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Starts Monday 12pm ET (FREE to Watch): “Creating a Fine Art Series” with Brooke Shaden

Mark your calendars. There are two potentially-interesting marathon classes at Creative LIVE ON-AiR with the free streams starting on Monday 9/11/23 at 12pm eastern time:

+ 8 hours and 37 minutes “Creating a Fine Art Series with photographer Brooke Shaden
+ it has 70 chapters which can give you a pretty pretty good idea on what will get covered in the class

+ 13 hour and 48 minutes “Become Fluent in Any Language” with opera singer (!!!) Gabriel Wyner
+ the first two lessons are “Kindle samples” so you can watch them ahead of time to see if it’s something you’d be interested in watching
+ CAUTION: side-effects of the class may include spontaneously speaking in tongues 😉

September 10, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Monday: Camera Cages (4o), 16.2″ MBP (M1 Max), Delkin CFxB, Manfrotto Drag, Etc

The clock is ticking, the B&H BiLD Show Specials expire on 9/13/23!

Monday is here and the French must love Mondays because they keep saying MonDieu MonDieu MonDieu!

If your camera is misbehaving, you can put it in a cage to learn its lesson! In today’s fresh six-pack of B&H Photo daily deals good until 9/11/23 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ SmallRIG Camera Cages, four options, $26 to $70
+ for Fuji X-T5, Canon R5/R6, Sony a7S III (two options)

+ Manfrotto MVH500A Fluid Drag Video Head with MVT502AM Tripod and Carry Bag for $300 after in-cart coupon

+ FeelWorld FW568 V2 5.5″ IPS 500 cd/m² On-Camera Monitor for $100
+ after all, you can buy a smartphone with this type of a screen for about the same price 😉

+ Delkin 325GB BLACK CFexpress Type B Memory Card for $200

+ basic wired Sony headphones for $20

+ 16.2″ MacBook Pro for $2799
+ M1 Max 10-Core Chip (Late 2021, Space Gray)
+ 32-Core GPU | 16-Core Neural Engine
+ 64GB Unified RAM, 2TB SSD
+ 16.2″ 3456×2234 Liquid Retina XDR

CAUTION: WordPress seems to have activated some form of auto-carrot auto-correct in their editor, so some unexpected spellings of camera gear names and terms may appear 😉

September 10, 2023 Filed Under: daily deals

Sunday: Manfrotto Backpack, Oben BH, 75″ HDR, Etc

The BILD Expo Specials at B&H now have an expiration date, 9/13/23 or earlier for any that may sell out ahead of time!

NOW to the regularly scheduled B&H Photo daily deals good until 9/10/23 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ Manfrotto Manhattan Mover-30 Backpack (Gray) for $114

+ OBEN BC-126 Ball Head for $80

+ Apelex 200x Mobile LED Microscope Lens (Black) for $30
+ just don’t do any critical medical research with it 😉

+ Samsung Q60C 75″ 4K HDR Smart QLED TV for $1098 after coupon

MEANwhile the Adorama dailies continue to run in “Top Deals” mode with a newly-released GVM pro light getting added.

FINALLY at the CreativeLIVE ON-AiR, the headliner is the 10 hour and 21 minute class by the Kudishes, “The Wedding Story: Capture Creative and Authentic Photos”.

Me personally I would invest in a hot new trend, “Divorce Photography” 🙂

September 10, 2023 Filed Under: daily deals

Starts Sat 12pm ET (FREE to Watch): 17-hour Modern Women’s Portraiture Class

And on the FREE-to-Watch front, the Saturday headliner at the Creative LIVE On-AIR is a marathon super-class of 17 hours, “Modern Women’s Portraiture headlined by Sue Bryce!

Due to its length, this will only stream once, starting at 12pm eastern on 9/9/23!

As usual with CreativeLIVE, the free-to-stream classes are also put on sale ~ in case you like them, you can purchase them and watch them later as many times as you want. In this particular case, the sale price is $49. That’s just $2.88 per hour 🙂

September 9, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Saturday: Bag the …Batteries Bags for $15 + S&H

We have a very special Bag the Bags for you for Saturday 9/9/23, mayhaps the first time ever mentioned on this blog, it’s battery bags! That’s right. The Saturday Meh daily deal are bags that hold AA and AAA and B and C and CR2023 batteries! There are two sizes in the bundle and you get BOTH for $15 plus shipping (free for paying Meh-Meh-Meh-members). The bundle also includes two battery testers and two mini screwdrivers!

The battery testers can be quite handy because batteries that may appear dead in high-drain devices actually have enough juice in them to be used in low-drain devices like remote controls and such.

The kits are available in three color schemes from the fashionable “leopard” to the more subdued black and slate gray options.

At Adorama, they continue to be in Top Deals mode with a PTZ camera [I think that’s the correct name] headlining the action.

Fire TV devices, Samsung S22 flagships, Sony electronics and more can be found at the Amazon USA Gold Box.

September 9, 2023 Filed Under: camera accessories Tagged With: ,

Friday: iPad PRO (2021, new condition) for $660+

In new condition, and with a 1-year Apple warranty, we find the headliner Woot deal of the day for Friday September 8 in 2023! It is a new condition 2021 iPad PRO sale including both the 11″ and 12.9″ models!

The 11″ Wifi-only starts at $660 and goes up to $850, while the “with cellular” option ranges from $770 to $920. They come with a case.

The 12.9″ Wifi-only starts at $860 and goes up to $950, while the “with cellular” option ranges from $980 to $1020.

Or you can buy twenty 7-inch budget Android tablets 😉

MEANwhile the headliner Creative LIVE ON-AIR class for Friday is a “Fast Class”, a condensed version of a class in about 60 minutes. The topic is “Minimalist Photography” with Canadian Curtis Jones.

September 7, 2023 Filed Under: technology deals Tagged With: ,

Refurb Nikon 10×25 binos for $45, Nanuk 918 kit for $150 AC, Etc

The B&H 50-Year BILD party is over but you can (re)watch it at any time at the B&H YouTube channel. The link is to their “Live” tab. Recently YouTube changed their layout and the “Live” videos don’t show up under “Videos”, which is extra work for the viewers because you have to check at two places for new videos (unless you are signed up for Notifications and those are notoriously not reliable). Anyway, back on-topic!

The BILD event may be over, but as of the time of writing the BILD Expo Special Offers continue! I do not know when they will expire, mayhaps when the link stops working 🙂

Back to the daily grind, it is Friday today and as usual the B&H daily deals run until Saturday at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ refurb Nikon 10×25 Aculon A30 Binoculars (black, Nikon USA refurbished) for $45

+ Nanuk 918 Waterproof Carry-On Hard Case with Lid Organizer (Black) for $150 after coupon

+ Sachtler Heavy Duty Harness for $100~

+ headphone hanger for $5

September 7, 2023 Filed Under: daily deals, olympus Tagged With: ,

BILD Expo Day #2 Streams LIVE on Thursday at 9am ET

Today is Day #2 of the “BILD Expo”, the 50 year B&H Photo Anniversary, and you can watch the Main Stage streaming LIVE at the B&H YouTube channel starting at 9am eastern time. The live stream of the day #2 main stage is also YouTube-embedded below for your convenience. Day #1 (and Day #2 in the future) can be (re)watched at the aforelinked B&H YouTube channel.

And as always, a celebration goes hand in hand with a sale-a-bration as we mentioned earlier. There are plenty of BILD show specials but that’s not all. The B&H daily deals have transformed into a Super Sized Deal Zone with 280+ products instead of the usual 4-8 per day! Including three name-brand lenses…

September 7, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

FREE to Watch (starts Thur 12pm ET): 14-hour Food Photography Class

If your interests intersect at food x photography, you are in luck, because the headliner class at the Crative LIVE On-AIR, starting at 12pm ET on Thursday September 7 in 2023 is the “Food Photography” class with Andrew Scrivani with a total runtime of 13 hours and 44 minutes, which means it will only free-stream once in full length since the free-streaming window is 24 hours. So set your alarm clocks and reminders!

Chapter #7 of the class is already free to watch, think of it as the “Kindle sample” equivalent, if you want to see whether the instructor’s style and presentation and such are a good match for you!

September 7, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Thursday: BILD Day #2 of Deals!

Today is Thursday September 7 in 2023 [double-checked the date!] and it is Day #2, and the last day, of the B&H Photo 50 Year “BILD Expo” celebrations and saleabrations!

On the celebrations front, the first day live-stream ran for nearly 9 hours and you can rewatch it at the B&H YouTube. Day #2 will feature many guest speakers including Brooke Shaden, Scott Kelby [of course!], Frans Lanting, Lindsay Adler and more!

On the sale-a-brations front, the 280+ B&H daily deals continue as yesterday, with the addition of a flash deal:

+ Creality K1 Speedy 3D Printer for $449

BUT WAIT, there’s more! There’s also the dedicated BILD Trade Show offerings, which are too many for me to list here individually, so be sure to check them out if interested!

September 7, 2023 Filed Under: daily deals

BILD Expo Day #1 Streams LIVE on Wednesday at 9am ET

If you are not in New York, but you want to enjoy the festivities of the 50 year B&H Photo Anniversary, you can watch them streaming LIVE at the B&H YouTube channel. The live stream of the day #1 main stage is also YouTube-embedded below for your convenience – eg if you want to sample it.

And as always, a celebration goes hand in hand with a sale-a-bration as we mentioned earlier. There are plenty of BILD show specials but that’s not all. The B&H daily deals have transformed into a Super Sized Deal Zone with 280+ products instead of the usual 4-8 per day! Including three name-brand lenses…

September 6, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Sigma 24-70mm f2.8 DG OS HSM Art for $999 [C/N]

Hundreds of products are participating in the B&H Photo BILD festivities as we mentioned earlier, and I can’t list or highlight them all, but I am highlighting three name-brand 3rd-party lenses, sadly only made for CaNiKoN. Thankfully adapters/converters/etc exist 🙂

We start with a classic pro zoom, the new condition Sigma 24-70mm f2.8 DG OS HSM Art going for $999 in your choice of Canon EF or Nikon F. This lens is not perfect [then what lens is?], but consider that you can buy TWO of these for the price of ONE Canon/Nikon-made option! Shiguma time, believe it!

September 5, 2023 Filed Under: dslr deals, sigma Tagged With: , , ,

Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 CF ATX-i for $299 [C/N]

Thanks to the advent of APS-C systems, you don’t have to spend big bucks to get an f2.8 zoom lens! Case in point, as part of the B&H BILD festivities ending Thursday night, you can have the new condition Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 CF ATX-i lens for $299 in your choice of Canon EF or Nikon F. Sadly this lens is not made for any other systems.

September 5, 2023 Filed Under: daily deals, tokina Tagged With: , ,

Sigma 85mm f1.4 DG HSM ART for $899 [C/N]

And how about a bright prime lens? Also part of the B&H Photo BILD festivities, you can get the new condition Sigma 85mm f1.4 DG HSM Art for $899 in your choice of Canon EF or Nikon F. The Sigma SA is not on sale. Sadly this lens is not made for any other systems. Offer ends Thursday night or earlier if sold out.

September 5, 2023 Filed Under: dslr deals, sigma Tagged With: , , ,

Wedn: B&H Daily Deals Go Wild with BILD Offerings including LENSES (54 options)!

Today is indeed Wednesday September 6 in 2023 [#factchecked], and it is indeed day #1 of the 2-day B&H 50-Year Anniversary BILD Expo!

To sale-a-brate this, B&H Photo has all kinds of BILD Trade Show offerings but that’s not all!

The B&H Photo daily deals (aka their “Deal Zone”) has gone WILD with BILD offerings!

+ REAL LENSES, 54 options from Sigma, Tokina, Sirui, Lensbabies,

+ Lighting, On-Camera and Studio, and Accessories, 35 options

+ BAGS and TRIPODS and Gimbals and such, 66 options
+ yes, this is a dangerous BAG the BAGS, so many – use moderation 🙂

+ Memory Cards and Storage, 53 options, SD, CF, flash drives, hard drives, etc, etc

+ Laptops (including MacBooks) and Monitors, 27 options

+ Batteries, Camera Monitors, Etc, 17 options

+ Audio products, 30 options

+ flash deal: Sekonic L-308X-U Flashmate Light Meter for $185 after in-cart coupon, with FREE Sekonic Grip

+ since the BILD Expo runs for two days, these offers are good for two days as well, until Thursday at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out

ON THE LEARNINGS front, the headliner free-to-watch Creative LIVE ON-AIR class starting on Wednesday at 12pm eastern is “Posing 101: Couples, Weddings and Families” with well-known photographer Lindsay Adler, total runtime 5 hours and 24 hours, so it should repeat about 4 times throughout the free streaming window.

PS: for those not familiar, the free-streaming classes are like the old days of over-the-air TV – you can’t pause/rewind/etc/etc.

September 5, 2023 Filed Under: daily deals

Starts Tuesday 12pm ET (FREE to Stream): 13-hour Wedding Photography class

TIMELINE CORRECTION: the date is 5, not 6!

Starting at 12pm eastern time on Tuesday September 5 in 2023, at the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR, the headliner free to watch class is “Wedding Photography” with Joe Buissink. The runtime is 12 hours and 50 minutes, so the class will air in full only once. The second airing will be incomplete as the 24-hour window will close.

Lesson #3 of the class is already free to stream if you want to watch ahead of time to see if the instructor’s style and level is something that interests you in watching the whole thing. Think of it as the “Kindle sample” equivalent 🙂

September 5, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Tuesday: BILD Offerings, RotoLight NEO 3, Snypex, Tenba, SmallRIG, LeXaR CFxA, SmallHD, Etc

TIMELINE CORRECTION: the date is 5, not 6, the BILD 2-day Expo starts on Wednesday! So today is Day #0, not Day #1. As regular readers of this blog know, we are frequently unstuck in time because we don’t have a proper sonic screwdriver!

Today is Day #0 of the B&H 50 Year Anniversary BILD Expo sale-a-bration with a variety of offerings, too many to list here individually.

But we also have the regularly scheduled B&H Photo daily deals, only six in number, much easier to list here individually:

+ Tenba Cineluxe Video Shoulder Bag 16 for $116
+ Question of the Day: how many VHS tapes can you fit in a Video bag? 😉

+ SmallRIG Heavy-Duty Video Tripod, Fluid Head, and Dolly Kit for $149

+ SnyPEX 10×32 Knight D-ED Binoculars for $300
+ no, the ED in this case does not require a prescription

+ RotoLIGHT NEO 3 On-Camera RGBWW LED Light Ultimate Bundle for $369
+ because [all together now] you can’t have photo-graphy without light!

+ 320GB LEXAR Professional CFexpress Type A Card GOLD Series with Card Reader for $350
+ OR you can buy 100 32GB SD cards 😉

+ SmallHD 702 Touch 7″ On-Camera Monitor for $1299
+ OR you can buy 25 generic 7″ Android tablets

MEANwhilez the Adorama dailiez continue to loop in “Top Deals” mode…

September 5, 2023 Filed Under: daily deals

B&H Launches BILD Expo Special Offers

B&H Photo’s 50 year anniversary will be highlighted at a special event in NYC September 6-7 in 2023 but for fans of deals out there, they have already launched their first wave of BILD Trade Show offerings. New deals will be added there daily!

There are way too many to list here individually, so it’s a DIY adventure!

September 4, 2023 Filed Under: storewide deals

Monday: F-Stop Backpack, Manfrotto Fluid, Etc

Monday brings us four more offerings at the B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ F-Stop Mountain Series Ajna Backpack (Aloe Green, 40L) for $140
+ climb the mountain just to bag the bag!

+ Manfrotto 612 Nitrotech Fluid Video Head for $$444

+ Benro ArcaSmart360 Rotating Adapter Plate for $20

+ Auray BAC-4A4HB Podcast Kit Gig Travel Case for $40
+ yes, now you can put your podcast in a bag and take it with you 😉

MEANwhie the Adorama dailies continue to run the “Top Deals” loop…

AND on the free-to-watch front at Creative LIVE ON-AIR, starting at 9am pacific time, the headliner is “Color Theory for Photographers” with Blake Rudis, 81 minute runtime, it will repeat throughout the free-to-stream window.

September 4, 2023 Filed Under: daily deals

Sunday: Oben, SmallRIG, Tenba, 65″ Samsung, Etc

Sunday is here and with it we have a fresh set of B&H Photo dailies good until 9/3/23 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ Oben AC-1451 4-Section Aluminum Tripod with PD-117 Pan/Tilt Head for $100

+ SmallRIG All-in-One Smartphone Mobile/Vlogging Video Kit for $120

+ Tenba Tools Reload SD & CF Card Wallet (Black Camouflage/Lime) for $10

+ Case Logic Huxton 13.3″ Laptop Attaché (Black) for $23

+ IO MAGIC 10,000mAh Wireless Power Bank with USB Type-C PD & QC 3.0 for $30

+ Samsung Q70C 65″ 4K HDR Smart QLED TV for $798 after in-cart coupon

MEANwhile the Adorama dailies continue to run in “Top Deals” mode…

September 3, 2023 Filed Under: daily deals

B&H Fans: Shop co-branded 50Y anniversary items

If you are a fan of B&H Photo and/or a collector of limited time and special edition products, as part of the 50 year B&H Photo celebrations, they have co-branded a number of products from various manufacturers, having a visible B&H 50 years anniversary logo on them!

As of the time of writing there are 19 options, including camera straps (BlackRapid), solar eclipse glasses, memory cards, batteries, tripods (Gitzo), Zoom recorder anniversary case, and of course our most favorite camera item of all, BAGS, in this case, …cases from Nanuk and Pelican.

REMINDER: the B&H BILD Expo celebrating their 50 years is on September 6-7 in 2023 in New York!

PS: fun fact, bild means “image” in Yiddish and it is also a German word, thus the well-known German newspaper with the same name!

September 1, 2023 Filed Under: shopping news

Friday: Etc

And now to the Friday round-up where the Adorama dailies continue to be in “Top Deals” mode.

Speaking of Adorama, they have a limited time coupon CAJUNEDEAL that get you in-cart discounts on select Canon products, a total of 38 options as of the time of writing from both their DSLR and mirrorless systems, both cameras and lenses. There’s also a PTZ camera and a monocular!

Speaking of Adorama, you can find some of their longer running promotions (eg manufacturer-initiated instant-savings offerings) at their Photography page.

Laptops, desktops, TV, and house-brand products are among those buzzing around at the Amazon USA Gold Box.

And at the Creative LIVE ON-AIR, the headliner free-to-watch class for Friday 9/1/23, starting at 9am pacific, is “Irresistible Mobile Food Photography: From Shoot to Social” by Andrew Scrivani, 104 minutes runtime, so it will repeat throughout the day.

CAUTION: do not watch this while hungry 🙂

September 1, 2023 Filed Under: daily deals