Archives for 2023

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!

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.

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…

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.

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…

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 🙂

Yes dear readers. It feels like yesterday when we cheered “Happy New Year” and we have now reached September 2023, the last trimester of the year!

As usual on Fridays, the B&H Photo daily deals run until Saturday at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ SPIFFY BY SPEKULAR Light Blaster Strobe Based Projector for $50

+ Sachtler Lightweight Audio Bag (Small) for $120

+ PGYtech Weighted Drone Landing Pad, two size options, $40 or $60

+ FLiR One Pro Thermal Camera for Smartphones (Micro-USB) for $200 with FREE Rocstor USB 2.0 Type-C Male to Micro-USB Female Adapter
+ yes, keep that micro-USB slot alive in your charging setups, you never know when a micro-USB device may surface 🙂

+ ReVo ST-500 Handheld Video Stabilizer (Black/Green) for $25

+ Benro Aero 2 PRO Aluminum Travel Video Tripod with Twist Locks for $150
+ yes, our beloved emo jedi has become a daily occurrence after his scene was cut off from the series premiere of Ahsoka 😉

Set your alarms because this free-to-watch 11-hour class is going to free-stream only twice! The headliner of the Wednesday 8/30/23 CreativeLIVE ON-AIR is the “Portrait Startup” with Sue Bryce. The first streaming begins at 9am pacific time. The second about 11 hours after that… The other related free-to-watch class is stylized Photoshop portraits, runtime 83 minutes, so it will repeat multiple times during the free-to-watch 24 hour window…

Top Deals is the name of the game once again at the Adorama dailies headlined by a Green Extreme external battery discount…

THEN we head on over to the B&H Photo dailies where we find a fresh six-packs of offerings:

+ Magnus MaxiGrip Flexible Tripod for $8

+ Nanuk hard cases with foam insert, three options, further discounted with in-cart coupon

+ Angler Wide Vista Panoramic Background Screen (Chroma Green, 8 x 13′) for $199

+ EasyRiG MiniMAX for $959
+ big price for such a short …product name

+ FeelWorld F7 Pro 7″ 4K HDMI IPS Touchscreen Monitor for $179
+ also the name of a potential Depeche Mode cover band 😉

+ Manfrotto 502AH Video Head & MT055XPRO3 Aluminum Tripod Kit for $283~ after in-cart coupon

We start the Tuesday August 29 in 2023 with the Meh daily deal, it is a 2-pack of Hussell 30-Watt Dual USB Car Chargers with QuickCharge 3.0 going for $8 plus shipping. Or free for paying Meh-meh-meh-members.

Adorama marches on with their Top Deals mode at their daily deals.

At Amazon, we go full utilitarian, save $10 if you purchase $50 in 3M Everyday Essentials products. This includes various 3M brands such as Post-It, Scotch, Command, Scotch-Brite, etc. A progress bar at the top of that page shows you how close you are to get to $50.

AND FINALLY we go to a fresh six-pack of B&H Photo daily deals:

+ SmallRIG RC 450D COB Daylight LED Video Monolight for $599

+ Oben CFT-6394 Skysill 4-Section Carbon Fiber Tripod for $215

+ Hollyland Mars 300 PRO HDMI Wireless Video Transmitter/Receiver Set (Enhanced) for $329

+ Sachtler SR415 Rain Cover for Medium-Sized Video Cameras for $99~

+ PGYtech OneGo Backpack (Obsidian Black) for $110
+ pack the back-pack!

+ Polsen Omnidirectional USB Boundary Microphone with Mute for $23

Monday is here and Adorama continue to run “Top Deals” mode on their daily deals…

THEN off to the B&H Photo dailies we geaux (yes, Geaux Tigerseaux!) good until 8/28/23 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ RotoLight NEO 3 On-Camera RGBWW LED Light 3-Light Kit for $1449
+ serious lighting!

+ Lowepro PhotoSport BP 15L AW III Photo Backpack (Gray/Black) for $95
+ BAG the BAG!!!

+ Benro Aluminum Tripod with S2 PRO 60mm Flat Base Video Head for $150
+ yes, our poor Ben Ro emo jedi’s scene in the Ahsoka TV series was left on the cutting room floor 😉

+ SmallRIG VB155 Mini V-Mount Battery (155Wh) for $229
+ a perfect companion for your mini-USB 32MB mp3 players 😉

+ HP P22v G4 21.5″ 16:9 TN Monitor for $59
+ monitors are the new disposables?

+ ZOOM H1n Portable Handy Recorder Kit with Windscreen, AC Adapter, USB Cable & Case (Black) for $80

THEN to BezosLandia we geaux where if you are a fan of buying previous-previous generation tablets of the FE kind, you are in luck because Amazon herself is offering the new condition Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE for $415 in four color options. This is 12.4″ with 256GB storage, S-Pen included [caution: once you go S-Pen you can’t go back!], 2560 x 1600, 8GB RAM,10090 mAh battery [that’s like an entry-level powerbank!], microSD and lots more!

Speaking of Amazon, if you are fond of their Solimo (house brand) K-cup coffees, they have a sale on a variety of them. Just don’t let your coffee hipster friends see these 😉

Yes, we have the usual song and dance, the pre-Labor-Day Labor-Day sale, this one currently running at Adorama. Too many items to list here individually but they are organized at the aforelinked page by product category and such.

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

ON THE LEARNINGS front, for 8/27/23, the headliner Creative LIVE ON-AIR free-to-watch class is “Advanced Layers in Adobe Photoshop” with Ben Willmore. One hour runtime, so it will be repeating multiple times throughout the day. Classes start streaming at 9am pacific time each day.

Sunday is here with a fresh six-pack of B&H Photo daily deals running until 8/27/23 at 11:59pm eastern or earlier if sold out:

+ BOLT VM-110 LED Macro Ring Light for $30

+ Manfrotto Off Road Stunt Roll Organizer for Action Cameras for $10

+ Thule Gauntlet MacBook Pro Sleeve 15″ (Blue) for $15

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

+ Sunpak 5858D Tripod with 3-Way, Pan-and-Tilt Head for $20

+ Samsung The Frame LS03B 43″ 4K HDR Smart QLED TV for $698 after in-cart coupon
+ yes Tizen fans, this is powered by Tizen!

A QUICK LOOK at Amazon has a Gaming Laptop sale (Windows Intel-based) and per the fairness doctrine, there’s a Mac sale as well, the new condition 13″ MacBook Air (2020, M1, Retina, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, backlit keyboard) for $750. Three color options. Up to three per customer.

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

+ TenBa Tools 20″ Protective Wrap (Black) for $10

+ Sachtler FSB 14T Mk II Touch & Go 100mm System with HotPod CF 14 for $6600
+ OR you can buy 660 Tenba Wraps above 🙂

+ RoFozzi Icon Camera Bag for $74
+ oh my, bag the fashionable bag!

+ Oben BA-111 Single Lever Ball Head for $27

+ FotoPRO UFO2 Tripod Kit for $14.50

+ SOLD-OUT: NetGear wifi thing

MEANwhile the Adorama dailies for Friday continue to run in “Top Deal” mode.

On the FREE-to-WATCH educational front, at the Friday Creative LIVE On-AIR, the headliner class is “Quick Home Photo Sessions” with Vanessa Joy, 43 minutes, repeating throughout the day. The new set of free-to-watch classes starts at 9am pacific time every day!

AND if you like e-book e-reading, Amazon has a limited time promotion with sales on 420+ Kindle ebooks! Crash your Kindle!

And just like that, Hump Day is here upon us all, and the Adorama dailies continue to run their “Top Deals” loop…

IF your Samsung Galaxy smartphone purchase protocol favors buying the previous year’s flagship, the Galaxy S22 Ultra is on sale, new condition, unlocked, USA warranty for $800 at Amazon by Amazon itself or $900 for the 512GB storage version. Optional 0% financing plans may be available.

THEN we head on over to the B&H Photo dailies where we find a fresh six-pack of offerings good until 8/23/23 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ SmallRIG Star-Trail Lightweight Multifunctional Modular Matte Box Basic Bundle (95mm Back) for $89

+ Tenba Reload SD 9 Card Wallet (Camouflage/Lime) for $10
+ memory cards deserve their very own BAG the BAGS!

+ Libec TH-X Head and Tripod System for $219
+ optionally buy together WITH Magnus DWF-2 Universal Tripod Dolly for $249

+ also Sachtler audio bag, CoreSWX battery for select Canon camcorders and IPEVO USB document camera

It took SONY a while but they finally figured out it’s a good idea to bundle Sony 4K TVs with PS5! Various bundles, starting at $1498.

Tuesday at the B&H Photo daily deals brings us these offerings until 8/22/23 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ Lensbaby PRO Kits, seven options, $780 per kit
+ kit includes three lenses and system case
+ Canon EF and RF, Nikon F and Z
+ Fuji X, Sony E, M43rds

+ F-Stop Mountain Series Ajna Backpack (Anthracite Matte Black, 40L) for $140

+ ReVo SR-1500 Dual Grip Shoulder Support Rig for $80

+ Manfrotto EzyFrame Vintage Background Kit 6.5 x 7.5′ (Smoke) for $200

+ Gitzo GM4562 Series 4 Carbon Fiber Monopod for $300 after in-cart coupon

+ SmallHD INDIE 5 Touchscreen On-Camera Monitor for $945

MEANwhile at Adorama the “Top Deals” party continue at their daily deals…

Slowly but steadily the Amazon Gold Box is taking a more “back to school” hue with, among others, this Household products offer, spend $60+ on the shown eligible items, use coupon code BTSSTOCKUP (mnemonic for coupon: BTS (back to school) STOCK UP), and receive a $15 promotional Amazon store credit that must needs be spent on future orders by 12/31/23. Of photography interest/use, there’s a few Energizer single-use battery options eligible for the promotion. And of course the original “bag the bags”, trash bags 🙂

AND among the Tuesday Kindle daily deals there’s the “Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius” by HArry fReedman for $2. It came out October 2021 from Bloomsbury Continuum, 258 pages, 4.6 out of 5 on 165 customer ratings as of the time of writing.

It’s Monday! And it’s a new set of B&H Photo dailies good until 8/21/23 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ Godox Dive Tube lights, six options (Daylight or RGB), $100 to $250
+ I didn’t come up with this name 🙂

+ Magnus VT-4000 Tripod System with Fluid Head for $100
+ buy TOGETHER with Magnus DWF-2 Universal Tripod Dolly for $130

+ Poly Studio P21 21.5″ 16:9 Personal Meeting LCD Monitor for $65
+ one of the side-effects of c*v*d is these type of monitors 🙂

+ Feelworld live stream type thing, I have no clue what it does LOL

+ 4pk arlo night security cam type things for $250

+ Ruggard Slim Briefcase for 13-14″ Laptop for $13
+ OR you can use it to put your 11-12″ laptop briefcase for double protection 😉

MEANwhile the “Top Deals” mode continue to run/rotate over at the Adorama dailies…

THEN at Shutterfly, good until Wednesday night, coupon code BOOKIT gets you 8×8″ Custom Photo Books for $8 plus shipping. This is for a 20-page hardcover.

Sunday is here and we have a fresh six-pack of B&H Photo daily deals good until 8/20/23 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out. Yes, we ate up 2/3rds of August 2023 already! Oh my!

+ Case Logic BRYBPR-116 Bryker Backpack Roller (Black) for $70
+ Roll the BAGS!

+ FLiR One Pro Thermal Camera for Smartphones (USB-C) for $370
+ buy this and join our new website, 1001 Noisy UFO Hunters!

+ Kensington SD4845P 9-in-1 USB Docking Station for $100

+ RucPAC Solo Camera Strap (Black) for $20

+ SmallRIG Vigor VK-50 Vlog Kit (Black) for $20

+ Samsung Q60C 50″ 4K HDR Smart QLED TV for $$498 after in-cart coupon with FREE Samsung WMN750M Mini Wall Mount for Select Samsung 33 to 65″ TVs

MEANwhile the Adorama dailies are headlined by a new card reader promotion…

Good until Sunday night, Shutterfly is offering you five freebies (from a choice of 20) using coupon code TREATS. Shipping is EXTRA! Freebies include a 16×20 print, 8×10 art print, desktop plaque [take it to your dentist as a #DadJoke], tote bag, mug, notebook, etc. You have to select five separate freebies, not five of the same.

IF you are looking for photo-op ideas that you can combine with vacations, one of the Sunday Kindle daily deals is this DK ebook, “Natural Wonders of the World (DK Wonders of the World)” for $2. It came out in October 2017 (the book, not the wonders LOL), 442 pages, 4.8 out of 5 on 905 ratings. It is a big download, as you can imagine, nearly 400K!

Speaking of DK ebooks, their Human Brain ebook goes for $2, January 2019, 264 pages, 4.7 out of 5 on 914 ratings.

Alt Facts: in the above book, we learn that people who are called “bird brains” actually have a tiny bird trapped in their brains 😉