Archives for 2021

Batteries are included in the current Adorama daily deal, good until Saturday at 10am ET (or earlier if it sells out), it is the Saramonic LP-E17 7.2V 1000mAh Li-Ion Battery with Dual Charger going for $15… OR you can get a bundle with two batteries and the dual charger for $20…

AS the name suggests, this is a 3rd-party replacement of the Canon LP-E17…

It may not be world backup day again, but storage is a theme at both the Friday NewEgg daily deals but also the Best Buy daily deals where the 12TB WD Easystore goes for $198 while the 16TB goes for $255… But that’s not all, there’s also a sale on Peace by Hampton smart light bulbs and such…

And at the Friday Amazon USA Gold Box they have budget Trackfone and Total Wireless locked smartphones ($60 to $100), and budget electric toothbrushes with accessories ($15 to $24), and things like that…

Good until Saturday at 11:59pm ET, this round of B&H Photo daily deals is as follows:

+ Sunpak DigiPro Ultra 53 Reverse Folding Aluminum Tripod with Ball Head for $40

+ GVM Variable-Color On-Camera LED Light Kit with Mini Tripod & Suction Mount for $79

+ RucPac Slide Camera Strap for $25

+ Ziv Phone and GoPro Mount Kit for $5

+ Gabor Dual-Monitor Sit/Stand Desktop Mount for $100

+ Samson SR850B Semi-Open Studio Headphones for $25

+ flash deal ends Friday 6pm ET: Lowepro HighLine BP 400 AW 36L Backpack for $80

+ no teaser for the next flash deal(s)

A new round of B&H Photo daily deals good until Thursday April 8 in 2021 at 11:59pm eastern (or earlier if sold out) as follows:

+ Nanuk 905 Hard Utility Case with Foam Insert for $35 in two color options

+ Manfrotto MVMXPRO500US XPRO Aluminum Video Monopod for $229

+ LitePanels Caliber LED Fresnel 3-Light Kit with Soft Case for $550

+ Dahle PaperSAFE Deskside Shredder (8.75″ Feed, 10-12 Sheets per Pass) for $85

+ Sensei OC-CK Optics Care and Cleaning Kit for $8

+ F-Stop Reusable 3-Layer Cotton Adult Face Mask for $5 in four color options
+ buy 2 or more units, drops the per unit price to $4 per mask

It’s a busy tech day at the Woot daily deals including:

+ RAVpower 300W portable power station for $150
+ yes, that’s 300 Watt

+ Samsung Frame OLED smart TVs, $800 to $1500

+ Microsoft 12.3″ Surface PRO 7 for $760

+ Delsey hardsize luggage, $60 to $66

+ iPhone and iWatch sale, $120 to $850

And among the Best Buy dailies they have the 256GB Sandisk Ultra Plus microSDXC for $45…

ASUS laptops headline the NewEgg dailies along with a $100 Xbox gift card for $90, and a $100 Lowe’s gift card for $95, and a $50 Old Navy gift card for $40…

PS: I haven’t forgotten the Adorama daily deals [change Friday 10am ET], it’s just that it’s all video games…

Wednesday is here, another week is half-way done once again and we start with a new six-pack of B&H Photo daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Interfit Badger Unleashed Battery-Powered Flash Head for $220

+ ElVid StudioVision 23.8″ 4K HDMI Monitor for $699

+ IndiPRO Compact 95Wh V-Mount 4-Battery Kit with Dual Charger for $700

+ Porta Brace CAR-2AUD Rigid-Frame Cargo Case for Audio Equipment for $121

+ Vello ShutterBoss II Timer Remote Switch for $28 in seven options for various systems

+ Technical Pro BOOM8 Rechargeable 8″ Bluetooth LED Speaker for $30

Meanwhile at the Wednesday Amazon USA Gold Box there’s a sale on VAVA docking stations and USB hubs, with prices ranging from $27 to $80…

And among the Kindle daily deals, for $3 you can get the The History Behind Game of Thrones: The North Remembers ebook by David C. Weinczok, over 300 pages long…

Adorama is back with another daily deal, this one good until Wednesday at 10am ET, it is the new condition Slik PRO AL-523DX Tripod Kit Includes PRO AL-523 3-Section Tripod with Able 300 Pan/Tilt Head going for $100 with free US shipping…

Meanwhile at the Tuesday Amazon USA Gold Box they have two potentially interesting offers:

+ Kodak Instant Cameras and Printers, 16 options, $72 to $108
+ this includes the Mini 2 (2.1×3.4″) and Mini 3 (3″ square) portable instant printers, and the Kodak Mini Shot instant cameras…

+ TOZO power-banks, $16 to $24, nine options, 10,000 to 20,000 mAh

Tuesday is here, and it’s April 6 in 2021, and we have seven B&H Photo daily deals good until 11:59pm ET on Tuesday night or earlier if sold out:

+ Spider Spiderlight Hand Strap for $10

+ Peak Design Everyday Backpack (30L) for $150 in two color options

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

+ GVM RGB LED Studio 2-Light Soft Video Light Panel Kit 50RS2L for $330

+ Manfrotto 190go! Aluminum M-Series Tripod with MHXPRO-3W 3-Way Pan/Tilt Head for $220

+ Tascam TM-80 Studio Condenser Microphone for $35
+ with USB audio interface and headphones for $80

+ IGLOOHOME smart padlock for $80

Vankyo projectors and the Surface PRO 4 tablet are among the Tuesday Woot daily deals…

Bag the bags! The Nomatic Ultimate Travel backpack bundle for $250 in one of the daily deals at the Best Buy website…

At the start of business today, Monday April 5 in 2021 [yes, tonight is the NCAA Basketball Championship game and on paper this should be an exciting game with fast-paced teams that actually practice offense, unlike the Big 10 where basketball is really an extension of their top rated wrestling programs mixed in with rebounding drills], we have the return of both Adorama and B&H Photo. Any orders you had previously placed in the last few days are/will-be getting processed and shipped! They are back, so if you had been needing things to buy, you can now place regularly-processed orders!

On an unrelated note, big news today in the world of smartphones, as suspected/predicted for a while now, LG is now officially out of the smartphone business. Their #3 spot in the USA market was a little bit misleading because a lot of their sales were budget and prepaid phones where profit margins are razor thin. This decision will likely produce some good to great deals on existing LG phones, but keep in mind OS updates and support and warranty and such are gonna be matters of concern. Details and discussion of this via Techmeme…

Hooray, Monday-through-Friday workers of the world, a new Monday is upon us! Fear not though, a new six-pack of B&H Photo daily deals comes to the rescue, good until 11:59pm ET or earlier for any that may sell out. No flash deals today…

+ Lume Cube 2.0 Portable Lighting Kit PLUS for $100

+ Magnus GH-M1 Gimbal Head for $50

+ VAXis ATOM 500 SDI Wireless Video Transmitter and Receiver Kit (SDI/HDMI) for $399

+ AmazFit Band 5 Health & Fitness Tracker with Alexa for $26 in three color options

+ Google Nest Secure Alarm System Starter Kit for $219
+ but who will protect you from Google? 🙂

+ CalDigit TS3 Plus 15-Port Thunderbolt 3 Dock for $190 after automatic in-cart coupon
+ so many ports, time to buy new computer accessories to fill them up and then complain your dock doesn’t have enough ports 🙂

This is the last day of the Adorama Passover deals that has the two 16mm lenses (Sigma, Rokinon)… Monday 10am eastern, new deals will be loaded, so this is your last call on these two 16mm lenses…

Among the Monday Best Buy dailies you can haz the 4TB WD EasyStore portable external HDD of the USB 3 kind for $85 with a 3-month TrendMicro subscription and the usual Shutterfly coupon…

Ryzen and various storage options are among the Monday 4/5/21 offerings at the NewEgg daily deals…

Various iOttie vehicle-tech intersection accessories can be found at the Amazon USA Gold Box along with insect blue-light type of traps and Cuisinel pan and skillet organizers. Could make the case of these as photography accessory deductions in order to organize your kitchen photo-shoots 🙂 This is NOT actual tax advice 🙂

UPDATE #1: Adorama is back after the holiday with a fresh set of daily deals this set good until Tuesday at 10am ET:

+ MSI GF75 17.3″ gaming laptop with extras for $759

+ MSI GS66 Stealth 15.6″ gaming laptop with extras for $2399

Friday is here and this round of B&H Photo daily deals runs for 72 hours, good until Sunday at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out)… B&H will re-open on Monday April 5, so any orders you had previously placed will start processing and shipping…

+ Joby Action Grip for $5

+ Gitzo Century Camera Traveler Messenger Bag & Camera Strap Kit for $130
+ Gitzo has bags too!

+ GenAray Ultra-Thin Bicolor 288 SMD LED On-Camera Light Basic Kit for $79
+ can’t photo-graphy without light!

+ BenRo #2 MCT28AF Monopod with Flip Locks, 3-Leg Base, and S2 Video Head for $120
+ Ben Ro sounds like an anime character, or perhaps one of Kylo Ren’s besties?

+ Conair Travel Smart TS35Q Ladderkart for $60

+ Hollyland Cosmo 1000Plus SDI/HDMI Wireless Video Transmission System for $1600 after an automatic $700 in-cart coupon

Meanwhile the Friday 4/3/21 Meh daily deal is the COLOP E-mark Create Portable Handheld Printer offered for $79… The Meh-a-thon is over…

A variant of the Meh-a-thon is happening at the Meh website, it’s a Joe-rathon, some variant of the warehouse sale… As usual, previous offers that did not sell out continue to be available for purchase during the day, so you don’t miss you like you do during a Woot-OFF…

Thursday at the B&H Photo daily deals brings a six-pack good until 11:59pm ET [one has already sold out as of the time of writing of this blog-post]:

+ GVM JJL-JY Video Tripod System with Fluid Head for $130

+ Tamrac Pro Compact 2 Camera Bag (Black) for $12

+ Vello eyeshades and eyepieces, 12 options, $10 each

+ Auray PBS-DLX Deluxe Wooden Piano Bench with Adjustable Height for $80
+ could work as a studio prop as well

+ Polsen M-85-B Professional Dynamic Handheld Microphone for $15

+ SOLD-OUT: LITRA LitraTorch 2.0 Filter Kit with GoPro Mount

Continuing at the Adorama daily deals are the two 16mm lens offerings (Sigma, Rokinon)…

ViVo office and standing desk type things are part of the Woot daily deals…

The Sunpak premium series 18-inch bi-color ring-light with a BOYA wireless microphone and bluetooth remote is among the Best Buy dailies going for $140…

In Egglandia, aka the Newegg dailies you can get a $50 electronic GAP gift card for $40, a 128GB Samsung EVO microSDXC (orange cream color scheme) for $15.30~ after the promo code shown there… There’s also the DEERC DE25 foldable drone for $80 and various other techie things as usual…

Last but not least, at the Amazon USA Gold Box there’s an ACER computer gear sale featuring monitors, mice, desktops, backpack and an 8-inch rugged tablet too…

Staying at Amazon, if you are happy with Keurig and Nespresso machines, why not expand automation to …cocktails? $280 gets you the Bartesian Premium Cocktail and Margarita Machine for the Home Bar…

We start the Wednesday round-up with a reminder that the two 16mm lenses at the Adorama daily deals continue until April 5 in 2021, so you have plenty of time to read lens reviews, comparisons and put samples and real-world pictures under the pixel-peeping-microscope…

Today is World Back Up Day which explains the previously mentioned B&H Photo daily deals that feature internal and external hard drives from various manufacturers…

The storage sale also happens today, March 31st (Wednesday), and headlines the Amazon Gold Box dailies, featuring 26 options, internal and external HDDs, and SSDs, from WD, Sandisk, Samsung, G-Tech, Toshiba, and Crucial. Too many of them to list here individually. Up to three per item per customer cart…

Also part of the Wednesday Gold Box is a Sylvania smart lighting sale featuring 14 options from Sylvania, including their LEDvance line. Lots of A19 options…

One more Amazon deal du jour, their Fire HD8 tablet (32GB storage, 2GB RAM, microSD, with Ads) for $60, up to two per customer… These are part of on-going Amazon Hardware Deals which are increasing (in option) by the hour…

The storage sales also dominate the action at the Wednesday Best Buy dailies with four options from Western Digital…

WD is also among the options at the NewEgg daily deals…

Tuesday is here and B^H Photo has loaded up a fresh set of daily deals, this group running until Tuesday 3/30/21 at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

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

+ Porta Brace Padded Lens Cups, set includes two, 4″ and 7″, for $20

+ SmallHD FOCUS Bolt 500 TX On-Camera Monitor for $699
+ Small in name, HD in price 😉

+ Polsen VCP-2 Passive Stereo Volume Controller for Powered Speakers for $30
+ it would be nice if people had these too 😉

+ Apexel Gorillas Tripod for Smartphones and DSLR Camera for $18

+ Dahle 552 Professional Rotary Trimmer (20″) for $129

REMINDER: B&H will reopen on Monday April 5. All orders placed the last few days (during the Passover Holidays) will begin shipping on April 5…

This set of B&H Photo daily deals, because of the holidays, runs until Monday 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Billingham F8 Bag (Black FibreNyte/Black) for $100

+ Sunpak LED 392 Slim On-Camera Bicolor Video Light Kit with Barndoor Set for $30
+ you have to provide your own barn animals if you want to play with this barndoor set 😉

+ GVM 672S-B Bi-Color LED Studio Video Panel 2-Light Kit for $320

+ Oben BA-106A Single Lever Ball Head for $27

+ Magnus REX VT-4000PRO 2-Stage Video Tripod with Fluid Head for $140

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

+ no flash deals obviously

And just like that, Hump Day is here upon us once again, and the first week of March Madness is already over, which means more games have been played than games remain! And with that, we have another 7+1 day at the B&H Photo daily deals good until 11:59mp ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Nanuk 910 Hard Utility Case with Foam Insert for $35 (two color options)

+ Sunpak Action Camera Accessory Kit for $8

+ Angler 865BLED Sparta Bicolor LED Light for $79

+ Manfrotto 645 FAST Twin Leg Video Tripod with Ultra L-Lock Mechanism (Carbon Fiber) for $650 after automatic in-cart coupon

+ Noga Cine Arm DG Hold-It Arm for $99

+ Teradek TOF.1 Precision Infrared Laser Range Finder for Teradek RT for $1990
+ this sounds like BORG technology?

+ Vivitar Lens and Screen Cleaning Kit for $3
+ you can never have too many cleaning kits? 🙂

+ flash deal ends 12pm ET: Manfrotto DSLR Shoulder Bag for $20

+ flash deal starts 12pm ET: Sony X950H 55″ Class HDR 4K UHD Smart LED TV
+ price before sale $1198

Meanwhile among the Adorama daily deals (ends Wednesday 10am ET) is the new condition Slik PRO AL-523BH5 Tripod with PBH-535AS Ball Head for $120 with free US shipping…

Tuesday is here and it’s another 7+1 day at the B&H Photo daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ CamBee VL60RGB-S 681 Studio Professional LED Panel Light Kit for $140

+ GVM GP-80FW Carbon Fiber Camera Slider with Flywheel (33″) for $99

+ O’Connor Camera Assistant Bag for $200

+ Hakuba Branner BR-5-SG 5-Section Tripod (Gray) for $15

+ FeiYu WG2X 3-Axis Wearable Gimbal for Action Cams for $90

+ ElVid StudioVision 15.6″ 4K HDMI Monitor for $599

+ Polsen PMA-2B Stereo Personal In-Ear Monitor Amplifier for $25

+ flash deal ends 12pm ET: Samsung Q60T 50″ Class HDR 4K UHD Smart QLED TV for $498 after automatic in-cart coupon

+ flash deal starts 12pm ET: LG BXPUA 55″ Class HDR 4K UHD Smart OLED TV
+ price before sale $1297

UPDATE: among the Woot daily deals there’s a scratch-n-dent 11.6″ Samsung Chromebook (model XE303C12) going for $90 with a 90-day Woot warranty. Note that this does not get automatic Chrome OS updates (expired July 2018) and has 2GB RAM and 16GB on-board (and microSD) and Exynos processor and full-size USB ports. This was my first Chromebook, and as of three years ago it was already struggling with some of the busier and more demanding websites especially when using multiple tabs. So this can be useful for uni-taskers, eg tech-averse person using it for email and one-page-at-a-time browsing, but anything more demanding, you are better off with newer models…

The latest incarnation of the Adorama daily deals (changes Monday 10am ET or earlier if sold out) is the new condition Hubsan ZINO Pro Plus Standard Version Ultra HD 4K Quadcopter going for $299 with free US shipping…

I love how Hubsan managed to stick in all the buzzwords in the product name, “Ultra”, “Pro”, “Plus” but despite all the buzzwords it is also Standard 😉

An Intel i5, a couple of ASUS Vivobooks, a 2TB Toshiba Canvio for $54, and more can be found at the NewEgg daily deals…

Among the Sunday Kindle daily deals of the Amazon USA Gold Box there are potentially two books of quasi-related interest:

+ Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game from Oliver Stone for $5

+ Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors for $1
+ if you are a member of Kindle Unlimited, you can read this for free

Also inside the Amazon Gold Box is the most exciting sale ever, RX Bars on sale, all kinds, variety packs and single-flavor, minis and regular size, old flavors and new! As a minimum you must needs try the Chocolate-Sea-Salt and the Maple… The Minis are great for portion control IF you can stop at one a time 🙂

Note however that I haven’t tried any of their Oat/Oatmeal products, I have no clue how they taste, YMMV on those 🙂

Sunday is here and at the B&H Photo daily deals there is a 7-pack of offerings good until Sunday at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ SetWear Reusable 2-Layer Cotton Face Mask for $5

+ Tamrac Quick Release Paracord Shoulder Strap (Charcoal) for $13

+ Apexel Extendable Tripod for DSLR Camera and Smartphone for $18
+ a nu generation of hybric cam/phone tripods, a boon for those who had been wishing for more compact tripods for more compact cameras and camera+lens combos

+ Manfrotto Off Road Pole Medium with GoPro Mount for $20

+ AurAY BA-XE4 Broadcast Arm with Integrated XLR Cable for $30

+ Porta Brace bags, three options, $60 to $140

+ MyGekoGear Orbit 950 2-Channel 1080p Dual Dash Cam with 16GB microSD Card for $100
+ may look a bit like a digicam from some angles of view but it’s not!

The current Adorama daily deal (changes Sunday 10am ET nuTime) is the new condition WiseLift WLT400 Rolling work station Swivel Table with USB Ports and Drink Holder going for $300 with free US shipping… Of course there’s a drink holder, not sure though if it fits the 64oz 711 99c Pseudo-Colas 🙂

Last but not least at the Meh daily deal you get a 2-pack of Gabba Goods 1080p webcams for $29 with free US shipping for MEh-meh-ME-members…

UPDATE: if you want a touchless thermometer to add your “COVIDalia Collection”, as part of the Amazon “Savings and Sales” they have this new condition Touchless Thermometer going for $10, fulfilled by Amazon, with up to two per customer at the sale price… It averages 4.4 out of 5 based on over 8000 customer ratings as of the time of writing of this blog post… Per the customer reviews and the Q&A, this uses two AAA batteries, so a big plus for those with a mountain of rechargeables 🙂

UPDATE #2: in a rarity for the Woot daily deals the headliner is an Apple sale that is new condition, not refurbished! The sale featured 17 items, mostly Macbooks with a couple of MacMinis. The price range of the sale is $470 to $1730… They come with a 1-year Apple warranty…

Speaking of Apple, there’s also a Beats headphones sale ($60 to $190) and a 14″ portable monitor for $238…

Forgot about Dre! And I forgot about the Adorama daily deals whose current incarnation lasts until Friday at 10am ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Datacolor SpyderX Pro Color Calibration for $100

As usual, the Friday B^H Photo daily deals last until Saturday at 11:59pm ET with the usual Sabbath closing (Fri PM to Sat PM, check site for details). Flash deals, as always, last for a limited amount of time…

+ Nanuk 909 Hard Utility Case with Foam Insert (Black) for $30

+ Olympus LS-P1 Portable Handheld Digital Audio Recorder (4GB, Silver) for $70

+ Apex flash pouches for $8 (two options)

+ Libec Hands-Free Monopod Kit with TH-X Pan-and-Tilt Video Head and Bowl Clamp for $89
+ if they want lawyers to buy this, they need to create a sub-brand of this, Libel 😉

+ GVM 2 x NP-F970 6600mAh Batteries with Dual Charger and V-Mount Adapter for $99

+ AuRay M-LED18-DK 18-LED Desktop Music Gooseneck Light (with Power Supply) for $30

+ ReVo Bi-Color Vlog Light with Phone Holder for $18

+ flash deal ends Friday 7pm ET: Manfrotto 612 Nitrotech Fluid Video Head and Carbon Fiber Twin Leg Tripod with Ground Spreader with FREE Ultrasone Signature DXP Closed-Back Stereo Headphones for $950
+ that’s right expensive headphones as a tripod freebie 🙂

+ no teaser for next flash deal