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Entering coupon code CAMDDX388 in the shopping cart (requires email address) drops further the prices of select Canon Lenses at Adorama for a limited time…
+ Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM with extras for $675
+ Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM Lens with extras for $1169
+ Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L III USM with extras for $1799
+ Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM with extras for $1529
+ Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM with extras for $1709
Two new Leica M-mount lenses are coming up in the next few weeks and they are available for pre-ordering at B&H Photo. They have been added to the New Lenses of 2017 page as well…
+ Voigtlander Nokton 40mm f/1.2 Aspherical for $899
+ Leica Noctilux-M 75mm f/1.25 ASPH for $12,795
Back to eBay Landia where the official DJI eBAY store is offering the DJI Phantom 4 Quadcopter 4K Video Camera Drone for $639 with free shipping and a 1-year DJI warranty. Limit up to five per customer at the sale price. They ship from Florida.
Yesterday we broke down the Canon 7D II APS-C Pixma PRO 100 bundle, today it’s full frame day 🙂 We already mentioned the 5D Mark IV bundles, now it is time for the Canon 6D II bundles…
This is another “deal survivor”: offers that went live during Black Friday and Cyber Monday and still continue! The expiration date for this incarnation is Saturday 12/2/17 at 11:59pm ET, but keep in mind, B&H Photo does not accept orders between Friday PM and Saturday PM, so plan accordingly!
It is in-stock and ready to ship as of the time of writing! If you are not afraid of mail-in rebates, B&H Photo has a 6D Mark II Body Bundle for $1349 after a $350 mail-in rebate (prepaid AMEX GC). You get the 6D Mark II body only, the Canon BG-E21 battery grip, the Pixma PRO 100 printer and its 50pk SG-201 paper sidekick, a 64GB Sandisk Extreme SDXC and an extra Canon LP-E6N battery.
The same offer is also available on two other official 6D Mark II kits, in the same bundle of Printer and freebies and rebates as above:
+ 6D II with EF 24-105mm f/3.5-5.6 for $1749 after MIR
+ this is $400 more than the body only
+ 6D II with EF 24-105mm f/4L II for $2249 after MIR
+ this is $900 more than the body only
+ NOTE: the above two bundles come with different 24-105 lenses, so if you are switching between the various listings, make sure you are looking at the correct 24-105 lens bundle when you are ready to order.
These three bundles have the same price deltas in-between them as do the the three standard kits of $1699 (body) and $2099 (+$400) w/24-70 f3.5-5.6 and $2599 (+$900) with 24-105 f4L.
This is another “deal survivor”: offers that went live during Black Friday and Cyber Monday and still continue! The expiration date for this incarnation is Saturday 12/2/17 at 11:59pm ET, but keep in mind, B&H Photo does not accept orders between Friday PM and Saturday PM, so plan accordingly!
It is in-stock and ready to ship as of the time of writing! If you are not afraid of mail-in rebates and prepaid gift cards, B&H Photo has a Canon 5D Mark IV body only bundle for $2849 after a $350 mail-in rebate (prepaid AMEX GC). For that you get the Canon 5D Mark IV body only, the Canon BG-E20 battery grip, the Pixma PRO 100 printer and its 50pk SG-201 paper sidekick, a 64GB Sandisk Extreme SDXC and an extra Canon LP-E6N battery.
The same offer is also available on two other official 5D Mark IV kits, in the same bundle of Printer and freebies and rebates as above:
+ 5D IV with EF 24-70mm f/4L IS USM Lens for $3599 after MIR
+ this is $750 more than the body only
+ 5D IV with EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM Lens for $3749 after MIR
+ this is $900 more than the body
These three bundles have the same price deltas in-between them as do the the three standard kits of $3199 (body) and $3949 (+$750) w/24-70 and $4099 (+$900) with 24-105.
If you have a photography business or are self-employed, or have hobby income, depending on your tax situation, some or all of your camera-gear related purchases can help with your taxes, from Section 179 to standard depreciation, and all that. Don’t wait until the last week of December to do this! Start now! Do simulations on how your taxes will be impacted by business-related purchases this year and in the future, and plan accordingly. Likewise, look at your camera gear arsenal, what you need to get and replace in the short term, medium term and long term and see how it would fit into your financial planning.
The Tax Software for 2017 are not only out already, but they have began going on sale. Amazon has a H&R Block Deal of the Day with prices starting at $14 for the Deluxe version. This is one of a modest eight deals of the day. Compare to 40+ on Cyber Monday 🙂
UPDATE: if you buy the digital versions of the software, any “No Rush Credits” you may have in your Amazon account are automatically applied in the shopping cart (the slow shipping $1 credits Prime members receive if they select slow shipping instead of 2-day shipping on select orders).
Dell Refurbished is back with a weeklong coupon promotion running until 12/5/17 at 11:59pm central time. Using coupon code E5440DEAL50 you can get the 50% off Dell Latitude E5440 Laptop with free ground shipping. Prices start at $179.50 after coupon. The usual coupon restrictions apply, while supplies last, and so forth.
We zoom back on the eBAY DEALS where the BuyDIG eBAY store strikes again, offering the manufacturer refurbished Nikon Coolpix A900 (35x optical zoom) for $190 with free shipping and a 90-day Nikon USA warranty. Limit up to five cameras per eBAY user during sale. Over 300 of them have been sold through this listing per the eBay page over there.
In new condition at authorized Nikon dealers, this goes for $379 such as Amazon itself and Adorama and B&H Photo.
While we are on the topic of instant cameras, the 20-sheet (Twin Pack) of Polaroid 2 x 3″ Premium ZINK Photo Paper is on sale for the very specific price of $7.64 at B&H Photo and Amazon itself (limit 3). At B&H, you can buy as many as you like, but you need to place a $49+ order to get free shipping. At Amazon, you get free shipping as a Prime member or with a $25+ order (shhh! don’t tell the Amazon Price Bots, it’s not an Add-On item).
At Amazon, you can also set up a “Subscribe & Save” for $7.26 per twin-pack. This price is only guaranteed for the first shipment. Future “Subscribe & Save” shipments will ship at the future current prices when the future orders are computer-placed. You can adjust and cancel “Subscribe & Saves” at any time.
The sale is so good on the 10-pack that it actually “defeats” the 50-pack which goes for $23.49 (47c per exposure). While the twin-packs are 38c per exposure. It has already climbed to the #2 spot of the Photographic Film best sellers at Amazon. The usual caveat with the best seller listings at Amazon – they are only as good as the product categorization created by their employees, 3rd-party sellers and AI Bots 🙂
NOTE: this film can only be used in ZINK cameras and printers. The previously mentioned Polaroid PIC 300 does not take ZINK paper – it needs Polaroid 300 instant film.
Fuji is not the only one making instant cameras in their surprise renaissance, the Polaroid naming rights owners are too and still-surviving the retail apocalypse JC Penney is offering the black color scheme of the Polaroid PIC-300 Instant Camera for $50 with free store pickup (where available/possible) or with free shipping (on all orders over $49).
They managed to outprice everyone, B&H Photo has it for $60, Amazon for $70.
But JC Penney doesn’t have the instant film for it on sale (the razor/blade thing?). They charge $15 for 10 exposures or $22 for 20 exposures. You can get 20 exposures (two 10-packs) for $18 by Amazon itself (limit two) and at B&H Photo, but free shipping is conditional. At Amazon, you have to be a Prime member or place a $25+ order. At B&H, you need a $49+ order. Adorama offers it for $20 with free shipping without a minimum purchase requirement.
These offers expired but for all the Gold Box posts here, follow the Yellow Brick Road of Gold-Box tagged posts…
The Samyang lens deal went live… Check the prices and latest action in the Gold Box at the Gold Box Yellow Brick Road of posts…
This particular lightning deal expired, but Samyang/Rokinon lenses are occasional guests of the Lightning Deals…
One of the first AmazonBasics branded “blockbuster” products for Amazon is this AmazonBasics DSLR Backpack and it is currently on sale for the very specific price of $22.37 with up to five units per customer. The usual free shipping terms apply. It’s not a price-match since they are the only ones offering it. Unless they are price-matching Amazon from The Mirror Universe.
Some other AmazonBasics bags on sale as well:
+ Trekker Camera Backpack for $44 in three color options, so you can color-code them by task/event
+ Hiker Camera and Laptop Backpack for $64; only the black color scheme is on sale
+ Convertible Rolling Camera Backpack for $112
+ the Orangina AmazonBasics Large DSLR Gadget Bag for $20
++ Orangina as in orange interior, not the real Orangina
There’s a new promotion running at Amazon Prints. Yes, Amazon sells photo prints too! Coupon code 2FREE entered during the checkout process activates a “Buy 1 Get 2 FREE” promotion running until 12/2/17 (that’s not that far away – Saturday night). The promotion only works on Custom Photo Books and Custom Photo Calendars. Additional pages do not get discounted. See complete terms/conditions for this offer.
The Canon 7D II body only goes for $1500 at authorized dealers (eg B&H Photo and Adorama) or for $1550 bundled with the Canon Wifi kit (eg Amazon itself and B&H Photo).
The body only went for the same price of $1500 when I posted the APS-C DSLR Price Charts three weeks ago. A “smart” way by Canon to increase the price by adding the Wifi to the kit 🙂
However, if you are not afraid of mail-in rebates, you can get a much better deal. Adorama has a Canon 7D Mark II + Pixma PRO 100 printer bundle. You pay $1549 at checkout, receive the order, make sure all is well, file the mail-in rebates per instructions and deadlines, and a few weeks later you’ll receive a $350 prepaid AMEX gift card by mail if all is well. This makes it a $1199 after $350 MIR promotion. For that, you receive:
PS: if you are interested in the 7D II with the 18-135, there’s a parallel offer for $1599 after $350 MIR.
The Canon 7D Mark II with the 18-135mm lens and the Wifi adapter kit goes for $1950 at authorized Canon USA dealers. Without the Wifi adapter kit, you can get it for $1850 at Adorama in new condition and with a free extra battery.
If you are a fan of imported grey-market cameras, you can get the 7D II with 18-135 in new condition (without the Wifi adapter) for $1409 with free shipping by 6ave on eBAY which includes a 1-year warranty provided by 6ave (not Canon USA).
If you wanna split the difference in terms of price between the two, and yet get more gear, then check out this Adorama 7D Mark II bundle. You pay $1949 at checkout, receive the order, make sure all is well, file the mail-in rebates per instructions and deadlines, and a few weeks later you’ll receive a $350 prepaid AMEX gift card by mail if all is well. This makes it a $1599 after $350 MIR promotion. For that, you receive:
PS: if you are interested in the 7D II body only instead, there’s a parallel offer for it for $1199 after $350 MIR.
If you are a fan of Udemy, they are currently offering most of their online classes for $10 each. Not everything is $10 however. Search for your topic or instructors of interest. Of the photography classes I searched, 3 out of 4 of them were at $10, the rest at higher prices. There is no coupon code to enter. The price you see is the price you pay. Check individual class for details and terms/conditions.
The Seagate storage party is over, but here comes Western Digital! Their new condition 4TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive with USB 3.0, model WDBWLG0040HBK-NESN, is on sale for $88 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon itself with a limit of three per customer at the sale price. This is not a lightning deal.
Back to the eBAY Deals we go, where the official GoPRO eBAY Store is offering the manufacturer refurbished GoPro Karma with Karma Grip+Karma Controller+Karma Case+HERO5/6 Black Harness bundle for $399 with free shipping with up to three sets per customer at the sale price. One year warranty is included.
Note that a GoPro HERO 5/6 action camera is NOT included. You get the Karma drone with a grip, a controller, a case and a harness for the HERO cameras, but not the actual HERO cameras!
On the utilitarian side of camera bags, two of three Adorama Black Friday Lowepro doorbusters remain available below, but the Scout SH-120 sold out and is no longer purchasable (no longer an active listing at Adorama)…
+ Lowepro Scout SH 100 Shoulder Bag for Mirrorless Camera with Lens and Smartphone, Slate Blue for $8 w/free S&H at Adorama
+ Lowepro Adventura 140 Shoulder Case for $10 w/free S&H at Adorama
If you like to read a lot of text-only fiction, non-fiction and longform web articles, but don’t want to break the bank on a brand new Kindle e-book reader, but you still like the idea of having a full warranty like a new condition product, we have three bang for the buck options for you. All three below are certified refurbished by Amazon, with the same 1-year warranty as new condition:
+ entry-level Kindle with Touch Screen for $40 in Black or White color scheme
+ no built-in light, so mayhaps good for daylight readers
+ Kindle Paperwhite for $80
+ with built-in light but no physical page-turn buttons; in black or white color scheme
+ Kindle Voyage for $120
+ with built-in light and physical page turn buttons
+ NOTE: you may be able to find the entry-level Kindle and Paperwhite as online or B&M doorbusters for similar prices in new condition during the holiday shopping season…
Some speculate some of these certified refurbished may be new products sold as refurbished so as not to impact the price range expectations for the new condition products. I have no way to prove or disprove this. The one certified refurbished Kindle I bought (Paperwhite) looked pristine as if it was never used or opened. But I did not bring in a CSI team to analyze 🙂
Fast memory cards are more common but are you still using that USB 2.0 Flash Drive card reader? Another doorbuster sale at B&H Photo can fix that, the new condition SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC/SDXC UHS-II Card Reader/Writer (USB 3.0 full size) is on sale for $20 with free shipping with no minimum purchase required. But if your order total is $49+, you get faster free “expedited” shipping instead. This is model SDDR-329-A46, designed for UHS-II cards but compatible with UHS-I and non-UHS cards as well. Limit up to 20 per customer at the sale price.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday often results in new gear purchases, and then one realizes, “not enough bags for all the new equipment”. For cases like this, B&H Photo comes to the rescue with a bag doorbuster, the new condition Lowepro StreamLine 250 Shoulder Bag is on sale for $20 with free shipping without a minimum purchase amount required. Limit four per customer at the sale price.
The Olympus Outlet store (the refurbished section) has achieved Emptiness once again! “There are no products matching the selection” says an error message sandwiches between the website’s header and footer.
However, the good news is that their Black-Cyber Friday-Monday sales continue on their new condition products, including the two $100 lenses, the expected 40-150mm and perhaps the surprise $100 lens, the 30mm f3.5 MACRO.
Creative LIVE is back with another site-wide sale, this time the promotion is up to 60% off all their classes. The “up to” is the crucial part since it is the maximum discount, not the minimum. I do not know which classes are at the 60% tier.
As always with Creative LIVE the classes at their ON-AIR SCHEDULE page are free to stream during their broadcast window. Among those running today is an “Introduction to Large Format Photography” class with Daniel Gregory.
After a 16 hour detox we are baaaaack with a Black Friday – Cyber Monday post-mortem post before we return to our regularly scheduled programming.
We posted a record-breaking 272 individual deal posts here during the last seven days (ending Cyber Monday night)! The high was 50 on Thanksgiving Day. It averages to around 39 posts per day for the last seven days. This was made possible because I fell behind on updating the “Situation Room” deals summary that I used to do in previous years. Then the waves and waves of deals hit and I simply didn’t have time to post all the new deals, let alone maintain the rolling summary of the latest deals. So the Situation Room was not updated since before Thanksgiving Day. And that allowed for a lot more individual deal-posts to be posted.
So what do you think for next year’s Black Friday / Cyber Monday coverage? Do you prefer the way of this year with even more individual deal posts without a rolling summary? Or the other way around? Please leave a comment or use the online contact form to opine!
One developing item is how to deal with the daily Amazon Gold Box lightning deals. During the Black-Cyber week, they reduced the “visibility window” from the usual 20+ hours to just 4. When I checked during lunch today (yes, I’m even blog-working during lunch) the visibility window was seven hours. So before I make any further decisions, I’ll wait for a couple of days to see where things settle.
In the next few hours I will go through the various posts and try to update / (ENDED) any of the expired offers, but given the volume and chaos, there are reasonable chances I may miss some of the expired deals or expire some still running deals.
This is also a good time for general purpose blog-related feedback! Please leave a comment or use the online contact form to opine!
The Samyang lens deal went live… Check the prices and latest action in the Gold Box at the Gold Box Yellow Brick Road of posts…
These offers expired but for more action, check the B&H Featured Sales
It’s a loaded round today of B&H Photo Daily Deals are here until Thursday 11:59pm ET (the Daily Deals), with free shipping regardless of price:
+ ends 9am ET: Miktek ProCast SST Studio Station USB Microphone for $129
+ this either sold out or got rescheduled: Watson Chroma AA NiMH Batteries with 2 Cases (2300mAh, 8-Pk, Multi-Colored
+ 7pm ET to 11:59pm ET: Formatt Hitech 4 x 5.65″ Firecrest ND 1.2 Filter
+ Lensbaby Composer Pro with Sweet 35 Optic for $200 in Canon EF, Nikon F, M43rds, Fuji X, Sony E
+ Lowepro Echelon Roller (Black) for $400
+ DRACAST LED1000 Silver Series Bi-Color LED Light with V-Mount Battery Plate for $210
+ Quantum Instruments Turbo 3 Rechargeable Battery (US / Canada / Japan Plug) for $369
+ DATACOLOR Spyder5PRO Display Calibration System for $139
+ DATACOLOR Spyder5ELITE Display Calibration System for $179
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