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…

Big Monoprice clearance on Wall Mounts (Fixed, Tilt, Full Motion)

Monitors are the main outlet of the output of digital photography these days. And if you have monitors, you may want to hang them, whether in the studio, at the office or at home. Insert more predictable marketing platitudes here…

… and finally conclude to the meat of the matter [not that veggies are not important ~ eat your veggies], the Monoprice website is having an overstock clearance sale on Wall Mounts featuring options of the tilt, and the fixed and the full-motion kind, with prices ranging from $7 to $33 for the first two categories,and $11 to $100 for the full motion options (the majority of the available options in this sale)

DiscountMags Weekend Sale

IT’s another weekend, another weekend sale at DiscountMags with a “March Madness” theme. This “translates” to the following prices for print-photography magazines per-year, shipped to US addresses without auto-renewal:

+ Digital Photo for $4.65/year

+ Outdoor Photographer for $4.86/year

+ Videomaker for $5.60/year

+ Digital Photo PRO for $7.56/year

Sunday: Manfrotto Tripod w/Ball Head, Synology, Pentax Binos

Never fear, Sunday is here with a six-pack of B&H Photo daily deals running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if any of them sells out):

+ MAnfrotto MK290LTA3-BHUS 290 Light Aluminum Tripod with Ball Head for $100

+ Synology DiskStation DS218j 2-Bay NAS Enclosure for $135

+ Pentax 8×21 UCF R Binocular for $35

+ Freehands gloves, eight options, $15 to $29

+ also TV DAC for $30

10ft Adjustable Photography Video Background Support Stand Kit w/carrying bag for $18 + $6 S&H

Groupon time now. A 3rd-party seller over there is selling this 10-foot Adjustable Photography Video Background Support Stand Kit w/carrying bag for $18 plus $6 flat shipping to the 48 contiguous US states. It cannot be shipped elsewhere (given the size/weight, it is cost prohibitive at this S&H fee)…

You can use Groupon Bucks towards these, but you cannot use promo codes… It averages 4.6 out of 5 based on 85 ratings at Groupon… It looks like this (or something similar) is also sold for $30 at amazon.com where it averages 4.3 out of 5 based on 84 customer reviews…

Adorama Lighting Gear March Madness sale

March Madness is upon us all and to celebrate this, Adorama is having a sale-a-bration on their house-brand lightning gear featuring discounts of up to 35% off. Participating brands include Flashpoint, GoDoX, CLAR, Glow, and Orlit…

Because it’s hard to have photography without …light 🙂

Think Tank Urban Approach 5 bag for $60

For a limited time, Adorama is offering the new condition Think Tank Urban Approach 5 camera bag (for mirrorless systems) for $60 with free US shipping…

Also at Adorama, they are offering the new condition CLAR WandLux Pro and Ring Light Kit for $159 with free expedited shipping…

And on the lens front, the new condition Rokinon 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC manual focus lens in the Sony E system is on sale for $239 with free shipping…

Note that Adorama may also be offering faster free shipping options either by signing up for their VIP360 Prime-like shipping service or with signing up for ShopRunner (which may be offered to you for free through your credit card)…

GearBest 48-hour sale includes 256GB Kodak microSDXC for $40

GearBest (western-facing company that ships from Asia) is having a weekend 48 hour sale which includes the 256GB Kodak microSDXC card (V30, A1, U3) offered for $40 with near-free shipping (depending on options/location).

Other items on sale include various Xiaomi smartphones, a couple of chinese-branded sub-$400 laptops, 3D printer-alia, $2 earphones and more…

Olympus M. Zuiko ED 12-40mm f2.8 for $560 [MD]

Massdrop is back on again with a new lens offering. It is the new condition Olympus M. Zuiko ED 12-40mm f/2.8 lens offered for $560 with free US shipping. International shipping appears to hover around $10 but I can’t check all the countries in the universe 🙂

There is no mention of warranty in the listing, and this is the international version of the lens. In other words, a grey market from the perspective of the US market.

The offer runs for the next seven days (from posting time) and will get shipping in mid-to-late April 2019 by Massdrop

In new condition at authorized Olympus USA dealers this goes for $1000 (eg B&H, Adorama). Used prices start at $559 in condition “V” at Adorama

Saturday: PNY storage sale: SD (64 to 512GB), 512GB microSD, Flash Drives

The PNY sale is back on again riding the Amazon USA Gold Box with the following items:

+ Elite Performance SD cards: 64GB for $14, 128GB for $24, 256GB for $47, 512GB for $108
+ the 256GB defeats by a hair the 128GB for GB/$

+ 512GB microSDXC cards, Elite for $110, PRO Elite for $120

+ various USB flash drives; in addition to the singles, they also have 5-packs and 50-packs (of potential interest for promotional purposes of your photographic work)

+ limit two of each individual item

+ sale ends Sunday at 3am eastern (or earlier if sold out)

Exp 3/31: YMMV/Invited: 10% off eBay purchase (max disco $50)

This is our last post/reminder for this promotion,a YMMV coupon from the eBay website, an invited-users type of a promotion, mayhaps to reactivate eBay shoppers who haven’t made a purchase in a while. Anyway, the offer goes live this: coupon code MYTENOFF gets you 10% off your purchase until March 31st in 2019. The maximum discount with the coupon is $50. In other words, purchases over $500 will get a flat $50 off discount.

Exclusions on what the coupon can be used for apply as always. The coupon may only be working for invited eBay users, so a very big YMMV…