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Good news / bad news now. The Olympus E-M5 II body only free lens promotion expired BUT the price of the E-M5 II body only dropped from $999 to $899 at authorized dealers such as Amazon itself and B&H Photo and Adorama.
B&H and Adorama offer 4% promotional rewards. Amazon offers 5% as a statement credit for Prime members paying with either the Prime Store credit card or the Amazon Chase VISA.
This limited time promotion EXPIRED…
The current iteration of the Panasonic M43rds Lenses Instant Savings promotion is ending on Saturday 9/2/17 night. Keep in mind B&H does not accept orders between Friday PM and Saturday PM, so make sure you factor that in if you are planning a last minute purchase.
Eligible lenses include the 25/1.7 for $148, the 45-150/4-5.6 for $198, the 30/2.8 OIS Macro for $298, and the 42.5/1.2 OIS for $1398 among others. A total of 11 lenses are participating in this manufacturer-initiated instant-savings promotion.
The new condition Fuji X-T20 with the 16-50mm lens goes for $1000 at authorized Fuji dealers such as Adorama and B&H Photo.
But if you are comfortable with used cameras, you can get the silver color scheme in “Used – Very Good” condition for $874 [WAS $839~] with free shipping at Amazon Warehouse Deals by Amazon itself.
In a matter of three days, the Mirrorless Cameras managed to not only score an equalizer, but take the lead 9-8 over DSLR cameras among the New Cameras of 2017. The one who gave the mirrorless cameras the lead is the brand new Olympus E-M10 Mark III, or Third of Its Name, now available for pre-ordering in two configurations, body only or with lens and bag.
Each combo is available in either silver or black, but so far, there’s no Raiders edition yet. With the Raiders moving in Vegas, the opportunities for Raiders merchandising are at an all time high [speculation].
+ E-M10 III Body Only pre-orders for $650 in silver or black at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon itself
+ E-M10 III with 14-42mm EZ lens and Olympus Case and 16GB SD card for $800 in silver or black at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon itself
+ also available is Olympus CS-51B Body Jacket for $50 in Black or Brown color schemes
The black color scheme of the new condition YI M1 micro four thirds camera is bundled with the 12-40mm f3.5-5.6 and 42.5mm f1.8 lenses, all together going for $379 with free shipping, sold by YI with the order fufilled by Amazon, so you get free 2-day shipping if a Prime member. The two lens kit in the silver color scheme is sold out as of the time of writing.
The Sony a6300 with 16-50mm goes for $1000 in new condition at authorized Sony USA dealers who are bundling it with various free accessories such as Adorama and B&H Photo.
But if you are comfortable with new condition imported grey-market cameras with a 1-year seller warranty (instead of a Sony USA warranty), then off to the eBay Deals we go, where you can get the camera as mentioned in this paragraph for $830 with free shipping by 6ave’s eBay store (New Jersey, 98.9%).
For a refresher on mirrorless prices, check the July 2017 edition of the Mirrorless Price Charts.
PS: if you are eligible for this offer, don’t forget to first activate the 8% eBay Bucks promotion. This would be a serious rewards amount, that’s around $66 to spend in the future on eBay (through the eBay Bucks rewards program).
Canon is back with their renewed interest in their mirrorless system. They have a new camera, the M100, that will be available in two options. For $600, with the 15-45mm kit lens, and for $950 with the 15-45 and the 55-200 lenses. They are available in black or white and pre-ordering is available at B&H Photo and Aamzon itself and Adorama.
With this announcement, mirrorless cameras “scored an equalizer”, making the score 8 vs 8 in DSLR vs Mirrorless among the New Cameras of 2017.
As of a 1:22pm ET recheck, this is sold out again. These go in and out of stock at the Get Olympus store in a rather frequent (and maddening to anyone wanting to buy them right away) fashion. You can check the Olympus Outlet store for future listings. I’m also monitoring these and will post new blog-posts when they are back in-stock…
These have to be in-stock otherwise you can’t buy them. If the page doesn’t have an “Add to Cart” button [see screenshot at the bottom of this post], you can’t buy them…
Sony E-shooters, the E-system version of the Rokinon 50mm f1.2 is on sale for $379 with free expedited shipping and 2% promotional rewards at B&H Photo. The other systems go for more.
For more B&H offers, check their Featured Sales.
The Panasonic GH5 with the 12-60mm f2.8-4 ASPH POWER OIS lens goes for $2598 at authorized dealers. B&H Photo is also bundling this with the Panasonic V-Log L Function Activation Code ($98 on its own) for free for a limited time.
Optionally you can extend the warranty from 1 to 3 years by filing a rebate to Panasonic.
Speaking of the GH5, the GH5 Menu System Simplified book by David Thorpe goes for $6 in Kindle or $12 in paperback.
If you are a fan of the Leica made-for-mirrorless mirrorless system, the new condition TL body only is on sale for $1295 with free shipping for a limited time at B&H Photo in the black and white color schemes. The black body earns 2% promotional rewards, which is around $26 to be spent in the future at B&H Photo.
For more B&H options, check their Featured Sales.
If you like to get the Fuji X-T1 body only with the FREE 35mm f2R lens in the black and silver combination, instead of the black and black combination, now the black X-T1 with silver 35mm f2 is orderable again from Amazon itself. The shipping estimate is “2 to 4 weeks”. Also orderable is the black X-T1 with black 35mm f2 with a similar estimate.
If you are a Prime member, and you pay with either the Prime Store credit or the Amazon Chase VISA credit card, you earn 5% as a statement credit on that particular credit card.
For the other X-T1 kits and other retailers, check the Stock Status Tracker.
Fuji may be more well known among photographers for their upper tier X-System mirrorless cameras and their X-series rawsumers, but they also make entry-level and enthusiast mirrorless cameras. One such camera is as of this check in-stock and shipping at various authorized dealers.
It is the new condition Fuji X-A10 silver with the 16-50mm lens going for $499 with free shipping at Adorama and B&H Photo and Amazon itself (limit 3 per customer).
PS: speaking of Fuji, the promotion that gets you a free 35mm f2R WR lens with the purchase of select Fuji X-T1 kits continues. As of the time of writing, the X-T1 body only with the 35mm f2R for $800 is in-stock and ready to ship at B&H Photo. This is the hardest to find kit. The X-T1 with 18-55 and the X-T1 Graphite are readily available. See all the options in the Stock Status Tracker or the X-T1 with Free Lens posts here.
As of 7:52pm ET recheck on Monday, this sold out again… Check the Olympus Outlet store in the future if interested…
Also back in-stock at the Olympus Outlet store is the manufacturer refurbished Olympus E-M10 II body only in the black color scheme going for $300 with free shipping and a 90-day Olympus USA warranty.
As of 7:52pm ET recheck on Monday, this sold out again… Check the Olympus Outlet store in the future if interested…
They are back! The Olympus Outlet store has been reloaded during the weekend, and as of the time of writing, the manufacturer refurbished Olympus E-M10 with 14-42mm in the black color scheme is in-stock and shipping for $200 with free shipping and a 90-day Olympus USA warranty.
These only last a few hours (typically) and go out of stock and return a few days later, so don’t sleep on them if interested!
The Fuji X-T2 with 18-55mm goes for $1900 in new condition at authorized dealers, but if you are comfortable with used gear, you can get it in “Used – Condition 9” for $1557 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo… For the big picture, check the just-updated Stock Status Tracker…
It’s back in-stock! X Temptations at your fingerprints! The new condition Fuji X-T1 body only with the Fuji 35mm f2R WR lens is back in-stock and ready to ship for $800 with free shipping at B&H Photo. The other tracked retailers are back-ordered or worse.
The Graphite and the with 18-55 kits remain in-stock as before ~ see them all at the Stock Status Tracker.
Another addition to the Get Olympus store, it is the return of the refurbished Olympus 45mm f1.8 Prime lens, the black 45mm f1.8 goes for $240 with free shipping. They come with a 90-day Olympus USA warranty.
UPDATE 8/24/17 PM: the silver 45mm f1.8 goes went for $200 with free shipping, but it is currently out of stock and cannot be ordered and its product page is a 404 (the Olympus Store has the bad habit of yanking a page of a used item that runs out of stock).
UPDATED 8/26/17
At the Get Olympus store but if you are a fan of the PEN-F, the manufacturer refurbished silver PEN-F body is in-stock for $750 with free shipping and a 90-day Olympus USA warranty. Silver kills vampires, so you have to pay more for it 🙂
The black color scheme is currently out of stock and cannot be ordered (the page is a 404 error).
UPDATE 10:52am ET: as of this recheck of the Get Olympus USA store, the pages of those two aforementioned cameras are 404 (the page has been pulled down), which means we caught them on the way out, not the way in…
I am trying to check for these on a regular basis since the prices are definitely right, but obviously I’m not a Google bot 🙂
Original post after the break for historical reference only…
This sale continues! The new condition SLR Magic 8mm f4 Micro Four Thirds lens is on sale for a limited time for $200 with free shipping at Adorama and B&H Photo.
Speaking of alternative M43rds manufacturers, the YI with 12-40mm continues for $299, and even better the YI M1 with 12-40mm and 42.5mm f1.8 goes for $379 with free shipping in either black or silver.
There is some modest lens action at the official Olympus outlet store, the manufacturer refurbished silver Olympus M.Zuiko ED 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 EZ is on sale for $150 with free shipping and a 90-day Olympus USA warranty. This is a Micro Four Thirds lens.
The new condition price is $200 at authorized dealers.
The new condition SLR Magic 25mm T0.95 HyperPrime Cine III in the Micro Four Thirds system is on sale for $399 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo for a limited time thanks to an instant savings promotion.
Things fly off the front page quickly these days, now that are a posting 20+ posts on many days, so this is a reminder, that the FREE Fuji 35mm f2R Lens with X-T1 purchase promotion continue to run at various online dealers. Stock situation varies depending on when you check.
PS: I may end up adding this promotion to the Stock Tracker to make it easier to keep track of.
UPDATE: I added the Fuji X-T1 with the FREE 35mm f2R lens to the Stock Status Tracker.
As of this update, the X-T1 Graphite body only with the FREE 35mm f2R is in-stock with FREE Overnight shipping for $1000 at Adorama. The X-T1 body and X-T1 with 18-55 are orderable but not in-stock right now. More updates as things change…
Another one of the recent (re)arrivals at the Olympus USA Outlet store is the factory recondition Olympus M.Zuiko MSC ED 12-50mm f3.5-6.3 lens going for $150 with a 90-day Olympus USA warranty and a 30-day return policy as usual.
NOTE that this is an older lens, not to be confused with the more recent “EZ” lens. Speaking of the new “EZ” lens, at the moment this is bundled for FREE with new condition Olympus E-M5 II body onlies for $999.
PS: note that the refurb E-M10 with 14-42 for $200 is back in-stock again ~ rechecked on 10:48am ET.
ALSO FOR $150: new condition Panasonic 45-150mm f4.0-5.6 OIS
Speaking of the $150 lens price point, the new condition Panasonic 45-150mm f4.0-5.6 OIS, model H-FS45150AK, is on sale for $148 with free shipping by Amazon itself and B&H Photo (with 4% rewards) and Adorama (with 4% rewards).
As of 1:53pm ET, this is out of stock. I will monitor the situation to see if it comes back.
As of a 10:11am ET, this is back in-stock! If you are looking for an affordable entry into Micro Four Thirds, the official Get Olympus USA store is offering the factory reconditioned silver Olympus E-M10 with 14-42mm II R black for $200 with free shipping and a 90-day Olympus USA warranty.
PS: this may sell out quickly. The black version of this sold out fairly quickly.
PS2: this surfaced as the Olympus USA Outlet store got reloaded with more items.
Limit one per customer per the shopping cart:
Prime time for Sony FE shooters, the new condition Sony 28mm f/2 FE lens is bundled with a handful of freebies at Adorama while still going for its standard authorized dealer price of $398 with free shipping: the Corel software bundle (five titles, including two photo and one video), a 49mm Digital Essential Filters Kit with case, a medium soft lens case, a lens wrap, and a cleaning kit.
OPTIONALLY when you expand the yellow “Special Offer” section, you have the combined purchase option to add Elements 15 to your order for +$39 (Photoshop or Premiere) or you can add the bundle of the two for +$69.
The Olympus USA Outlet store has been reloaded again with more inventory, and among the latest additions is the manufacturer refurbished silver Olympus E-M1 II body only for $1700 with free shipping and a 90-day Olympus USA warranty.
The new condition price of this is $2000 at authorized Olympus USA dealers.
UPDATE 8/18/17 at 2pm ET: it is OUT of stock!
UPDATE 8/18/17 at 10:14am ET: it is back in-stock!
UPDATE: as of 8/18/17 at 1:49am ETT recheck, this is sold out and cannot be ordered. I will monitor the situation on Friday to see if it returns…
If you are looking for an affordable entry into Micro Four Thirds, the official Get Olympus USA store is offering the factory reconditioned silver Olympus E-M10 with 14-42mm II R black for $200 with free shipping and a 90-day Olympus USA warranty.
PS: this may sell out quickly. The black version of this sold out fairly quickly.
PS2: this surfaced as the Olympus USA Outlet store got reloaded with more items.
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