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It is back on the free-streaming train! Starting on Wednesday at 12pm ET at the Creative LIVE ON-AIR you can watch the 8-hour and 22-minute “Lighting 301” class with Pye Jirsa and the SLR Lounge Experience. The Class Introduction is FREE to watch (aka “the Kindle sample”). The titles of the 26 lessons are a good indicator of what is covered.
Given the airtime, it will air twice a in full, and once partially – during the 24-hour-ish free-streaming window…
The current headliner of the Adorama Top Deals Daily Deals is a sale on Flashpoint on-camera flashes and Transmitters. V1 of the flashes goes for $199 in five options (Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Sony, Panasonic). Also on sale are Flashpoint Transmitters for said systems for $45 each.
Elsewhere at Amazon, they have the new condition Samsung Galaxy TAB S6 Lite tablet for $309 (S-Pen included, 2020 US model, 10.4″, 128GB storage).
And for fans of Dell Windows laptops, the new condition Dell XPS 13 9310 goes for $959~. This is:
+ 13.4-inch OLED 3.5K (3456×2160) Touchscreen
+ Intel Core i7-1195G7
+ 16GB LPDDR4x RAM, 512G SSD
+ Iris Xe Graphics
+ 1-Year Premium Support
+ Windows 11 Home
+ Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 (2 x 2) and Bluetooth 5.1
+ two Thunderbolt 4 ports
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
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.
UPDATE SAT 6/17/23
Three but off-topic are the Saturday Adorama daily deals, Turnstile mic bundle, Bose headphones and Pelican personal cooler (14QT)…
As usual, the Saturday B&H Photo dailies are the same as Friday’s…
AND IF you are fond of print magazines delivered right outside your door, the weekend sale at DiscountMAGS starts at $5.02 per year…
FRIDAY 6/16/23
For Friday June 16 in 2023, there’s a trio of GODOX lighting-related offers at the Adorama daily deals:
+ Godox E-Sport ES30 LED Light Kit with Desk Stand for $79
+ Godox E-Sport ES30 LED Light Kit with Telescopic Desktop Stand for $79
+ Godox ES45 E-Sports LED Light Kit for $89
AND on the FREEBIES front, this weekend, at Lucky’s B&M grocery stores, if you are a member of their free rewards program, you score a FREE 16.9oz Gatorade G Fit…
Do you know what everybody’s getting in their Christmas Socks this year? A smart light-bulb! Because the Tuesday 5/16/23 Meh daily deal is a 24-pack of Merkury Multicolor + White Dimmable Smart LED Light Bulbs going for $48 plus shipping (free for Meh-members). These are A21, and work with Wifi using the Genie app or spy-master Alexa or ad-master Google Home.
THEN to the B&H Photo daily deals we geaux where we find:
+ SmallRiG Camera Cages for select Sony cameras, basic kit for $30, advanced kit for $94
+ Manfrotto 504X Fluid Head & Aluminum Tripod System with Mid-Level Spreader, Ultrasone Headset & Bluetooth Adapter for $700
+ PortKEYS PT6 6″ 4K HDMI Touchscreen Monitor for $109
+ Blizzard LB-Par Quad RGBA LED Light for $130
+ Polsen SP-260 Rackmount 2×6 Stereo Distribution Splitter (1 RU) for $60
+ Antelope Zen Go Synergy Core Desktop 4×8 USB Type-C Audio Interface for $349 with FREE 6-month Podcast hosting service
UPDATE
The Adorama daily deals have two items, the Celestron Power Tank Lithium for $150 and the PGYTECH Professional UV Filter for DJI Mavic Air 2 for $15…
MEANwhile the headliner of the Amazon USA Gold Box is a Samsung Monitors sale featuring a total of 25 products with prices ranging from $160 (27″ 1080p curved) to $2000 (55″ 4K 165Hz curved). Happy Samsunging π
The Friday Adorama daily deals headliner is the CLAR 204 Phantom Series Bi-Color On Camera LED Light offered for $20… The other item offered is the Pictar Smart 18mm Wide Angle Lens for Smartphones going for $60…
Among the Amazon Gold Box offerings they have:
+ Canon Instant Savings promotion on various DSLR and mirrorless cameras of both 35mm FF and APS-C kind
+ Samsung S23 Ultra flagship starting at $1000 (256GB storage)
+ Samsung Memory and Drives sale including SDXC, SSD internal and external, and microSD
+ nearly 180 eBooks in the Friday Kindle daily deals
+ Prime members only: 17% off the Kindle Scribe e-reader
Oooops, we got trapped in a wormhole and forgot about the Sunday daily deals! Nothing we can do now about Sunday but Monday is here and we have another SmallRiG day at the Adorama daily deals for Monday 4/17/23:
+ SmallRig RC350D 350W Daylight COB LED Video Light for $519
+ SmallRig RC350B 350W Bi-Color COB LED Video Light for $629
+ SmallRig RC450D 450W Daylight COB LED Video Light for $699
MEANwhile at the Bezos Gold Box we have two more offers that get you Amazon credit when you make a purchase of select products with a minimum order amount requirement:
+ Buy $60+ of select Nutrition-related products (107 options from think!, Amazing Grass [no, not THAT one], Isopure, SlimFast, Optimum Nutrition) and RECEIVE a $15 Amazon credit using coupon code STOCKUP
+ Buy $60+ in PepsiCo Energy Drinks (105 options from Rockstar, Gatorade, Mtn Dew, etc) and RECEIVE a $15 Amazon credit using coupon code ENERGYBXGY
+ both offers have a progress bar of sorts at the top of the promotional page
Adorama is back with a new set of fresh Adorama daily deals good until Friday at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:
+ SmallRig RC 120D Daylight Point-Source LED Video Light for $153~
+ SmallRig RC 220D COB Daylight LED Video Light for $230~
+ SmallRig RM75 RGB Magnetic Smart LED Light for $51~
MEANwhile Procter and Gamble (aka P&G) has a limited time plan for you at Amazon! IF you buy $60+ in eligible P&G products (sold and shipped by Amazon herself), you will earn a $15 Amazon store credit! Terms, conditions, restrictions, etc apply. There’s even a yellow progress bar at the top of the page informing you when you have reached the $60 magical mystical milestone!
TWO items in the latest round of the Adorama daily deals running until Thursday early AM:
+ Netgear Nighthawk AX4 AX3000 4-Stream Wi-Fi 6 Router for $119
+ HYTE Y60 Modern Aesthetic Tempered Glass Mid-Tower ATX PC Case, Black for $170
MEANwhile at the Wednesday Amazon USA Gold Box they have:
+ Samsung Galaxy TAB S6 Lite for $215
+ 10.4″, 64GB on-board, 2000 x 1200, S-Pen
+ ο»Ώο»ΏGearLight Ring Light – 10″ Selfie Tripod Stand with LED Lights, Dual Phone Holders, Adjustable Height and Lighting for $18 minus 20% clip-on coupon, dropping it to around $15
+ XGIMI projectors, three options, $470 to $1999
Music and lights continue to be the theme at the latest iteration of the Adorama daily deals running until Tuesday at 10am ET or earlier if sold out:
+ SmallRig RC 120B Bi-Color Point-Source LED Video Light for $181~
+ Bose Bass Module 700 for Soundbar 700 for $699
The lighting party continues at the Adorama daily deals, this set of offers running until Wednesday at 10am ET or earlier if sold out:
+ Godox SL Series SL200W 200W White LED Video Light, 5600K Color Temperature for $199
+ Godox SL Series SL200Y 200W Yellow LED Video Light, 3300K Color Temperature for $199
The lighting party at the Adorama daily deals continues, this time around is the new condition Godox SL Series SL150Y (150W Yellow LED Video Light, 3300K Color Temperature) going for $189 until Tuesday at 10am ET or earlier if sold out…
Meanwhile at the Amazon USA Gold Box there’s a Samsung storage sale (including microSD, SDXC, flash drives, SSDs, etc), and a Sabrent computer accessories sale…
Good until Sunday at 10am ET, the current Adorama daily deal is the new condition Glow 5×6 Green Screen Green Backdrop, Portable Collapsible Chromakey Background, Pull-up Style with Auto- Locking Frame, Solid Aluminum Base going for $89…
The Godox party continues at the Adorama daily deals, this round good until 1/14/23 at 10am ET or earlier if sold-out:
+ Godox SL-100 LED Video Light (Daylight-Balanced) for $169
+ Godox SL Series SL100Y 100W Yellow LED Video Light, 3300K Color Temperature for $149
MEANwhile at the Amazon USA Gold Box the “New Year, New YOU!” theme is in full swing with all kinds of sales on nutrition, supplements, health foods and the like! They even have crazy things, like organic Apple Cider Vinegar …gummies with 2g of added sugar per gummy (that’s half a teaspoon of sugar!!!). Nothing is healthier than blending a health food with added SUGAR π
Only one item is featured in the current round of Adorama daily deals that runs until Friday at 10am ET and it’s of the lighting kind, it is the new condition Godox SL300 II SL Series 300W Daylight LED Video Light going for $309!
GoDox lighting is the theme of the day in the current Adorama daily deals that run until Thursday at 10am ET or earlier if sold out:
+ Godox SL Series SLB60W 60W Battery-Operated White LED Video Light, 5600K Color Temperature for $199
+ Godox SL Series SLB60Y 60W Battery-Operated Yellow LED Video Light, 3300K Color Temperature for $199
To the Adorama daily deals we geaux, this round good until Monday at 11:59pm ET:
+ Flashpoint XPLOR 400 Pro Compact TTL R2 Monolight, Godox AD400 Pro, Bundle with Glow EZ Lock Octa Softbox and Flashpoint Color Correction Gel Kit for $539
+ also Bose earbuds and Godox mic type thing
Winter is coming, yes, starting December 21st officially, it is time for hot tea, which is mayhaps why one of the Amazon daily deals is a Vadham Teas sale…
To the Adorama daily deals we return and we find a fresh 4-pack of daily offers running until Saturday at 10am ET or earlier if sold out:
+ Flashpoint Zoom II AA TTL R2 On-Camera Flash Speedlight with Integrated R2 Radio Transceiver for $79 in Sony, Fuji, Canon, Nikon, and Oly-Pan
+ Godox 88 Parabolic Light Focusing System Kit for $899
+ Moza Slypod Pro 3-In-1 Motorized Carbon Fiber Monopod Master Kit with Mini Tripod Legs, Pan & Tilt Head for $399 after in-cart coupon
+ OBSBOT ME AI-Powered Auto-Tracking Selfie Phone Mount for $99
If Godox is your thing, you are in luck, because B&H Photo is running a Black Friday season Godox product sale featuring a total of 347 options, including camera-specific flashes, general-purpose, light shapers, accessories, bundles, and lots more – too many to list here individually…
Lots of action in the Wednesday Amazon USA Gold Box that includes the return of the Neewer Studio and Lighting sale with 24 options and prices ranging from $10 to $272. There’s lighting gear, flashes, backdrops, ring lights, stabilizer-y things, reflectors, and the like. Too many to list here indivually.
Also there is a Google Pixel sale with the 7 starting at $499, and the 7 PRO starting at $749. There’s also Pixel Watches, Pixel Buds, Google FI, Pixel 6a, etc…
Then there’s a OKD computer desk sale with eight options, ranging from $80 to $128.
If you a fan of RxBars like I am, there’s a sale on select RX bar products.
For Prime members only, the Bose QuietComfort 45 go for $249.
MEANwhile at the NewEGG dailies we have two gift cards on sale, Chipotle (pay $130 get $150) and Vudu (pay $20 get $25).
THEN at the Woot dailies, the headliner is the new condition Kindle Paperwhite (2018 model, 8GB, With Ads, previous generation, 1 year warranty) going for $60. Up to three per customer.
Lighting is the main theme of this iteration of the Adorama daily deals that runs until Wednesday at 10am ET or earlier if sold out:
+ GVM SD300D 300W Bi-Color LED Video Spotlight for $429
+ Godox TL30-K4 RGB Tube Light 4-Light Kit for $259
+ Apple Smart Keyboard for 10.5″ iPad Pro and iPad Air for $60
+ PGYTECH MantisPod Pro Vlogging Tripod with SnapLock Mini Reverse Ball Head for $100
Off we geaux to the latest installment of the Adorama daily deals, this quartet running until Monday at 10am ET or earlier if sold out:
+ Godox TL30M RGB Tube Light for $59
+ Godox SZ200Bi Bi-color Zoomable LED Video Light for $199
+ Teradek Spark 4K HDR Wireless Transmission System for $1490
+ Westcott X-Drop Lightweight Canvas Backdrop, Classic Wall Molding, 5×7′ for $110
Meanwhile at the Amazon USA Gold Box, among others, there’s a Samsung storage sale with memory cards, SSD, flash drives, and the like.
The new-normal at the Amazon Gold Box is that every Sunday there is an expanded Kindle ebook sale, this time around for example, they have 153 options, instead of the usual 50-60 on other days…
To the Adorama daily deals we geaux now, this trio runs until Wednesday at 10am ET or earlier if sold out:
+ GVM 1200D 50W Bi-Color RGB Studio Soft LED Panel 3-Light Kit for $519
+ OtterBox Symmetry Series+ with MagSafe for Apple iPhone 12 and iPhone Pro for $20
+ H&A HA-OML-XLR Professional Omni-Directional Lavalier XLR Microphone for $11
A new wave of Adorama daily deals is here, and because of the holidays, this round continues until 10/19/22 at 10am ET or earlier if sold out:
+ GVM YU200R 250W Bi-Color RGB Studio Soft LED Panel Video Light for $1199
+ Lenovo D27-30 27″ 16:9 Full HD WLED VA Monitor with 3-side Near-Edgeless Design for $110
+ Eton Elite 750 Radio Receiver with AM/FM/LW/SW Bands for $340
+ Tanoshi Scholar 10.1″ HD Kids Laptop Computer for Ages 6-12, for $300
MEanwhile among the Thursday Amazon Gold Box daily deals, Prime members can get the Fire TV Cube for $60 (save more with a qualifying/eligible 20% off trade-in offer)… However, open for all customers (not just Prime members) is the new condition Keurig K-Mini single-serve coffee machine for $50, available in six color options. A simple/introductory entry into K-cup coffee!
The B&H dailies are the same as yesterday, but the Adorama daily deals have a new Godox-themed set running until Thursday at 10am ET or earlier if sold out:
+ Godox ML60Bi Bi-Color 60W LED Light for $199
+ Godox VL150 150W LED Video Light for $219
+ Flashpoint Studio 400 Monolight with Built-in R2 2.4GHz Radio Remote System – Bowens Mount (SK400II) for $99
Where did all the time go? Thirsty Thursday is here again, September 2022 is here (well, for the first time ever), and we have a fresh set of B&H Photo dailies running until 9/1/22 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:
+ GoDoX Litemons LA200D Daylight LED Light for $199
+ SaraMonic Blink 500 Pro B1 Digital Camera-Mount Wireless Omni Lavalier Microphone System (2.4 GHz, Black) for $99
+ TRUE or FALSE: is it a business started by Sarah and Monique?
+ SYRP Magic Carpet PRO Medium Slider Kit (36″) for $750 after coupon
+ you don’t need to vacuum this carpet π
+ Sirui K-30x Ball Head for $90 after an annoying $10 mail-in rebate
+ why are y’all torturing people with mail-in rebates in 2022?
+ 128GB Sandisk Ultra UHS-I microSDXC Memory Card for $12
+ optionally buy TOGETHER with Xcellon Portable USB 3.0 Card Reader for $18~
+ Gator GM-2W 2 Wireless Systems Bag for $50
+ technically, all bags are wireless π
+ NetGear R7000P Nighthawk AC2300 Dual-Band Gigabit Router for $80
+ George Nooray NOT included π
+ flash deal: Gitzo Systematic Series 3 Carbon Fiber Tripod with Arca-Type Series 4 Center Ball Head with Lever Release for $900
+ or you can buy 90 generic $10 tripods π
UPDATE #1: the headliner of the Thursday Woot daily deals is an Apple Airpods day from $14 to $370 (the big Airpods). Actual Airpods start at $115. Accessories start at $14.
UPDATE #2: if you are a member of the REI Commune (oops, I mean, if you are a member), coupon code LABOR22 gets you 20% off a single REI Outlet item until 9/5/22. This is an online-only offer…
UPDATE #3: more tech action at the Amazon USA Gold Box the latest additions are a sale on Fire tablets and also on Corsair Gaming products…
UPDATE #4: if you like reading fiction with photographers as the protagonists, one of the Thursday kindle daily deals is the “The Photographer (The Photographer’s Saga Book 1)” by Petra Durst-Benning (translated by Edwin Miles) for $1. This is 337 pages, March 2020, Amazon Crossing, averages 4.3 out of 5 on 1015 ratings…
Flash Gordon time! Well, not quite π For a limited time, B&H has a sale on select Phottix Odin flash trigger transmitters ranging from $50 (manual) to $140. TTL for Pentax or Sony Multi-Interface go for $100 each, while the Nikon goes for $140…
One more thing, I don’t want to create a separate post for this tiny thing but also for a limited time B&H is offering the new condition Zuma Z-SV3 LED Slide Viewer for $30. No relation to Zima π
Lighting is the theme of the day at this incarnation of the Adorama daily deals running until Thursday at 10am ET:
+ Flashpoint Zoom II AA TTL R2 On-Camera Flash Speedlight with Integrated R2 Radio Transceiver for $99
+ options for Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji and Oly-Pan
+ 2-pack of Flashpoint XPLOR 300 Pro TTL R2 Battery-Powered Outdoor Flash for $660
+ Flashpoint XPLOR 600PRO TTL Battery-Powered Monolight with Built-in R2 2.4GHz Radio Remote System (Bowens Mount) – Godox AD600 Pro for $669
+ Apple MacBook Pro 16″ with Touch Bar for $2199
+ 9th-Gen 6-Core Intel Core i7 2.6GHz, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, AMD Radeon Pro 5300M 4GB, Space Gray
+ Late 2019
UPDATE: the latest round of Adorama daily deals that runs until Sunday at 10am ET is audio-related, no camera/photo/video items in this round…
Lighting’s the theme in this round of Adorama daily deals that run until Saturday at 10am ET:
+ Godox UL150 Silent LED Video Light for $150
+ Godox SZ150R Zoom RGB LED Video Light (2500-6500K, 150W) for $399
+ Flashpoint XPLOR 600PRO R2 TTL Battery-Powered Monolight Kit with Softbox and C-Stand for $799
+ Flashpoint XPLOR 400PRO TTL Battery-Powered Monolight + Flashpoint 10′ C (Century) Light Stand on Turtle Base Kit w/40″ Grip Arm & 2 Gobo Heads and Baby Pin – Chrome + Glow EZ Lock Deep Parabolic Quick Softbox (48″) for $599
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