Welcome to the Camera Dome :)
Onwards to the Adorama dailies, this trio sings until Monday at 10am ET or earlier if sold out:
+ Hoya 82mm Alpha Multi-Coated UV Optical Glass Filter for $28
+ Quasar Science Q-Lion Q5 Lithium Ion Battery 5W Bi-Color LED Lamp, 7″, for $100
+ H&A USB mic for $50
Sunday brings us a new set of B&H Photo dailies running until the end of August 2022 in the eastern time zone, which happens to be Sunday night 🙂
+ SYRP Genie Micro for $70
+ Philips Hue GU10 Bulb with Bluetooth (White and Color Ambiance) for $30
+ Ruggard Denim Camera pouches, five options, $$4 to $8
+ 32GB Transcend microSD for $7
+ Vello COOLTOOL Camera Plate Combo Tool for $6
+ Xcellon wireless presenters, red or green, $10 each
Speaking of Philips Hue, the headliner of the Sunday Woot daily deals is a sale on Philips Hue lighting. As of the time of writing 19 options are in-stock and one is sold out. Prices range from $22 to $275…
Meanwhile among the Amazon dailies for Sunday there is a sale on USX TV wall mounts, nine options, prices ranging from $13~ to $79~…
If for the next 12 months you are going to have available time to watch classes on various photo-related and creative/business-related subjects, CreativeLIVE is back with a coupon code for their CreativeLIVE Subscription plan. Coupon code SAVE50 drops the price of the 1-year prepaid plan from $149 to $99. This is the equivalent of paying $8.25 per month but you pay it annually.
Most but not all classes and instructors are included. This is a Netflix-style plan, you can watch as much as you want as long as you are a paying subscriber. When the paying subscription ends, you can no longer watch (unless you had previously purchased a class)…
We have another limited time coupon for the Monoprice website. Coupon code 15OFFNOW gets you 15% off site-wide. Some exclusions and restrictions apply as usual. I do not know when the coupon expires…
HDMI cables are used by more and more devices these days, so if you want to stock up and never run out (ha! no matter how many you have, you can never find one when you really need it), for a limited time, Monoprice is offering an extra 10% off on various HDMI cables using coupon code HDMI. They come with a lifetime warranty.
Price before the coupon start at $1.19. Sizes range from half a foot up to 330 feet.
Now off to the Adorama dailies we geaux with this round running until Sunday at 10am ET:
+ Fotodiox Lens Mount Adapter for T-Mount (T/T-2) Screw Mount SLR Lens to Sony Alpha E-Mount Mirrorless Camera Body for $10
+ Savage LED Star Light for $100
+ also $2 cable and $20 microphone
Batteries are included in the Saturday 7/30/22 Meh daily deal running until 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out: it is 110 single-use Eveready Silver single-use alkaline AA batteries offered for $25 plus shipping…
The Saturday Woot headliner deal du jour is a refurbished Kindle and Fire tablet sale with 11 in-stock options and one sold-out option as of the time of writing. The Kindle e-readers range from $28 to $120 and go up to the 2018 Paperwhite and Oasis models. Nom-nom. The Fire tablets range from $15 to $50. Yes, $15 gets you the 2017 Fire 7 tablet. Crazy, I know. They come with a 90-day warranty.
They to the Amazon Gold Bawx we geaux where the headliner is the new condition Kodak SCANZA Digital Film & Slide Scanner offered for $120, sold by 3rd-party seller “DB Roth” and fulfilled by Amazon herself (Prime shipping)…
Time won’t stand still as our Canadian friends …RUSH to remind us, so we have a new set of Adorama dailies this lot good until Saturday at 10am ET:
+ Explorer EX-ACPRO Ascent Professional 4-Section Carbon Fiber Tripod for $589
+ NanLite PavoTube 30C 4′ RGBW LED Tube with Internal Battery 2-Light Kit, 32W, 2700K-6500K for $487~
+ also: H&A cables
For those in the Lucky Rewards (supermarket chain), this weekend their freebie is a “Nature Sweet Cherubs To-Go (2.25 oz)”. One per customer. No, these are not some kind of angels, these are some kind of tomatoes 😉
Yay, it’s Fri-YAY, and as usual the B&H Photo daily deals run until Saturday Night Fever (dance-fever, not covid-fever!) at 11:59pm ET:
+ DataColor SpyderX Elite Color Control Kit for $190
+ MeFoto RoadTrip S Travel Tripod (Aluminum, Titanium) for $70
+ I’m assuming someone has already created “YouFoto” and “WeFoto” and “TheyFoto” brands 😉
+ TriGyn Ring Light Kit with Smartphone Holder and Desktop Tripod Stand (8″) for $34
+ with three light tones (cold, white and natural)
+ PortaBrace MB-1B Matte Box Case (Black) for $159
+ you can also use it to cosplay doctors 😉
+ 5pk of 32GB Kingston DataTraveler Exodia USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 Flash Drive for $16
+ that’s $5.33 per 32GB flash drive
+ CAD E100SP Studio Pack with E100SX, CX2, AS10, VP1, and CLC25 for $229
+ might as well start a podcast if you buy these 😉
To sale-a-brate the latest NASA Webb telescope images, the CEO himself of ACDSee is having a limited time offer. Only 400 units of the FREEbie are available in this offer, and as of the time of writing of this blog-post, there are 104 copies left.
The offer is this: you pay $65, a one-time charge, and you receive:
Lighting strikes again with this new round of Adorama daily deals running until Friday 7/29/22 at 10am ET:
+ Rotolight NEO 2 3-Light Kit for $599
+ Philips Hue White & Color Ambiance A19 LED Starter Kit, Multicolor for $175
+ Lowepro GearUp Creator Box Extra Large II for $38
+ bag the bags, box the boxes?
+ H&A VideoMini HA-CVM Compact On-Camera Microphone (Comica CVM-VM10 II) for $15
UPDATE: unrelated to the above offers, but good for Thursday 7/28/22, Amazon’s Kindle daily deals are offering a bundle of the first three e-books of Frank Herbert’s Dune for $2 total. That’s 1226 pages. For the Kindle/Kindle-apps. These are the first three books in the series, in the mainline canon series, not the stuff written by his son and another author.
Thirsty Thursday is here and we are back to the 6+1 formation at this round of the B&H Photo dailies running until 7/28/22 at 11:59pm ET or earlier IFF sold out:
+ Pelican 1557AirTP Hard Carry Case with TrekPak Divider Insert (Black) for $275
+ 256GB LeXaR Professional 1800x UHS-II SDXC Memory Card (GOLD Series) for $90
+ 256GB LeXar Professional CFexpress Type-B Memory Card for $230
+ SYRP Genie II Motorized Pan/Tilt Head for $900
+ SYRP Genie One Motion Control Pan Head/Linear Drive for $200
+ SYRP Genie II Linear for $580
+ ReadyRiG GS Stabilizer Kit with Case for $1700
+ looks complicated?
+ also: JBL bluetooth speaker and Samson wireless mic system type thing
+ flash deal: Zhiyun Remote Control for Crane 2 for $24
We are lighting the way to this round of B&H Photo dailies running until 7/27/22 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:
+ Lowepro Adventura SH 110 II Shoulder Bag (Black) for $10
+ up to ten per customer
+ Lume Cube Portable Lighting Kit PLUS LC2 for $100
+ 2x Angelbird 512GB Pack for the Z CAM E2 Cinema Camera for $500
+ Angler Chromakey Collapsible Background (5 x 7′, Chroma Blue / Green) for $48
+ GVM Aluminum Camera Video Tripod DX16 with Fluid Head System for $159
+ Tascam TM-280 Studio Microphone with Flight Case, Shockmount, and Pop Filter for $100
Fun fun fun in the Best Buy dailies, there’s 10% on Chipotle gift cards, a $100 ASUS Chromebook as the headliner daily deal (4GB, 64GB eMMC, Celery N4020). But the tech action continues with Surface PRO X, Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, ASUS ROG Zephyrus, Galaxy Chromebook 2 360 12.4″, and such…
Music theme is at the latest Adorama dailies running until Thursday at 10am ET with an acoustic guitar, a stand, a headphone and a microphone…
To compl[i/e]ment your Chipotle meal, we have a BOGO sale at the RXbar website running until 7/28/22…
This new round of Adorama daily deals has the following offers:
+ Lowepro Photo Hatchback BP 150 AW II Backpack for Mirrorless Camera or Compact DSLR for $65~
+ NanLite PavoTube 30C 4′ RGBW LED Tube with Internal Battery 4-Light Kit, 32W, 2700K-6500K for $983
+ H&A Shotgun Microphone Deadcat Windscreen for $8
+ Behringer BEQ700 7-Band Graphic Equalizer Foot Pedal for Electric Bass Guitar for $23
Tuesday is here with a new six-pack of B&H Photo dailies running until 7/26/22 at 11:59pm eastern:
+ Smith-Victor Spectrum 2.0 RGB/Bi-Color On-Camera LED Light for $60
+ PortaBrace RB-2 Lightweight Run Bag, Medium – for Audio and Video Production Accessories (Black) for $149
+ 256GB Kingston DataTraveler Max USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C Flash Drive for $40
+ 1TB for $100
+ Vello FreeWave Fusion Basic 2.4 GHz Wireless Trigger System for Canon
or Nikon or Sony for $28 each
+ IDX 14.4V Li-Ion Battery for Sony BP-U Mount Cameras (96Wh) for $153
+ optionally buy TOGETHER with IDX MC-2U 2-Channel Simultaneous Charger for Sony BP-U Type Batteries for $302
+ Benro Bat Zero Series Carbon Fiber Tabletop Tripod with VX20 Ball Head (16.14″) for $200
+ yes, my favorite emo jedi, Ben Ro, is back 🙂
The lighting offers continue at the Adorama dailies, this lot good until 7/26/22 at 10am ET:
+ Aputure Amaran P60x 60W Bi-Color LED Soft Light Panel for $199
+ Redrock Micro DigiBoom Field Broadcast Deluxe Kit, Includes Gimbal-Stabilized Mobile Jib, Adjustable Monitor Support Arm, 6.5 lbs Payload for $1500
+ also on sale keyboard stand/bench combo and another cable
From the “Everything will be re-invented” department, among the Gold Box daily deals there’s a detachable (as in Transformers style) soundbar from MZEIBO for $76. Detachable as in it can be positioned like a pair of good old …speakers 🙂
Everybody’s favorite day is here, it is Monday 7/25/22, yes, five months until Christmas 2022, have you prepared your Holiday Shopping 2022 list yet? 😉
We start with a fresh six-pack of B&H Photo dailies running until 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:
+ 128GB LeXar Professional 1066x UHS-I SDXC Memory Card (SILVER Series) for $20~ after in-cart coupon
+ Interfit Badger Unleashed 2-Light Backpack Kit for $525
+ FeiYU AK4500 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer Essentials Kit for $220
+ Nanuk 930 Case with Lid Organizer and Dividers for $188 after in-cart coupon, three color options for the color-coding organizers out there
+ Celestron NexStar 6SE 150mm f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain GoTo Telescope for $899
+ another one for $1299
+ Photoshop Elements 2022 digital or DVD for $55
Lighting headlines this round of Adorama daily deals running until Monday at 10am ET:
+ Aputure Amaran P60x 60W Bi-Color LED Soft Light Panel 3-Light Kit for $499
+ also three music-related items, cable, pedal and keyboard bench/stand set
Sunday is here and we have a new set of B&H Photo dailies running until 7/24/22 at 11:59pm ET:
+ Lowepro Slingshot SL 250 AW III Camera Bag (Gray) for $50
+ GVM Professional Video Aluminum Alloy Motorized Camera Slider (32″) for $209
+ Hoodman Steel CFexpress Type B Card Reader with SD/microSD UHS-II Card Reader for $60
+ Studio Essentials Tabletop Fluorescent 2-Light Kit for $37
+ SmallRiG Mobile Video Cage for iPhone 13 Pro Max for $34
+ CAD microphone for $25
To the Adorama daily deals we geaux where we find a new 4-pack that runs until Saturday at 10am ET or earlier if sold out:
+ Prograde Digital 160GB CFexpress 2.0 Type-A Memory Card for $290
+ Polar Pro Variable ND 6-9 Stop Filter for Mavic 2 Pro for $40
+ yes, if you look at the picture from afar you may think it’s a fancy vinyl player, but alas it is not – wouldn’t be for $40 🙂
+ The Joy Factory Unite M Universal Tablet Carbon Fiber C-Clamp Mount for 7 to 12″ Tablets for $40
+ H&A Reflection Filter (Silver) for $50
+ audio reflections that is 🙂
Fri-YAY is here and as usual the B&H Photo daily deals run until Saturday 7/23/22 at 11:59pm ET with the usual Sabbat caveat that orders are not accepted Sat PM to Sun PM {check their website for the exact times}:
+ Vello Softboxes for Portable Flashes (4 options) from $13 to $20
+ Sachtler Air-Flow Camera Backpack for $149
+ I always wanted a bag with Air Flow 🙂
+ Revo VL-6 Vlog Bi-Color LED Ring Light Kit with Dual Accessory Arms for $17
+ Benro TAD18CHD1 Series 1 Adventure Carbon Fiber Tripod with HD1 3-Way Pan/Tilt Head for $140
+ yes, my favorite jedi, Ben Ro is back 😉
+ 128GB LeXaR Professional 1066x UHS-I microSDXC Memory Card with SD Adapter and Card Reader for $29
+ Wooden Camera Unified Camera Cage for BMPCC 6K/4K (Rubber Handle) for $169
Off we go to this latest incantation of the Adorama daily deals running until Friday at 10am ET:
+ iHome PocketPrint3 Smartphone Photo Printer, White for $79
+ B + W 62mm XS-Pro Vario Neutral Density MRC Nano Filter – 0.3 to 1.5 (1 to 5 stops) for $199
+ Shape Aluminum Tablet Tripod Mount With Cold Shoe for iPad Mini/iPad 4/iPad Pro/Surface Pro for $29
+ Arcade1Up NBA Jam 2 Player Countercade for $160
+ those were the days, the Arcade Dayz!
Looks like the Kindle daily deals have “discovered” photography books because one of the Thursday 7/21/22 deals du jour is the “Advancing Your Photography: Secrets to Making Photographs that You and Others Will Love” by Marc Silber for $3.
This is 257 pages, Mango Media, May 2017, and as of the time of writing it averages 4.5 out of 5 based on 317 customer ratings.
Thirsty Thursday is here and we start with a fresh set of B&H Photo dailies running until 7/21/22 at 11:59pm ET:
+ GVM SD300D Bi-Color LED Video Spotlight for $490 with FREE GVM Parabolic Softbox Light Dome (35″)
+ 2-pack of 128GB Kingston DataTraveler Exodia Flash Drive for $18
+ that’s $9 per 128GB flash drive if my math is correct 😉
+ Manfrotto Element MII Video Monopod with Live Fluid Head for $140
+ also: three audio-related products
$110 is all it takes to grab a 15.6″ ASUS Chromebook as the headliner of the Thursday Best Buy dailies. It is based on the Celeron N4000, 4GB RAM, a stingy 32GB on-board [then again look at how much Apple charges for 32GB iPhones and iPads!], 4.5 out of 5 on 65 reviews, Intel UHD 600, 720p display resolution [hey, it’s $110! {no, not factorial, just a good old exclamation mark} ], up to 12.5 hours battery life, 2022 model year, no touchscreen, no backlit keyboard, etc.
Zooming into the product pictures, it looks like there’s a microSD, both USB-C and USB A 3.x ports, but I don’t see HDMI…
Meanwhile the Woot headliner deal of the day is an Amazon hardware device sale. On top of that, coupon code SAVE4 gets you $4 off a purchase of $10+ from this particular sale of Amazon devices.
Sale includes Fire TVs and Sticks, Blink cameras, various Echo devices and speakers and accessories, Rings and smartplugs. There are no Kindle e-readers or Fire tablets in this particular sale (granted, some of the Echo devices are kinda tablets).
Photographers are not typically the stars of books and movies but in this case, in one of the Kindle ebook deals of the day, for Wednesday 7/20/22, Amazon is offering the Kindle ebook version of “The Photographer” by Petra Durst-Benning (translated to English) for $1.
It is 337 pages long, Amazon Crossing, published in March 2020. There is a second book in the series.
Brief description of the book by Amazon:
“From the bestselling author of The Glassblower Trilogy comes an inspiring historical saga of a female photographer who must defy convention to live her dreams in turn-of-the-century Germany.”
To the latest iteration of the Adorama daily deals we geaux, this lot until Thursday at 10am ET:
+ Zhiyun Weebil 2 Pro+ 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer for $798
+ PGYTECH MantisPod Pro Vlogging Tripod with SnapLock Mini Reverse Ball Head for $72~
+ Garmin Instinct Esports Edition Multisports GPS Gaming Smartwatch for $159
+ they have gaming smartwatches now?
+ me personally I’m holding out for a gaming toilet 😉
A classic PC sale is the headliner Woot daily deal for Wednesday 7/20/22, with a total of 51 products participating.
It’s a bit of everything, laptops, monitors, graphics cards, networking gear, Kindle e-readers, ASUS ROG gaming desktops (or floortops), internal SSDs, Corsair cases and mechanical keyboards, UPS options and such!
And now lettuce take a looxie at the B&H Photo dailies running until 7/20/22 at 11:59pm ET:
+ 16GB Transcend Premium (up to 90MB/s) SDHC UHS-I memory card for $6
+ especially of interest if you have older cameras that can’t use the newer / higher-capacity memory cards
+ Benro TTOR35C Carbon Fiber Tripod with GH2F Folding Gimbal Head for $500
+ a tripod worthy of a Jedi, an emo Jedi named Ben Ro 😉
+ Nanuk 945 Cases with Dividers and Lid Organizer (3 options) for $361 after coupon
+ Celestron NexStar 5SE 125mm f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain GoTo Telescope for $639
+ you could be the first one to prove the existence of aliens OR even better, the Secret Space Program(s) and the Secret Moon Bases!
+ IDX System Technology SL-VBD96 7.2V Li-Ion Battery for Panasonic Cameras (70Wh) for $119
+ CAD E50 Equitek Large-Diaphragm Side-Address Studio Condenser Microphone for $80
Oooops, I forgot about the current iteration of the Adorama dailies running until Wednesday at 10am ET:
+ 128GB Lexar GOLD Series Professional 1800x UHS-II U3 SDXC Memory Card for $46 after coupon
+ 256GB Lexar Professional CFexpress Type-B Memory Card for $230 after coupon
+ up to 1750MB/s Read and 1000MB/s Write Speed
+ Haida Rear Lens ND Filter Kit for Sigma 14-24mm F/2.8 DG DN Art Lens for Sony E and Leica L for $76~
+ includes ND0.9/1.2/1.8/3.0 Filter
Tuesday 7/19/22 is here, aka ToonsDay aka TunesDay aka iTunesDay for Apple fans 😉
We charge (pun intended) into the Meh website where we find a 2-pack of AUKEY Swift dual-port (20W, 12W) Chargers for $15 plus shipping.
Then to the B*H Photo dailies we geaux where we find:
+ Vello FreeWave Plus II Wireless Remote Shutter Release for $30
+ options for select Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Olympus, Panasonic and Sony cameras
+ Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f1.8 for $370 in silver
+ DSLR options: Canon EF, Nikon F, Pentax K
+ MirrorNYET options: M43, Sony E, Fuji X, Nikon Z, Canon RF
+ Leica L not participating in the sale
+ GVM 162 RGB LED On-Camera Light with Bluetooth App Control for $69
+ Gator 15″ Speaker Tote Bag Kit (2-Pack) for $90
+ Bag the Bags, even the Speaker Bags 😉
+ if you need more bag options, don’t forget the Lowepro-Joby offer we previously mentioned
+ Inovativ Voyager 30 EVO Equipment Cart for $2245
+ that is how I carry my Smartmedia cards and my Olympus C-4040 from one project to the next 🙂
+ Polsen handheld mic for $30
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