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Good until 1:55pm ET today, the GoPRO HERO4 Surf Edition is on sale for $289~ with free shipping. The price before the sale was $350 when I posted the Lightning Deals schedule. Note that this is sold by a 3rd-party seller with the orders fulfilled by Amazon (Prime eligible).
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For Friday 6/30/17 only, coupon code SUMMER5 gets you $5 off a $25+ order, or coupon code BLOCK20 gets you $20 off a $100+ order at the Monoprice website. The usual exclusions apply. The two coupons are not stackable, you can only use one of at a time.
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On top of the two new Canon DSLRs, there’s more news tonight! Amazon has officially revealed and expanded their Prime Day! This year, it will start at 9pm Eastern on Monday July 10 and continue until 3am Eastern on Wednesday, for a total of 30 hours of non-stop shopping action!
We will have “event coverage” here when it starts Monday night (July 10), which is less than two weeks away!
The Canon 6D line now has a second member! The Canon 6D Mark II is now officially official with its touchscreen Vari-angle “twist and shout” display and its 26mp 35mm FF sensor! The camera is available for pre-ordering in three official kits as follows:
+ 6D II Body Only for $1999 at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon itself
+ 6D II with EF 24-105mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM for $2599 at Adorama and B&H Photo and Amazon itself
+ 6D II with EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM for $3099 at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon itself
+ Canon BG-E21 Battery Grip for EOS 6D Mark II for $249 at B&H Photo and $300 at Adorama and Amazon itself
+ prices will eventually converge
This has been added to the New Cameras of 2017, with the DSLRs now taking a 7-6 “lead” over the Mirrorless cameras 🙂
Canon took their time, but they have finally revealed a new SL-series DSLR, the aptly named SL2 is now out and about, available for pre-order for $550 in body only, or for $700 with the 18-55mm EF-S IS STM. The new SL2 has a Vari-Angle Touch-Screen, a “twist and shout” screen 🙂
+ SL2 Body Only for $550 at Amazon and Adorama and B&H Photo
+ SL2 with 18-55 EF-S IS STM for $700 at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon
This has been added to the New Cameras of 2017, with the DSLRs now taking a 7-6 “lead” over the Mirrorless cameras 🙂
The new condition Vivitar DF-383 Series 1 Power Zoom AF flash for the Nikon system is on sale for a limited time for $60 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo. With many B&M camera stores closing, Vivitar brand sales must have been impacted the most since many stores had them as “budget alternatives”, and most people would not line up to buy Vivitar the same way they’d do for Canon and Nikon and such.
A4C (All 4 Cellular) has a lot of older products, some refurbished, some used, some new, and it is of interest if you like to dig for previous-generation bargains. More so now, with coupon code JUNE20 getting you 20% off almost everything at A4C. Notable exceptions are the daily deals and iPads. Everything at A4C gets free shipping, even if it’s a $2 trinket. And you don’t have to be a Prime member 😉 The coupon ends 6/30/17 or earlier if preallocated coupon quantity is depleted.
We rarely mention any of the high-end tripod systems, but there’s a sale of one of them. B&H Photo is offering, for a limited time, the Cartoni D608 Delta Aluminum Tripod System for $3999 plus shipping.
One could buy 400 budget tripods for this price, this is obviously a niche within a niche type of a $product$ 🙂
On the serious lighting front, the Elinchrom Quadra Living Light Kit with Lead Battery, S Head and Transmitter is on sale for a limited time for $599 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo, this too among their latest offers.
If you want to take your Panasonic GH5 audio to the next level beyond what’s outside the camera box, B&H Photo is offering a Panasonic GH5 Body Only Audio Kit for $2599 with free expedited shipping. You get the standard Panasonic GH5 body only kit, along with these four audio-related items that comprise B&H’s audio kit:
+ Sennheiser MKE 600 – Shotgun Microphone
+ Panasonic DMW-XLR1 XLR Microphone Adapter
+ Kopul Studio Elite 4000 Series XLR M to Angled XLR F Microphone Cable – 1.5′ (0.45 m), Black
+ Auray – DUSM-1 Universal Shock Mount for Camera Shoes and Boompoles
GoPRO is not the only game in town in action-y and X-Games-y cameras. B&H Photo has a limited time sale on the Intova Sport Pro Waterproof HD Video Sports Camera for $79 with free expedited shipping until 6/30/17 at 8:30pm ET. This too is among their latest Features Sales.
Among the latest B&H specials is a quartet of camera bags on sale for a limited time, with free shipping, as follows:
+ Domke Next Generation Crosstown Courier Camera Bag for $70
+ Lowepro Echelon Brief (Black) for $100
+ Domke Next Generation Chronicle Camera Bag (Black Ruggedwear) for $170
+ Crumpler 7 Million Dollar Home Bag (Black) for $180
Card readers are often the forgotten element of a performance evaluation. Which brings us to the SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC/SDXC UHS-II Card Reader/Writer, on sale for a limited time for $16 with free shipping at B&H Photo. The free shipping gets upgraded to “Expedited” with $49+ orders. You can buy up to twenty units at this price… For more action, check their latest Featured Sales…
B&H Photo has a tripod doorbuster on sale for a limited time, it is the Benro TAC008ABR0 Active Aluminum Tripod with BR0E Ball Head going for $30 with free shipping. If your order total is $49+, you will get the faster “free expedited shipping”… For more action, check their latest Featured Sales… Meanwhile their Wednesday daily deals have all kinds of Yuneec drones on sale…
One of the day-long daily-deals at Amazon is the new condition unlocked LG G5 offered for $250 with free shipping.
NOTE + UPDATE + CORRECTION: the seller is not Amazon itself, but 3rd-party seller “BREED” (a rather unfortunate seller name, but I’m digressing). This is model H830 (you can check online to see which variant this is). I do not know what the warranty situation is.
This is a quasi-modular phone that was not well-received by the reviewer industrial complex. Offer ends by 3am ET on Thursday.
But if you are interested in it, the LG Cam Plus module is on sale for around $10. This is a camera controls module, not an additional camera.
In addition to today’s B&H Yuneec daily deals, the Yuneec Typhoon Q500+ is the Woot Electronics daily deal offered for $400 plus $5 flat shipping until 1am ET on Thursday.
Meanwhile of the Best Buy daily deals is the 128GB Sandisk USB 3.0 Ultra Fit Flash Drive for $28 with free shipping. These thumbelina size are great for keeping in laptops or tablets or using in media players and portable storage devices.
Additional “deals of the day” will be added here…
PS: this post is fully created on a smartphone, so the risk of typos/errors is higher.
UPDATE: the live stream ended, but you can re-watch it any time at the page below…
If you are interested in the all new Canon 6D Mark II, B&H Photo has scheduled a Canon 6D Mark II LIVE STREAM PANEL featuring a number of photographers talking about the camera. It will start at 7pm Eastern on Thursday 6/29/17. It is free for all to watch. You can submit and presubmit questions and such using the #BHPhotoLive hashtag on Twitter.
The camera is already available for pre-ordering with the body only going for $2000 (okay, $1999).
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One of today’s lighting deals in the Amazon GoLD BoX, good until 6:19pm ET today is the APEMAN E-TTL Speedlite Flash Speedlight for Canon going for $42.49 with free shipping. The price before the sale was $50 last night. It averages 4.5 out of 5 based on 15 customer reviews, and has 9 answered questions.
These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page…
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UPDATE: the live stream ended, but you can re-watch it at any time using the link below. It is using the LiveStream service…
If you are interested in the all new Canon 6D Mark II, B&H Photo has scheduled a Canon 6D Mark II LIVE STREAM PANEL featuring a number of photographers talking about the camera. It will start at 7pm Eastern on Thursday 6/29/17. It is free for all to watch. You can submit and presubmit questions and such using the #BHPhotoLive hashtag on Twitter.
Speaking of video related matters, the Rokinon T1.5 Cine Prime bundle is on sale until 6/30/17 at B&H Photo with sale prices varying by mount. The Nikon F goes for $1749, M43rds go for $1799, the Canon EF and Sony E go for $1899.
The bundle consists of these four T1.5 Cine Rokinon lenses: the 24mm, 35mm, 50mm and 85mm.
This is turning into a pre-order day, the Angenieux Cinema lenses are now available for B&H Photo. A total of nine options are available, with prices ranging from $1455 up to $28,000+ for some of the lens bundles. These are Super35 and Super35 Full Frame lenses.
Some of the Amazon offers can be once per the lifetime of an Amazon account, or once every few years. This is one of them. It is a $5 off a $25+ order when using the Amazon Assistant. You can tell if you are eligible for the promotion if you are logged on to your Amazon account. I had previously used this offer, and it told me “Sorry”, can’t use it, you previously used it.
The Amazon Assistant is a browser add-on available for some of the major desktop web browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and a few lesser known such as 360 and Sogou. You don’t have to keep the browser add-on forever, or if you use a browser that allows multiple profiles per computer (eg Firefox), you can install it on a separate browser profile.
Lenses can have baby, and once they start doing so, they start multiplying like bunnies. Which brings us to a new Lensbunny, oops, I mean, Lensbaby, it is the Velvet 85mm f1.8 with a pre-order price of $500 and available in eight different systems, Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sony A, Sony E, Fuji X, Micro Four Thirds, and …Samsung NX.
They are available for pre-order at Adorama and at B&H Photo.
On the high end of tripods, the brand new Sachtler Ace XL Fluid Head with Telescoping Tripod Legs (75mm Bowl) is available for pre-ordering for $1480 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo.
Two lens kits are so last year! Nikon is boldly going with a new three lens kit! They have a new Nikon D3400 Parents Triple Lens DX kit, with these three DX lenses: 18-55 f3.5-5.6G VR, 70-300 f4.5-5.6G ED, 35mm f1.8G, along with a camera bag. This bundle is available for pre-order for $800 at B&H Photo.
Once upon a time giants of communications, Motorola and Nokia had their soap-opera paths of mergers and acquisitions. The current incarnation of the HMD era of Nokia brand is launching Android smartphones, and the current leader of their pack is now available for pre-order with USA warranty in the US market!
The Nokia 6 is available for pre-order in three color schemes for $230 each at Amazon by Amazon itself. This is fully compatible with T-Mobile, and partially compatible with AT&T (missing a couple of bands – check phone websites/forums for complete details). This is as close to a pure Android phone as a 3rd-party maker can make with Google PLAY support. Perhaps trying to fill the void of good old Nexus getting shutdown by The Google.
This is not a flagship phone, but you get 3GB RAM, 32GB on-board storage, microSD card (up to 128GB), a 5.5-inch full HD touchscreen, Snapdragon 430 quad-core, Android 7.1 (how many phones offer this now?), etc.
On the other hand, if you want to pay $50 less, and you are comfortable with the way Amazon does their Sponsored Lockscreen Offers and Ads, Amazon is also offering a Lockscreen Ads version for $180 in two of the three colors. This is restricted to Prime members only, and it appears to have a limit of one per color per customer at the moment.
IF you are not a Prime member, but you want to get the Lockscreen Ads version, you can do it by becoming a Prime member. You will pay the full price of $230, but you will receive a $50 Amazon Gift Card AFTER you become a paying Prime member (you get a 30-day free trial). The Details also note that if you return the phone or cancel your Prime membership within 3 months of purchase, they make charge you back for the $50 gift card). In other words, they are trying to prevent people from signing up just to buy the phone for $50 less and then cancelling 🙂
NOTE: as usual at Amazon, there are also listings of the international/imported versions of the phone. The Chinese version has 4GB RAM and 64GB on-board. If you are surfing around, make sure you are looking at the right version!
This has been around outside the US for a few months now, so you can find many reviews and opinions on it, such as this 9-pager from GSM Arena. Or jump to their conclusions if you don’t want to go through it all.
This is one of five new phones that joined the Amazon Prime line-up including the latest Motorola Moto E (4th gen), the Alcatel Idol 5S, and a couple more. It looks like “Blu” may be getting “punished” for their China “phone home” issue, as there are no new Blu phones added to the line-up?
This is YMMV ~ I do not know if eBay offers this to everyone or a subset of their registered users. Good until Friday 3am eastern (6/30/17), you earn 8% eBay Bucks on your purchases This particular promotion has no minimum purchase price, so even a $1 item will get you bonus bucks.
First you have to manually activate the offer from the eBay email or your eBay messages (if invited/selected to participate). Some exclusions apply as usual and the maximum rewards you can earn is $100 per transaction, and $500 during the promotional period. The email title announcing this promotion is not as clear as previous ones, but it has “eBay Bucks” in it, so look for that if you are skimming or filtering eBay emails.
A good place to look for ideas are the eBay Deals along with the Trending Deals (shows only 100 trending deals, less overwhelming to look at than their main deals page). There’s also a dedicated search box there that searches only the Deals, not everything else on eBay.
Another way to look for ideas is our eBay Archive posts.
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