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For a limited time, coupon code VIP10 gets you $10 off your purchase at the CreativeLIVE website where they are also running a near sitewide 60% off sale. The sale price is reflected. The $10 off coupon must needs be entered in the shopping cart.
PS: a few classes are not eligible per previous agreements with the instructors.
Tuesday brings us a 4-pack of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ Sachtler Camera Rollpak for $200
+ CineTics Lynx 3-Axis Motorized Slider for $1299
+ DeLL P3418HW 34″ 21:9 IPS Curved Monitor for $469
+ Logan Graphics 450-1: 40″ Artist Elite Mat Cutter for $125
UPDATE: the Adorama daily deal (changes 10am ET daily) is the new condition Rokinon 45mm f1.8 auto-focus lens for the Sony E-system offered for $299 with free US shipping. This is only available in Sony E…
Jump aboard the excitement train, it’s Monday, the start of a new Mon-Fri work week. Hooray! 🙂 And with Monday we have a new set of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ Pelican 1495 Laptop Computer Case with Foam (Desert Tan) for $110
+ NanGuang RGB173 LED Panel Light for $279
+ Celestron NexStar 6SE 150mm f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain GoTo Telescope for $599
+ also Ring thing
+ flash deal: now JBL clip-on bluetooth speaker for $30
+ later: JBL wireless headphones
TV shows have themes. Or at least that’s what professional TV critics insist ~ regardless of what the TV show writers and producers intended 😉 So we have a theme here at the blog. It is the temporal decay of existential value, or in more plain terms, a USED camera gear sale, more specifically, KEH Camera is running a While Supplies Last sale. These are items that are close to running out for various reasons. No coupon is needed for this sale. The price you see is the price you pay.
Speaking of KEH, at the other end of the spectrum, they have a page listing their latest arrivals. “New*” is a bit of a confusing term to use when you are talking about used items, thus I’m “translating” “newly arrived” to “latest arrivals” 🙂
If you are fond of USED products and clearance sales and such, Adorama is running a USED Clearance sale. No coupon needed, the price you see is the price you pay.
NOTE that used items come in various conditions, from pristine to “spare parts only” so be sure to read up the available details on the individual product listing pages. Used items in usable condition (eg not “parts only”) get a 90-day warranty and 30-day return window. Again, check the individual listing to see what qualifies. For example, the $200 Nikon D5600 “Parts” listing, is sold as “AS IS”, final sale, no returns, no warranty. Obviously 🙂
If you are fond of the Walgreens Photo Wood Panel prints, you are in luck! Good until 2/18/20 at 11:59pm central time, coupon code 75OFFWOOD gets you 75% off the purchase price. Same day store pickup is included in the price. Shipping to an address of your choosing is NOT included. Coupon cannot be used in-store, only online/digitally. One use per customer for this coupon. You can use up to three coupons per shopping cart as long as they are not overlapping.
Meanwhile coupon code LOVE50 gets you 50% off Everything Photo until 2/29/20 at 11:59pm central time. This coupon can be used up to five times per customer during the promotional period.
IF you have been interested in some of the more expensive classes offered at Creative LIVE, you are in luck! For a limited time, they are offering almost all of their classes for $29 (or less). No coupon is needed. The price you see is the price you pay. When the promotion ends, the prices you see on their website will increase. The sale includes their various Bootcamp classes… Happy learnings 🙂
There’s only so many photography how-to and camera user-manuals you can read. Sometimes you just want to read a novel that has some …photography in it. For example, the protagonists are photographers or some other related plots and twists and turns. Such is the case with one of Sunday’s Kindle ebook daily deals, it is the “The Age of Light” novel by Whitney Scharer (for the speed-readers out there, no, not Whitley Strieber) for $2.99. It is 385 pages, got published in February 2019, and averages 4.1 out of 5 based on 150+ customer ratings. You can get the start of the book using the “Kindle sample” or you can jump around jump around jump around using the “Look Inside” feature when you are on the Hardcover or Softback Amazon page of the book.
This is biographical historical fiction, not a romance novel…
“As they work together in the darkroom, their personal and professional lives become intimately entwined, changing the course of Lee’s life forever.”
Never fear, Sunday is here and February is halfway done! Good until 11:59pm ET on Sunday (or earlier if sold out) the following B&H daily deals are in-progress:
+ Giottos VGR9255-S2N 5-Section Aluminum Tripod/Monopod with Ballhead for $130
+ Giottos Aluminum Tripod/Monopod w/ARCA QR Ball Head for $139
+ Vortex 8×42 Diamondback Binocular for $120 with FREE harness
+ Arizona Diamondback season tickets NOT included 🙂
+ Sachtler Heavy Duty Harness for $79
+ also JBL waterproof wireless earphones
Meanwhile the current Adorama daily deal (changes 10am ET daily) is the new condition Polar Pro Cinema Series Vivid Collection of filters for the DJI Osmo Pocket for $20…
Happy Valentine’s Day with a pink former flagship! The headliner of the B&H Photo deals good until Saturday at 11:59 pm ET (or earlier if sold out; orders not accepted Friday PM to Sat PM as usual) is the new condition unlocked Google Pixel 3 XL (64GB on-board, no headphone jack, no microSD) going for $399 with free US shipping in the “Not Pink (yet actually kinda pink)” color scheme. Up to three per customer at the sale price. The rest of the offerings:
+ Tamrac Arc Flash Accessory Pockets, two options, $8 to $10
+ RAVpower 16,750mAh RP-PB010 Power Bank (Black) for $18
+ two power outputs, total output 4.5A
+ Autel Robotics EVO Quadcopter (Refurbished) for $599 with 1-year warranty
+ current flash deal JBL headphones; no teasers for the next one as of the time of writing
Meanwhile the current Adorama daily deal (changes 10am ET daily) is the new condition Davis & Sanford Vista Explorer VTB 4-Section Aluminum Tripod with BHQ8 Ball Head going for $35 with free US shippings…
UPDATE: for fans of LTE Chromebooks, Woot is offering the refurbished Samsung XE525QBB-K01US 12.2″ Chromebook PLUS V2 (the “PLUS” is part of the name, as opposed to the “PRO” model) for $280 with a 90-day Woot warranty and free shipping for Prime members or $6 flat for non-members. This has 4GB RAM, Intel Celery 3965Y 1.5GHz (the V1 used an ARM processor), a more reasonable full HD touch-screen (the V1 had higher resolution but couldn’t handle it), Intel HD 615 graphics, 32GB on-board storage, microSD, two USB-C ports ad one full size USB port (the V1 only had USB-C), and Verizon 4G LTE (you don’t have to use it, there’s always Wifi)… Its ChromeOS auto-updates have been extended to June 2024 (recently Google has been on a ChromeOS end-of-life extend-a-thon after severe backlash from both consumers and enterprise users/buyers). This ends on Friday at 11:59pm central (or earlier if sold out)…
Thursday brings us a six-pack of B&H daily deals, but still no red products despite being soooo close to Valentine’s day. Well, there’s always strawberries and beet 😉
+ Manfrotto 504HD Head with 536 3-Stage Carbon Fiber Tripod System for $800 with FREE SmallHD FOCUS 5″ HDMI On-Camera Monitor
+ free item included automatically by B&H while this promotion is running (it is mentioned in the listing as “Includes 1 Free Item $299.99 Value”
+ SmallHD FOCUS Bolt Sidekick RX for $1249
+ SACHTLER Dr Bags for $150 to $180 (two options)
+ medical degree NOT included
+ Cyberpower SL700U Standby Series UPS for $75 minus a 20% off coupon applied in the shopping cart = $60 if my head-math is correct
+ also Ring Floodlight and NuForce wireless earbuds
UPDATE: meanwhile the Best Buy dailies are headlined by the Surface PRO 7 with a 12.3″ touchscreen, Core i3, 4GB RAM [boooo!], 128GB SSD (latest model, accessories sold separately). There’s also the 512GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I memory card going for $120…
Hump Day is coming but did you plan (to avoid) Valentine’s Day this year? No red gear however in this edition of the B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ open-box Peak Design Everyday Tote Bag (Charcoal) for $80
+ charcoal color scheme that is; it is not filled with actual charcoal ~ just so we are clear 🙂
+ Tamrac Tour Strap (Black) for $17
+ Angler Quick-Open Deep Parabolic Softbox (36″) for $74
+ RucPac Photographer’s Winter Apparel Package for $40 in two size options
+ includes tech gloves, neck warmer and beanie hat
+ no flash deals scheduled as of the time of writing
Meanwhile Amazon Germany is having an Epson printer sale with three models participating, two Expression, one EcoTank, with prices ranging from 107 to 449 eurodollars, or euro for short 😉
Fat Tuesday is getting closer (two weeks away) but this Tuesday (Ruby Tuesday?) has a new set of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ LEXAR Multi-Card 25-in-1 USB 3.0 Memory Card Reader for $15
+ Sirui T-1204SK T-S Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod for $149 after $30 mail-in rebate
+ 56.2″ version for $170 after mail-in rebate (MIR)
+ the MIR amount is different for each tripod model
+ yes, MIRs are not dead yet 🙂
+ Pelican iM2500 Storm Case with Padded Dividers for $130 in three color schemes
+ LEDgo Bi-Color Flood Shoot-Through LED Ring Light for $119
+ no flash deals posted as of the time of writing…
Meanwhile the Adorama daily deal (changes 10am ET daily) is the DJI Osmo Pocket 3-Axis Gimbal Handheld Camera With Action Cam Accessory Set (64GB Extreme microSDXC, PolarPro filter kit, Froggi accessory kit, etc) going for $310 with free US shipping.
Monday is here once again, the very favorite day of those working on a Monday-to-Friday schedule 😉 But there’s always a silver lining, a new round of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
It’s a lens, it’s a baby. it’s both yet it’s neither. It’s a riddle that *SPOILER ALERT* is solved in the next paragraph below this sentence, so close your eyes if you don’t want to be spoiled 😉
+ Lensbaby Composer Pro II with Sweet 80 Optic for $180 in Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony E, Fuji X and M43rds
+ Manfrotto Nitrotech N12 & 545GB Dual-Leg Tripod System with Half Ball Adapter & Bag for $499
+ LG 27ML600M-B 27″ 16:9 FreeSync IPS Monitor for $159
+ IPS, HDMI | VGA Inputs, 1920 x 1080, 1000:1 Static Contrast Ratio, etc
+ also CyberPower UPS and Fiio music player
flash deals
+ now: ONA Presidio Camera Strap for $39
+ later: ONA Prince Street messenger bag
Meanwhile the Adorama daily deal (changes 10am ET daily) offers a bundle of a Behringer audio interface with Sennheiser headphones for $179…
The theme of this weekend’s sale at the DiscountMags website is a multi-year sale. The longer you subscribe to a particular magazine, the better price you get. Of the camera-n-photo related magazines (printed, delivered to US addresses, no auto-renewal) they offer:
+ 3-year Outdoor Photographer for $13 total
+ 3-year Digital Photo PRO for $22 total
+ 3-year Videomaker for $19 total
+ NOTE: there’s some error/confusion there for the 4-year and 6-year options, they cost a LOT more; I’m guessing this must be an error because I rarely see 6-year subscription offers
The usual assortment of other “six degrees of separation” (from camera and photography) magazines are also offered, for example 3-year WIRED for $13 total, along with NatGeo, Discover, PopSci, Pop Mecha, lifestyle/fashion, sports, nature, etc…
Sunday is here with a new 4-pack of B&H daily deals, good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ Browning Strike Force Pro XD Trail Camera for $120
+ Tamrac Anvil T0300 M.A.S. & M.O.L.L.E Modular Accessory Belt for $12 in three size options
+ RAVpower PD Pioneer 20,100mAh 45W 2-Port Power Bank for $30
+ Auray RF-PBO-16 Premium Reflection Filter (audio related) for $40
Meanwhile the current Adorama daily deal (changes at 10am ET daily) is the new condition Sigma 150-500mm f5-6.3 DG OS HSM “Contemporary” lens in the Nikon system only bundled with the Slik Sprint PRO III tripod and the Sigma USB dock for $789 with free US shipping… No coupon needed, the price you see is the price you pay while this particular promotion is running…
UPDATE: meanwhile at the Woot dailies they have:
+ Surface sale at the main Woot
+ HP printers ($37 to $77) at Computers
+ wireless accessories at Electronics…
FriYAY is here once again with a new set of B&H deals expiring on Saturday at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out; but B&H ~ as usual ~ does not accept orders between Friday PM and Sat PM ~ check their website for exact times):
+ open-box Peak Design CL-3 Clutch Camera Hand Strap for $25
+ Freehands Women’s Unlined Fleece Gloves for $13 (three size options)
+ Axler Caterpillar 20″ Extending Camera Slider for $149
+ will NOT turn into a butterfly no matter what
+ PeliCan 1920 Gen.3 MityLite LED Flashlight for $16
+ flash deal: Gura Gear UINTA 30L Multipurpose Backpack (Black/Brown) for $49
+ no teaser yet for the next flash deal
Good until Saturday 2/8/20 at 11:59pm ET, coupon code SAVE2A gets you 12% off many things at the KEH Camera website. The coupon works on cameras, lenses, accessories, etc but there are some exclusions as usual: no Leica branded products [products that work with Leica gear from other manufacturers are eligible], no “NEW” condition, no “Used – Like New”, no “Digital Starter Kits”.
You can test the coupon in the shopping cart without the need to login/signup…
Thursday brings with it a new 4-pack of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ Tamrac Pro Compact 1 Camera Bag (Black) for $13
+ Sachtler Ace XL System with SpeedLock Tripod & Mid-Level Spreader (75mm Bowl) for $825
+ also JBL exercise headphones and Xcellon keyboard
Meanwhile the Adorama daily deal (changes 10am ET daily) is the new condition NiSi V5 Pro 100mm Filter Holder Kit (6x Filter Slots, 82mm Adapter Ring, 86mm CPL Filter) going for $88 with free US shipping…
A new round of Fuji instant savings is up and running at Adorama with a total of 26 options available, including a FREE Fuji VG-XT3 battery grip with the purchase of select Fuji X-T3 kits. Some options are bundled with free accessories as well. Some kits include a Fuji flash. And on page #2 of the offers you can find instant savings of the Fuji GFX kind (camera kits and lenses)
Big Sensor Prime fans unite and take over! Fuji has official announced their all new X100V big sensor prime with a 26mp APS-C X-Trans sensor and a new 23mm f2 Fujinon lens (glued to the camera of course). The pre-order price is $1399 and the camera is estimated to be released on March 31st in 2020…
Pre-orders are accepted at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon itself…
Also offered for pre-order is the official Fuji case for said camera for $80…
It’s getting close to the mid-week point once again and four more B&H daily deals are available for your consideration until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ Zhiyun CRANE 3 LAB Handheld Stabilizer for $449
+ GVM 600S LED Ring Light for $120
+ Porta Brace Hard Case with Six 4″ Lens Cups (Gray) for $100
+ RavPower 27,000mAh Universal Power Bank with AC Outlet for $65
Meanwhile the Best Buy dailies are headlined by a $349 HP 15.6″ touchscreen Chromebook (i5, 8GB RAM, 128GB, etc)…
Of potential interest at the Woot dailies, they have the Mobile Pixels Duex Pro 12.5″ Full HD IPS USB A/Type-C Portable Dual-Screen Monitor (with kickstand) for $210 with a 1-year warranty. Meanwhile the main Woot has the Beats 3 Solo wireless headphones for $150 with 1-year warranty…
UPDATE: for those shopping at Amazon Germany, they have a Sandisk Extreme sale with their Extreme PRO SDXC (up to 170MB/sec) cards going for 12 euro (32GB) or 17 euro (64GB) or 30 euro (128GB) or 83 euro (256GB) 200 euro (512GB). The yellow SDXC (non-PRO, up to 150MB/sec) goes for 15 euro which is the price for the Extreme microSDXC card. There’s also a 500GB portable USB-C SSD going for $130…
UPDATE #2: meanwhile among the Amazon Gold Box daily deals for Wednesday 2/5/20 is a sale on RAVpower powerbanks and chargers with nine options and prices ranging from $12 to $49…
Tuesday is here with four more B&H daily deals but no lenses today. This lot is good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ Sachtler Camporter Camera Bag for $90 in Small or $120 in Large
+ Samson Meteor Mic USB Studio Condenser Microphone for $40
+ also Lorex and truly wireless earphones
Meanwhile the Adorama daily deal are Klipsch floor standing speakers for $450 (changes at 10am ET daily)…
And at Woot, they have refurbished Pixels ($80 to $150, Pixel 1 to Pixel 2XL; the 3/3XL have sold out)… And if you use the Woot app, they have a couple of PNY flash storage offers [needs the Wootapp to see/buy them]…
Then at the Best Buy daily deals, there are gift cards with tax software and a $99 11.6″ Lenovo Chromebook and such…
Speaking of computers, the Amazon USA Gold Bawx is having a sale on Kindle ereaders along with a Chromebooks and Monitors sale. Monitors and laptops are sold separately, they are not bundled. There’s also the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Android tablet (10.5″, 256GB) going for $584…
On the learnings side of things, CreativeLIVE is having a sale of up to 70% off on new classes added there. Topics include Bird photography, docs, iPhone filmmaking, Lightroom CC Workflow, landscape, astro, Olympus E-M1X fast start and Olympus lenses, macro, LR, masking, HDR, retouching, Nikon Z and Canon EOS R and Fuji X-T3 fast starts, and lots more!
Outdoors photography goes hand in hand with outdoor-sy shopping and if you are of that interest, the REI Outlet is having a handpicked sale offering discounts of 70% or more on the preselected sale items. Over a dozen pages of items are participating…
PS: if you are an REI member, keep in mind you only earn dividends on full price items. Outlet, sale and clearance items do not get dividends. Dividends are a profit sharing plan and profits are a lot less when you are not paying full price 🙂
The current Adorama daily deal (changes at 10am ET daily) is the new condition Samyang 85mm f/1.4 AS IF UMC manual focus lens going for $269 with free US shipping in the Nikon Z system. That’s the advertised deal. When you look at the other mount options of this lens it goes for $239 in Fuji X and Sony E and $269 in M43rds and $329 in Canon RF…
Monday is here with a new quartet of B&H daily deals running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out) and surprise-surprise it’s a LENS DAY!
+ Sigma 28mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art for $1099 in your choice of Canon EF or Nikon F or Sony E
+ Magnus REX VT-6000 2-Stage Video Tripod with Fluid Head for $399
+ GVM 520S-B Bi-Color LED 3-Panel Kit for $350
+ and some Ring thing
Meanwhile at Woot, on the bargain side of things, six refurbished “scratch and dent” name brand Chromebooks (ASUS, Acer, Lenovo, HP) are on sale ranging from $62 to $68, with a 90-day Woot warranty. Note that Google will not be offering ChromeOS updates forever. Each platform (eg a specific Celeron processor) has an expiration date. After that, no more ChromeOS updates. You can search this by laptop name at this Google Support page. Once it reaches the no-more-updates date, if you don’t feel comfortable to continue using it, you can install Linux on it or a 3rd-party Chromium OS recommended by How/To/Geek…
PS: if you have an existing ChromeOS device in your hands, you can find the “end of updates” date by going to the “About ChromeOS” page, then click on “Additional Details” and “Update Schedule”. If you haven’t checked recently, check again because Google extended some Chromebooks (from what I recall)…
Good until Wednesday 2/5/20 at 11:59pm ET, coupon code SALE2A gets you discounts on select featured products at KEH Camera as follows:
+ 15% off select featured LENSES
+ 20% off select camera/photo accessories including tripods and lighting
As usual, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies for the coupon. You can test the coupon without login/signup in their shopping cart…
Exclusions apply as usual, no Leica, no “NEW” condition, no “Used – Like New” products, no memory cards, no film, no Breakthrough branded products, no extended warranties are eligible for the coupon promotion…
Adorama is running a weekend clearance sale with over 3100 options available. Too many to list here individually obviously, but you can filter them by manufacturer, product type/category, price range, review rating, refurbished, etc…
Or if you prefer a different view into the clearance sale, this clearance page has featured suggestions, items under $100, items with a 35% (or better) discount, 39 refurbished offers, and more…
It’s another limited time sale at Creative LIVE, this time around twenty classes are offered between $12 to $20 each. This is digital ownership. Or if you prefer Netflix-style, their Annual Subscription/Pass has frequent promotions for $150 per year…
The $12 classes include (among others) HD-DSLR film-making, Lightroom CC for beginners, Composition, and the Canon 5D Mark IV Fast Start class with John Greengo (25 lessons with 6 hour runtime).
The $20 tier includes Portraiture, Weddings, finding your niche, making a short doc, and more…
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