NYC B&H In-Store ONLY: Sony a9 III Event and FREE Sensor/Lens Cleaning

We have an in-stock alert sale-a-bration at the B&H Photo brick and mortar store in New York City for TODAY, Thursday February 8 in 2024!

This is to celebrate the launch of the new Sony a9 III flagship, now in-stock and shipping for $6000!

The B&H Sony Festivities run from 11am to 6pm eastern (NYC) time in the first floor Guest Tech Area of the B&H B&M store in NYC with demos of the a9 with a Sony representative. Between 3-5pm, Sony Artisan Tony Gale will be there for a demo and Q&A.

And throughout this event, Sony will be sponsoring a camera and lens cleaning of your own gear. Limit of two per participant. B&H reserves the right to stop taking further gear for cleaning depending on the number of requests and time remaining. In other words, if you are lucky, you get it done for free, but please don’t be a Karen 😉

Adorama 18-Month Financing Offer on 108 Canon and Sony Cameras and Lenses

Good until 12/18/23, Adorama through its Adorama Edge Credit Card (house card, not VISA/Mastercard), is having an 18-month Special Financing promotion on 106 Canon and Sony cameras and lenses listed at the aforelinked page.

No interest is charged if the whole amount is paid within 18 months. Minimum monthly payments are required. IF you do not pay it in full within 18 months, you will be charged with interest starting with the PURCHASE DATE. So be sure to plan accordingly to make sure you will be able to pay this in full within the 18 months.

As usual with financing promotions, be sure to check terms, conditions, restrictions, etc, etc, and as they say, use credit wisely!

The price range of the eligible items is $800 (Canon R50 Content Creator kit) to $13,000 (Canon RF 600mm f4L IS USM).

Sony a7 III body for $1498 with $50 MIR and FREEBIES

AND now lettuce take a look at the world of Sony E-system full frame cameras with the a7 III body only offered for $1498 as body only and $1698 with the 28-70mm at authorized Sony dealers.

Then there’s the optional $50 mail-in rebate for registering the camera with Sony. You can upload the barcodes and receipt but the $50 will be mailed to you in 6-8 weeks as a physical prepaid VISA card. Thus the “mail-in” part. Good luck 🙂 This promotion covers a lot of Sony gear, $50 per item.

At B&H Photo the FREEbies are a 64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC, a Watson battery and a Lowepro Nova bag.

MEANwhile at Adorama, you have four different options of bundles. One of them comes with the Flashpoint R2 TTL on-camera flash, BUT if you want to fill up your basement with camera accessories, the aforelinked “Premium Kit” has 13 (!) FREEbies including a 64GB Extreme SDXC, camera bag, Tripod, charger stuff, remote shutter releases, Corel software, and more!

Prime Dayz: Sony and Canon Lenses, Nikon Z and Sony cameras

AND now a round-up of the camera and lens group offerings at the Prime Deal Dayz, too many to list individually:

+ Sony Lenses sale (around 30 options)

+ Sony iLC cameras sale (10 options, mix of APS-C and 35mmFF)

+ Nikon Z cameras sale, seven options

+ Canon Lenses and Binos sale, 17 options

B&H handily beats Prime Day offer on Sony A7 III w/two solid freebies: ThinkTank and 64GB Extreme

Amazon’s Prime Dayz of 2023 are goofiy advertising the new condition Sony a7 III body only as a Prime Deal, but apparently Amazon’s own AI pricebots did not check the internet prices…

… because B&H Photo beats them by a lot, they offer the Sony a7 III body only with TWO FREE solid accessories for the same price of $1498:

+ 64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO UHS-I SDXC

+ Think Tank Photo Retrospective 7M Shoulder Bag for DSLR/Mirrorless Cameras (Pinestone)
+ goes for $130 on its own

+ needless to say, you don’t have to be a Prime member to buy the B&H Photo deal 🙂

UPDATE: Adorama beats them too!
It turns out Adorama beats Amazon as well, as Adorama offers a variety of freebie options. You have to check the “Product Options” section of their listing over there to see the freebie options:

+ two Sony NP-FZ100 batteries, OR
+ Flashpoint R2 TTL on-camera flash for Sony systems, OR
+ accessorapalooza including 64GB Extreme, Takama tripod, and lots more, OR
+ Corel bundle with 32GB Extreme and various other accessories, separate options for PC or Mac

For the speed-readers out there, note the “OR” above. You only get ONE set of freebies, not all sets of all freebies. You can look them up at the Adorama product page 🙂

Wedn: LumeCube, Nanuk 935, Sony PTZ, Benro, 16″ MacBook PRO (M1 PRO), $2 Coffee eBook, Etc

Wednesday is here and the headliner of the Adorama daily deals is the new condition Apple MacBook Pro 16″ with Liquid Retina XDR Display, M1 Pro Chip with 10-Core CPU and 16-Core GPU, 16GB Memory, 512GB SSD, Silver, Late 2021, going for $1999… The other offer is an Aura purification gadget type thing for $374…

THEN we head on over to the B&H Photo daily deals where we find another 7+1 formation:

+ Lume Cube Portable Lighting Kit PLUS LC2 for $80

+ Sony SRG-120DU USB 3.0 Full HD PTZ Camera for $749

+ Nanuk 935 Wheeled Hard Utility Case with Foam Insert for $130 after in-cart coupon
+ six color options

+ Benro #3 MCT38AF Monopod with Flip Locks, 3-Leg Base, and S4 Video Head for $115

+ Wooden Director’s Monitor Cage v3 with Dual Carbon Fiber Handgrips for $189
+ why would you want to put the director in a cage? 😉

+ NetGear networking gear, two options

+ CoreSWX type thing

+ flash deal: Saramonic mic type thing for $19

AND if you are a fan of COFFEE, one of the Amazon Kindle daily deals is the “How to make the best coffee at home” ebook by James Hoffmann offered for $2. This is a “Great on Kindle” ebook, so you earn a $0.20 store credit for future purchases (and if you have any existing credit of this kind, it will be auto-magically applied).

PS: you can check his YouTube channel, he is a legitimate coffee hipster with 1.75 million YouTube subscribers!

PS2: oh but wait, there’s a second coffee ebook on sale, the “Craft Coffee: A Manual” going for $3 by Jessica Easto and Andreas Willhoff.

Sony Trade-IN Promotion (ends 12/31/22)

If you want to join the Sony world or you want to add more Sony cameras or lenses to your arsenal, Sony and B&H Photo are running a trade-in offer until 12/31/22.

In addition to the trade-in value of your old camera year (eg for argument’s sake let’s say my old Nikon D40 is worth $40), you also receive a trade-in bonus from Sony that varies depending on which Sony product(s) you are buying. Some gear may also have instant savings/rebate promotions that are currently in progress.

The value of what Sony offers depends on the price of the camera/lens and also on what Sony has strategically decided to encourage the purchase of.

You can trade-in your old digital or film interchangeable lens camera or lens. Check the aforelinked website for more details, as it is easier to see it in pictures than me trying to describe it with words 🙂

Sony Black Friday offers (68 options)

Sony time now, B&H Photo is running 68 Sony offers at their Black Friday featuring mirrorless cameras, lenses, memory cards, and system accessories too (flash, grip, battery, etc). There’s also one fixed lens camera, the ZV-1 going for $650…

Sony a6000 with 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS w/FREE Matterport smartphone mount for $529

We interrupt the Black Friday stream (of deal consciousness?) with a new round of the Adorama daily deals, this one running until Saturday at 10am ET or earlier if sold out:

And surprise-surprise, Adorama has saved an actual camera deal for their Black Friday daily deal! Yes, a real APS-C mirrorless camera kit!

+ Sony a6000 with 16-50mm with FREE Matterport Axis Motorized Smartphone Mount for $529
+ lens is Sony 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS

+ SmallRig Lightweight Fluid Video Head for $64 after in-cart coupon

+ Flashpoint XPLOR 600PRO TTL Battery-Powered Monolight with Built-in R2 2.4GHz Radio Remote System (Bowens Mount) – Godox AD600 Pro for $599

+ Flashpoint eVOLV 200 Pro TTL Pocket Flash Kit – Godox AD200 Pro for $269

For more Adorama action, check their Black Friday offerings

Sony ZV-E10 Body for $700, Creator Bundle for $1400

If of all the cameras out there, it is the Sony ZV-E10 content creator camera the one you want, it is on sale for $698 at authorized Sony dealers, and Adorama has bundles with freebies, either Corel software and card and bag, or better card and bag.

For +$100, you can get the above with the 16-50mm kit lens.

On the other hand, if you are ready to jump in with a loaded “Content Creator Vlogging kit”, B&H Photo has a bundle like that for $1395 that includes:

+ Sony ZV-E10 ($700 on its own)
+ Sony 10-18mm f4 OSS lens ($700 on its own)
+ Sennheiser MKE 200 Ultracompact Camera-Mount Directional Microphone ($100 on its own)
+ Think Tank Photo Retrospective 7M Shoulder Bag (Pinestone)
+ Sony Vlogger Accessory Kit
+ Pawa NP-FW50 Lithium-Ion Battery Pack (7.4V, 1030mAh)

Just like the body only, for +$100, you can get the above with the 16-50mm kit lens added.

Thursday: GVM, SpyderX Capture PRO, 14″ Hyundai laptop (!!!), Pelican, Sandisk microSD, Edelkrone, IDX, Sony HDR-CX240, Etc

Thirsty Thursday is here and we have a fresh set of B&H Photo dailies running until 9/22/22 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out, or earlier if …mushroom cloud 😉

+ DataColor SpyderX Capture Pro for $199

+ GVM SD300S Daylight LED Video Light Kit with Lantern Softbox for $449

+ Trigyn Ring Light Kit with Smartphone Holder and Desktop Tripod Stand (8″) for $30
+ yes, you can buy 15 ring lights for the price of the GVM kit above 😉

+ Hyundai 14.1″ HyBook Notebook for $150
+ 1.1 GHz Intel Celeron N4020 Dual-Core, 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, 128GB SSD, 14.1″ 1366 x 768 IPS, Intel UHD Graphics 600, Windows
+ who knew Hyundai made laptops???

+ Edelkrone StandONE All-Terrain Foldable Camera Stand for $99

+ 5-Pack 64GB Sandisk Ultra UHS-I microSDXC Memory Card and 1-pack 4-in-1 USB 2.0 Card Reader for $35

+ IDX ZENITH ZEN-C98G Three-Stud Lithium-Ion Battery and Charger Kit for $240

+ flash deal: Pelican 1730 Transport Case with Foam (Desert Tan) for $400 after coupon

UPDATE: the Electronics deal of the day at the Woot website is the new condition Sony HDR-CX240 Full HD Handycam Camcorder with 2.7-Inch LCD going for $185 and it comes with a 90-day Woot warranty, which mayhaps may be a sign it is an international/grey-market model.

Voigtlander Heliar-Hyper Wide 10mm f5.6 for $999 [E]

If you are a member of the Sony E system or you need an “unusual lens excuse” to jump in, for a limited time, B&H Photo is offering the new condition Voigtlander Heliar-Hyper Wide 10mm f/5.6 for $999 with free US shipping in the Sony E system. This is a 35mm full frame lens, so 10 is 10 on 35mmFF E cameras 🙂

Sony Create Week at Adorama ends 6/19/22

Adorama and Sony have partnered to offer the Imagine and Create Week of Sony gear sales at Adorama, running up until 6/19/22.

Plenty of offers (too many to list here individually), along with special trade-in and financing promotions.

Sony a7R IVA mirrorless options start at $3000 [$500 instant savings]

If you are looking for a camera in the Sony FE system, and more specifically you are looking at the “a7R IVA”, thanks to a $500 instant savings [aka a manufacturer-initiated discount, not a mail-in rebate], you can get it starting at $3000 at B&H Photo.

They also have bundles with various zoom lenses for more. Note that the $3000 body only is, for a limited time, bundled with a FREE Think Tank Photo Retrospective 7M shoulder bag at B&H Photo.

Offers end 12/19/21 or earlier if sold out…

Sony FE 24-105mm f4 G OSS for $998 After $100 MIR

The year is almost 2022, but the pestilence that is mail-in rebates is still feasting on the thrifty shoppers 😉

If you are still patient and consistent and persistent enough and have what sportscasters call sticktoitivness, and you are in the Sony FE system, then B&H Photo and Sony are offering a $100 mail-in rebate (MIR) on the new condition Sony FE 24-105mm f4 G OSS for $998 after the $100 MIR.

Moi personally, I’m done with mail-in rebates and VCR Programming 😉

Zeiss 40mm f2 Batis [E] for $999

Oh my, more lens days! It’s a lens day at the Adorama daily deals running until Tuesday at 10am ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Zeiss 40mm f/2.0 Batis Series Lens for Sony Full Frame E-mount for $999

+ SmallRig Pix M160 RGBWW LED Light for $39

+ also a teleprompter thing and a security camera thing

MeanwhiLe, running until Monday at 11:59pm pacific time, there’s a Nixplay digital picture frame at the Amazon USA Gold box going from $126 to $152…

Sony Educational discounts for those eligible

For those eligible for educational discounts, B&H Photo and Sony are running Holiday Specials for students… I am not eligible for this, so I cannot test/check it out…

Sony a7R III body (V2) with Serious FREEbies (Flashpoint flash or Vanguard Tripod or others) for $1998

And now we go to Sony full frame mirrorless, and credit to Sony for doing this before CaNiKoN thought it was cool. Yes, Sony is a mirrorless hipster 😉

The Sony a7R III (V2) body only is on sale for $1998 at various authorized Sony USA dealers, but Adorama, as it often the case, takes it to the next level with various FREE accessory bundles.

I am posting a link to one of the Sony a7R III body (v2) listings and you can find the rest of them through the “tab” options over there:

+ External Flash kit with Flashpoint Zoom Li-ion R2 TTL On-Camera Flash Speedlight for Sony

+ Tripod Kit with the Vanguard VEO 2 235AB 5 Section Aluminum Tripod with VEO 2 BH-50 Ball Head, slinger bag, 64GB Extreme PRO SDXC

+ Accessorapalooza kit with 128GB Lexar UHS-II SDXC, shoulder bag, Green Extreme battery, Peak Design strap, etc

Instant Savings on various Sony Lenses

If you are a fan of the Sony E-system or you have joined the party with the latest Black FRiday camera offers, well, you are in luck, because Sony is also having an Instant Savings sale on many of their E-system lenses, which you can find nicely listed at the Adorama website

Sony Lenses Instant Savings (34 options)

If you are a fan of the Sony E-system, for a limited time there’s another variation of the Sony Instant savings sale (the manufacturer initiated type) of the lens kind, 34 options of them, which you can find nicely organized at Amazon’s website

Prime Day: Sony a6000 Body for $345

Also part of the Prime Day 2021 sales, more specifically at the Outdoorsy and Photography sale you can get the new condition Sony a6000 body only for $345 with free US shipping.

This is the silver color scheme, sold and shipped by Amazon herself.

Thursday: GVM, 64GB Sony CFast 2.0, Etc

Thursday is here, aka Thirst-DAY, which is a good time for our new PSA to properly hydrate! Water, water, water and coconut water [that is not heavily pasteurized because then you lose some of the nutritional benefits]. Beware of flavored water, apart from the mysterious and all-inclusive “nature flavors” [which are rarely so], there’s other strange things [eg artificial sweeteners, and such].

And now, to the B&H Photo daily deals good until 11:59pm ET on 6/10/21 or earlier if sold out:

+ Ruggard Sterilization cases, five options, $20 to $35
+ I hope these refer to COVID sterilization 😉

+ GVM 672S-B Bi-Color LED Studio Video Panel 3-Light Kit for $480 with FREE GVM Softbox automagically included by B&H while the promotion is running
+ daily reminder: you can’t have photography without light!

+ 2-pack of 64GB Sony CFast 2.0 with one USB card reader, all together now for $200

+ Apexel Gorillas Tripod for Smartphones and DSLR Camera for $18
+ could potentially become a pet toy or at least part of such a DIY contraption

+ Polsen SCL-1080 Shotgun Microphone for $40

+ IndiPRO Tools Compact 95Wh V-Mount Li-ion Battery for $145 with FREE IndiPRO Tools D-Tap Pro Battery Charger (16.8V, 1A) automagically included by B&H while this promotion is running

MEANWHILE at the Woot daily deals they have $10 t-shirts, a sale on Amazon Kindle and Fire devices ($20 to $140; ereaders start at $30; if you like reading text-only ebooks, especially with long reading/immersion sessions, they are a must have; so far I’ve bought six e-readers) and such.

EUROPEAN ONION shoppers may be interested in a big AmazonBasics sale at Amazon Chermany that includes cables, batteries, bags, and other tech/electronics offered under Amazon’s OG house brand [now they have a gazillion sub-brands]…

Monday: refurbished Sony H300 superzoom for $85 w/FS

It’s a refurbished superzoom camera day at the Monday 3/15/21 NewEgg daily deals good until 11:59pm pacific time or earlier if sold out…

More specifically, it is the refurbished Sony Cybershot H300 superzoom going for $85 with free US shipping. This is sold and shipped by marketplace seller “VIP Outlet” (not by NewEgg itself)…

If you are having a bit of a deja vu moment, this is one of those recurring NewEgg daily deals…

Elsewhere among the daily action for Monday, at the Amazon USA Gold Box the headliner is an APC UPS and surge protector sale ($11 to $75). There’s also a Tacklife Tools sale ($10 to $68), educational toys, Moen shower fixtures, and such… Meanwhile the previously mentioned AmazonBasics Lighting sales (not a daily deal, part of the “Savings & Sales”) continues… Also on sale is a Fire Stick and an Echo Dot…

Now shipping: Sony Xperia PRO 5G smartphone with HDMI Input

Smartphones have beautiful screens these days but very few companies have thought of using the smartphones as external monitors for actual digital cameras. One of those very few just came out, from a company that makes both cameras and smartphones, SONY! It is the brand new Sony Xperia PRO 5G smartphone. It comes with an actual HDMI input, opening its 4K OLED display to your cameras and anything else that outputs on HDMI. And that’s its defining characteristic! And it has optional wireless streaming kits for select cameras (not just select Sony Alphas but also the Nikon Z6 III and Canon R5).

And given the benefit and costs of alternative solutions, Sony has priced it very “pro”, $2500 for the smartphone kit, and about $150 to $175 more for the camera-specific wireless streaming kits. Needless to say, this is a purpose-built smartphone for photographers and videographers and YouTubers/streamers and such…

AS of the time of writing it is in-stock and ready to ship at B&H Photo at its starting price of $2500 (not a typo!)… It has a mid-Februry in-stock estimate at Amazon itself and it is in pre-order status at Adorama.

Note that this is built up on the Xperia 1 Mark II. If you only want a smartphone and not its defining HDMI input feature, you are better off with the Xperia 1 Mark II or any other modern smartphone OR you can wait for the upcoming Snapdragon 888 smartphones that include the upcoming Sony Xperia 1 Mark III…

For a brief overview of the Xperia PRO 5G used as an external camera monitor, here’s Mr Mobile’s take on it after about 1.5 weeks of use:

Thursday: refurb Sony Cybershot H300 superzoom for $85

Zoom-zoom at the NewEgg daily deals, good until Thursday 1/21/21 at 11:59pm pacifc time, or earlier if sold out, marketplace seller VIP Outlet is offering the refurbished Sony Cybershot H300 superzoom for $85 with free US shipping. This is sold and shipped by the marketplace seller, not by NewEgg itself…

Pre-order new Sony 35mm f1.4 Master Series prime

Master prime time! Sony has revealed a new 35mm f1.4 lens, this one is under their Masters (GM) series, not to be confused with the existing ZA. The new lens is now available for pre-ordering at B&H Photo for $1398. B&H Photo also has sample pictures and a brief hands-on experience at their Explora blog

Speaking of which, you can check the Explora CES coverage for some of the biggest announcement at Diet CES 2021. They include a new NVidia GeForce RTX 3060 (no pre-orders yet, good luck fighting the “miners” and their “canaries” for those), another iteration of the Moto G bargain phones ($200 to $300), new MSI gaming laptops, scary-looking ASUS gaming router, two more OnePlus Nord smartphones, Sony joining the drone market with their new AirPeak brand (just as the Chinese brand are facing scrutiny and bans), TV galore of course, Wifi 6E routers, HP Firefly laptop [no, they are not picking up the tab for Firefly TV action] and more…

Friday: refurbished Sony H300 superzoom for $89 w/FS

A Christmas Day miracle at the NewEgg dailies, they have an actual digital camera of name-brand recognition in their daily deals, good until 11:59pm pacific time (or earlier if sold out). It is the refurbished Sony Cybershot H300 superzoom (35x optical) going for $89 with free US shipping. This is sold and shipped by marketplace seller “VIP Outlet”…

Monday: refurbished Sony HDR-CX405/B camcorder for $89

Surprise! Some kind of a name-brand camera makes its way to the NewEgg deals du jour, it is the refurbished Sony HDR-CX405/B full HD flash-based camcorder going for $89, sold and shipped by 3rd-party seller “VIP Outlet”… This is a 30X optical zoom…

Meanwhile the headliner of the Amazon Gold Box for Monday is an unlocked USA-warranty Samsung Galaxy S10+ going for $550 in the 128GB variant. Check the listing for the other options…

Cyber Monday 1-Day Sale for Canon, Nikon, Fuji and Sony [226 options]

Cyber Monday sale-a-brations at B&H Photo. This set of promotions is good for Cyber Monday 2020 only. They expire on Monday at 11:59pm eastern:

+ Sony Lenses, 30 options, including primes, zooms, FE, PZ and of course some Zeiss-blessed lenses

+ Fuji Camera and Lens sales, 39 options including X-System cameras and lenses, an XP-series Finepix, and a medium format too

+ Canon Cameras, Lenses, Etc, 107 options, including EF, EF-S, RF, EF-M cameras and lenses, Powershots and various accessories

+ Nikon DSLR and Mirrorless, 50 options, cameras and lenses and a battery grip too

+ for more action, check all their Cyber Monday Deals for 2020

Sigma 56mm f1.4 DC DN [Sony E] for $339

Hooray hooray, it’s a LENS DAY at the latest incarnation of the Adorama daily deals, this lot good until Sunday at 10am ET (or earlier if sold out)…

+ Sigma 56mm f1.4 DC DN for Sony E only for $339

+ Dolica 62″ Proline Aluminum Alloy Tripod and Ball Head for $35

+ Flashpoint eVOLV 200 TTL Pocket Flash Exclusive HexaPop Kit (Godox AD200 TTL Pocket Flash) for $319

+ AKG K-701 headphones for $159