Canon 6D Mark II body with freebies for $1199

We are already at the second generation of the Canon 6D, and the 6D Mark II body only (and the other official Canon kits of these camera) are getting some freebie along with a $1199 sale price at various authorized dealers…

At B&H Photo you get a 64GB Sandisk Extreme SDXC card, an extra Watson battery and a RJ camera bag…

At Adorama you get a 32GB Sandisk Extreme card, a Lowepro bag, 3Pod small table top tripod, Corel software and various trinkets…

At Amazon third-party sellers offer various freebies (but check to make sure they are authorized dealers) while Amazon itself has no freebies (regardless of the seller you get 5% cashback on the official Amazon VISA and Store credit cards)…

PS: on the Amazon Store credit card, if you select a special no-interest financing promotion, you typically do not earn the 5% cashback (one of the two benefits but not both)…

December 2, 2019 Filed Under: canon, dslr deals Tagged With: , ,

FREE (with DRM): “The Camera Does the Rest: How Polaroid Changed Photography” ebook

We have an ebook freebie that is of direct camera-and-photo interest, and for a limited time, the University of Chicago (UoC) is offering it for FREE. However, the ebooks they sell come with DRM, Adobe Digital Editions, so you need to install their crap on your computer or use a mobile app that is compatible with their crap in order to read it.

The UoC freebie ebook for this month is “The Camera Does the Rest: How Polaroid Changed Photography” by Peter Buse (320 pages). UoC offers one free ebook each month but every time it is with Adobe’s nasty DRM stuff.

IF you are curious about the ebook without committing to Adobe’s DRM, you can “Look Inside” at amazon.com (they only have a Kindle preview, no preview of the hardcover).

PS: typically Kindle previews are a number of pages (or a percentage of the ebook) starting from the front cover, while hardcover previews jump all over the book and you can get a better feel for it ~ depending on the book of course…

December 2, 2019 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With: ,

Canon G9X II with freebies for $399 [or with Pixma PRO 100 Bundle for $389 After MIR w/GC]

If you want the new condition Canon G9X II rawsumer, it is currently on sale with some modest freebies, for $399 at Adorama and B&H Photo…

IF however you want the Canon Pixma PRO 100 printer, and you do not object to mail-in rebates and prepaid AMEX gift cards, B&H Photo has a Pixma bundle for $739 minus a $350 prepaid AMEX gift card = $389. The bundle also includes the printer’s trusty sidekick, the 50pk of 13×19″ Luster photo paper.

The camera is available in either the black or the silver color schemes…

December 2, 2019 Filed Under: canon, fixed lens cameras Tagged With: , , , ,

Last Call (ends Mon 11:59pm ET): Cyber Monday Only: Buy More, Save More at KEH Camera ($50/$400+, $100/$750+, $200/$1200+)

The moment you’ve all KEH fans have been waiting for, it is the Cyber Monday coupon at KEH Camera. IT is a “buy more, save more” promotion. Coupon code CYB19A gets you a discount depending on your order total:

+ Spend $400+, Get $50 off
+ Spend $750+, Get $100 off
+ Spend $1,200+, Get $200 off

You can test the coupon by adding items of interest to the KEH Camera shopping cart ~ no need to login/signup [unless you want to]…

The coupon expires on Monday 12/2/19 at 11:59pm eastern time.

Exclusions apply as usual: no Leica-branded products, no NEW condition products, no “Used – Like New (LN)” products. No digital starter kits.

December 2, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: , ,

EU: 128GB Lexar Professional (633x) SDXC for 18 euro [limit 2]

And now we fly over to the other side of the pond, where Amazon Germany is offering as part of the Cyber Monday festivities the new condition 128GB Lexar Professional (633x) SDXC memory card (UHS-I, V30, U3, C10, up to 95MB/sec) for 18 euro with up to two units per customer. Free shipping in Germany-Austria with Prime or 29+ euro orders… According to Google Translate, this is in retail packaging (if they translated “Einzelhandelsverpackung” correctly)…

December 2, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

Nikon D5600 Options abound (NC Two Lens Kit for $600, Refurb Body for $400, Etc)

The Nikon D3500 two lens kit goes for $400 as part of the Cyber FriMonday festivities, but if you want a more advanced DSLR as a jumping point into the Nikon system, the new condition (NC) Nikon D5600 two lens kit (18-55, 70-300) is currently going for $600 at various authorized dealers (eg B&H Photo and Amazon)…

However, if you do not want/need the kit lenses and prefer a lower priced entry, Adorama has D5600 refurbished options with the body only going for $397, with 18-55 for $430, and two lens kit for $500. But if you prefer the new condition two lens kit they have a bundle with modest freebies (16GB SD, Lowerpro bag, lens filters, Corel, etc)

December 2, 2019 Filed Under: dslr deals, nikon Tagged With: , ,

Camera & Photo Lightning Deals for Cyber Monday

Let’s take a quick look at the Cyber Monday Camera and Photo Lightning Deals…

+++ IN-PROGRESS +++
+ 8.5×10 feet Emart backdrop for $30
+ 62″ K&F tripod for $60
+ AKASO Brave 4K action cam for $62
+ Skygenius 8×21 small binos for $11
+ Eyeskey waterproof binos for $79

+++ COMING UP +++
+ various digiframes
+ GVM video lighting kits with app control
+ Zhigyun Smooth 4-axis gimbal stabilizer (handheld)
+ Mountdog ring light, and softbox lighting kit
+ various action cams
+ RAVPower charger with batteries for Sony NP-FW50
+ GoPRO Hero 5 e-commerce packaging (recurring Lightning Deals item)
+ Godox AD200PRO
+ Powerextra on-camera flash
+ and more

December 2, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

Cyber Monday 2019 at Amazon revealed

Cyber Monday 2019 has arrived at Amazon. As usual, the offers are happening inside their Gold Box infrastructure and there are plenty of sales going on. In addition to the previously mentioned Canon mirrorless offer (spoiler alert: M100 with 15-45mm for $315), they have plenty of tech and electronics:

+ Chromebooks from $120 to $469

+ Computer Sale with many brands featuring laptops, desktops, computer monitors, tablets, etc (two pages of offers)

+ Gaming computer sale with gaming accessories, monitors, laptops and desktops too (two pages of offers here as well)

+ yet another computer gear sale this one using the “Content Creator Savings” theme

+ Samsung flagship smartphones bundled with AKG headphones (owned by Samsung too)

+ UPS systems, coffee machines of different kinds, kitchen, sports, standing desks, tax software, and a lot more

December 2, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

Canon M100 with 15-45mm for $315 [limit 3]

One of the Amazon Cyber Monday deals of the day is a sale of lots of Celestrons (telescopes, binoculars and related items) but hiding underneath them in sheep’s clothing is a sale on the new condition Canon M100 with 15-45mm in the black color scheme going for $315 with free US shipping with up to three per customer. This is sold and shipped by Amazon itself…

The camera looks like it is on its way out from retail as already some of the kits have sold out during Black Cyber Fri-Monday and are marked as discontinued at B&H Photo…

December 2, 2019 Filed Under: canon, mirrorless deals Tagged With: ,

DJI Osmo Pocket Gimbal for $295

The new condition DJI Osmo Pocket Gimbal is currently on sale for $295 with free US shipping at B&H Photo until 12/4/19 PM or earlier if sold out…

December 2, 2019 Filed Under: camera accessories Tagged With: ,

1-Year Prepaid Adobe Creative Cloud (all of it) for $360

If you are all in on Adobe’s Creative Cloud’s subscription, the whole Creative Cloud, not just the Photographer edition, for a limited time B&H Photo is offering it for $360 total for the 12 months. This is a digital download and cannot be cancelled and cannot be refunded. USA only ~ it needs a US billing address in order to activate…

For more action, check the latest B&H Cyber Monday offerings…

December 2, 2019 Filed Under: apps and software Tagged With: ,

Last Call (ends Mon PM): iPad sales

Last call on the Apple-sanctioned iPad sales for Black Cyber Fri-Monday! A variety of iPad models (I’ve lost track now) are on sale going from the Mini to the 12.9-inch models. Find the latest offers at B&H Photo and Target and yes, Amazon itself (when interests intersect, Amazon and Apple become frenemies ~ one gets to sell more items, the other gets to boost their iPad sales and market share)…

December 2, 2019 Filed Under: technology deals Tagged With: ,

Monday: 15% off entire order with B&Noble coupon

If you are a fan of Barnes and Noble, their Cyber Monda offer is 15% off your entire order using coupon code CYBER15. As usual, terms, conditions, restrictions and exclusions apply.

December 2, 2019 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With: ,

Monday: “Sontag: Her Life and Work” for $4 (w/60c store credit)

One of the hundreds Kindle ebook deals of the day at Amazon for Cyber Monday is the “Sontag: Her Life and Work” e-book by Benjamin Moser (793 pages, September 2019) for $3.99 but because it’s a “Great On Kindle” ebook, you will receive a $0.60 store credit towards future “Great on Kindle” ebooks. The 60c credit happens automatically and gets applied automatically in future orders. It is a promotional credit so it expires if not used. The ebook averages 4.1 out of 5 based on 12 customer ratings.

A TL;DR refresher on her career at Wikipedia. In terms of photography, her “On Photography” essays are often a recommended read…

December 2, 2019 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With:

Monday: 13.3″ Macbook PRO, WD Drives, Studio Lighting, Etc

The B&H Cyber Monday offers have gone live!

In addition to those, the B&H Daily Deals for Monday 12/2/19 (Monday the ordinary weekday, not Monday the Cyber Monday) are also running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ WD hard drives, 18 options, $80 to $1100 (internal, external, SSD, NAS, etc)

+ Studio Lighting equipment, nine options from various brands, $24 to $350

+ 13.3″ Apple MacBook PRO, 14 options, $1100 to $2400

+ also Acer and Dell monitors, $350 15.6″ Acer Aspire 5 laptop, $20 Sennheiser earphones

Flash Deals
+ now: Advanced Camera Backpack Compact 1 for CSC (Black) for $40
+ later: Magnus 3-way pan and tilt head, Boling LED RGB video light, Tascam headphones and Accsoon wireless video transmitter

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

EU: lots of Nikon Lenses sale including 50mm f1.8G for 149 euro

Lots of nice price on Nikon lenses at Amazon Germany including the obligatory headliner of the sale, the new condition 50mm f1.8G AF-S lens going for 149 euro with free shipping within Germany and Austria. Limit two per customer. Hard to argue with the price and if/when you want to sell it alone or with a DSLR bundle, it makes for a more attractive kit…

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: dslr deals, nikon Tagged With: , , ,

Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 DC HSM ART w/USB Dock, Filters, Etc for $639 [C/N/A/K/Si]

We do not have a DX/APS-C theme today, it just happened that the last three lens deals posted are APS-C 🙂 This time we zoom brighter, the new condition Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 DC HSM ART is bundled with the official Sigma USB dock, lens filters and cleaning kits for $639 at Adorama in your choice of Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sony-Minolta A, and Sigma DSLR systems…

At B&H Photo all but the Canon version for some reason get the free Sigma USB dock. All of them get a free 72mm UV filter and a Zeiss cleaning kit…

At Amazon it’s the usual Wild West of 3rd-party sellers and bundles, more so in this case because there are five options for the lens, so multiply the 3rd-party seller chaos by five. Plus the 5% cashback if paying with an Amazon credit card…

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: dslr deals, sigma Tagged With: , , , , , ,

Spend $20+ in Kindle ebooks, Get $5 ebook credit [YMMV]

This is a YMMV promotion as it may be targeted, and you have to login to your Amazon account to activate the offer (if you don’t see an activation button it means your account is not eligible ~ how they decide these, I have no clue)…

The offer is this: spend $20+ in Kindle ebooks by the end of day on December 4 and receive a $5 promotional Kindle e-book store credit. You must first activate the offer, so you won’t earn anything before that…

The link is the second box, the cyan-blue color at the Amazon Book Deals page. Click on that while logged on to Amazon (or login if prompted) to see if you are eligible…

PS: I’m not posting the direct link to the offer because that’s a login page, and that’s bad practice from a security standpoint ~ not to mention that people get spooked if they click a link that takes them directly to a login page…

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With:

Adorama first wave of Cyber Monday (nearly 3000 options)

Adorama has launched its first wave of Cyber Monday offers with nearly 3000 items participating. Of those 1260+ are in the Photography category. As usual, you can filter them by product category, types and subtypes, brand, price-ranges, new releases and so forth. Obviously too many items to list here individually so fish around for what you might be interested in…

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals

Cyber Monday live at Canon USA official store

Cyber Monday has arrived at the official Canon USA online store with a mix of DSLR, mirrorless, lenses, Powershots, printers and such.

Of greater interest is their refurbished gear sales since they too come with a 1-year manufacturer warranty. To find them, expand the “Camera Deals” section at the Sales page and use your browser’s in-page search feature to search for “refurbished”. In total, there are four refurbished sales on iLCs and Powershots and one refurbished sale on Lenses…

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: canon, dslr deals Tagged With: , ,

Dell Cyber Monday Doorbusters launch 5pm ET

Per their website, Cyber Monday doorbusters will launch at 5pm eastern time at the Dell Home website. But they also have on-going offers at the moment.

There’s also 6-month and 12-month no-interest-IF-paid-in-full financing promotion on up to $5,000. As usual with the financing offers, check the terms and conditions and restrictions and make sure you will pay the full amount on time, otherwise you’ll pay interest on the full amount from day zero…

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

Nikon D3500 with 18-55 & 70-300 & Lots of Extras for $397

A Black-Cyber (and holiday shopping season) tradition, a Nikon D3XX two-lens kit limited time promotion and indeed a great gift idea considering the D3500’s battery life, it’s the new condition Nikon D3500 with the 18-55mm DX VR AF-P and 70-300mm f4.5-6.3G DX non-VR AF-P official two lens kit (with the official Nikon bag and learnings online course [goodbye DVDs?]) going for $397 at authorized Nikon dealers but that’s not all, retailers are adding their own freebies as well!

At B&H Photo you get a 32GB Sandisk Extreme SDHC memory card and a digital download of Skylum Luminar 4 (it’s imaging software, even though its name might remind some of Skyrim)…

At Adorama there is a 16GB Lexar SD card, a card reader and a cleaning kit…

The only freebie at Amazon is the official Nikon bag and course that are Nikon-included. But if you pay with an Amazon credit/store card, you get 5% back, $20~ in this case…

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: dslr deals, nikon Tagged With: ,

Stackable CreativeLIVE offer: $5 off coupon and 60% off sitewide

CreativeLIVE’s Cyber Monday offer is stackable. They are offering 60% off site-wide (factored in the website prices automatically) but you can stack this offer with $5 off coupon code CYBERMON. No minimum purchase required so the lower the price of a class, the more percentage-impact the $5 off coupon code has…

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

EU: Sigma 17-50mm f2.8 EX DC OS HSM for 266 euro [C/N]

As you can tell from the reviews, this lens has its share of trade-offs but then again, you are only paying 266 euro, so can you scrutinize it the same way you’d scrutinize a four-figures f2.8 constant-aperture zoom? It’s up to you (of course)…

“This” being the new condition Sigma 17-50mm f2.8 EX DC OS HSM on sale for a limited time for 266 in your choice of Canon or Nikon DSLR systems at Amazon Germany by Amazon Germany itself. Limit two per system per customer…

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: dslr deals, sigma Tagged With: , , ,

EU: Nikon 35mm f1.8G DX for 119 euro [limit 2]

Hard to go wrong with this lens at this price if you have/use a DX DSLR, it is the new condition Nikon 35mm f1.8G DX AF-S lens going for 119 euro with free shipping within Germany-Austria at Amazon Germany. Limit two per customer.

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: dslr deals, nikon Tagged With: , , ,

Think Tank Photo Spectral 10 Shoulder Bag for $50

More sifting through the B&H Cider Monday (okay, Cyber Monday), you can “bag the bags” with the new condition Think Tank Photo Spectral 10 Camera Shoulder Bag (Black) going for $50~ with free US shipping…

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: camera accessories Tagged With: ,

Vanguard VEO2 204AB Alum Tripod + Compact BallHead for $50

You don’t have to an arm and three legs (oh dear) for a tripod with a ball head. The new condition Vanguard VEO 2 204AB Aluminum Tripod with Compact Ball Head is a Cyber Monday deal at B&H Photo for $50 with free US shipping. No coupons, no rebates, just add to cart and proceed as usual…

For more action, check the latest B&H Cyber Monday offers…

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: camera accessories Tagged With: ,

Fuji Instax Mini 9 + $5 GC + 10 exposures for $50

For those with the instant camera bug, the Fuji Instax Mini 9 is currently on sale for $50 and you can get it at B&H Photo bundled with a $5 B&H Photo gift card and 10 exposures of Rainbow film in three of the camera’s color schemes…

On the other hand, if you are a fan of Tarjay, you can get it with a $15 Target gift card but no free exposures at Target online and also at their B&M stores…

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: fixed lens cameras, fuji Tagged With: ,

Lowepro DroneGuard BP 400 Backpack for DJI Phantom for $35

The current limited time Adorama daily deal is the Lowepro DroneGuard BP 400 Backpack for DJI Phantom Drone going for $35 with free US shipping. It averages 4.8 out of 5 based on 160+ customer reviews…

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: camera accessories Tagged With: ,

Sunday: Oben Tripod w/BH, Vello wireless, Zoom H5, Lenovo, Etc

Good until Sunday at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out) you have the following set of B&H daily deals:

+ OBeN AC-1441 4-Section Aluminum Tripod with BA-111 Ball Head for $80

+ Zoom H5 4-Input / 4-Track Portable Handy Recorder with Interchangeable X/Y Mic Capsule
for $210

+ Vello wireless shutter releases, six options, $30 each

+ also Lenovo Ideapad S340 laptop with MS Office (or mistyped as Occife), JBL sound, TP-Link Archer and Kanex docking station for iPads

+ flash deal: LowePro ViewPoint BP 250 Backpack for DJI Mavic Drone or Action Cameras (Black) for $50
+ next: Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 2019 (Box)

December 1, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals