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Photographers are rarely the “stars” of movies and books and TV show but in this case, they are! The “star” of the Lightkeepers: a Novel”, a mystery novel by Abby Geni is a Kindle daily deal for Monday 7/8/19. It is a 370-pager that came out January 2016 and averages 4.1 out of 5 based on 135 customer reviews…
I have sent the Kindle sample to the Kindle but have not read it yet, so I can’t tell you what to expect…
Sandisk returns to the Monday Best Buy dailies with 64GB cards, going for $15 each: the Ultra Plus SDXC (UHS-I, C10, etc) and/or the Ultra Plus microSDXC… Also part of the Monday dailies is a 48-pack of Insignia single-use AA or AAA batteries going for $9.49 per 48-pack…
There’s some potentially interesting Woot action as well for Monday:
+ scratch and dent iPhones for $100 to $650 at the main Woot
+ Rocketbooks $30 to $44 at “Electronics”
+ Kindle Paperwhite (2016 model) for $70 in “Computers” (new with 1-year warranty)
And now that we are back, the time is right for the Monday B&H dailies running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if and only if they sell out):
+ Impossible I-1 Instant Film Camera for $20
+ limit up to four per shopping cart
+ SmallHD 502 Bright On-Camera Monitor for $779
+ LaCie 4TB Porsche Design USB Type-C Desktop Drive (Worldwide) for $90
+ HP 15.6″ ZBook 15 G3 Mobile Workstation for $999
+ 2.8 GHz Xeon E3-1505M v5 Quad, 16GB of 2133 MHz DDR4 ECC, 15.6″ DreamColor UWVA IPS Display, Etc
All apologies for the outage of the last 24 hours. I forgot to renew the annual web hosting package and it cancelled 🙂 Now it has been renewed as you can see from the Return of the Blog Episode IV: The Billing Menace.
The hosting company is not to blame ~ they sent multiple alerts and warnings. But I forgot to put that email on my phone, so I wasn’t checking it often ~ we are all turning into phone zombies after all 🙂
Sunday is here with a new four pack of B&H dailies running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ ONA The Leather Clifton Camera and Everyday Backpack (Smoke) for $160
+ this is the smoke color-scheme, you are not buying a backpack made of smoke ^_^
+ Xcellon 3-Port USB 3.0 Type-C Hub and SD Card Reader for $15
+ Canon imageCLASS MF733Cdw All-in-One Color Laser Printer for $270
+ this is a canon laser, not a laser canon ^_^
+ Swann 4-Channel 1080p DVR with 1TB HDD & 4 1080p Outdoor Night Vision Bullet Cameras for $160
Meanwhile at Woot, under Electronics, they are selling 24-packs of either AA or AAA single-use Energizer alkaline batteries for $10 per pack…
More printing action at the BEst Buy dailies as follows:
+ Epson Expression ECOTank ET-2650 wireless AiO printer for $160
+ Canon Pixma TS-6220 wireless AiO for $60
UPDATE: more Sunday action, as Amazon gears up for the July 15-16 Prime (Double) Day, today’s Gold Box dailies have a few Prime-members-ONLY exclusives:
+ Kids Echo bundle for $130 (Echo Dot, Fire 7 Kids tablet, Lion King headphones)
+ talk about indoctrinating kids to the Amazon ecosystem ^_^
+ Echo 2nd generation for $70 to $90
+ Amazon Music (four months for 99c total trial) and 3-month Audible membership discounted
As usual, the Friday B&H dailies run for 48 hours, until Saturday at 11:59pm ET ~ but orders are not accepted between Friday PM and Saturday PM, thus the extra 24 hours:
+ Vixen Optics Nature Eye 50mm f/7 Refractor AZ Telescope for $25
+ InFocus IN114xa 3800-Lumen XGA DLP Projector for $230
+ refurbished TP LINK TL-WPA4220KIT Wireless-N300 Range Extender AV600 Powerline Edition for $28
+ Pioneer HDJ-2000MK2 Professional DJ Headphones (Silver) for $199
Meanwhile among the Friday Best Buy dailies deals there are a couple of Aluratek digital picture frame ranging from $70 to $140…
The new condition Nikon D810 price is too close to the D850 BUT if you are willing to go manufacturer refurbished, then $1000 gets shaved off the price! For $1750 with free US shipping, Adorama is offering the manufacturer refurbished Nikon D810 body only with a 90-day Nikon USA warranty… Optionally you can get a $100 off combined purchase discount if you purchase it together (in the same shopping cart) with select Profoto lights [see “Buy Together & Save” over there]…
Meanwhile if you or your friendly camera technician need some D810 parts, there is a “Parts Only” listing with detailed description (“body is cracked open near …”) going for $309 at Adorama (USED). Note that this $309 does NOT function ~ it is for parts, repairs, experiments, and such…
Fly our friendly skies but make sure your drone does not run into fireworks 😉 The new condition DJI Mavic Pro (Standard Bundle) is bundled with two freebies (propellers and shoulder bag) all together going for $779 with free US shipping at B&H Photo…
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is going to be officially revealed next month, but if you do not want to wait and/or pay four figures for the next Note flagship, B&H Photo has a “buy it now” proposition. For $600 you can get the new condition international version (US compatible) Samsung Galaxy Note 9, model SM-N960FD, with Samsung Adaptive Fast-Charging Wall Charger and a Google Fi (formerly known “Project FI” SIM kit). It comes with a 1-year B&H warranty.
This model has dual cameras, 6GB RAM, SnapDragon 845, 128GB storage, micro-SD slot, the S-Pen included of course [hint hint Microsoft Surface], dual SIM, etc…
The RAWsumers are alive and kicking and getting freebies too! The 1-incher Panasonic LX100 Mark II is currently on sale for $898 with free US shipping and it includes the Panasonic Travel Pack for free, an extra DMW-BLG10 Li-Ion Battery and a Panasonic charger (the “Panasonic Travel Bundle”). But that’s not all! These two retailers below are ALSO including freebies of their own:
+ at B&H Photo you get a 32GB Sandisk Extreme SDHC card and a Ruggard camera pouch
+ at Adorama you get the Corel software kit (select Mac or PC in the options over there; includes AfterShot PRO and Painter among others), and 32GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDHC, and a small 24/7 TC holster, and a card reader, card wallet and the obligatory cleaning kti
For a limited time, the new condition GoPRO HERO7 Black is currently on sale for $339 with free shipping by Amazon itself with up to two on-sale units per customer at $339. The in-stock estimate has already shifted one week forward, a sign that mayhaps the offer is nearing its end…
The 4th of July sale is in-progress at B&H Photo featuring a variety of products and bundles as you can see over there ~ and you can filter by categories of interest (eg “Photography”, “Pro Video”).
Since we previously mentioned Dell and PC offers, the “OS Fairness Doctrine” requires us that we mention Apple offers as well, and B&H helps that out with a 17-item Apple sale with Minis (no, not Cooper, but Late 2018 Mac Minis), and MacBooks and various 27-inch Retina 5 AiO Macs of early 2019.
UPDATE: speaking of the “OS Fairness Doctrine”, Android fans want their deal too, so here it is, FREE $350 headphones (the Sony WH-1000X Mark III) when you pre-order the new Sony Android flagship, the Xperia 1, for $950 at B&H Photo and Amazon itself…
One of the popular things to do back when there were big-chain bookstores on many street corners was to go inside and browser around the Clearance section where you could find giant photography books at a bargain price.
You can sort of do this online by heading to the B&N Outlet page and more specifically digging down to the Photography Section where they have 700+ books on clearance/sale there. You can further drill down on them using the categories (and then the sub-categories) on the left hand side of their page…
And for a limited time, coupon code FIREWORKS gets you 10% off your purchase over there and for many other items sold at the B&N website ~ with the usual coupon exclusions they have (eg, no Nook books, no LEICA Legos, etc). Check website for details…
In the middle of the 4th of July fireworks we have a pre-order alert as well! The new Leica M-E (Typ 240) is available for pre-ordering for $4K (okay, $3995) with a late July 2019 release estimate (the date shown on the page is July 26, 2019) at B&H Photo and friends… It has a 24mp FF CMOS sensor, the Maestro image processor, 3″ LCD, up to 3fps, 2GB buffer, etc…
Of course there is a 48-hour sale at Dell Refurbished to celebrate the 4th of July. Using coupon codes DELL48PROUD or DELL48USA you can get 48% off any in-stock item in the story until 7/5/2019 at 9AM CST. Terms and restrictions apply as usual…
NewEGG too is of course jumping in the 4th of July festivities with their customary 4th of July sale. obviously a tech-heavy set of offers, with a variety of storage and other six-degrees-of-separation from photography products.
As usual, some offers require a promo code, and in order to use a promo code you must needs give NewEgg your email address in order for them to let you use the coupon. This will add you to their email e-newsletter, from which you can unsubscribe (if you wish) at any point in the future…
Adorama is running their 4th of July specials featuring over 820 items and you see those broken down by product category and/or brand/manufacturer and/or price-range and things of that nature. More on these later on as I find time to “digest” them all…
It’s only July, many months until Black Friday 2019, but nothing can stop retailers from launching “early” Black Friday sales. Even if it’s not a Friday 🙂 To sale-a-brate the 4th of July, Dell Home is running an early Black Friday sale featuring doorbusters launching at 11am eastern every day, along with various other offers on their laptops (regular and gaming) and their AiOs and 2-in-1s and computer monitors and TVs and various electronics and accessories and such…
But wait, there’s more. They are also running an MPP sale; no not a sale for MPs or of MPs, but it’s their Membership Purchase Plan or something like that 🙂
UPDATE: speaking of Dell, they are having a Dell Outlet sale as well, with special promotions on select Inspirons and Alienware among others….
Yesterday’s offer was a coupon promotion bu the 4th of July offer at Creative LIVE is a site-wide 50% off sale, no coupon code to enter. The price you see is the price you pay on their website while this promotion is running….
All apologies for the delay in posting 4th of July deals. This has been one of those “technology bad hair days” where things that could go wrong did go wrong. Even the mouse ran out of batteries!
But we are baaaack and we have a 4th of July edition of the DiscountMags offers that includes the usual quartet of photography magazine offers:
+ Outdoor Photographer for $4.86 per year
+ Digital Photo for $4.55/yr
+ digital Photo PRO for $6.61 per year
+ VideoMaker for $6.81/yr
As usual, these are printed magazines delivered physically to US addresses. No auto-renewal. You can individually select up to three years per magazine and whether it’s a renewal of an existing subscription or a brand new one.
Prime members have shopping benefits on the other side of the pond as well. Amazon Germany is offering Prime members of Amazon Germany a 20% off discount on select AmazonBasics products which includes over 300 eligible products, among which 400+ are in the Electronics product category, which is where the camera gear, batteries, cables and such can be found…
Among the latest action at Adorama (sales, instant savings, clearance, new arrivals, etc) they have a featured sale on Mirrorless Lenses under $500 with a staggering over 500 options available. OF course there are not 500+ individual/unique lenses, because most of the mirrorless lenses are available in multiple mirrorless systems. Participating in this sale are the camera manufacturers making lenses (Canon, Fuji, Sony, Panasonica, Olympus) , along with various 3rd party makers (Shiguma, Rokinon, Samyang, Meike, 7Artisans, HandEvision, etc)… There’s even two lenses for the good old adorkable Pentax Q system…
You can use the left hand side of the aforelinked pages to filter the results by manufacturer or “Lens Mount” or zoom ratio and so forth. Lots of filtering options.
PS: more posts with the various 4th of July sales in a few hours…
It’s music and lights in the Thursday quartet of B&H Photo daily deals running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ Explorer Cases Medium Hard IATA Case 5221 with Foam & Wheels for $150
+ Luxli CNS-20D Constructor Medium Block On-Camera Daylight Balanced LED Light for $35
+ Goal Zero Light-A-Life Mini Quad LED Light Set for $50
+ not sure what it is, but it looks adorable!
+ Audio Technical AT-LP60BK-BT Turntable with Bluetooth Speaker Bundle for $99 together
This is a YMMV as you would have to have been preselected for this offer by Amazon’s all-knowing and soon all-powerful AI. The gift card offer is this: send a $50+ Amazon e-Gift card via SMS using coupon code SMS2019 and you will receive a $5 promotional Amazon store credit.
You can obviously send the gift card to yourself as it is often the case with these type of promotions. The offer runs until late December 2019 so there’s no hurry to get it done right now ~ unless you want to that is 🙂
You may be able to see this type of an Amazon on-site banner follow you around [screenshot crop below]:
The terms and conditions and to find out whether you are eligible can be found at the aforelinked page. You have to be logged on to your Amazon account in order to find out if you are eligible since it is a YMMV / by-invitation type of offering…
For a limited time only, CreativeLIVE is offering you 50% off sitewide using coupon code EARLY4 entered in their shopping cart.
As you can guess, the parade of 4th of July deals and coupons has already began!
Here’s something rare, an Amazon itself coupon! For a limited time, coupon code POWER25 gets you 25% off the listed prices of select AmazonBasics batteries of the single use (SU) kind. Click on the banner over there for the terms and conditions of the offer…
There is a 48-pack of AA going for $14 before the coupon, along with C and D and 9V packs, and AAAA (yes, four As, not a typo), CR2032 (3V), hearing aid batteries, and other more rare batteries (23A, CR2 3V, CR123a 3V, etc)…
Sigma ART lens fans, unite (your wallets?) and take over! B&H Photo is having an instant savings promotion on select Sigma ART lenses until August 7 in 2019:
+ 35mm f1.4 DG HSM ART for $649
+ Canon EF, Nikon F, Sonya (okay, Sony A)
+ 70mm f2.8 DG Macro ART for $469
+ Canon EF, Sigma SA
+ 35mm f1.4 DG HSM ART for $649
+ Pentax K, Sigma SA
I am mostly using Samsung microSD cards these days, I have had zero issues with them ~ the same cannot be said with other brands I had previously used (Lexar, PNY, etc). Of course I am not a consumer reports test lab, so it’s only a small data point…
Which brings us to the Wednesday Woot Computers deal of the day a 3pk of 64GB Samsung microSDXC memory cards o the EVO Select kind (UHS-I, U3, C10, 4K UHD video, up to 100MB/sec read and up to 60MB/sec write) for $30 with free shipping for Prime members or $6 flat for non-members. It comes out to *calculating* *calculating* $10 per card 🙂
You can buy up to ten 3-packs per customer at the sale price. They come with a 10-year Samsung warranty. These are the 4-Proof kind (water, extreme temperatures, X-Ray, magnetic fields).
MEANWHILE at the main Woot, their deal du jour is a sale on various iPad PROs: the 12.9″ 2017 and 2018 models, and the 11″ 2018 model. Prices range from $570 to $1060… And at “Electronics” there’s the refurbished scratch&dent LG V20 former-flagship Android smartphone going for $100 with a 3-month Woot warranty…
Do you like fast primes, and manual focus? If so, there is a sale on the Zhongyi Mitakon Speedmaster 85mm f1.2 manual focus lens as follows:
+ at B&H Photo the Canon EF and Sony E go for $650, the Nikon F for $700, the Sony A for $800, and the Fuji GF for $850
+ at Adorama.com the Sony E and Canon EF go for $649, while the Nikon F goes for $700
+ the Pentax K and Sony A are special orders and go for $750 and $800 respectively
+ the Fuji GF (not X) goes for $849
+ if you prefer to shop through Amazon (eg the 5% cashback rewards), the above price are available by various sellers (including Adorama) through amazon.com…
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