B&N coupons: $10 off $50+ online [15% off one item B&M]

Amazon is not the center of the shopping universe, despite the Bezos gazillions in probably a gazillion banks [there’s that $100K FDIC limit after all) 🙂 If you are fond of giving Barnes and Noble a chance, good until Sunday, coupon code APRILSHOWERS get you $10 off an online purchase of $50+ of eligible items.

For their B&M stores, a personalized coupon code for 15% off a single item can be found at their Offers page

For more deal ideas, check their Clearance/Outlet page or jump directly to the Photography page (over 700 options as of the time of writing)…

Exclusions and restrictions apply to both coupons…

256GB Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drive for 40 euro or $44

USB flash drives are one way for a quick backup, especially when you are not in the comforts of your home, office or studio. With storage prices dropping, higher capacities are slowly but steadily becoming more affordable. Which brings us to the 256GB Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Type A flash drives. These are really thumb-size, so care must be taken not to be lost, but they don’t take up a lot of space and you can store a lot on them.

It is currently on sale for 40 euro at Amazon Germany and for $44 by Amazon USA and Adorama and B&H Photo with free US shipping…

256GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC (170MB/s) for $78

If you have a need for speed, the newer 170MB/sec Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC memory cards are now on sale and the 256GB version is currently on sale for $78 with free US shipping at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon itself. It currently “defeats” in GB/$ the other storage option in its own sub-line of 170MB/sec cards…

Thur (EU): another big camera sale (Panasonic, Olympus, Ricoh, Sigma, Fuji), and much and more

The “Spring Sale” continues strong at Amazon Germany with many offers in their Angebote (Gold Box) as follows for Thursday April 11 in the German timezone:

++ another BIG camera sale including:
+ Fuji A5 with 15-45mm XC for 399

+ Ricoh GR II EU for 509 euro
+ Ricoh Theta SC for 175
+ Rollei Actioncam Fun for 39
+ Rollei DashCam-408 for 75
+ Rollei Actioncam 560 Touch for 120

+ Panasonic G70 with 14-42 for 429
+ Panasonic TZ58 travel zoom for 149~

+ Olympus E-PL9 for 539 euro in three colors
+ Olympus LC-37C auto lens cap for 28
+ Olympus 40-150 f4-5.6 R for 172

+ walimex pro AE 14mm f/2.8 for 210 euro in Canon EF, more for other systems

+ Sigma 10-20mm f3.5 EX DC HSM for 345 euro in Nikon and Canon
+ Sigma 70mm f2.8 DG Macro for 445 in Canon
+ Sigma 18-300 f3.5-6.3 DC Macro HSM for Sony E for 335 euro

+ 10.5″ Samsung Galaxy TAB A (T590) Android tablet with 64GB Kingston microSD card included for 189 euro

+ Huawei smartphone sale with P.Smart, Y7 and Y6 and some smartwatches too

+ HiSense TVs and lots of computer and gaming accessories in two different groups of sales there

+ LEABAGs sale (not camera-specific but they can be used/repurposed)

+ 25% off select AmazonBasics products including a 20pk of single-use AA for 5~ euro, monitor stand for 13~, cables galore, DSLR + laptop backpack for 29~, 50″ tripod for 11~, mice galore, phone stands, camera cleaning kit for 7~, and lots more

Thursday: Yongnuo YN560Li for $50, PeakD CaptureL, Oben Tripod w/BH, MacMini, Etc

Thursday brings with it a new six-pack of offerings at the B&H Photo daily deals running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Yongnuo YN560Li Lithium Speedlite for $50

+ PEAK DESIGN Capture:Lens for $45 in Canon EF, Nikon F and Sony E/FE

+ Mac mini 2.8 GHz Desktop Computer (Late 2014) for $529

+ OBEN CT-3521 Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod with BE-106T Ball Head for $100

+ JILL-E DESIGNS JACK Hemingway 15″ Leather Backpack for $50
+ Hemingway or his books are NOT included ^_^

+ TP-Link HS110 Wi-Fi Smart Plug with Energy Monitoring (2-Pack) for $22

Meanwhile in Woot Landia they have refurbished i5 MacBook PROs of the 13-inch kind, and TCL Roku TVs and a $200 refurb HP Chromebook, among others…

And at the Best Buy dailies the healdiner is a $360 14-inch HP SSD-only Windoze laptop (i3, 4GB RAM)…

Wedn: NISI, BlackRapid, HP ZBook Mobile Workstations, Etc

Wednesday brings with it a quartet of new B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ Black Rapid Sport Breathe Camera Strap for $44

+ NISI V5 Pro 100mm Filter Holder Kit for $119

+ QuickLOK LPH-001 Multi-Function Tripod Stand for $25

+ HP 15.6″ ZBook 15 G3 Mobile Workstation for $1449 to $1769 (Xeon, DreamColor, etc)

Among the Best Buy dailies, the Epson WorkForce PRO WF-4740 all-in-one wireless printer is going for $150…

And in Woot Landia, under “Computers”, the refurbished 10.5″ iPad PRO (64GB, 2017 model, 1-Year Apple warranty) is offered for $430…

Tuesday: Hasselblad True Zoom Moto Mod for $100

Patience is a virtue when it comes to dropping prices of previous generation tech. If you are one of the Moto Mod fans, among their Tuesday daily deals, Best Buy is offering 50% off on Moto Mods including the Hasselblad True Zoom going for $100, the Insta-Share projector for $100, and a trio of speaker mods.

Tuesday (EU): Sony Camera Sale, Xperia XZ2, Budget Action Cams

Until April 15, Amazon Germany is having a big “Spring Sale” with a large number of offers rolling out every day. For Tuesday April 9 in 2019 they have, among others:

++ Sony Camera Sale which includes:
+ Cybershot HX90 superzoom for 259 euro
+ HX400v superzoom for 319
+ RX100 Mark III with Vlogger Grip for 499
+ a6500 body only for 1079 euro
+ 18-200 f3.5-6.3 (18200LE) OS APS-C for 579
+ 55-210 f4.5-6.3 OSS for 222
+ 24-240 f3.5-6.3 OSS for 749

There’s also a Sony Xperia smartphone sale there with the XZ2 going for 600 euro and the XZ2 Compact for 400 euro.

On the budget side of things, there’s a Victure action camera sale with prices starting at 30 euro, and they have some wildlife cameras there too.

Tuesday: SYRP, SmallHD, Dracast, Manfrotto Nitro, Etc

Tuesday is a busy day at the B&H Photo daily deals with a six pack of offerings running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Manfrotto Nitrotech N12 & 545B Dual-Leg Tripod System with Half Ball Adapter & Bag for $600

+ Small HD 5.5″ FOCUS OLED Monitor (SDI) for $549

+ INDIPRO TOOLS 2 x Micro-Series 98Wh Li-Ion V-Mount Batteries with Dual V-Mount Battery Charger Kit for $399

+ SYRP Genie Motion Control Time-Lapse Device for $299, with Ball Head for $389

+ DRACAST BoltRay LED600 Plus Bi-Color LED Light for $149, without battery plate $99

+ IZOTOPE RX Elements Audio Restoration and Enhancement Software (digital download) for $10

Monday (EU): Canon cameras sale, Printers, Etc

Monday is a big day in the Amazon Germany Gold Box headlined by a big Camera and Video sale that includes:

+ Canon EOS 200D with kit lens for 445 euro
+ 80D 18-135 for 1125
+ 6D III body only for 1670 euro

+ Canon M50 with 15-45 mirrorless for 585 euro
+ M50 body only for 495 euro
+ M50 two lens kit and EF adapter for 702

+ Canon G9X II for 313 to 323 euro depending on color
+ G7X II for 473 euro
+ G3X for 698

+ Canon SX 620 HS superzoom for 144 euro
+ SX 540 HS superzoom for 208 euro

+ also a few Canon video cameras/camcorders

Apart from Canon, the Monday sale also includes a variety of HP and Epson printers, Huawei smartphones and smartwatches, Sony audio products, Lenovo tablets, Office, bags, software and a lot more!

Monday: Dracast, Tiffen VND filters, Tangerines, Sony

Monday too brings with it a quartet of new B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ DRACAST LED1000 Pro Daylight LED Light with V-Mount Battery Plate for $349 with FREE Light Stand

+ Tiffen Variable Neutral Density Filter, 77mm for $50 after $20 MIR, 82mm for $70 after $20 MIR
+ MIR = mail-in rebate of course

+ BRIGHT TANGERINE Misfit Atom 4 x 5.65″/4 x 4″ Ultra Lightweight 2-Stage Clip-On Matte Box for $250

+ Sony UWP-D11 Camera-Mount Wireless Omni Lavalier Microphone System (UC14: 470 to 542 MHz) for $400

UPDATE: of the Amazon USA Gold Box, there’s a sale on Sylvania lighting that includes a variety of light bulbs, smart and dumb 🙂

Sun ebook: James Aldred Wildlife Cameraman adventures for $3

I almost missed this. There are over 80 e-books featured in today’s Amazon USA Gold Box daily deals. One of them is of camera-photo-video interest, it is a book about wildlife BBC camera man James Aldred, “The Man Who Climbs Trees: The Lofty Adventures of a Wildlife Cameraman” (272 pages, May 2018) going for $3 until Sunday at 11:59pm pacific time. eBooks don’t sell out 🙂 It averages 4.6 out of 5 based on 28 customer reviews.

Sunday: Fat Gecko, Anton Bauer, Moose Peterson, Etc

Sunday is here with a new 4-pack of B&H Photo dailies as follows:

+ ANTON BAUER Digital 150 Gold Mount Battery (14.4V, 156 Wh) for $299

+ Delkin Fat Gecko Dual-Suction Camera Mount for $40

+ Mind Shift Gear Moose Peterson MP-7 V2.0 Three-Compartment Backpack for $100

+ Senal studio headphones for $45

UPDATE: a big computer monitors sale (99 to 599 euro) headlines another big day in terms of volume of offers at Amazon Germany. The sale also included UHD TVs, high end coffee machines (up to 1599 euro), smartwatches, Bosch, travel bags and more…

Meanwhile at the Best Buy dailies it’s the return of the 48 packs of single use AA or AAA batteries of the Insignia house brand for $8 per 48-pack… Also there, at the other end of the coffee price-spectrum, there’s a $10 Caribou 5-cup french press… Needless to say, price of coffee gear is not directly linked to brewing quality, some argue it’s hard to beat a $20 pour-over set with any kind machine out there…

20% off “UGLY” and “AS IS” Camera Gear with KEH Camera coupon [ends Sun PM]

Ugly fans unite and take over! Good until Sunday April 7 in 2019 at 11:59pm ET, KEH Camera is having a sale on products in “UGLY” (UG) or “AS IS” condition. Using coupon code GS4A you can get 20% off their shown price.

Leica products are excluded. As usual, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies. Add items of interest to the cart and enter the coupon and see what happens. There’s no need to login/signup to test les couponeaux…

Friday: refurb Apple Laptops, Surface 2 Laptop, Etc

Meanwhile of the Friday daily deals, in WootLandia there are 13 options in this big refurbished Apple laptops sale in “Computers” with prices ranging from $500 to $1540… For the sporty photographer, the main Woot has a Mizuno Wave running shoes sale going for $51 (Women’s Sky) to $63 (Men’s Shadow)…

These two names could make for a best selling romance novel title, “Women’s Sky and Men’s Shadow” 🙂

On the other side of the pond, among the loaded Friday Amazon Germany Gold Box deals you can find:

+ Surface 2 Laptop for 999 euro (13.5″ Gorilla 3, 8GB, i5-7200U, 256GB SSD, HD 620 Graf, W10 Home, four Alcantara color options)
+ Blackberry KEY2 line of smartphones for 318 euro (Lite) to 518 euro (dual SIM)
+ Toshiba and Telefunked TV sale
+ various budget tabletop lamps for DIY lighting
+ massive Marmot outdoor gear sale (12+ pages, 16 to 560 euro)

Weekend (B&H): Sunpak Slave flash for $25, Avinair, Freehands, Etc [also: refurb Apple Laptops (13 options)]

There’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s and then there’s Weekend at B&H’s which brings us to this set of 48 hour B&H Photo deals that run until Saturday at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Sunpak PF20XD Digital Slave Flash for $25

+ Avinair 7S Mini Portable LED Projector for $75

+ FREEHANDS Stretch Thinsulate Gloves for $20 in five options (Men and Women options)

+ Pelican 2640CB Heads-Up Headlamp for $16
+ also handy if you have an old e-book reader that doesn’t have a built-in light; unlike phones/tablets, older ebook readers are usable, especially for text-only books and if you don’t leave 1000+ notes per book [not that I did that 🙂 ]

Thursday: DJI Mavi PRO, Small HD 502, Sachtler, Etc

Thursday is flying under the radar, between the excitement of Friday and the promise of Hump Day. But it too has its own daily deals at B&H Photo as follows:

+ DJI Mavic Pro (Special Combo, Alpine White) for $779

+ SmallHD 502 Bright On-Camera Monitor for $849

+ SACHTLER Lite Case (Large) for $180~

+ CHARGEWORX Qi Wireless Charging Pad for $8

Meanwhile at the Best Buy daily deals you can get the new condition Fuji instax SHARE SP-2 wireless printer for $70… Also there, they have an HP 15.6″ 2-in-1 Envy as the headliner for $650 (8GB RAM, i5, 256GB SSD, Touchscreen, etc)…

Grey-market Fuji XC 50-230mm f4.5-6.7 OIS II for $189

The new condition Fuji XC 50-230mm f4.5-6.7 OIS III goes for $399 at authorized Fuji USA dealer such as B&H Photo

But if you want to pay half the price but not get any warranty, AND you are okay with the second generation (II) of the lens, for the next five days you can get it as international grey-market for $189 with free US shipping at Massdrop… Orders will ship at the end of April by Massdrop… This offer is only available to US addresses…

PS: speaking of Massdrop, they have brought back the Peak Design camera straps sale with the straps dropping to $40 ONCE you select a specific option in their shopping cart. The price you see on their website before these steps is $50… There are optional add-ons for $more$ as well… All available options are listed in the product description… They come with a Peak Design limited lifetime warranty… They will ship in late April 2019 by Massdrop…

New Customers only: 1-Year .Com registration for $6

Using coupon code NEWCOM until April 8 in 2019, you get your first .COM domain at NameCheap.com for $5.88 for the first year. Registration privacy protection is included for free at NameCheap while you are a customer ~ unlike some other domain registrars… This is good for new customers to NameCheap only, and only for their first .com purchase for the first year of registration…

Refunds are coming in July: all Microsoft ebook purchases

Trigger warning for Zune fans!

Microsoft has one more time decided to kill a previously-launched media store. This time they decided to kill their ill-conceived e-book store. All ebooks purchased (including the free ones) will disappear in July 2019. Until then, you can access them with the Edge browser.

The refunds should happen automatically in July to your original payment method IF that payment method can accept refunds (eg credit or debit cards). IF your original payment method cannot accept refunds (gift card, expired/cancelled card, etc), you will receive a Microsoft online store credit).

And IF you left any notes/annotations in any of their ebooks prior to today, you will receive a “bonus” $25 Microsoft store credit.

More details at the MSFT FaQ, via the The Verge

PS: at this point, when should we expect the Microsoft App store to shutdown? 🙂

Wedn: refurbished Pixel 3 XL (128GB, Verizon Unlocked) for $520

The headliner of the Wednesday Woot-Landia deals is the refurbished Google Pixel 3 XL (128GB, Verizon Unlocked, “Just Black”, 90 day Woot warranty) for $520 with free shipping for Prime members or $6 flat shipping for others.

But if the The Verge is to be trusted, the all new Huawei P30 PRO defeats the Pixel 3 in low light photography… The P30 PRO is currently the new #1 at the DxoMark Mobile score but it is not the #1 in the Selfies score, where the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus reigns supreme…

Meanwhile among the Best Buy dailies there’s a $900 SSD i7 Dell Inspiron laptop (15.6″, 4K Touch, 16GB RAM, Nvidia 940MX, 512GB SSD, Windoze)…

PS: per the Dxomark main page, they are hiring 20+ people…

Wedn: Spider Holster, Pelican Storm, ROBO 3D, Etc

Wednesday brings with it another quartet of B&H Photo dailies as follows:

+ Spider Camera Holster system, SpiderPro Single Camera System for $79
+ not to be confused with Spyder or Varys the Spider

+ Pelican iM2200 Storm Case with Foam for $70

+ ROBO 3D R1 +Plus 3D Printer for $369

+ Westone 8 driver earphones for $749, that’s under $100 per driver 🙂

Tue: SubBlue WhiteShark, Nissin 1400 (5 systems), Tamrac HooDoo, Moultrie, refurb iOS devices

In the Tuesday B&H Photo dailies we have a quartet of options:

+ NISSIN i400 TTL Flash for $80 in five system choices (C/N/S/m43/X)

+ Tamrac HooDoo 20 Backpack for $30 in three color schemes

+ Moultrie Wingscapes TimelapseCam Digital Camera for $35

+ SUBLUE US WhiteShark Mix Underwater Scooter for $499 in three color schemes

Meanwhile in Woot-Landia, there are refurbished iPhone X models in “Electronics” and refurbished 10.5 inch iPAD PRO models in “Computers”…

In-stock alert: Monoprice 27-inch Crystal PRO monitors

WE have a computer monitor in-stock alert! Monoprice has two of their new 27-inch Crystal PRO monitors in-stock and with an introductory discount. There are two models available, one going for $280, the other for $400. With free standard US shipping…

Ricoh Theta V 360 converges to $329-ish in three different ways

We have a play in three acts for the Ricoh Theta V 360 4K spherical camera. First up, you can get it for $329 with free US shipping at Massdrop with a 1-year Ricoh warranty. It will ship in mid-April by the “vendor” [it does not specify who/what]…

Next up, you can get it for $377 but you also get a $50 B&H Photo gift card at B&H Photo, making it a virtual $327 assuming you have good use for the gift card…

Last but not least, you can get it for $427 but with a $100 Adorama gift certificate at Adorama, making it a virtual $327 assuming you have good use for the gift card…

Monday: Feiyu, SmallHD, PortaBrace, Etc

All apologies, I haven’t amassed any April Fool’s Day “news” for this year; hopefully I’ll remember to write down ideas as they come to me through the year [they usually arrive AFTER April Fool’s Day] so I’ll have some for 2020 🙂

The above paragraph hints at the date, today is April Fool’s Day, and with it we have a new quartet of B&H Photo dailies as follows:

+ FEIYU SPG Plus 3-Axis Gimbal Rig for Select Smartphones & GoPro for $49

+ Porta Brace Light Pack for Litepanels Astra 1×1 for $119

+ SmallHD 703 UltraBright Director’s Kit (Dual L-Series Battery Plate) for $1999

+ Denon Commander Sport Portable Water-Resistant 120W All-In-One PA System with Wireless Handheld Microphone for $299

OF tech interest in the Amazon USA Gold Box is a 43-inch TCL Roku Smart LED TV for $170, a 2017 model…

Of potential interest in the Kindle daily deals there are $2 on “Superforecasting” and a $2 “Self-taught programmer” ebook…

Meanwhile at the Amazon GErmany gold box there is a sale on Fire 7 tablets starting at 40 euro…

10% off Used Gear in “EX” condition with KEH coupon [ends Tuesday 11:59pm ET]

Good until Tuesday April 2nd at 11:59pm eastern, KEH Camera is offering 10% off EX-Graded Gear with code EX4A. This particular coupon is only good for gear in “EX” condition. Gear in other conditions (eg “EX+”, “BGN”, etc) are NOT eligible. Offer only valid for items in this Featured Products Category. Leica gear are excluded.

As usual, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies. You can test the coupon without logging-in or signing-up by adding items of interest in the shopping cart and then entering the coupon…

EU: 128GB Samsung EVO Plus microSDXC for 20 euro

And now a storage sale for the other side of Le Pond! Amazon Germany is offering the new condition 128GB Samsung EVO Plus microSDXC for 20 euro. You can buy as many as you like. This is an organic sale, not a lightning deal, so expiration unknown. It includes a full-size SD adapters. It is a UHS-I U3 Class 10 card.

Sunday: World Storage Day sale featuring WD, Sandisk, Samsung, Synology, Kingston, etc

March 31 is World Storage Day and to sale-a-brate this day, the Amazon USA Gold Box has a big storage-themed sale featuring memory cards, hard drives, NAS, SSD, and flash drives too!

A total of 27 items are participating including:

+ 128GB Sandisk Extreme PRO for $32, 256GB for $56, 512GB for $160

+ 128GB Samsung Endurance PRO microSDXC for $30
+ 256GB Sandisk Extreme microSDXC for $53

+ 2TB Samsung T5 portable SSD for $330

+ 2TB WD external hard drive for $63, 6TB for $100
+ 1TB Toshiba for $40, 2TB for $52,

+ internal hard drives from Seagate and ToshiBa

+ flash drives from Kingston

+ LaCie backup for DJI

+ NAS options from Synology and QNAP

You can find all the options at the Amazon USA Gold Box… Limit of up to two per item during this sale…

Refurbished Fuji sale: XQ1 for $150, X-T10 w/16-50 II OIS for $390 [or w/18-55 for $580], X-E2S w/18-55 for $710, X-T2 w/18-55 for $925

Woot is having a long-running Camera products sale featuring 15 options at the moment. They last for a few weeks unless they sell out (four sold out already). As of the time of writing, the following are in-stock, headlined by refurbished Fuji cameras that come with a 90-day Fuji warranty:

+ Fuji XQ1 fixed lens camera for $150

+ Fuji X-T10 with 16-50 OIS II for $390 in

+ Fuji X-T10 with 18-55/2.8-4 R LM OIS for $580

+ Fuji X-E2S with 18-55 for $710

+ Fuji X-T2 with 18-55 for $925

+ the X-system cameras above are available in either silver or black

+ find them all at the long-running Woot camera sale

Also part of the sale are:

+ Fuji instax options $42 to $54

+ action camera bundle for $38, Canon NB-6LH battery for $27, and a DJI filter pack

NOTE: all the Fuji cameras that are part of this sale are REFURBISHED with a 90-day Woot FUJI warranty…