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It is LAST CALL for some of the previously mentioned Panasonic promotions. The offers that went live during the weekend at B&H Photo are scheduled to expire at 11:59pm ET tonight (Monday 7/24/17) including:
+ GX85 with 12-32mm and $20~ promotional rewards for $498
+ GH4 with 12-35mm f2.8 for $1495
The Sony a6500 [which I forgot to include in the original Mirrorless Price Chart but was added in the revised edition thanks to corrections from our readers] with 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS PZ goes for $1500 at the Best Buy “Black Friday” but their offer has been “defeated” by B&H Photo which includes a 64GB Sandisk Extreme SDXC card, an extra Watson battery and a Shoulder Bag for the same price, versus Best Buy’s only one free accessory (a basic Sony-branded camera case).
At the stroke of midnight last night, the Panasonic GH4 with the 12-35mm f2.8 zoom lens dropped to $1495 at B&H Photo but that’s not the only offer that went live today for the Panasonic GH4!
A number of retailers are running “free with purchase” promotions with the Panasonic GH4 body only, while still selling at the $998 to $1000 price. Here are the options:
+ GH4 Body + Tascam 6-Track Field Recorder for DSLR with SMPTE Timecode by Beach Camera through Amazon
+ you get Prime-like shipping speed if you are a member but it ships directly from Beach Camera from the East Coast
+ GH4 Body + Panasonic DMW-SFU1-VLOG V-Log L Function Firmware Upgrade Kit at Adorama
+ GH4 Body + Rode VideoMic Pro R Cardioid Condenser Microphone at Adorama
+ GH4 Body + 2TB WD Elements USB 3.0 External Hard Drive at B&H Photo
+ all the above go for around $1000
The Panasonic GX85 with 12-32mm dropped to $498 like Cinderalla last night at B&H Photo. But the sale is spreading across the interwebs, as of the time of writing, it also goes for $498 at Adorama and by various at Amazon.
PS: if you are a Prime member, and you pay with either the Prime Store Credit Card or the Amazon Chase VISA credit card, you earn a 5% statement credit on the purchase. This covers all Amazon purchases, they don’t have to be sold and shipped by Amazon itself. Prime subscriptions too earn 5% statement credit.
The Fuji X-T2 body only goes for $1600 in new condition at authorized Fuji USA dealers as you can see at the Stock Status Tracker but if you are comfortable with imported grey-market cameras…
… to the eBay Deals we go, where eBay seller “Deals All Year” (99.9%, New Jersey) is offering the new condition imported grey-market Fuji X-T2 Body Only for $1355 with free shipping and a 1-year warranty from the seller (not Fuji USA).
Good until Monday night (7/24/17), you can get the new condition Panasonic GH4 with 12-35mm f2.8 for $1495 with free shipping. The price before the sale was $2095, so that’s a pretty nice combined purchase discount for a PRO zoom lens and a previous generation flagship M43rds camera.
Good until Monday night (7/24/17), you can get the new condition Panasonic GX85 with 12-32mm in silver or black color schemes, along with $20 in promotional rewards for $498 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo.
B&H Photo has also launched a Camera and Photo Lens Sale featuring a variety of camera bundles, lenses, and combos of the two. There are plenty of items, I will digest them on Friday and post more alerts.
PS: keep in mind the Panasonic sales go live at 12:01am ET on Friday.
If you are not mesmerized by the temptation that is the $2000 Panasonic GH5 [see options at the Stock Status Tracker], then stay up until after Friday 12:01am ET, because that’s when…
… B&H Photo will be offering the Panasonic GH4 with 12-35mm f2.8 for $1495 with free shipping. The price before the sale is $2095, so that’s a pretty nice combined purchase discount for a PRO zoom lens and a previous generation flagship M43rds camera!
The sale price will go live after 12:01am ET on Friday 12/21/17. This is a heads-up so you can deliberate and read reviews for camera and lens and check out samples and such.
This is a heads-up! The sale will go live on Friday at 12:01am ET. The Panasonic GX85 with 12-32mm will drop from its current price of $598 to $498 with free shipping! The heads-up gives you some time to deliberate whether this might be of interest, read reviews and check samples and such.
One of the earlier prime lenses in the world of Panasonic Micro Four Thirds was the Panasonic 20mm f1.7 pancake lens. Since lens, Panasonic’s iHOP released version II, and this lens is on sale for $268 with free shipping at Adorama which also includes these free accessories: Slinger lens pouch, 46mm ProOptic lens filters kit, Corel software bundle, lens wrap (sorry, you have to write your own lens rap song), and cleaning kit.
On the other hand, if you don’t need the extra accessories and software, you can instead get $10.72 promotional rewards at B&H Photo.
Lensbabies action! The Lensbaby Composer Pro II with Sweet 35 Optic is on sale for $300 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo in eight different camera systems, four SLR (Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sony) and four mirrorless (Sony E, M43rds, Fuji X, Samsung NX)… For more action, check the B&H Featured Sales…
Fuji’s serious cameras are known for their primes, but they have zoom lenses too! To further encourage photographers to give their zoom lenses a chance, Fuji is encouraging authorized dealers to include a FREE Fuji teleconverter with the purchase of the Fujifilm XF 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR lens. The bundles sell for the same price of $1899 with free shipping.
You can select either the 1.4X Teleconverter or the 2X Teleconverter. At Adorama, you also get a quintet of free accessories: Corel software, 77mm Filter kit, and a trio acessoro-trinkets.
If you don’t want the extra accessories, you can get the lens + teleconverter (of your choice) at B&H Photo for $1899 with free shipping.
If you are a fan of M43rds, Tokina, and video, we have good news for you! The Tokina Cinema 11-16mm T3.0 for Micro Four Thirds is on sale for $999 with free shipping and 4% promotional rewards (around $40 to be used in future B&H purchases) at B&H Photo. Only the M43rds mount is on sale at this price.
PS: this is certified to be Tokina ~ often confuse Tamron/Tokina in these type pf posts, so this “certification” is to verify that it is indeed Tokina and not Tamron 🙂
The Fuji X-T2 camera is not discounted. Camera manufacturer manufacturers are very protective of their price ranges in the MAP era after all. But if you happen to want to buy both the camera and its official battery grip at the same time, four of the four Fuji X-T2 kits are bundled together with the official Fuji VPB-XT2 Vertical Power Booster Battery Grip at B&H Photo at these prices:
+ X-T2 body with Grip for $1699
+ X-T2 w/18-55 and Grip for $1999
+ X-T2 w/35mm and Grip for $1996
+ X-T2 w/18-55 and 35mm and Grip for $2296
But wait, there’s more! The first two kits mentioned above (the two standard ones) are also offered at Adorama at the same prices, BUT Adorama includes additional freebies with purchase: 32GB Lexar SD, 24/7 holster bag, Corel software bundle, lens filter kit, and a few accesso-trinkets.
As of a 7/17/17 update, the used deals of cameras in the Stock Status Tracker have sold out, but this new condition Panasonic GX85 promotion at Adorama continues…
As you can see at our Mirrorless Price Chart, there are many and more both M43rds and mirrorless camera options in general. One can spend literally weeks and weeks deliberating on which system(s) and which camera(s) and which lens(es) and so forth.
One of the choices is back on a bundle again, it is the new condition Panasonic GX85 with the 12-32mm lens, bundled with a $100 Adorama gift certificate, all together going for $598 with free shipping. No coupon, no rebate, just add to cart and checkout. This is available in both the silver GX85 kit and the black GX85 kit.
And if this is your first foray into M43rds, you may be interested in some of the manufacturer refurbished Olympus prime lenses offered at the official Olympus USA store.
Speaking of Adorama, if you feel like deal fishing over there in an immersion session, check our earlier Adorama post.
This early morning lightning deal expired…
This early morning lightning deal expired…
Ending by 10:25am ET in the Amazon Gold Box is the YI Technology M43rds sale that was promised and it’s pretty good for the YI M1 with 12-40mm going for $239~ with free shipping in the aforelinked black or silver color schemes. Limit one per color per customer. This was going for $300 before the sale, and $350 before Prime Day week. So it’s a pretty good discount… PS: there is also the two lens kit for $303~, so decisions-decisions.
As of 7/17/17 recheck, this SOLD OUT… For more options, check the Stock Status Tracker…
As of 7/17/17 recheck, this SOLD OUT… For more options, check the Stock Status Tracker…
Just like most babies (except perhaps Gilly’s baby), the Lensbabies are growing up in size and in cost. Their Velvet 56, available for various DSLR and mirrorless systems is now going for $450 at Adorama and by various at Amazon.
CORRECTION: blog-post title initially showed price as $50. It is/was $450. Probably cause of typo: the dollar-sign being shift-4.
This lightning deal expired but Rokinon lenses are recurring at the Gold Box, so I’m sure more of them will return at unspecified points in time in the future…
Oops, this one was hidden in the convoluted way Amazon product pages with multiple options are presented. Also good until 2:15am ET on Saturday is the Sony E mount version of the Rokinon Cine DS DS85M-NEX 85mm T1.5 AS IF UMC Full Frame Cine Wide Angle Lens for Sony E for $240 with free shipping.
This lightning deal expired, and it was very close to selling out completely right before it expired…
YI is taking Prime Day seriously with actual discounts, unlike many of the MAP-obsessed more famous iLC camera manufacturers. Their YI M1 with 12-40mm Micro Four Thirds camera is now on sale for $299 instead of its regular price of $350 in the silver or black color schemes by YI with the orders fulfilled by Amazon, so they are Prime eligible.
Their two other kits are also discounted (two lens kit, or with 42.5mm f1.8 instead of 12-40). The best bang for the buck is the YI M1 with 12-40mm and 45mm f1.8 for $379, so essentially $80 more gets you the 45mm f1.8 lens added to your bundle.
+ these are open to everyone, they are not restricted to Prime members!
After the Prime Day madness I will be making adjustments so I can better track the various Camera and Lens Instant Savings promotions. The July 2017 Price Charts were the first step. Until then, it’s helter skelter…
… which brings us to the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO lens going for $800 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo along with 4% promotional rewards ($32~ to be spent in the future at B&H).
It’s new camera time! Leica has officially announced the new TL2 mirrorless camera, with a 24mp APS-C sensor and Leica L-Bayonet Mount. It is available in the two customary Leica black and silver color schemes, with a pre-order price of $1950 at B&H Photo.
This new mirrorless camera now “evens the score” as we have 7 new DSLRs and 7 new Mirrorless cameras in 2017. There’s still plenty of time until the end of the year. But there is no Photokina this year, so we may need a penalty shootout if it ends up being a tie 😉
This Prime-Day offer expired…
We have another serious lens in the Prime Day Lightning Deals, ending by 11:19pm ET on Tuesday, the Rokinon 14mm F2.8 Full Frame Auto Focus Lens for Sony E-Mount going for $489 with free shipping. The price before the sale is $659. This is only available for the Sony E system. Yes, this is an Auto Focus lens, a miracle of modern Rokinon engineering 🙂
This offer ended…
Another one of today’s busy Lightning Deals of the Amazon Gold Box is currently live, good until 2:05pm ET today, the Samyang SY12M-E-BK 12mm F2.0 Ultra Wide Angle Lens for Sony E is on lightning deal for $254~ in the silver color scheme. The listing for the black color scheme appears to be confused (most likely sold out) in terms of the lightning deal offer. The price before the sale was $319 last night.
This offer ended…
The Gold Box widget had pointed to the Canon EF version of the Rokinon 135mm f2 lens when I posted the Lightning Deals schedule last night, but now that the promotion has gone live, it turns out it is ONLY the Sony E-mount version that is a lightning deal, going for $375 with free shipping until 2:05pm ET today! Since it is “hidden” like that from Gold Box viewers, it has no chances of selling out before its expiration 🙂
The Prime Day 2-day coupon expired…
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