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Friday is upon us and it is the case with the B&H daily deals, their Friday edition runs for 48 hours, until Saturday at 11:59pm eastern:
+ Joby GripTight GorillaPod Video for $15
+ RucPac professional photographer gloves for $20 (two options)
+ Pioneer professional headphones for $470
If Canon has something up for pre-order, of course Nikon must needs match it, so Nikon is offering for pre-ordering their brand new Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S lens for $2300. Pre-orders are available at Adorama and B&H Photo and Amazon herself… Obviously, a compatible Z camera is needed to best utilize this lens 🙂
Valentine’s day special at Groupon Local. Good until the end of Valentine’s Day in the central time zone [that’s FEBR-14-2019], coupon code FLASH gets you 30% off at Groupon Local. Local is where various photo print offerings reside.
Services can “absorb” this type of a discount but thin-margin electronics [eg (Physical) “Goods”] cannot, that’s why the “Goods” coupons are rarely more than 10% off…
The usual restrictions, limitations, etc apply. As always, be sure to read the terms/conditions of the various photo-print offerings since they are structured differently in terms of shipping and fees and such…
For Barnes and Noble fans [yes, they still exist], coupon code SAVE15 gets 15% off your entire order at the Barnes and Noble website. This is for the whole order, not just one item. Coupon expires Monday…
And if you happen to be near any of their B&M stores, their Coupons and Offers page has a printable coupon for 20% off a single item at their B&M stores…
Exclusions and restrictions apply for both online and offline sales…
If your cameras or action cameras or smartphones or other devices take 400GB memory cards, as of the time of writing, Amazon herself is offering the new condition 400GB Sandisk Ultra micro SDXC (C10, A1) for $79 with free shipping. You can buy as many as you like [technically the limit is 20 but that’s more than enough for most people].
It’s full frame mirrorless party! Canon has reveled a brand new full frame camera in their new mirrorless R system, a more “portable” camera, named so with the “RP” name, as in an R-system camera that is P-ortable! Pre-orders start at $1300 for the body only which is bundled with an EF-to-RF adapter (EF lenses on the new R bodies). Also, for a limited time during the pre-order festivities you can get your choice of a free Canon EG-E1 extension grip [this is not a battery grip]. The extension grip is available in your choice of body color.
All the aforementioned are available for pre-order at B&H Photo with a late February 2019 availability estimate.
Note that in the two kit bundles you see over-there there-are [“-” to prevent a double “there there” in a sentence] two different 24-105 lenses. The $1699 kit comes with the EF [yes, EF] 24-105mm f3.5-5.6 IS STM lens, while the $2199 kit comes with the RF 24-105mm f4L IS.
These are also available for pre-ordering at Adorama and also by Amaozn itself [note that the kits at Amazon are a bit confused, so pay attention to which option you are ordering]
In Europe, Amazon Germany has two kit options, both bundled with the EF-to-R adapter since that opens up a lot of lenses for the new R cameras. The body only (with adapter) goes for 1500 euro, while the kit with the adapter and the RF 24-105mm f4L IS lens goes for 2500 euro…
Thursday is upon us and more importantly, Valentine’s Day, where your love is measured by the size of the cuddly Valentine’s teddy bear and the number of flowers in the bouquet 😉 We also have a new round of B&H Photo daily deals with another quartet of offerings:
+ Dracast Camlux Pro Bi-Color On-Camera Light for $40
+ iKAN Remote Air Pro Wireless Follow Focus Single Motor Kit with Apple iPhone and iPod Touch Integration for $500
+ JARV 10,000mAh Wireless Charging Power Bank with LED Display for $22 in two color options
+ Kopul SDI-PPC Stereo Multimedia Passive Direct Box for $50
+ PS: I have no clue what this thing is ^_^
It’s Sony time on Thursday at the Amazon Germany Gold Box with a total of eight Sony camera-related products as follows:
+ a7 II with 28-70 for 1142 euro
+ a6300 with 16-50 for 689
+ 50mm f1.8 FE for 169
+ a77 II body only DSLR for 799
+ RX100 Mark IV for 579 euro
+ HX90 superzoom (30X optical) for 276
+ two camcorders for 175 to 1019
Also part of the Thursday action are Lenovo tablets and a few laptops of various manufacturers, along with some TP-Link products
If you are a fan of unstabilized zoom lenses, the new condition Tamron AF 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro is on sale for 90 euro in the Canon DSLR system and for 100 euro in the Nikon system (motorized) or in the Sony-Minolta A mount… Limit up to two units per customer at the sale price… This is not a lightning deal, so expiration time unknown… The Pentax K is not available…
Woot is having another Garage sale. Think of it as a Woot-OFF but it happens horizontally in time instead of vertically. Not a perfect analogy, so let me simplify it: all the sale items are offered up immediately instead of a new one every few hours. This causes the more desirable items to sellout quickly, so it is a bit of a lottery ticket like Woot-OFFs.
Under Electronics, they had the Canon EF 70-200/2.8L IS II for $1260 with a 90-day Woot warranty with limit one per customer but it was sold-out when I noticed this new sale.
Under Computers, there’s a handful of Kindle Paperwhite e-readers of various generations in Scratch and Dent condition starting at $35. Reading is magical with e-readers, if you are reading text-only or text-mostly fiction and non-fiction.Not ideal for anime or engineering books or photography books or books full of pictures and such, but for text-only they are magical. Because reading is fun-da-mental!
PS: speaking of Canon, now I have to get in the habit of writing “EF” in Canon SLR lenses since they have their new full frame miRRoRless system 🙂
This is a very YMMV offer. IF you are physically near a Fry’s brick and mortar store, they are running a new type of a promotion so far this week. Twice a day, upon opening and at 5:30pm local time, the first 25 customers in line that mention the daily magic word (which can be found in their daily mailing list emails of course) get a coupon that is worth 20% off purchases of $299+ at the B&M store.
The Wednesday magic word is Get20Extra
Some products from some brands are excluded (Nikon, Sony, Samsung, Bose, LG, Tempurapedia) and of course gift cards are excluded. The maximum discount with the coupon is $1000, in other words, up to a $5000 purchase. If your purchase is over $5000 in eligible products, then you get a flat $1000 off discount.
PS: this post is also a traffic alert if your driving involves areas surrounding Fry’s B&M stores. Granted, it won’t be like Black Friday madness ~ probably.
Hump day is upon us once again, and the Wednesday round of B&H daily deals is this quartet of offerings:
+ Case Logic CPL-106 DSLR camera bag of medium size for $15
+ keep in mind that terms like “small”, “medium”, “large” are always relative 🙂
+ E-IMAGE EK60AAM Fluid Drag Video Head and Tripod for $149
+ Bescor FM256 Flexible Remote-Controlled Bi-Color LED Light Mat for $129
+ D-Link wifi/wireless kit for $150
Adorama is running a limited time promotion [they call them “snapshot deals”] on the new condition Rokinon 12mm f2 NCS CS MF lens for $249 in the silver color scheme in the Sony E and Micro Four Thirds systems and $269 in the Fuji X and Canon M systems. Meanwhile the black color scheme goes for $269 with free shipping in all four aforementioned systems…
It’s a quartet of offerings in the Tuesday B&H Photo daily deals as follows:
+ GIGAPAN EPIC Pro Robotic Camera Mount for $596
+ DRACAST LED500 S-Series Daylight 3-Light Kit with NP-F Battery Plates and Soft Case all together for $480
+ Leupold 10×25 BX-1 Rogue Compact Binocular for $65
+ also Senal wireless mic system for $250
Of the other daily deals, no photo-related action at Best Buy, Woot or Amazon.de…
KEH Camera is back with another coupon promotion, this time celebrating Valentine’s! It is the return of the “buy more to save more” promotion. Using coupon code BMSM2A you get a discount depending on your order total:
+ 15% off orders over $1000
+ 10% off orders over $500
+ 5% off orders under $500
Restrictions and limitations apply as usual. NEW items and “Like New” are EXCLUDED from this promotion. Leica is also excluded. Their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies – add items of interest to your shopping cart and see what happens. You don’t need to signup/login to test the coupon!
The promotion expires on Tuesday FEB-12-2019 at 11:59pm eastern time…
If lenses are kings, it’s the Return of the King at the Monday B&H Photo daily deals with a lens leading the way. It is the new condition Shiguma 35mm f1.4 DG ART HSM lens going for $749 with free shipping in five different systems. Yes, there are at least four young mirrorless-generation of photographers: Canon, Nikon, Sony A, and Pentax K. The lens is also available for Sony E… I don’t know if it’s foreshadowing or a bad omen, but the lens has …404 customer reviews as of the time of rating 🙂
There’s two more items in the B&H daily deals, the MeFoto GlobeTrotter (not from Harlem through) Air Travel Tripod going for $50 in your choice from five trendy/trending color schemes of the pastel-inspired kind. There’s also a TP-Link smart-something thing…
Of potential interest to EU shoppers in the Monday Amazon Germany Gold Box, it’s the Huawei P20 going for 399 euro, the P Smart+ [mayhaps they didn’t think of the giggle-inducing name in casual-speak english] for 219 euro, and the 10.1-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab A (T585) tablet with LTE going for 190 euro…
Meanwhile at the Woot website there’s yet another MacBook sale, some HP Pavilion desktops, and an Android blast from the past with an unlocked Droid Turbo 2 smartphone…
This is a make your own sale type of a coupon promotion at Creative LIVE. Use coupon code 50OFF to get 50% off one class over there. The promotion expires before FEBR-16 at midnight. Unfortunately that’s what it says, so I don’t know if that means 11:59pm or 12:01am 🙂 Restrictions apply as usual…
If you are a fan of the DxO software, they are running a Valentine’s promotion (in other words, it ends at the end of Valentine’s day, aka FEB-14), you can get the DXo PhotoLaB 2 software for $110 or the Elite version for $170…
Also part of the sale is the FilmPack 5 for $70 and the ViewPoint 3 for $70… The Elite editions of the aforementioned software cost more [as it is often the case with these type of things]…
You are not imaging things. The KEH website looks different indeed! That’s because there is a website remodel/redesign, and as per the rotating ticker on their site over there, they are actively looking for feedback on the new design, especially if you are having problems…
With so many viewports these days with desktops, laptops, 4K screens, AiOs, tablets, smartphones of all sizes, 2-in-1s, browsers of all sorts, etc, etc, etc, it’s a herculean task for a website design to cover all bases. Thus the request for feedback 🙂
Black Friday begins in September these days, so of course Presidents Day sales begin before Valentine’s. And Valentine’s sales begin before the SuperBOWL 🙂 Anyways, the Dell website is running a Preview sale featuring an assortment of laptops, desktops, AiOs, mortal computer monitors and UltraSharps, and some TVs for good measure…
But that’s not all. When you scan through the page you will also notice an Intel Optane promotion that gets you a $100 VISA gift card with the purchase of select systems.
What is Intel Optane? Wikipedia does not have a good page on it, but the search engines are your friend, here’s what Duck Duck Go finds… In case you are looking to do a “Seven Days challenge” like the Gizmodo journalist tried [via Techmeme]…
CreativeLIVE is running another limited time sale, this one gets you up to 60% off select Fashion Photography classes. The price you see is the price you pay.
If you are not fond of paying though, CreativeLIVE has you covered as well. You can watch for FREE select classes when they are streaming live at the ON-AIR LIVE page. There is a detailed schedule over there, with world premiers clearly marked… A variety of topics are coming up in the next week, from heavy wedding focus [it’s Valentine’s after all] to wine tasting. Wine tasting vs ISO comparisons, are they really the same thing? 😉
Speaking of world premieres, if you are a fan of bird photography, save the date! March 20 is the live free-to-watch world premiere of Frans Lanting’s “The art of photographing birds”. This classes will decidedly be more useful than my work-in-progress class “Bird Posing 101” 😉
If you are a fan of Nikon-branded lenses and tripods, you are in luck! For a limited time, Adorama is running a free Tripod with select Nikon lenses promotion. The free tripod depends on which lens you buy. The MeFoto Roadtrip tripod is free with either the Nikkor 14-24/2.8G or the 24-70/2.8G, while the Fotopro X-Go is free with either the 24-70/2.8E or the 70-200/2.8E… So the aforementioned G lenses get the MeFoto while the aforementioned E lenses get the Fotopro…
Amazon Germany is back with more Sandisk memory card sales! These are limited time offers but they are not tied to the daily deals [which occur in the German time zone], so the expiration date/time is unknown to me…
We start with the SDXC memory cards, their new condition 128GB Ultra SDXC (C10, UHS-I, up to 80MB/sec) is on sale for just 20 euro. This is sold and shipped by Amazon itself and it is available in your choice of frustration-free packaging or standard packaging. The limit is up to five per customer at the sale price. Not sure if you can buy five of each packaging, or five total.
Next up we move to the microSD cards. The new condition 200GB Ultra microSDXC (A1, C10, U1) goes for 33 euro with up to five per customer. This defeats the 128GB for 23 euro in terms of $/GB. You pay less than 50% more, but you get more than 50% in extra storage…
Or if you can to solve for a lower price, the new condition 128GB Transcend microSDXC (C10, UHS-I) goes for the very specific price of 18.79 euro per customer…
MicroSD is not just for smartphones any more as the number of digital cameras (including a few iLCs eg Panasonic GX800) take the microSD cards. Most of them include full-size SD adapters, or you probably already have a drawer full of them from previous memory card purchases…
This weekend’s DiscountMAGs sale includes two printed photography magazines, Digital Photo PRO for $7 per year [a very good price] and “Outdoor Photographer” for $5 per year [the “default” sale price]… You can sign up for up to three years per magazine at the per-year sale price… This also works for gift-subscriptions and renewals of existing ones… This is good only for US postal addresses and these are printed magazines, not digital… No auto-renewals, they only renew if you manually renew them…
If you are a fan of refurbished camera gear, Adorama is currently running a limited time refurbished sale featuring 120+ products, a number of which is manufacturer refurbished Nikons. About half of them are Nikons, the rest are from a variety of brands including Sigma, Epson, Wacom, etc…
UPDATE: for some reason this did not post when I wrote it…
Another Sunday is upon us and with it we can haz a new round of B&H Photo daily deals as follows:
+ Impact FRC-RLSLB Fluorescent 19″ Ring Light with Dimmer Kit for $89
+ Tenba camera inserts for $10 to $20 (three options)
+ Auray audio bag for $10, NuForce truly wireless earbuds for $80
Meanwhile at the Best Buy daily deals, $100 gets you the new condition Monument Diskless Personal Cloud Server for Photos and Videos. I have not heard of this before this post, so YMMV…
It’s time to ride the Pony in the Amazon USA Gold Box. Good until Saturday at 11:59pm pacific time (or earlier if they sell out) they are running a sale on select PNY storage products including:
+ Elite Performance SDXC cards: 64GB for $15, 128GB for $27, 256GB for $55, 512GB for $110
+ 512GB microSDXC cards for $150 in Elite and $180 in PRO Elite
+ various USB flash drives
+ limit three units per individual product per customer
Never fear, KEH is here! Coupon code KEHSONY2A gets you 15% off the current price of select Sony camera gear. There are at least five pages of options over there. The coupon ends on Friday at 11:59pm eastern… AS usual, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies for the coupon. You can test the coupon by adding items of interest in the cart and entering le couponeaux. You don’t have to signup/login to test the coupon…
Until someone comes up with smartphones that include a built-in film camera [who knows, the industry is in an exploratory mood these days], instant film cameras have not much to fear from smartphones ~ unlike the decimated army of digital cameras. Which brings us to the Best Buy daily deals where four different color schemes of the Fujifilm (Fuji for digital, Fujifilm for film) Instax Mini 9 is on sale for $40 with free shipping or free store pickup where available/possible…
Not far from B&H, the latest Adorama snapshot deal is the new condition offered for $159 with free shipping. Snapshot deals are almost like daily deals ~ they are of limited time…
Further away, at the Woot website a $70 Raspberry bundle includes a 32GB Sandisk microSD card with it..
Meanwhile the B&H daily deals, which, as always on Fridays, last for 48 hours ~ until Saturday at 11:59pm ET ~ include the following:
+ Manfrotto camera slider for $260
+ Vello Octa Softbox for $12 to $15
+ LumiQuest solar-powered lamp for $7
+ morphie encore 20,100 mAh powerbank for $28
If you like to watch/listen to meta gear discussions, you are in luck because there are two free-to-watch classes available at CreativeLIVE with John GreenGo:
+ Camera Buyer’s Guide (2018 edition)
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