style), E14, GU10, and B12. Most of the offers are the standard E27 size… Check color temperature and connector and power output before buying (as usual)…

MEanwhile at the WEDNesday WOOt dailies they have iPhones ($90 (iPhone 6s) to $830), Surface 3 tablets ($220 to $260), Peet’s Coffee, etc… The headliner is a $140 Lenovo 2-n-1 convertible Chromebook (MediaTek MT8173C, 4GB RAM, 64GB eMMC, 11.6″ IPS 1366×768, 90-day Woot warranty, auto update expires June 2025, etc)…

Tuesday is here and we start with a new set of BH&H Photo dailies running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Manfrotto camera cages, three sizes, $140 to $200
+ optionally buy them with the Manfrotto baseplate for +$100

+ Apple Mac Mini for $499
+ 3.6 GHz Intel Core i3 Quad (8th Gen), 8GB (2666 MHz DDR4) RAM, Intel UHD Graphics 630, 256GB PCIe SSD, etc

+ Nanuk 920 cases, eight options, all for the Sony a7R, with lid foam, for $115

+ GVM LT-50S Bi-Color LED Video 2-Light Kit for $170

+ Magnus FT-P15 MiniFlex Flexible Tripod for Smartphones and Camera for $13

+ FLIR Scout TK Pocket-Size Thermal Monocular (9 Hz) for $419
+ caution: be prepared for the “is that a FLIR in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?” type of jokes 😉

Monday is here with a new 6-pack of new B&H Photo daily deals good until 8/9/21 at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ 14TB WD Elements desktop USB 3.0 external HDD for $260 after automatic in-cart coupon

+ Rotolight Video Conferencing Kit for $189

+ Mefoto GlobeTrotter Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod Kit (Blue) for $200

+ YoloLiv YoloBox Portable All-in-One Multi-Camera Live Streaming Encoder, Switcher, Monitor, and Recorder for $748
+ yes, YOLO goes LIVe 🙂

+ APC Back-UPS PRO BN1500M2 Battery Backup & Surge Protector for $160 after in-cart coupon

+ 32GB Kingston Data Traveler 100 G3 USB 3.0 flash drive for $4

On the alt-lighting front, the Meh daily deal is a 2-pack of Bright Basics Motion Activated Ultra Bright Wireless Sensor Light Bars for $15 with free shipping for paying Meh-members, or flat shipping for non-Meh-meh-meh-members…

Then we geaux to the Woot dailies where we find a VIVO desk headliner sale, along with a Sainsmart 3D sale, and Samsung watches ($100 to $130), and such…

A $200 off sale on select iPad PROs headlines the Monday Best Buy daily deals along with laptops, headphones, and a …shampoo puck…

A refurbished fully-unlocked Google Pixel 3A XL going for $85 is among the Monday NewEGG daily deals, one of the most affordable ways to get the latest official Android OS Beta version…

Sunday is here and there is a new 4-pack of B&H Photo daily deals running until Sunday 8/8/21 at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Vella Octo Softbox kits, four options, $28 to $49

+ Tenba Tools PAcklite Travel bags, four options, $14 to $20

+ Polaroid PL3100 720p Quadcopter for $80

+ Bose SoundSport Wireless In-Ear Headphones for $89

As usual, the Friday B&H Photo daily deals last until Saturday at 11:59pm ET (but orders are not accepted Friday PM to Saturday PM ~ check their website for exact times):

+ Davis & Sanford & Sons & Vista Explorer V Tripod with 3-Way Head for $18

+ Porta Brace HR-DSLR Padded Nylon Camera Harness (Black) for $45~

+ FeiYU VLOG Pocket Handheld Gimbal for $40~

+ Wooden Camera 1/4″-20 Cold Shoe Mount for $5

+ EzViz DB1C 1080p Wi-Fi Smart Doorbell for $50

+ Watson AC Power Extension Cord (16 AWG, Orange, 75′) for $20

Nom-nom at the Friday Best Buy dailies, you get 10% off on Chipotle gift cards… There’s $50 Nikon Aculor binos, a 27″ LG QHD IPS gaming monitor for $300, etc…

At the Friday Woot dailies there’s a Parrot drones sale ($180 to $440), and a $220 14″ HP Stream dual-core Windoze laptop among others…

Then at the Friday NewEGG dailies we find an Intel i7-11700k for $15 off, an Aukey 6-in-1 USB-C hub for $30 (with Ethernet port), a 3-pack of NewEgg-branded black woven shopping bags for $5, various laptops and storage options, and combined savings option on a 64GB Team microSDXC ($6.49 on its own)…

UPDATE: the current Adorama daily deal [changes Saturday 10am ET] is the
Manfrotto 67mm Circular ND500 Lens Filter offered for $20 with free US shipping…

Elsewhere, if you are participating in the Lucky’s rewards program (the grocery chain) you can claim a FREE tin of Sparkling Ice (with Caffeine)…

And if you are an Apple user, you will soon receive a bonus self-surveillance OS update. In a shocking twist, just as Apple was converting Android users to iPhone users, many of those tired of Google’s nonchalant and Adsense-y stance towards privacy, they drop this bomb. Needless to say, except for die-hard fanboys, the rest of the internet is ablaze. This is nothing short of a trojan horse to be abused by various regimes and governments and agencies around the world. It’s not like Apple is going to make dramatic principled stands when it comes to that: we already have plenty of examples of Big Tech rolling over to demands from Emperors and Czars all around the world in order to protect their profits…

Mayhaps the time is right to revisit the Linux phone? 🙂

And just like that, THIRST-DAY is here, and the only safe thing to drink in the heatwave is of course water 🙂

We start at the B&H Photo dailies, running until 11:59mp ET (or earlier IFF sold-out):

+ Spider SpiderLight Dual Camera System for $110
+ you can make life as complicated as you wish; and pay for it 🙂

+ GVM LS-150D LED Daylight Video Light for $235

+ ManFrotto Befree Live Aluminum Video Tripod Kit with Twist Leg Locks for $180

+ RotoLight 10″ Arm & Clamp Kit for $70

+ Energizer Multi-Fit LCD Timer Remote Shutter Release for $15

+ Celestron LensPen Tool for $4

Blink security cameras, Mizuno footwear and new condition Microsoft Surface Duo dual-screen critters (LOCKED to AT&T LTE, $400 to $470, 1 year MSFT warranty) are among the Woot dailies for Thursday 8/5/21…

Hump Day is here once again, good until 8/4/21 at 11:59pm ET {or earlier IFF sold-out} you can have these B&H Photo daily deals:

+ SteadiCAM Air 15 Monopod for $160
+ no, it does not levitate mid-air

+ PortaBrace Light Pack for Litepanels Astra 1×1 for $124
+ lighting gear deserves its own “bag the bags!”

+ National Geographic 50mm f/12 AZ Refractor Telescope for $35
+ with this, you also get to narrate 10 nature documentaries of your choice #FakeNews

+ Celestron NexYZ 3-Axis Universal Smartphone Adapter for $50
+ this looks so complicated I get dizzy by just looking at it 😉

+ ReVo Bi-Color Vlog Light with Phone Holder for $15
+ because our future careers are Patreon, SuperChats, Kofis, IndieGogos, TikToks, OnlyFans, GoFundMes and Venmos
+ I wish all these existing while this blog was actually functioning full-time

+ IndiPRO Micro-Series V-Mount Li-Ion Battery (98Wh) for $180 with FREE CHARGER
+ on the thumbnail it may look like an oxymeter, but it is decidedly NOT!

Tuesday, aka Toons-DAY aka Tunes-DAY is here with another round of B&H Photo daily deals:

+ CamBEE VL15B Bicolor 15W On-Camera LED Light for $49

+ MeFOTO RoadTrip Aluminum Travel Tripod Kit for $90

+ Tiffen Neutral Density/Polarizer Kit for DJI from $30 to $45

+ FIMI Palm 2 FPV Gimbal Camera Stabilizer for $174
+ no relation to FEMA 🙂

+ Manfrotto Ergonomic Handle and Accessory Bar for TwistGrip Smartphone Clamp for $30

+ 7.6TB Glyph Technologies Blackbox Plus USB 3.1 Type-C External Solid-State Drive for $1500

NEXT UP, at the Adorama daily deals [change Wednesday 10am ET] they have:

+ Ulanzi 96 LED On-Camera LED Light for $10
+ yes, just ten dollares

+ two Ulanzi vlogging accessorapalooza kits, $35 or $40

WHILE WALKING on EGGSHELLS we check upon the NewEGG dailies where a $25 VUDU e-gift card goes for $20 and there’s a $10 off on an INTEL i7, and a 256GB Samsung FIT (the tiny one) USB flash drive for $36 ~ among many others…

Outdoor outlets, CyberPower UPS, $100 Airpods 2, and extension cords are among the Woot dailies for Tuesday 8/3/21…

FOR THE eye-glass-o-graphers, the Meh daily-deal offers a 2-pack of PogoCAM wearable HD camera for glasses for $20 plus shipping [free for paying members]. Glasses NOT included. Just the chunky camera type thing…

Sunday is here, August is here, and good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out) y’all can haz these B&H Photeaux Daily dEalz:

+ HoYa 82mm NXT Plus UV Filter for $47

+ Porta Brace Sack Pack (Small, Black) for $55~

+ Pelican 3330 PM6 Tactical Flashlight for $34~

+ Audio Technica AT2020USB+ Cardioid Condenser USB Microphone (Limited Edition Chrome) for $149
+ yes, that’s the Cylon Chrome 🙂

+ Samsung Q60A 50″ Class HDR 4K UHD Smart QLED TV for $570 after automatic in-cart coupon

+ B+W Photo Clear Microfiber Cleansing Cloth (7.9 x 7.1″, Black) for $6~
+ the cloth is not B+W, that’s the brand name
+ PRO TIP: do not use brand names that can be confused with actual products or product colors 🙂

At the Meh website you can haz a 2-pack of Brookstone branded 10W Qi charging pads for $10 plus shipping…

At the Woot dailies there’s tracing pads, Galaxy Tablets (S&D, $105 to $660) and the Apple AirPods MAX headphones for $470 in new condition with a 1-year warranty…

UPDATE: the current Adorama daily deal [changes Monday 10am ET] is the new condition 1TB Samsung T7 USB 3.2 Portable SSD going for $150 with free US shipping… This is in the “titan gray” color scheme. Actual Titans NOT included 😉

We now have a scattered round-up of various daily deals and expiring-soons 🙂

We start with the Adorama daily deal (changes Sunday 10am ET) where you can get the new condition Flashpoint M1 Mini Mobile Phone Flash (A1 Mini) for $15 with free US shipping…

Then at DiscountMAGS we go where the weekend sale theme (ends Monday night actually) is $5 per magazines per year. No camera/photo magazine but there are a few [not a lot like usual] “six degrees of separation” plus a little bit of an A/V theme under “Tech” (Stereophile and Sound-n-Vision [no, not the David Bowie box set])…

Good until August 1st, there’s an automatic in-cart sitewide 20% off discount with free US shipping at the RX Bar online shop. You see the regular price, then add the item(s) of interest to the shopping cart, and the 20% off discount appears there in the shopping cart. Note that some items have “natural flavors”. Note also that they recently expanded their product line-up and some of their new “nut butter packs” look like the RXbars on the flattened screen, so be sure you are buying the RXbars and not the nut-butter-packs [if that’s what you want]… I’ve eaten hundreds of Rxbars and look at where I am [this reads more like an anti-endorsement LOL]. My favorites in no particular order Maple Sea Salt, Dark Chocolate, and Coconut Chocolate… If you are new to this, try the Variety Packs… I haven’t tried any of their “breakfasty” stuff, so I can’t tell you anything about them [let’s not forget that cereal was invented as an anti-viagra way back; are you sure you want to be eating that? LOL {and that’s before we consider GMO, empty refined blood-sugar-spiking carbs, not-really-natural natural flavors, food colorings, food glueware, and other yucky things]

Is this turning into a Foodie Blog? Probably not 🙂 Is it getting more random and out of control? Probably yes 🙂

Then at the Saturday Woot daily deals we go where the headliner is a MacBook/MacMini sale ($520 to $1400), and there’s refurbished iMacs ($350 to $650), Birkenstocks for the corporate hippies, and more 😉

Best advertisement for Macs? A picture of Windows and a picture of a 10-line Linux command line 😉

THEN WE HEAD OFF to the Saturday Best Buy dailies where we find another iteration of the Insignia single-use battery sale, a $950 MSI gaming laptop, a $110 Vankyo mini projector, and such…

Then to the Saturday NewEGG dailies we go where we find a Samsung internal SSD, 12TB Seagate Expansion for $260 AC, LG TV, RAM, car digital meter, and all sorts of other techie thingies…

The Saturday Amazon USA Gold Box has more of a house theme, with offers on Echo Buds, Toshiba Smart Fire TV, under-the-desk elliptical, and more…