Peak Design Everyday Bags for $89 to $134 w/FS

Massdrop is back on again with another Peak Design Everyday Bags sale. They offer two models, the Sling 5L for $89 and the Sling 10L for $134. The price drops to this level AFTER you add it to the shopping cart and AFTER you select one of the bag options. Before that, the price you see is $219 ~ so don’t let that scare you away 🙂

Optionally in the shopping cart you can add a Field pouch or a Tech pouch for more. Various color options are available. You can see all options available in the product listing, you don’t have to add them to the shopping cart and read about them one by one.

Free US shipping. This particular offer does not ship outside the US. The offer runs for the next five days and change from blog-posting time. Orders will ship in mid-May 2019 by Massdrop. There are no exchanges offered for the promotion. But the bags come with the Peak Design lifetime warranty…

April 17, 2019 Filed Under: camera accessories Tagged With: , ,

The Sue Bryce Collection for $99 (Portraiture, Etc)

For a limited time, Creative LIVE is offering a $99 class bundle, the Sue Bryce collection, a total of 18 classes by
the photographer. Portraiture features heavily in the topics, along with fashion, lighting, and the business/marketing of a studio/photographer.

Back of the envelope math averages this at around $5.50 per class. Not bad at all if these topics are of current or future interest…

April 17, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

20 classes for $29 each at C-LIVE

For a very limited time, Creative LIVE is offering 20 classes for $29 each. The sale price is shown over there while this sale continues… Topics include Adobe (general (eg painterly) and specific (eg Lightroom CC)) and camera-related classes (DIY lens accessories, TTL flash, tabletop photography) and people-n-pets photography, and the classes that help pay the bills (marketing and “making money as an artist”)…

OR if you prefer FREE and you have schedule flexibility, check out all the free-streaming classes at their ON-AIR schedule…

April 17, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Panasonic ZS60 travel zoom for $250 [limit 3]

Zoom-zoom! For a limited time, Amazon itself is offering the new condition Panasonic ZS60 travel zoom in the black color scheme for $250 with free shipping with up to three cameras per customer at the sale price. This is a limited time offer but not a lightning deal, so there’s no ticking clock on the offer.

With many and more superzoom cameras out there, there are plenty of choices out there, making it a pleasant headache in deciding which one(s) to get 🙂

Speaking of Amazon, one of their Wednesday daily deals is a sale on renewed Microsoft Surface Studios of the first generation kind with prices ranging from $1359 (i5, 8GB, 1TB) to $1885 (i7, 32GB, 2TB)…

April 17, 2019 Filed Under: fixed lens cameras, panasonic Tagged With: ,

Wedn (EU): Canon and Sony and M43rds and more camera sale

Amazon Germany decided to continue their Gold Box Spring Sale until Thursday instead of its previous ending of Monday. The Wednesday group of daily deals includes a Canon and Sony camera sale among other things:

+ Canon camera sale
+ 80D with 18-135 for 1125 euro
+ M50 body for 495 euro
+ M50 with lens for 585 euro
+ M50 two lens kit for 720
+ XC10 4K professional camcorder for 1420
+ G9 X II for 313 to 323
+ G7 X II for 473
+ also superzooms and camcorders

+ Sony and Friends camera sale
+ Sony a6500 body for 1055
+ Sony HX90 superzoom for 249
+ Sony RX100 III w/selfie grip for 499
+ various Sony and Sigma and Olympus lenses
+ Olympus E-PL9 with kit lens for 539
+ Panasonic G70 with kit lens for 429
+ Panasonic TZ58 superzoom for 149
+ camcorders

Among the other sales, it’s the return of the PC Gaming sale featuring many accessories, from keyboards/mice to headsets to mics and audio. There’s LEGOs and cat food and Fire tablets and coffee machines and various kitchen-y things of all sizes…

April 17, 2019 Filed Under: canon, daily deals, olympus, panasonic, sigma, sony Tagged With: ,

Plan Ahead: B&H Photo Closing for Passover on Thursday PM

This is a heads-up so you can plan ahead your purchases. B&H Photo will be closing for the Passover Holiday on Thursday April 18 at 7pm ET and will re-open on Sunday April 28 at 10am eastern. That’s ten days, so indeed one must needs place an order now if they want to receive it this month!

Online ordering will be available during some of the closing BUT orders placed AFTER 6pm eastern on April 18 will be shipped on/after April 28…

Online ordering is available:
+ Fri April 19 at 7:30pm ET until Sun April 21 at 9pm ET
+ Thu April 25 7:45pm ET until Sat April 27 at 9:15pm ET

So to summarize for the speed-readers, the deadline to place your online orders if you want them to ship this week is Thursday April 18 at 6pm eastern. Best not wait until 5:59:59pm ET though 🙂

April 16, 2019 Filed Under: shopping news Tagged With:

Wedn: InCase Messenger, Tascam DR-100 III, 55″ LG, etc

WEdnesday is here with a quartet of B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ INCASE DESIGNS Compass Messenger Bag for $15

+ Tascam DR-100mkIII Linear PCM Recorder for $269

+ LG C7C 55″ Class HDR 4K UHD Smart OLED TV for $999

+ Pioneer DJ headphones for $99

April 16, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

10% off Lenses at KEH with coupon (ends Sun PM)

KEH Camera fans, a new 5-day coupon is upon us! Using coupon code LENS4A you can get 10% off most lenses at KEH Camera. The coupon expires on Sunday APR-21-2019 at 11:59pm ET.

As always, there are exclusions: the coupon does NOT work on “New” and “Like New” condition products. LEICA branded products are also excluded from the promotion. You can test the coupon by entering it in their shopping cart without the need to login or signin…

April 16, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: , , ,

Tuesday: D&S, Jill-E, Promise Tech, Robox, Zotac, Etc

Tuesday is here with the B&H Photo daily deals offering this sixtet until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if any sells out]:

+ JILL-E DESIGNS Smart Laptop Tote for $70
+ the previous time there was a Jill-E featured in the B&H daily deals it sold out before the end of the day

+ PROMISE TECHNOLOGY Pegasus3 R8 Mac Edition 80TB 8-Bay Thunderbolt 3 RAID Array (8 x 10TB) for $5771

+ ROBOX 3D Printer for $399

+ DAVIS & SANFORD Provista 7518B Tripod with V18 Fluid Head for $80 after a $20 mail-in rebate

+ ANTON BAUER NP-F976 7.2V, 6600mAh L-Series Li-Ion Battery (47Wh) for $40

+ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 2080 AMP Graphics Card for $650

April 15, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Update: Website problem corrected

The last few hours you may have seen a redirect problem with the blog (this particular camera deals blog, not the main blog/domain) with a destinywall.org and letstakemetoad.com redirect warning. This was caused by a WordPress plug-in for related posts that was retired/abandoned…

Related posts are widgets that go below each post and recommend other posts.

From the looks of it, the domain letstakemetoad.com was registered late on 4/15/19.

If you know anyone using this plug-in, you/they would probably want to deactivate and delete it as soon as possible…

This is one of the reasons some people prefer to write their own plug-ins instead of using publicly-available ones. Of course in order to do this you have to have the time, energy, knowledge and/or budget…

April 15, 2019 Filed Under: website news

Monday: Storage sale with SD and Sandisk and G-Tech

Storage is the word of the day for Monday. In addition to the previously mentioned B&H storage dailies, we find the return of the WD x Sandisk sale at the Amazon USA Gold Box running until 11:59pm pacific (or earlier for any that may sell out ahead of time)…

+ 256GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for $31
+ Sandisk Extreme microSDXC: 64GB for $14~, 128GB for $22, 400GB for $86

+ Sandisk Ultra SDXC: 64GB for $9~, 128GB for $18~

+ 64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO CompactFlash for $50

+ various USB flash drives of various sizes

+ various hard drives from G-Tech and WD

+ SSDs from Sandisk

Up to two individual items per customer at the sale price which ends at 3am ET on Tuesday 4/16/19 or earlier if sold out…

April 15, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals, memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

Monday eBook: “The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA” for $4

Good until Monday at 11:59pm pacific time, one of the Kindle daily deals is the Kindle e-book The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA (258 pages, November 2017, Chronicle Books) going for $4. You can get a Kindle sample on your device or app OR to go deep inside the book, use the “Look Inside” feature on the Print Book page…

April 15, 2019 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With: ,

Monday (EU): Canon Lenses sale (14 options, 85 to 1890 euro), Computer Monitors, Printers, ApeMan action cams, lots more

The Amazon Germany Gold Box Spring Sale concludes today, Monday April 15 in 2019 with lots and lots of offers including:

+ various computer monitors ranging from 99 to 599 euro from Samsung, BenQ, LG, AOC, Acer, and HP

+ Canon Lenses sale with prices ranging from 85 to 1890 euro with 14 lenses participating including:

+ EF 50/1.8 STM for 85 euro
+ EF 50/1.4 USM for 260 euro
+ EF 85/1.8 USM for 327
+ EF 28/3.5 Macro IS STM for 248
+ EF-S 24/2.8 STM for 124
+ EF-S 35/2.8 Macro STM IS for 309
+ EF-M 22/2 STM for 192

+ EF 100-400/4.5-5.6L IS II USM for 1890
+ EF 16-35/4 L IS USM for 905
+ EF 24-105/4L IS II USM for 945
+ EF 24-105/3.5-5.6 IS USM for 336
+ EF 70-300/4-5.6 IS II for 408
+ EF 24-70/2.8 f4L IS USM for 749
+ EF-S 10-18/4.5-5.6 IS STM for 213 euro

The sale also includes various other products including:
+ ApeMan budget action camera sale (30 to 67~ euro)
+ Printer and Scanner sale including Canon and HP options

+ 25% off Anker cables and power-banks
+ various LG TVs including 4K UHD
+ 1-Year Office 365 Home (six users) for 53~ euro

+ Windows laptop sale starting at 200 euro with Acer and Lenovo (also 400 euro Acer flip Chromebook)
+ Huawei M5 Lite tablets from 190 to 220 euro, also Lenovo tablets on sale

+ Nokia 5.1 for 125, 8.1 for 354 euro
+ Motorola G7 dual SIM for 220
+ Huawei Mate 20 Lite with Smartwatch for 259
+ Honor 8X for 249, 10 Lite for 199, 10 for 350

April 15, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Monday (B&H): WD, G-Tech, Sandisk (SSD, microSDXC A2), Dracast kit, Etc

Monday brings with it a reloaded set [more were added later in the day, mayhaps price-matching the Amazon daily deals?] of B&H Photo daily deals:

+ WD MyBook Desktop External USB 3.0 HDD for $146 (10TB) or $126 (8TB)
+ G-Technology G-Drive USB 3.0 Type-C External for $250 (10TB) or $191 (8TB)

+ 1TB Sandisk Extreme Portable USB 3.1 Type C External SSD for $143
+ 1TB Sandisk SSD Plus SATA III 2.5″ internal for $96

+ Sandisk Extreme microSDXC A2 memory cards for $14~ (64GB) or $22 (128GB) or $86 (400GB)

+ SmallHD 702 Bright On-Camera Monitor for $799

+ Dracast LED1000 Kala Bi-Color LED Panel for $249 with FREE spring-cushioned Light Stand and V-Mount to dual NPF converter

April 15, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

(ENDED) EU: 128GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for 18 euro

Party’s over! As of a 4/17/19 recheck, the price jumped to 25 euro…

European photographers, especially if you are within shopping distance to Amazon Germany. They are offering the new condition 128GB Sandisk Ultra SDXC card in frustration-free packaging for 18 euro per card. The seller is Amazon Germany actual. You can buy up to 30 units at the sale price. This is not a lightning deal, so expiration time unknown…

April 15, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

KEH Camera Buy More to Save More Sale Returns (ends Tue PM)

Good until Tuesday 4/16/19 at 11:59pm eastern time, we have the return of the Buy More to SAVE More sale at KEH Camera. Using coupon code BMSM4A you get a discount depending on your order total:

+ Spend $1,000+, get 12% off
+ Spend $600+, get 10% off
+ Under $600, get 8% off

As usual, there are exclusions: no Leica, no “New” or “Like New” condition products. As usual, you can test the coupon in their shopping cart without the need to create an account or login to an account…

April 14, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: , ,

Multi-Year Sale at DiscoMags: 3yrs for $13 total, Etc

It’s the return of the Multi-Year sale at Discount Mags, where you get a better per-year price if you sign up for a 3-year subscription. Outdoor Photographer and Digital Photo go for $13 each for the 3-year period (that’s $4.25 per magazine per year), while Videomaker goes for $19 for the 3-year period and “Digital Photo PRO” goes for $20 (just under $7/year)…

As usual, these are printed magazines delivered to US addresses (shipping outside the US is cost-prohibitive considering the prices of these magazines). These are not auto-renewals.

April 14, 2019 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With:

Sunday: Manfrotto Tripod + Backpack kit, Browning, Etc

Sunday April 14 is international Game Of Thrones day, but there’s also a new quartet of offerings in the Sunday B&H Photo dailies running until 11:59pm eastern (or earlier if sold out):

+ Manfrotto BeFree Compact Travel Aluminum Tripod and Advanced Travel Backpack Kit for $200

+ Browning BTC-4P Command Ops Pro Trail Camera for $60

+ Pelican 1910B MityLite LED Flashlight for $15

+ AverMedia AM310 USB Microphone for $60

UPDATE: a camera accessories sale headlines the Sunday “Spring Sale” at Amazon Germany with a total of 26 products from Manfrotto, Rollei, WaliMex, Hama and more. It includes tripods and other related stabilizer-y things, lighting, a film scanner, bags of course, and more…

April 14, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Friday (EU): Nikon DSLRs, Lenses and Coolpixies sale (and More)

Friday is here at the Amazon Germany Gold Box which is “Spring Sale” until April 15, and the camera-theme this time around is a Nikon DSLR & Coolpix sale:

+ Nikon D500 body for 1620
+ Nikon D750 body for 1330 euro
+ Nikon D750 with either 24-120 VR or 24-85 for 1800 euro
+ Nikon D5300 with 18-105 VR for 595

+ 35/1.8G for 139 euro
+ 20/4.5-5.6G VR DX for 270
+ 28-300 f3.5-5.6G VR for 845
+ 18-300 f3.5-6.3G VR DX for 629
+ 14-24 f2.8G for 1697

+ Z 35mm f1.8 for 715
+ Z 50mm f1.8 for 500

+ Nikon P900 superzoom for 450 euro
+ B500 superzoom for 210
+ Coolpix A1000 for 360
+ Coolpix A900 for 310

+ also a trio of Nikon binoculars

Not Nikon, but among the other items on sale:

+ 1-Year Adobe Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC with 20GB cloud for 114 euro

+ Huawei Mate Book x Pro for 1499

+ XP-PEN graphics tablet sale featuring 11 models with prices ranging from 26 to 449 euro

April 11, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals, nikon

Weekend (B&H): $10 BR Lens Bag, 43″ Sharp for $200, etc

And just like that, it’s Friday again and with it we have a new quartet of B&H Photo deals running, as usual for Fridays, for 48 hours, until Saturday at 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out ~ two of Thursday’s six daily deals in fact sold out ahead of time]:

+ BlackRapid Lens Bag for $10 ~ because lenses want bags too!

+ XVENTURE Click N Vu Kit for $13

+ AZDEN PRO-XD 2.4 GHz Digital Wireless Lavalier System for $129

+ Sharp P5000 43″ Class Full HD Smart LED TV for $200

April 11, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

KEH coupon until Sat PM: 15% off 15 brands including Pentax, Olympus and Ricoh

KEH Camera is back with a Brand-a-holic coupon promotion. Good until Saturday 4/13/19 at 11:59pm ET, coupon code AB4A gets you 15% off products from 15 different brands. Excluded are “NEW” and “LN” (Like New) products.

The featured brands are:

  • Pentax, Olympus, Ricoh, Kodak
  • Metz, Quantum, Hoya
  • B+W, Tiffen, Cokin, Singh-Ray
  • HelioPan, Sunpak, RRS, Kirk
April 11, 2019 Filed Under: olympus, pentax, ricoh, storewide deals Tagged With: , , ,

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…

April 11, 2019 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With: , ,

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…

April 11, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

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…

April 10, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

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

April 10, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

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)…

April 10, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

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…

April 9, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

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.

April 8, 2019 Filed Under: camera accessories Tagged With: , ,

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.

April 8, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals, sony

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

April 8, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals