The latest Woot Liquidation sale has the Leica Sofort instant film (2x 10-exposures = 20) for $26.46 BUT you can get it for less, $21.95 at Adorama and B&H Photo…
Wedn: SpyderX PRO Colorimeter, Vanguard VEO2, Tamrac, GVM Kit, Small HD, Etc
Yesterday there was a Tokina macro but no lenses today at the new six-pack of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET on Hump Day (or earlier for anything that manages to sell out ahead of its designated expiration time):
+ DataColor SpyderX Pro Colorimeter for $100
+ VanGuard VEO 2 235AB Aluminum Tripod with Ball Head (Red, 4.75′) for $65
+ NaNuk 923 15″ Laptop Case (Black) for $130
+ Mandela Effect Alert: Robin Williams was saying Nanuk-Nanuk 🙂
+ TamRac Pro Compact 2 Camera Bag (Black) for $12
+ one bag, “2” is the model numbers 🙂
+ companies really need to hire me to “test and fix” their product names and model numbers 🙂
+ GVM 50RS2L RGB 2-Light Kit for $340
+ SmallHD 702 Touch 7″ On-Camera Monitor for $899
+ personally I’m holding out for BigHD 🙂
UPDATE: former Android flagship phones and MSI laptops are among the Woot deals du jour, while at Best Buy the headliner is a 14TB WD EasyStore [fans of Earth 2 call frequently call this Easy Sto’or] for $250, and the 64GB Sandisk Extreme PLUS [yellow] SDXC going for $20… Computer-y things as usual can be found at the NewEgg boiled eggs…
UPDATE #2: oops, I didn’t notice it on first pass, but the scratch & dent Android phone sale includes the original Pixel for $50, the Pixel XL from $70 to $120, the Pixel 2* (regular and XL) from $100 to $160 and the Pixel 3* from $190 to $240. This if you are interested in Google’s highly-acclaimed phone-cameras… Keep in mind the latest model is the Pixel 4, and the Pixel 4a is coming soon….
Tuesday: 128GB Team microSDXC for $15, Anker 10,000 mAH for $18, Etc
At the NewEgg daily deals we find the 128GB Team UHS-I U1 C10 microSDXC card going for $15 with free US shipping, up to three per customer, sold and shipped by NewEgg itself…
There you will also find a 15.6″ ASUS gaming laptop for $1570, a $440 Acer desktop, memory, and more…
At Amazon, you can get the Anker PowerCore 10000 mAh battery-charger for $18, and a 10-pack of LiCB CR-2032 3V Lithium batteries for $5 per 10-pack…
And if you like speculative-fiction ebooks, good until 5/23/20, Tor Books (the publisher) is giving away DRM-free e-copies of the book “Tooth & Claw” by Jo Walton (available in Kindle (mobi) and ePUB formats)… For more e-reading, Amazon has a sale of 100 kindle ebooks under $2…
UPDATE: the latest Adorama daily deal (changes Wedn 10am ET) is the new condition GigaByte AERO 15.6″ gaming laptop for $1999 with free US shipping. Lots of high-end specs obviously, headlined by the NVidia RTX 2070 with 8GB of GDDR6 dedicated memory…
FREE to Stream (Next Few Days at CL): Lots of High School Photography
It’s that time of the year once again, the start of the Grads & Dads season, and to celebrate that, the next few days at the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR are headlined photography-wise by high-school related photography classes. A plus if you are interested in this market segment, a minus if you are not interested…
Tue: Tokina 100/2.8 FF MACRO for $379 [C/N], NISI, GVM, Peak D, Smith-Victor, Etc
It’s a LENS DAY at the B&H daily deals for Tuesday May 19 in 2020, good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier for anything that sells out ahead of its designated time)…
+ Tokina 100mm f2.8 MACRO full-frame AT-X-i lens for $379 in Canon EF or Nikon F
+ NISI V6 100mm Filter Holder Kit with Filter, two choices, $120 to $160
+ Peak Design Everyday Backpack (20L, Ash) for $150
+ Smith-Victor Edge Light Portable LED Light Stick for $43
+ GVM GT-120WD Wireless Carbon Fiber Motorized Camera Slider (47″) with Bluetooth Remote for $330
+ Vello Extenda camera remotes, three options, $80 to $190
UPDATE:: meanwhile at the BEst BuY DaiLies they have the new condition 128GB sandisk Ultra PLUS microSDXC card going for $25…
GoPro HERO8 Black bundle for $399 [ends Tue 10am ET]
The current Adorama daily deal (changes Tuesday at 10am ET) is a loaded GoPro HERO8 Black bundle with lots of extra accessories, all together now going for $399 with free US shipping…
HP Sprocket 2-in-1 Camera & Instant Printer with Extras for $50
Meanwhile at the Woot Best Sellers, in addition to the obligatory face masks and “sterilizing wands”, there’s 72-packs of single-use Sony Stamina Plus alkaline AA and AAA batteries, with each 72-pack going for $20… Paging further down you’ll find a 12-pack of 9V single-use for $19…
Further down in the top 10, there’s the HP (Toad the Wet) Sprocket 2-in-1 camera and instant printer device type thing going for $50 with a 1-year warranty. It’s available in three color schemes with up to ten per customer. It is new condition. You also get a 8GB microSD card and 30 sheets of photo paper…
NOTE that these are part of the longer-running Woot offers, not their daily deals, so check each individual product listing to find the expiration date…
Monday: Delkin Fat Gecko Triple Mount, Manfrotto 504D, WD HDDs, Etc
Monday is here with a new set of B&H dailies good until 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out (already the 14″ Acer Aspire S laptop got sold out)…
+ Delkin Fat Gecko Triple Mount for $60
+ WD drives, five options, additional discount with automatic in-cart coupon
+ ManFrotto 504HD Head with 535 2-Stage Carbon Fiber Tripod System for $650
+ also Aminon Connex thing and NuForce earphones
If you are looking for a sub-$500 Windows laptop with a touch-screen, $450 gets you headliner of the Best Buy dailies, an 15.6″ HP with 12GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Ryzen 5, etc. Note that this has “Windows 10 in S-mode” from which you can switch to “normal” Windows [but you can’t go back to “S” again]…
Other Best Buy daily deals include a Surface PRO X, HP FreeSync monitors in various sizes, Victor dual-monitor standing-desk stand, Western Digital portable hard drives and SSDs… And Logitech keyboards and mice if you want to complete your setup based on today’s deals 😉 Oh there’s also a 14″ Lenovo YOGA for $900…
AND a mild surprise, among the NewEgg deals of the day is a full frame mirrorless camera, but it is (most likely) the international edition, because the seller is known importer “6ave”. The camera in question is the Sony a7 III body only offered for $1619…
In EUROPE, Amazon Germany is having a Fuji Instax sale with the Mini 9 going for 49 euro, while the Square SQ EX D [who comes up with these names?] goes for $94. Multiple colors are available…
FREE to Watch (starts Sun 12pm ET): Photoshop CC Complete Guide
The headliner of the Sunday 5/17/20 CreativeLIVE ON-AIR classes starting at 12pm eastern and running until 11:50am ET on Monday is the Ben Willmore class Photoshop CC – The Complete Guide. The class actually runs for a bit over 25 hours, but each day there’s a hard cut-off on streaming, so the last 80 minutes or so will not be broadcast. That’s when Daenerys and SPOILER does SPOILER with SPOILER and then all goes SPOILER!
3-Year Outdoor Photographer magazine for $13 total [US Addresses only]
The theme is multi-year subscriptions at the Discount Mags Weekend Sale and Outdoor Photographer has a better than “default sale price”, you can get a 3-year print-to-your-US-address-door delivery for $13, that’s $4.33 per year… The other two (Videomaker, Digital Photo PRO) are around their “default sale prices”…
20 Classes for $20 each at CreativeLIVE
There’s 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, and then there’s Twenty classes for Twenty, that’s the latest limited-time CreativeLIVE sale, which includes the “30 days Wedding Photography” class, “Wedding Photography Bootcamp”, newborns, posing, Capture One PRO (it’s not 100% Adobe after all), Nature, Composition, Food, Final Cut PRO X, indie films, alt-processing, Lightroom CC for beginners and more…
Sunday: Vello Lens Calibration for $25, Nikon Binos, Pelican cases, Etc
It’s pixel-peeing time of the lens kind at the Sunday 5/17/20 B&H daily deals, good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ Vello LENS-2020 Lens Calibration Tool for $25
+ refurbished Nikon 8×42 ProStaff 5 Binoculars for $80
+ Pelican cases, five options, $100 to $240
+ actual Pelican birds NOT included 🙂
+ Polsen CS-88A DSLR-Video Shotgun Microphone for $30
+ 16 foot Pearstone USB Type A to Type B mini cable for $8
+ yes,that’s feet, not inches!
+ flash deal: MacKie FreePlay LIVE Personal PA with Bluetooth with automatic in-cart coupon discount
Meanwhile at the Best Buy dailies they have 48-packs of single-use AA or AAA batteries for $12, making it four batteries per dollar (aka American Peso)…
Saturday: DEERC DE25 Drone, Surface 4 PRO & Books, Yi Dash
Lettuce see some of the Saturday 5/16/20 deals du jour at various retailers du monde…
+ at NewEgg Egg Beaters Sunny Side Up you can get the DEERC [what a great name] DE25 foldable drone for $90, a 2TB WD RED NAS Pro HDD with promo code, a 27″ Viewsonic and such
+ at Best Buy you can be a low-light dashcamographer with the Yi Nightscape Dash Cam for $60 and if you want to showcase your Smartmedia-era photography and videography, there’s a 720p (!) 24-inch TV for $80
+ at Woot Landia they have Surface 4 PRO tablets and Surface Books from $650 to $885, a refurb 11.6″ HP Stream quad for $150, and if you are totally out of toilet paper, there’s a Bidet sale 😉
+ UPDATE: the new Adorama daily deal (changes Sunday 10am ET) is the new condition Godox LF308BI Variable Color LED Video Light with Flash Sync going for $79 with free US shipping…
Tether Tools Case Air Wireless Tethering System for $112
Tethering time, the Adorama daily deal [CORRECTED!!!] ending on Saturday at 10am ET (or earlier if sold out) is the new condition Tether Tools Case Air Wireless Tethering System going for $112 with free US shipping… No coupons, no mail-in rebates…
B&H Virtual NAB 2020 Streams and Deals
If you want to participate in some NAB 2020 Virtual Action, B&H Photo is having various NAB-related videos on their website…
To go with the content they have an NAB Promotions Hub that has two type of items: 1) pre-orders of newly revealed products, and 2) deals and offers on existing products…
Happy Viewing and Shopping 🙂
PS: if you don’t want to go through the listings, these are the 37 Camera and Lens offerings… Of course a number of these products are not video-only. For example Canon’s f2.8 pro zooms, their 100mm IS macro, Panasonica’s 12-35 II f2.8, and so forth…
Pre-Order new Nikon Z50 Creator’s Kit for $1147
To coincide with what would have been NAB 2020, for those video-curious and Nikon-Z-curious, Nikon has announced a new Nikon Z50 Creator’s Kit and this is available for pre-ordering at B&H Photo for $1147. This kit includes:
+ Nikon Z50 camera
+ Nikon Z 16-50mm f3.5-6.3 DX VR
+ Rode VideoMicro shotgun microphone
+ Joby GorillaPod 3K flex
+ SmallRig mounting plate
+ Nikon Travel bag
+ Nikon school voucher
NOTE: for those not following the Nikon Z system closely, this is an APS-C / DX camera bundled with an APS-C / DX lens…
Friday: DigiPower Re-Fuel Camera Batteries, Samsung USB-C SSD, Sigma 16/1.4 DC DN [E] ending soon
There’s some action of potential interest in the Best Buy daily deals where the headliner is a 1TB Samsung T5 external USB-C SSD in the rose-gold color scheme going for $150, while the 500GB in blue goes for $80. There’s also a Wacom Bamboo Ink smart stylus (Windows Ink) going for $35, and a 40% off sale on DigiPower Re-Fuel Li-Ion batteries and charges for various Canon and Nikon mostly cameras (there’s also a battery for Olympus and one for Sony)…
UPDATE: oops, I forgot to post this earlier on, the Adorama daily deal [CORRECTED!!!] (changes Friday 10am ET) is the new condition Sigma 16mm f1.4 DC DN Contemporary prime lens going for $319 with free US shipping in the Sony E mount.
UPDATE #2: physical goods continue to shyly return at the Amazon Gold Box with Anker Nebula projectors, Samsung SSDs, and Anker PowerCore 20,000 mAh chargers… Speaking of chargers, on the AA/AAA front, IKEA is debuting [rebranding?] a new 8-slot AA/AAA charger but I know not much else about it…
Case Logic DSLR Backpack for $20, Revo Remotes, Kolibri Drone for $25 [ends Sat PM]
FriYAY is here (for those working the M-F work-week) and with it we have another 4-pack of B&H daily deals, which, as usual, last until Saturday at 11:59pm ET (but B&H does not accept orders between Friday PM and Saturday PM ~ check their website for exact times}:
+ CaseLogic DSLR Compact Backpack (Indigo) for $20
+ can’t argue with the price!
+ Revo Remotes for select Sony cameras, two options, $20 to $39
+ Kolibri Hellfire HD Camera Drone for $25
+ despite the name, it does not spew fire ~ unless it’s actually on fire due to overheating 😉
+ Samson headphones for $10 or $24 as a 3-pack
FREE (Starts Thur 12pm ET): Adobe Photoshop CC Bootcamp
If you are quarantined indoors and you have enough caffeine to keep you awake for 22 hours straight, starting at 12pm ET on Thursday 5/14/20 at the Creative LIVE ON-AIR is a 22-hour class free streaming until Friday at 11:50am ET on Photoshop. More specifically, it’s the “Adobe Photoshop CC Bootcamp” wth Blake Rudis… Also streaming is an Instagram Hype class, a product line strategy, a website planning and wireframing class and a music class…
International Canon D-Rebel T6i with 18-55 IS STM for $499
Woot Garage is having yet another rolling variant of their promotions and under the currently in-stock Electronics they have the following camera-n-photo related items:
+ international Canon D-Rebel T6i with 18-55 IS STM lens for $500 with 90-day Woot warranty
+ multi-country AC-power and USB power-adapter (four USB Type A, one USB Type C) for $16
+ the $55 Yongnuo is sold out on its individual product page even though it has not been marked with the red diagonal “SOLD OUT” on the listings
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…
Thursday: WD / Sandisk storage sale (40 options)
It’s a big storage sale among the Best Buy deals du jour for Thursday 5/14/20, a total of 40 options of the WD and Sandisk kind. Page #2 has the Sandisk SD and microSD and flash drives, while page #1 mostly has the WD hard drives of the internal and external kind. Too many to list here individually… Too many to list here individually…
UPDATE: meanwhile the current Adorama daily deal (changes Thursday 10am ET) is the new condition Flashpoint 13″ Vlogger light AC Powered 50W 5500K Fluorescent Ring Light With Bag going for $39 with free US shippings…
Thursday: SLRMagic 35mm T1.3 [X/E] for $399, 2pk 32GB Sony CFast 2.0, Premiere Elements 2.0, Etc
Thursday is here with a six-pack of B&H daily deals, good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ SLR Magic MicroPrime Cine 35mm T1.3 for $399 in Sony E mount or Fuji X mount
+ 2pk of 32GB Sony CFast 2.0 G Series Memory Card with Blackjet VX-1C Card Reader for $185
+ Adobe Premiere Elements 2020 for $60
+ EdelKrone SliderPLUS PRO Long (25″) for $589
+ Ruggard fabric rain shields, 3 options, $13 to $15
+ Senal communications headsets for $80 to $100
Pocophone F2 PRO smartphone (6/128GB version, pop-up selfie camera) for $500
If you hate notches or Selfie cameras, or you are very pro-privacy and don’t want the smartphone’s selfie camera to take unauthorized pictures, you may be interested in the brand new Xiaomi Pocophone F2 PRO smartphone. The selfie camera is a pop-up camera, nestled inside the body. It pops out in order to take a picture. And because of this, there’s no notch/holepunch or whatever that thing is called, the thing that ruins the serene surface of the front of the phone 🙂
The 6GB RAM with 128GB storage (no microSD, but it has a 3.5mm headphone jack) version of the phone is already available for purchase for $500 in various colors at Gear Best which also has the 35-minute launch video, YouTube-embedded below for your phone-entertainment…
This has the Snapdragon 865 processor, Sony IMX686 1/1.7″ pixel-binning 64mp sensor on the main camera (of the five), UFS 3.1, liquid cooling technology, 4700 mAh battery, etc, etc, …
The 8GB with 256GB which has LPDDR5 (instead of LPDDR 4X) goes for $100 more…
Starts Wedn 12pm ET (FREE to Stream): Adobe Premiere Pro CC Complete Guide
If you are dabbling into video and want to learn video-editing using Adobe Premiere PRO CC (Cash Cow edition, OOOOOOOPS Creative Cloud edition), starting at 12pm eastern on Wednesday, as the headliner of the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR classes is a free stream of the Abba Shapiro class “Adobe Premiere Pro CC Complete Guide”. This runs for 18 hours and 2 minutes, so after the first full airing, it will re-start on Thursday at 6:02am ET but it will end mid-way at the daily cut-off point, Thursday at 11:50am ET…
Wedn: 256GB Patriot EP microSDXC for $30, Samsung SSD sale
With microSD cards, I currently stick to Samsung and Sandisk, but if you feel like trying out different brands, one of the Newegg deals of the day for Wednesday 5/13/20 is the new condition 256GB Patriot EP microSDXC going for $30 with free US shipping with up to three per customers at the sale price. This V30, U3, A1, UHS-1 microSDXC is sold and shipped by NewEGG or as I like to call it, Nuevo Huevo 🙂
The other daily deals include a 27″ ASUS WQHD monitor for $270, an ASUS-i5 server motherboard, an HP 360 EliteBook, 1TB XPG Gammix, two 120GB Team GX1 2.5″ SSDs for $45, and 2x8GB Corsair memory for $80…
Yesterday Amazon Germany’s Gold Box marked the return to “physical goods” as deals of the day, now this trend has moved to the Amazon USA Gold Box where the deals du jour include a red Cuisinart and a Samsung SSD sale (nine options, $95 to $650 [4TB])…
LAST CALL (ends Wedn PM): Get 5% bonus when you Sell Your Own Gear to KEH Camera
LAST CALL ALERT!
If you have camera gear you want to sell, and don’t want to deal with classified ads and eBay and such, one option is to sell your camera gear to KEH Camera. And good until 5/13/20 at 11:59pm ET, coupon code BONUS gets you a 5% bonus on the KEH quote.
For example, if you want to sell them your Lensaholic 5mm f0.005 lens in “Very Good” condition, the KEH quote, let’s say, is fictionally $1000. When you use the 5% coupon code BONUS, you will get an extra $50, making it $1050.
Note that KEH has COVIDified their process when selling your gear, the evaluation could also happen over video chat. Getting a quote is not a commitment to sell to KEH. If you like their offer, and you want to sell your gear to them, you have to ship it to them (they also offer pickup it up from your home via the delivery service).
Wedn: Tiffen VND Filters, E-Image Tripod, Pelican, FilmCraft, Sachtler, Etc
Hump Day, in the social distancing era, is here and with it we have a handful of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ G-Tech drives, 7 options, with additional automatic in-cart discount
+ Tiffen Variable Neutral Density Filters for $60 to $80 (options: 72mm, 77mm, 82mm)
+ because why have multiple filter per thread size, when one can cover them most
+ E-Image EG05A2 Two-Stage Aluminum Tripod with GH05 Head (75mm) for $189
+ Pelican 1770 Protector Long Case (Desert Tan) for $200
+ FilmCraft Pro Series Tall Director’s Chair (30″, Black Frame, Black Canvas) for $130
+ also useful as a studio prop
+ Zoom H6 6-Input / 6-Track Portable Handy Recorder with Interchangeable Mic Capsules for $250 with FREE Auray universal “cat fur” for microphones
+ because audio and video go hand in hand; unless you wanna narrate your videos later “honey badger don’t care” style 😉
+ Senal SHM-1000 studio headphones for $45
+ half the price of the classic Sony 7506/V6
Flash Deals
+ Sachtler Campack Plus Backpack (Black) for $146
+ next: Sachtler Air Flow Camera backpack
+ next next: Sachtler Lite Case (large)
Meanwhile the Adorama daily deal (changes 10am ET) is the new condition CyberPower Intelligent LCD Computer Battery Backup (1350VA 810W UPS, 8 Outlets) for $95 with free US shipping…
Tuesday: Vello FlashBoss TTL Transceivers, Gitzo L-Back for select Sony FF a-cameras, PGYtech bags, DraCast, Cleaning Kit
Never fear, Tuesday is here! And with it we have a new 6-pack of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out) as follows:
+ Vello FlashBoss TTL transceivers four options, $40 to $70
+ Gitzo L-Bracket for Sony a7R III and a9 Cameras for $125 after automatic in-cart coupon
+ PGY Tech OneMo Backpack 25L & Shoulder Bag (Twilight Black) for $119
+ two bags, but the Twilight movies and books are (thankfully) NOT included 🙂
+ Sensei OC-CK Optics Care and Cleaning Kit for $8
+ because did you know that COVID-19 eats away at the camera’s sensor? #NotAScientificStatement
+ DraCast Boltray LED600 Plus Daylight LED Light for $139
+ because you can’t have photo-graphy without light!
+ unlocked Moto Z smarthpone (model XT-1650) for $100
+ this phone will roll off the …Edge of the latest Moto flagship 🙂
UPDATE: mayhaps a sign of progress on COVID-19 in Germany, it’s the first time in a while that the Amazon.de Gold Box deals of the day include non-digital items (Acer laptops, Philips TVs, etc)
New Fuji X-System Instant Savings (Cameras, Lenses, MF, RAWsumers)
If you are mesmerized by the Fuji X-system, you are in luck and your wallet is potentially in tears as there’s a new round of Fuji Instant Savings running at B&H Photo that includes both camera kits and lenses on their own. Fuji cameras may be easier to adapter-use 3rd-party lenses on, but for fans of native AF lenses the options are fewer than other mirrorless systems, which keeps the Fuji lens prices without a lot of competition. People are not even willing to let go of the kit lenses when selling the cameras 🙂
The sale includes the X-T30 with the 15-45 and freebies for $999, the 16-55 f2.8 lens with freebies for $900, and so on… Too many camera kits (X-T200, X-E3, X-A7 in the adorkable mint-green color scheme, etc) and lenses to list here individually…
In addition to those, the sale also includes some of the Fuji medium format gear along with their fixed-lens compact cameras (aka RAWsumers)… There’s also a couple of stray Finepix P&S cameras (of the water/elementproof kind)…
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