Manfrotto MT190CXPRO4 Carbon Fiber Tripod for $375

Since I mentioned a camera bag, by the rules of the Fairness Doctrine, I must needs also mention a tripod. It is the new condition Manfrotto MT190CXPRO4 Carbon Fiber Tripod on sale for $375 with free US shipping at B&H Photo until 11/30/20 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out…

Speaking of tripods, B&H is also running a sale on various Robus Tripodalia, headless tripods, tripods with a head (okay, gimbal or ball head), tripod feet, monopods, and assorted related accessories. There’s a total of 32 options on sale…

For more action, check the B&H Black Friday deals. Remember, B&H won’t be accepting orders between Friday 4:30pm ET and Saturday 5:45pm ET, so plan your purchases accordingly!

Lowepro Flipside 200 AW II camera backpack for $65

No time for a proper “Bag the Bags” round-up, but this looks like a good limited time deal (expires 11/30/20 at 11:59pm ET), it’s the new condition Lowepro Flipside 200 AW II camera backpack going for the very specific price of $64.88 at B&H Photo. This is a black color scheme with up to ten per customer at the sale price.

Lensbaby discounts (112 options)

If you are a fan of the Lensbabies, you are in luck because B&H Photo is having a big Lensbaby sale. A total of 112 options are participating in the sale, obviously too many for me to list here individually. Now the Baby Yoda is trending, maybe Lens Baby will trend too 😉

Thurs Camera & Photo Lightning Deals: another Neewer Party!

And now let’s take a quick look at the Thursday Camera and Photo deals at Amazon. This is a select list of potentially interesting items in the order they are scheduled to go live. The ones that have a price next to them, they are already live…

+ Neewer VISION5 400Ws 2.4G TTL Flash Strobe Compatible with Canon DSLR Cameras for $262
+ 70% claimed with five hours to go (as of 1:11pm ET)

+ Neewer ring light and film making kit

+ some kind of camera-looking generic thing for $118

+ Neewer octagonal softbox

+ GVM 80W LED video light

+ Neewer tripods, softbox lighting kit, 150W LED monolight

+ tripods from K&F Concept and Geekoto

+ Zhiyun Crane Plus 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer

+ Neewer ring light, V-mount battery, 77-inch tripod, NW-670 TTL flash, backgrounds, 2-pack lighting kit

+ GVM 3-pack LED video lighting kit

+ more Neewer tripods and stabilizery things

Nikon MB-D16 Battery Grip for $137 [for Nikon D750]

Power on Wayne! The new condition Niokn MB-D16 battery grip (made for the Nikon D750) is currently on sale for a limited time for $137 with free US shipping at B&H Photo. This takes one EN-EL15 battery or six AA batteries… If you want to save more, it is available in USED condition for $75…

If you want to save even more, you can get the new condition Vello BG-N15 battery grip for $70 in new condition or $45 in USED condition

FREE Gitzo Century Traveler Camera Backpack with select GITZO products (18 options)

Free with purchase time for fans of the GITZO products! B&H Photo is running a Gitzo Black Friday promotion. When you purchase one of the aforelinked participating 18 Gitzo products (prices range from $614 to $1150, it is Gitzo, not AmazonBasics after all!). The free item is included automatically by B&H Photo while this promotion is running. You see it mentioned on the individual product listings and the search results as something like “Includes Free: 1 item ($219.95 value)”. You don’t add it to cart yourself.

For reference only, this is the free item, the Gitzo Century Traveler Camera Backpack which averages 5 out 5 based on 13 customer reviews and goes for $220 on its own… Do not add this to cart for the freebie!

Vello Extension Tubes for $70 [different system options]

If you like macro the more budget and adventures ways, B&H Photo is having a Black Friday promotion on some of their Vello Extension Tubes. These are hollow so autofocus and autoexposure are not affected by any additional glass or plastic.

The options vary by system. Canon EF and Nikon F has a three-tube bundle, while mirrorless Fuji X and Sony E and M43rds are two-tube bundles. Check each option over there for more details…

Fotopro Camera Bags for $30 and Tripod/Monopod sale too

It’s all Fotopro branded products at the latest Adorama daily deals (changes Monday 10am ET), and it’s a bit of a West Side Story, TRIPODS vs CAMERA BAGS! That’s right, there’s two of each on sale 🙂

+ Fotopro S3 Patriot tripod with ballhead for $50

+ Fotopro AK-64K iSpeedy monopod for $90

+ Fotopro Trekker backpack for $30

+ Fotopro Vespa Messenger for $30
+ Vespa motorcycle NOT included ~ unless you put a Matchbox/HotWheels version of it inside yourself 😉

Sunday: Case Logic Viso DSLR/mirrorless bag for $30

One of the Best Buy daily deals for Sunday 11/1/20 [remember to set your non-automated clocks to “fall back”] is the new condition Case Logic Viso DSLR/mirrorless bag for $30. The Viso name may confuse some with “Visor” but it’s really a camrea bag 🙂

Also part of the sale are Insignia (house brand) single-use batteries in various packs and an Anker 3-slot car charger for $15…

For today only, Touch of Modern (ToM) offers 20% back as store credit for you on purchases you make. ToM is a membership site (free and easy to join), so they can offer products below MAP and such. You can’t see the products unless you login. Unfortunately I don’t have my password on this computer, so I can’t check their current inventory…

Last but not least at the Amazon Holiday Dash they have yet another Anker sale (powerbanks, cables, etc) and for coffee machine fans, they have a couple of Nespresso with Milk Frother and Capsules kits for $120. Some argue that Nespresso is a step above Keurig. Personally I only used generic Keurig K-cup machines (when the pourover hipsters were not monitoring me), so I can’t compare 😉

Incase DSLR Pro Pack Nylon Camera Backpack for $100

Bag the Bags time! The current Adorama daily deal good until Sunday at 10am ET (or earlier if sold out) is the new condition Incase DSLR Pro Pack Nylon Camera Backpack going for $100 with free US shipping…

Elsewhere among the Saturday daily deals, among those at NewEgg you can get the 16TB (yes, sixteen) Seagate Expansion Desktop Hard Drive for $294 minus a $6 off discount you get with promo code 93XPV63, making it $289. Limit one per customer.

Meanwhile among the Amazon Gold Box offers, if you are a fan of the K-cup pod brewing system, Amazon’s house brand Solimo has a K-cup coffee brewer + coffee pods bundle for $62. You get 100 AmazonBasics K-cup pods in three varieties, Kona, Breakfast, Donut; covering the whole consumer-coffee spectrum 😉

Datacolor Spyder-Lens-Cal Autofocus Calibration Aid for $39

Calibration maniacs of the world, unite and take over! Good until Saturday at 10am ET, the ADorama daily deal is the new condition Datacolor Spyder-Lens-Cal Autofocus Calibration Aid going for $39 with free US shipping…

Meanwhile among the Saturday Best Buy dailies they have the 1TB Samsung T7 Gen II USB 3.2 portable external SSD with Hardware Encryption going for $160. The SSD and the hardware encryption = higher price than good old portable spinning HDDs…

And at the Woot dailies they have the Contixo F16 and F30 drones under “Sellout”, Whistling tea kettles under Clearance [something to wake you up while you are burning the midnight Photoshop oil], and under Gourmet they have a 3pk of Mad Priest [Melisandre NOT included] coffee…

Thursday: E-Mart Lighting Gear Sale (16 options) and Kodak Instant Digital Camera & Printer (13 options)

The 2-Day Prime Day is over, but Amazon has already (!!!) entered the “Holiday Dash” season [hey, at least it’s not Christmas decorations in July at Dollar Tree] and surprise-surprise there are two (!!!) groups of camera and photo products at their Thursday 10/15/20 Gold Box / Holiday Dash daily deals as follows:

+ E-Mart Photo Accessories, 16 options, $15 to $139, including various background stands, backdrops, rectangular and ring lights, umbrella kits, crystal balls (!!!), and more

+ Kodak Smile Instant Print Digital Cameras, 13 options, $70 to $105; includes:

+ sale ends Thursday at 11:59pm pacific time (or earlier for anything that may sell out ahead of its designated expiration time)

2pk 32GB Lexar CFast 2.0 for $70 [ends Fri 10am ET]

The time is right for a new round of Adorama daily deals, this one good until Friday at 10am ET or earlier for anything that may sell out ahead of its designated expiration time-slot:

+ 2-pack of 32GB Lexar Professional 3500x CFast 2.0 memory cards for $70
+ that’s $35 per card

+ Nanuk 935 waterproof case (DSLR, three lenses, two color options, NK-7 resin, etc) for $110 each

Godox LED, Kenko 4×4, Lee Filters {ends Thur 10am ET}

Godox and Kenko lead the way in the current round of Adorama daily deals good until October 1st at 10am eastern, or earlier for anything that may sell-out ahead of time. They are:

+ Godox LED308 LED light for $50 in your choice of White (5600K) or “3300K to 5600K”

+ Kenko 4×4″ Pro ND100000 Neutral Density Filter for $30

+ Lee Filters Seven5 Starter Kit – Includes Filter Holder for $80

PowerEX AA/AAA Charger Bundle, AirPods PRO, DraCast, Etc

If you are working/studying Monday to Friday, today is FriYAY, and with it we have a new set of 48-hour [as usual] B&H daily deals headlined by a PowerEx kit for AA/AAA rechargers! Offers good until Saturday 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]. Orders not accepted Friday PM to Saturday PM [check their website for exact times]:

+ TWO 4-Bay PowerEX MH-C204GT Smart Chargers with AC and Car adapter and 4 AA precharged (2600 mAh) batteries and case, and 4 AAA precharged (1000 mAh) batteries, all together now for $25~
+ so you get two chargers, and eight batteries total
+ limit up to five bundles per customer at the sale price
+ per the specs, the charger takes 6 hours for a fully depleted battery set to fully charge

+ Dracast LED180 Mobile Broadcast Kit for $109
+ because we are all YouTubers now!

+ Apple AirPods Pro with Wireless Charging Case & AppleCare+ Kit for $230

+ Ruggard fabric rain shield, three sizes, $13 to $15 depending on size

FRIDAY ONLY!
Among the Friday-only daily deals, the MEH daily deal is the M-Edge Cargo Backpack with Removable 6000mAh Bonus Powerbank for $15 plus shipping [unless you are a paying MVP and you can use your “free-shipping card”]…

At the Woot dailies, there’s Chromebooks under “Computers” and in a sign of the times, under “Electronics” there’s a 4-in-1 charging and sanitation box going for $35…

And if you look at the calendar now, wow, we are just three months away from Christmas. This year’s Christmas gifts and care packages will have a distinct COVID look with all the latest organic cotton masks and Madagascar-vanilla scented sanitizer gels and such. Or mayhaps 4-in-1 charging and sanitation combo kits 🙂

UPDATE: the latest Adorama daily deal [changes Saturday at 10am ET] is the Microsoft 13.5″ Surface Laptop 3 (Intel i5-1035G7, 8GB RAM,256GB SSD) with a 1-year Office 365 Personal subscription and an AvanQuest Creator Pack Platinum voucher, all together for $1299 with free US shipping…

Moment Variable Neutral Density Filters (four options)

The new-current Adorama daily deal [changes Tuesday at 10am ET] is a sale on Moment variable neutral density lens filters of different sizes, with prices ranging from $64 (Cine), to $120 (72mm) to $144 (77mm) to $160 (82mm)…

PS: Adorama too is running their Labor Day deals, with a “9 to 5” theme [Dolly Parton not included!]…

Manfrotto Filter sale: $2 to $20 [ends Friday 10am ET]

Lens filter fans, your time has come! The current Adorama daily deal [changes Friday at 10am ET] is a sale on Manfrotto lens filters. Four options are available, with prices ranging from $2 (52mm Essential UV) to $20 (82mm) while the 77mm Advanced UV filter goes for $10 and the 55mm Advanced UV goes for $8…

Bag the Bags: Woot Gar(b)age Sale Edition

Woot is running yet another variant of their Gar(b)age Sale and surprise-surprise under the the “Computers” virtual bin there is a “Bag the Bags” sale that includes both camera and non-camera bags! The sale is good until 8/23/20 at 11:59pm central or earlier if sold-out. And they do sell-out as you can see from all the items that are red-tagged diagonally with “SOLD OUT” [if you want to see the “SOLD OUT” prices, simply go to the individual product pages of said item(s)]…

+ InCase DSLR sling pack for $25

+ InCase DSLR anthracite for $25

+ InCase nylon backpacks for $18

+ InCase hardshell for MacBook PRO 13″ for $20

+ generic 15.6″ laptop square-ish backpack for $16

Not bags but of utilitarian interest:

+ Epson DuraBrite Ultra ink for $24~

+ refurbished Logitech K800 wireless keyboard for $35

+ Surface Pen, keyboard, power supply options

+ SOLD OUT: HP glossy paper, etc

Return of Fuji EnviroMAX sale: 96pks for $24 [AA or AAA]

Woot is having a longer-running Staff Picks Sale #6 running until July 29 (2020) or earlier for anything that sells out ahead of its time…

The sale includes the return of the Fuji EnviroMAX single-use batteries, with 96pks of either AA or AAA going for $24 per set… Meanwhile the 24-packs of single-use 9V or D or C go for $28 per type…

The AA/AAA price comes out to a very exact $1 per four batteries. You don’t even need a calculator. 24+24 = 48. 48+48 = 96! [no, not factorial!]

Also part of this longer-running sale is the Force1 U34W Dragonfly Wi-Fi FPV Camera Drone going for $65…

96-pack of Fuji EnviroMAX single-use AA or AAA or mix for $24

Among the Woot Best Sellers, ending Sunday night [but not a daily deal] is a sale on Fuji Enviro-MAX single-use batteries. The 96-pack of AA or AAA goes for $24 each, but there’s also an option where you get 48 of each at the same price… A little more expensive are the 24-packs of C, D or 9V.

Limit three per customer. They come with a 90-day Woot warranty… Free shipping for Prime members [you must needs connect your Prime account with your Woot account ~ a one-time activity if you haven’t done so already]… Otherwise shipping is extra…

Gitzo Aluminum L-Bracket [for Sony a7r III and a9] for $100

The current Adorama daily deal is of interest to select Sony full frame E-system photographers, namely a7R III & a9 shooters, because this Gitzo Aluminum L-Bracket is made for them and it is on sale for $100 with free US shipping until Monday at 10am eastern [or earlier if sold out]… It comes with a 2-year warranty but optionally you can get extended to a 5-year warranty by registering the product online…

SpiderHolster SpiderPro Hand Strap for $65 [ends Thur 10am ET]

It’s another day, and it’s another Adorama daily deal which uses a different cycle, it changes at 10am eastern every time, so those working eastern time you have something to look forward to on your mid-day break and those working pacific time you have another reason to wake up early? 🙂

Anyway the current offer is the new condition SpiderHolster SpiderPro Hand Strap offered for $65 with free US shipping. Trigger warning for the repeated use of the word spider for the arachnopobia crowd!

Thursday: 10% off Lighting, Tripods and Accessories with KEH coupon

KEH Camera is back with a limited time offer, this one is running for 24 hours only, good until 11:59pm ET on Thursday 6/4/20, it is a Lighting and Tripods and Accessories sale. Coupon code ACC6A gets you 10% off their current prices.

There are plenty of exclusions ~ as usual for “accessories” offers of this kind:
+ no Leica, no Breakthru Photography brands
+ no “NEW” condition
+ no “USED – Like New” condition
+ no Camera Film
+ no Memory Cards
+ no Extended Warranties
+ no LENSES
+ no Converters

If there’s anything left, happy shopping 😉

Joking aside, the easiest way to find out if something’s eligible is to add it to the shopping cart and enter the coupon. You don’t have to login/signup to test the coupon…

Lowepro Format BP 150 II Backpack (Black) for $20 [ends Sat PM]

This round of B&H daily deals lasts for three days, so the expiration time is 5/30/20 at 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]:

+ Lowepro Format BP 150 II Backpack (Black) for $20
+ BAG the BAG!!!

+ Genaray 2 x SL-57 Soft LED Lights & 2 x PIXI Plus Mini Tripods Kit for $65

+ EdelKrone SliderONE v2 for $349

+ HGST 8TB Ultrastar He10 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5″ Internal NAS HDD for $180

Sony Flash and Battery Grip Sale (five options)

Sony is having a Flash and Grip sale with three of their on-camera flashes being on sale ($278 to $548) and two of their battery grips ($298 to $348)…

Speaking of grippy things, the new condition BlackRapid Sport Breathe Camera Strap is on sale for $59~ with free US shipping for a limited time…

FotoPRO X-Go MAX CF Tripod w/BH & BI-Monopod for $140

The latest Adorama daily deal is running until Monday 5/25/20 at 10am ET (or earlier if sold out of course) and it is the new condition Fotopro X-Go Max 4-Section Carbon Fiber Tripod with Built-In Monopod and FPH-62Q Ball Head (26 lbs Capacity, 67″ Maximum Height) going for $140 with free US shipping and handling…

Manfrotto Street Camera Backpack (camera & laptop) for $80

Do you need a camera bag for your camera gear? Or a camera bag to put inside your smaller camera bags? 🙂 Well, you are in luck because B&H Photo is having a limited time sale on the new condition Manfrotto Street Camera camera and laptop backpack for $80~ with free US shipping. This is in the nature-y looking green-gray color scheme…

Zhiyun-Tech WEEBILL LAB Handheld Stabilizer for $349 [Mirrorless]

On the limited time offer front, in a while-supplies-last type of a deal, B&H Photo is offering the new conditino Zhiyun-Tech WEEBILL LAB Handheld Stabilizer for Mirrorless Cameras going for $349 with free US shipping…

PS: do learn how to spell the name, it will be on our Annual Camera Gear Spelling Bee competition 😉

PS2: speaking of B&H, they have a sale on the new condition Surface PRO X tablets with up to $200 off discount [depending on sub-model]…

SpiderHolster SpiderPro Single Camera System v2 for $100

I hope you don’t have a fear of …spiders, because the current Adorama daily deal is the new condition SpiderHolster SpiderPro Single Camera System v2 going for $100 with free US shipping. These come with “Lifetime Limited” warranties… The daily deal ends/changes at 10am ET on Friday ~ or earlier if it manages to sell out…

10% off Lighting, Accessories and Tripods with KEH coupon

KEh Camera is back with another coupon promotion, good until Saturday 5/16/20 at 11:59pm eastern, coupon code ACC5A gets you 10% off Lighting, Tripods and Accessories. As usual, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies for the coupon and you don’t need to signup/login to “test” the coupon…

As usual, there are exclusions. No “NEW”, no “Used – Like New”, no Leica-branded, no no “Breakthrough Photography” brand, no memory cards, no extended warranties, no camera-film, NO LENSES, and no extended warranties…