Archives for 2023

DJI Mini 3 Pro Drone with RC Remote Controller, Bundle with 128GB Memory Card, Shoulder Bag, Landing Pad for $829 AC

Don’t you forget about us sing the Adorama daily deals for Wednesday 7/12/23:

+ DJI Mini 3 Pro Drone with RC Remote Controller, Bundle with 128GB Memory Card, Shoulder Bag, Landing Pad for $829 after instant coupon

+ 160GB Prograde Digital Cobalt Series CFexpress Type-A 2.0 for $365
+ 2-pack of 325GB Type B 2.0 for $800

Day #2 (and last) of Prime Dayz 2023 is here: Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra for $850+

Day #2 aka the last day of the 2023 incarnation of Prime Dayz is here! As one of the Amazon website banners says, shop now, sleep later 🙂

One of the headliners of the sale at this very moment is a big Samsung phone sale with over 120 products, headlined by the new condition US version factory-unlocked Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (S-Pen included) going for $850 in the 256GB variant and $980 in the 512GB variant. Available in multiple color options.

Please feel free to send me an S23 Ultra or two as an early XMas present 😉

The big Samsung sale also includes the Flips and Folds (if you like to pay big bucks to beta test Samsung’s R&D LOL {but please feel free to send me one of each!}), some of the budget A-series phones, and a variety of Samsung-branded “canon” accessories.

Prime Dayz: Rokinon and Samyang Lens sales

One of the stables of Prime Dayz and Holiday shopping deals and Lightning Deals at Amazon are Rokinon and Samyang lenses. And like clockwork, there’s a 4-page sale of Rokinon/Samyang lenses.

Separate from the above, there’s another Rokinon lens sale, this one with 11 participants.

Too many to list here and too many to price-check here individually. You can price-check them at Adorama and B&H Photo if you like…

Fuji Instax Mini exposures: 60 for $34

And now something for fans of instant cameras!

As part of the B&H Photo not-Prime sale, which is of course open to all, not just Prime members (LOL), they have price-matched on a per-print basis one of the Prime Dayz offers.

B&H offers this 60-exposure FUJIFILM INSTAX MINI Value Pack for $34.

Which is exactly half the price of the Prime Dayz 120-pack of Fujifilm for $68.

Speaking of instant, the recurring Kodak Instant Cameras & Printers sale is back for Prime Dayz with 22 options. Yes, they can divide up and play a full soccer game 🙂

Prime Dayz Storage options

And now lettuce take a look at some of the storage-related sales during Prime Dayz of 2013!

The WD – Sandisk grouping includes Sandisk Extreme and Lexar SD and microSD memory cards, USB flash drives, Lexar card readers, WD and Synology NAS options, internal HDDs from WD Red and such, external HDDs from WD, LaCie and such, external SSDs from Crucial, Seagate, Sandisk and such, and internal SSDs from WD and friends.

The Samsung storage sale includes similar as above products but of the Samsung branding. Including a 256GB PRO Plus SDXC (V30, UHS I, U3, 180, 130) bundled with a Samsung USB 3.0 card reader. You can never have too many of those 🙂

AND if you want to build a computer, they have a Components sale headlined by Ryzen (Or Die Tryin’).

Because photographers spend a lot of time in the studio or in nature or in the mean streets of cities big and small, a cold or hot beverage is quintessential, which is why there is this YETI drinkware sale featuring all kinds of things, starting at $12.50 for can-style cups.

Because photographers have to eat too, Amazon is having a GrubHub promotion. In addition to getting a FREE 1-year GrubHub+ subscription as a Prime member, they have a one-time-use coupon code GRUBPRIME that gets you $15 off a purchase of $25+ at/via GrubHub.

Top Trending Deals of Prime Dayz 2023

I can’t chase all the Prime Day deals. That’s what Amazon’s AI bots and infinite servers and bloated software are for 😉

These are the Top 350+ Trending Electronics according to their computers. The #1 is the Fire Stick 4K for $23, followed by the Galaxy Watch 5 40mm for $160.

There’s plenty of AirPods – actual Apple Airpods, not 3rd-party clones! High in the charts is the Kindle Paperwhite (8GB, 6.8″, Lockscreen Ads) for $90. As y’all know, I’m a champion of e-ink e-book e-reading 🙂

There’s the 9th generation iPad for $250, a $90 10-inch Fire HD tablet (2021 model), Razer charging stands for gaming consoles, and such.

If you prefer a more standard way of browsing the top sellers, here is a conventional page-by-page list of the Trending Electronics.

Because there’s so much noise in the “Cameras” Amazon category (security cameras, crappy P&S, etc, etc), we have to dig into the Mirrorless sub-category and the DSLRs category and the Instant category to find actual name-brand cameras 🙂

If you are fond of Amazon’s own brands, this is the Top 120+ of Amazon branded products. Yes, we have reached peak Amazon, #5 in the chart is a 30-pack of 2-ply toilet paper for $23, followed for a 12-pack of paper towels for the same price 😉

Interested in other product categories? Check the Best Sellers and Movers and Shakers in the central Best Sellers page

And because I can’t be a proper troll without doing this, these are the top trending products of super-star influencer Paris Hilton 🙂

Wedn: B&H Not Prime Sale, Nanuk, Atomos, Etc

Today is the second (and last) Prime Day but it is also the last day of the B&H Photo Summer Sale, totally not an answer to Prime Day!

As such, the regular B&H Photo dailies for Wednesday 7/12/23 take a backseat:

+ Nanuk wheeled hard cases, further discounted in-cart

+ Blizzard LB-Par Quad RGBW LED Light for $130

+ Atomos Shogun Studio II Rackmount 4K Dual Recorder & Monitor (3RU) for $2499

+ also Polsen headphones, Tether cables, GVM teleprompter

Become a Lifetime REI member kinda FREE (you need to make two purchases, total $80+)

Unlike Netflix and Amazon Prime and Creative LIVE that have monthly and annual subscriptions, the Hippies Collective that is REI has a lifetime membership. You pay once, and you are a member for life!

And through July 13 in 2023, they have a promotion that gets you an REI membership kinda free if you are willing to shop at their website at least two times. Let me explain:

+ make a purchase of $50+ at the REI website by the end of day 7/13/23

+ in the same order, add the $30 REI lifetime membership card

+ after your purchase, receive via email a $30 REI Bonus Card to be spent on a future purchase, within 30 days of receiving the $30 REI Bonus card.

In addition to becoming a lifetime REI hippy, they have plenty of other members-only benefits, such as free US shipping, free labor on bicycle flat tire repair, different kinds of special offers, REI member rewards program, extended returns, and lots more. Especially if you are the outdoorsy kind.

B&H launches 2-Day Summer Tech Sale

On a totally unrelated note to Amazon’s Prime Dayz, B&H Photo has launched a 2-Day Summer Sale running until 7/12/23 at 11:59pm eastern time featuring a variety of products from the world of camera and photo and technology and such. As usual, you can use the various navigation options on their website over there to filter them by brand, product category, price range and such…

Prime Dayz: Zeiss Prime Lens Sale (8 options)

Zeiss-Zeiss Baby! As of the time of writing there are eight lens options that participating in the Zeiss Prime Dayz sale at Amazon, along with one Terra pocket bino.

I price-checked about half of the participating lenses, and the Amazon price beats the B&H/Ado price.

+ Batis 18mm f2.8 for Sony E for $1317

+ Touit 12mm f2.8 for Sony E for $849

+ Batis 40mm f2 for Sony E for $1147

+ Milvus 21mm f2.8 for Nikon F for $1534

+ Milvus 18mm f2.8 for Canon EF for $1899

+ Milvus 15mm f2.8 for Canon EF or Nikon F for $2219

+ Milvus 35mm f2 for Nikon F for $954

+ I do not know why only some mount-options of each lens are participating in the sale, and others are not

Prime Dayz Pentax Lens Deals: 50/1.8 DA for $92, 55-300/4-5.8 ED WR DA for $230

Pentax fans have a couple of Prime deals, and as of the time of writing, Amazon beats the B&H and Adorama prices, as only Amazon has discounted these two Prime-participating lenses:

+ Pentax HD DA 55-300mm f/4-5.8 ED WR for $230

+ Pentax DA 50mm f1.8 lens for $92

B&H handily beats Prime Day offer on Sony A7 III w/two solid freebies: ThinkTank and 64GB Extreme

Amazon’s Prime Dayz of 2023 are goofiy advertising the new condition Sony a7 III body only as a Prime Deal, but apparently Amazon’s own AI pricebots did not check the internet prices…

… because B&H Photo beats them by a lot, they offer the Sony a7 III body only with TWO FREE solid accessories for the same price of $1498:

+ 64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO UHS-I SDXC

+ Think Tank Photo Retrospective 7M Shoulder Bag for DSLR/Mirrorless Cameras (Pinestone)
+ goes for $130 on its own

+ needless to say, you don’t have to be a Prime member to buy the B&H Photo deal 🙂

UPDATE: Adorama beats them too!
It turns out Adorama beats Amazon as well, as Adorama offers a variety of freebie options. You have to check the “Product Options” section of their listing over there to see the freebie options:

+ two Sony NP-FZ100 batteries, OR
+ Flashpoint R2 TTL on-camera flash for Sony systems, OR
+ accessorapalooza including 64GB Extreme, Takama tripod, and lots more, OR
+ Corel bundle with 32GB Extreme and various other accessories, separate options for PC or Mac

For the speed-readers out there, note the “OR” above. You only get ONE set of freebies, not all sets of all freebies. You can look them up at the Adorama product page 🙂

Prime Day 2023 is here starring iPad 10, Apple Watches, Etc

If you are a paying Amazon Prime member, or on a free trial, or you do not object to starting right now a 30-day FREE TRIAL, you can participate in the two day festivities for Tuesday and Wednesday July 11 and 12 in 2023 that are the …

… the Prime Dayz Deals of 2023

Too many to list here individually, but we’ll start with a pointer to the Camera and Photo sub-category with seven pages of offerings!

Some of the early stars of the sale are Apple products:

+ iPad (10th generation) for $380 (64GB) or $530 (with cellular) or $680 (256GB with cellular)

+ Apple Watch Series 8 starting at $280 and going up up and away depending on options

+ Apple Watch SE (2nd Gen) for $200

+ all sorts of Amazon and Amazon-related and six degrees of Amazon separation hardware and services and such

+ most of the Prime Dayz offers are for Prime members!
+ if you see something you must have, you can 30-day FREE TRIAL and shop shop shop 😉

+ if you signed up for any of the “By Invite” offers, and you want to buy them, don’t forget to follow up on them!!!

Tuesday: GoPRO 10 Black Action Camera Holiday Bundle PLUS two extra freebies (Chesty, Battery) for $279

It’s camera day at the Adorama daily deals running until 7/11/23 at 11:59pm pacific or earlier if sold out!

+ GoPro HERO10 Black Action Camera with Holiday Bundle, Extra Battery, Chest Mount for $279
+ the Holiday bundle itself has extra items over the Base kit: Shorty (tripody thing), extra Enduro battery, swivel clip, adhesive mount
+ you also get the two freebies included by Adorama during this promotion, another Enduro battery and a Chesty (do not blame me for this name, it’s a GoPro name!)

+ H&A USB mic for $39

+ 128GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC w/SD adapter for $8
+ UHS-I, Class 10

Around the Internets
+ coupon code SUMMER10 gets you $10 off a $50+ order at the Monoprice website
+ terms, conditions, restrictions, etc, apply

+ Buy 1 Get 1 FREE at the RX Bar website
+ no coupon needed, offer applied auto-magically in the shopping cart
+ expires 7/20/23

+ in-stock alert at Trader Joe B&M stores, Instant Boba Kit
+ yes, Trader Joe is still old school, no internet shopping!

+ if you are an EFF Internet Hippy, for a limited time, they offer TWO freebies with a donation of $20+
+ various options of freebies, including t-shirt OR hat as the headliner

+ more Prime Day deals have surfaced at the Amazon Gold Box

Tuesday: Quasar, Softbox, SmallHD, CFX Type B, Etc

Everybody loves Raymond [not really, it was a boring sitcom #HotTake] and everybody loves Tuesdays (and Fat Tuesdays), and so does B&H because their 7/11 B&H Photo daily deals have returned to six offerings instead of four:

+ Raya Octagonal Collapsible Softbox for LED Bulbs with Socket (27.6″) for $35 with FREE Raya LED Light Bulb (45W)

+ Quasar Q25 Crossfade Linear Bi-Color LED Tube Light (2′) for $89

+ Philips party speaker for $150

+ SmallHD ULTRA 5 Bright 5-inch Touchscreen Monitor for $1499
+ you can buy a LOT more inches for the same price with 23″ monitors 😉

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

+ Anton Bauer Titon SL 90 95Wh 14.4V Battery (Gold Mount) for $243~
+ in case you have triplets, these are good names to give them 😉

Tuesday: 11×14″ Same Day Poster for $2 w/coupon [WP]

Good until 7/11/23 [yes, Happy 711 Day, check your local 711s for special offers and potential freebies!] at 11:59pm central time, coupon code POSTERFUN gets you 11×14″ Same Day Poster Prints for $2 each at Walgreens Photo. Coupon valid for one use per customer. Terms, restrictions, conditions, etc, etc, etc, apply…

Good until 7/15/23
+ coupon code 15PRINT gets you 15c 4×6 prints IF you order 75 prints or more. Offer also works on 4×5.3 inch prints.

+ coupon code HOTCARD50 gets you 50% off on Photo Cards and Premium Stationery

+ coupon code BOOK50 is 50% custom photo books

+ coupon code B1G2ENLRG is Buy 1 Get 2 FREE on Enlargements

Semi-Annual Adorama House Brand sale! (Lighting, Flashes, Monolights, Etc)

If you are a fan of the Adorama house-brand camera products and accessories, you are in luck because they are currently running their semi-annual sale featuring lighting gear, flashes, monolights, modifiers and reflectors, stands, tripods, BAGS (needless to say, BAG the BAGS!), and audio gear!

I do not know when the Adorama semi-annual sale ends…

UPDATE!
The Adorama daily deals are back, this duo good until Monday 7/10/23 at 11:59pm pacifica or earlier if sold out:

+ Anton Bauer Titon SL 150 14.4V 143Wh Lithium Ion V-Mount Battery for $479

+ Yamaha RX-V6A 7.2-Channel AV Receiver with 8K HDMI and MusicCast for $600

Monday: LEXAR Type A, SmallRIG Tripod, Etc

Monday is here, the MEH birthday marathon is over but there is a fresh set of B&H Photo daily deals good until 7/10/23 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ Savage Stainless Steel C-Stand Kit with 53″ x 18′ White Seamless Paper (9.5′) for $166

+ SmallRIG AD-01 Heavy-Duty Tripod with Fluid Head for $119
+ optionally buy together with SmallRig Universal Tripod Dolly for $174~

+ 320GB LEXAR Professional CFexpress Type A Card GOLD Series with Card Reader for $400
+ or buy 40 SD cards 😉

+ CoreSWX battery/charger kits, four options (V-mount or Gold-mount), $685 to $1269

Sunday: MEHrathon, Uni WB Disc for $16, Yongnuo, Samsung microSD, Etc

It’s a birthday that never ends! The MEH-rathon at the MEH Website continues for Sunday 7/8/23 as they sale-a-brate their nine years in existence in this incarnation!

MEANwhile the Adorama dailies continue to be on a “Best Of” type of a mode.

THEN at the B&H Photo daily deals we find a fresh 4-pack of offerings:

+ Vello Universal White Balance Handheld Disc for $16

+ YongNuo YN-216 Variable-Color LED On-Camera Light for $60

+ 256GB Samsung EVO Plus UHS-I microSDXC with SD Adapter for $18
+ A2, V30, U3

+ IO-GEAR USB-C 8K Nano Dock Pro for $40
+ one USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 Port
+ two USB-A 2.0 Ports
+ two HDMI Ports
+ Supports 8K or Two 4K Monitors at 30 Hz

Saturday: MEH birthday MEH-rathon!

Time sure does fly because the Meh website is sale-a-brating its birthday, it has turned nine years old! And how do they sale-a-brate this event? Why, with a MEH-rathon, their version of a Woot-OFF. But a MEH-rathon is even better, because earlier offers do not disappear – they continue to be available for purchase until they sell out or the event ends…

AND if you are fond of freebies, this weekend, the freebie for Lucky Rewards (supermarket chain) is a 20oz of “Coca Cola Ultimate”, a limited edition “creation”. Keep in mind there’s a LOT of easily absorbable sugar in soft drinks, up to ten teaspoons. Only about one teaspoon of sugar circulates in our blood, so you can image the panic and stress the human body goes through when all of a sudden a bomb of 10 teaspoons of sugars enters the bloodstream 🙂

Adorama VIP Rewards: Bonus Rewards on $500+ or $1000+ purchases

If you are a member of the Adorama VIP Rewards program, or don’t object to joining in, they have a promotion in progress, running until 7/21/23:

+ if you make a purchase of $500+, you get $20 in VIP Rewards

+ if you make a purchase of $1000+, you get $50 in VIP Rewards

The current Adorama VIP Rewards program
The current Adorama VIP Rewards program has evolved since its incarnation. Now it has three tiers!

The entry-point tier, “VIP” is open to all and FREE.

The next level is “VIP Perks” and you can only reach this when you spend $1500+ in the current member year. Or as some photographers like to call it, another professional lens 🙂

The final and the top tier is “VIP PRO” and this costs $50 per year, and it’s sort of their Prime variant as you get free 2-day shipping, free extended returns (60 days and free return shipping), and free 1-year accidental spills and drops (exclusions apply!).

The Rewards Tiers have other differences as well, you can find them nicely organized in a very readable table at the Adorama VIP Rewards page.

FotoPRO Tripod, Fotodiox Diffuser, Anton/Bauer, Etc

Fri-YAY is here, and as always, the Friday B&H Photo daily deals run until Saturday at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ FotoPRO X-go HR Chameleon Tripod for $110
+ actual chameleon NOT included

+ FotoDioX Pro DragonEye Speedlight Diffuser with LED light for $30
+ actual dragon eye NOT included

+ Anton/Bauer Titon Micro 150 V-Mount Two-Battery Kit with VM2 Charger for $898
+ neither Anton, nor Bauer will arrive with the order

+ Spiffy KYU-6 RGB LED Light Wrap for $25
+ Taco Bell Wraps NOT included

+ flash deal: Simmons 10×50 ProSport Binoculars (Black, Clamshell Packaging) for $37

MEANwhile the Adorama daily deals continue not to have daily deals but rather a compilation of offerings…

CreativeLIVE $40 and $50 off coupons (AND Free-to-Watch Classes of the Week)

It’s coupon time at the Creative LIVE website!

If you want to start a Netflix-style subscription, coupon WELCOME99 gets you $50 off, making a 12-month paid subscription drop to $99 for the first year.

If you want to buy any of the many classes offered at the Creative Live website, coupon code JULYSAVINGS40 gets you $40 off your purchase.

If you don’t want to pay anything, Creative LIVE has you covered too. They have free-to-watch classes on an on-going basis, you watch them while they are free-streaming, but after that window closes, you cannot watch them anymore.

You can find the free-to-watch classes at the ON-AIR TODAY page. Upcoming classes include Macro (Chris McGinnis), Olympus Lens Guide (with John Greengo of course), Photoshop CC, portraiture, street photography, and various other creative and meta-creative topics.

Woot Garage sale includes Pixel 6, DigiFrames, Nanuk DJI case, AB studio in a box, Etc

Good until 7/18/23, or earlier if sold out [and some things do sell out], Woot is running yet another variant of their longer-running Garage sale.

There are some camera-and-photo related items in the Electronics garage sale including:

+ Google Pixel 6, new condition, 1-year warranty, factory unlocked, bootloader unlocked for $350

+ Nanuk 925 Waterproof Hard Case with Foam Insert for DJI FPV Fly More Kit for $60 in various color schemes

+ Amazon Basics Portable Foldable Photo Studio Box with LED Light – 25 x 30 x 25 Inches, for $60

+ digital picture frames start at $50 from Brookstone and SimplySmartHome

+ refurbished Vivitar FPV Duo Racing drone for $100

+ refurbished TVs, etc, etc

THERE’s also some randomness of gear in the Computer/Tech Garage sale while a number of practical/trending products can be found in the Kitchen sale including air fryers, egg cookers [who knew there could be so many options!], electric kettles and more!

Thur: Glow ParaSnap 12×36″ Strip New Generation SterlingFibre Softbox with Bowens Mount for $189

As of the time of writing, the Thursday Adorama daily deals appear to be some sort of compilation of previous daily deals that includes their exclusive Glow ParaSnap 12×36″ Strip New Generation SterlingFibre Softbox with Bowens Mount for $189.

Unrelated to the above, but if you are a fan of Panera Bread and you have enough self-control so as not to overdo it on sugary beverages, good until 7/18/23, Panera is offering a FREE 2-Month Unlimited SIP Club subscription. You can get free drinks and free refills on coffees, teas, “charged lemonades” (charged as in the beverage has a charge, not your credit card LOL), and such. After the 2-months end, unless you manually cancel it, it will auto-convert into an auto-renewing subscription of $12 per month. OR if you are already a fan of this type of thing, an annual subscription gets you a 17% off discount on the monthly fee AND gets you $0 delivery fee on some orders under certain circumstances.

Thur: Lensbaby Fixed Body with Fisheye Optic for $125 [6o], Slik PRO, Lexar UDMA7 CF, Colbor BiC Monolight, LG 31.5″, Etc

People return from their extended holidays and so does the number of the B&H Photo daily deals – they are back to six options today!

+ Lensbaby Fixed Body with Fisheye Optic for $125 in Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony E, Fuji X, Canon RF, and Nikon ZZ Top

+ 64GB LeXaR Professional 1066x CompactFlash Memory Card (UDMA 7) for $40
+ 2pk of above for $75

+ Slik Pro AL-324BH4 Tripod with SBH-400 Triple Action Ball Head (Matte Black) for $80

+ ColBor CL100X Bi-Color LED Video Monolight for $134

+ LG 32BN50U-B 31.5″ 16:9 FreeSync 4K HDR VA Monitor (TAA Compliant) for $284

+ Inovativ QR VESA System for $127

Monoprice Coupon Overstock Sale (up to 75% off, select items)

For a limited time, the Monoprice website is having an a coupon-powered Overstock sale. Specific products are participating – shown over there. The coupon discount ranges from 50% off to 75% off.

But wait, there’s another one – this coupon overstock sale ranges from 40% to 65% off. The coupon codes and eligible products are shown over there in an organized fashion!

70% off Same Day Canvas Prints [Walgreens Photo]

It saves to be a same day sailor at the Walgreens Canvas Prints because coupon code ALLCANVAS70 gets you 70% off on same-day canvas-prints, good until 5/8/23 at 11:59pm central time. One use per customer during this promotional period…

Wedn: ARCO Bag, NiSi V6 100mm kit, GenAray BiC Ring Light

Today is Wednesday July 5 in 2023, and here at this blog, we sale-a-brate this as Interdependence Day, because you can’t have independence without interdependence. Fear not, a 5,000 word essay does not follow 🙂

Good until 7/5/23 at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out) we have the following B&H Photo daily deals:

+ ARCO V15G Camcorder Shoulder Bag for $50

+ NiSi V6 100mm Filter Holder Kit with Enhanced Landscape CPL Filter for $99
+ no, a V6 car engine is NOT included!

+ GenARAY Bi-Color Soft Ring Light LED (10″) for $179

+ also, Auray broadcast arms type thing

UPDATE!
Quiet things are at the Adorama daily deals good until Wednesday 7/5/23 at 11:59pm pacific or earlier if sold out:

+ IOGEAR Travel Pro USB-C Mini Dock for $30

+ Garmin Venu Sq Music Edition GPS Smartwatch, Light Gold Bezel, Navy Case for $150

Tuesday: 3Pod Orbit, refurb Nikon Binos, Etc

Three are the 4th of July offerings at the Adorama daily deals, good until 11:59pm pacific, or earlier if sold out:

+ 3Pod Orbit 4-Section Aluminum Tripod, Bundle with Q2 Lightweight Fluid Video Head for $140

+ refurbished Nikon 10-22×50 ACULON A211 Weather Resistant Porro Prism Binoculars for $120
+ with 90-day Nikon USA warranty

+ Garmin fenix 6S Sapphire Edition GPS Smartwatch, Rose Gold with Gray Band for $450