The whole world begins to zoom! At 40X optical if you get this camera, it is the AA-powered (four of them) Nikon Coolpix B500, in manufacturer-refurbished condition, going for $190 with free shipping at Adorama, with a 90-day Nikon USA warranty in either the black color scheme or the black-red color scheme… This is among the latest Adorama Early Black Friday specials…
NewEgg offers 1 Year of FREE Premier for Military
NewEgg has another promotion for Military members, one year of their Prime-like shipping service “NewEgg Premier”. After the first year (12 consecutive months), the regular annual service fees apply unless cancelled. Verification of eligibility is required to get the benefit. They also offer 50% off on APO shipping fees in addition to standard Premier free shipping to the 48. Details at the promotional page.
NewEgg offers new delivery option: your local FedEx Kinko’s
Just in time for the holidays, NewEgg is offering a new delivery option for your order, regardless of the shipping delivery speed you select. You can pick up your order at a local participating FedEx Kinko’s facility. In the “Review” stage of the Checkout process, you can select a FedEx location to receive your order. Look for something like this in that page, below your “Shipping Info” column:
There is no additional fee for this delivery option. Your shipping fee is whatever your default delivery fee is, which a lot of times it is free or close to free.
Another benefit of this is that if you live or work or travel to multiple locations on a regular basis, you can send your orders at where you are, instead of having them all go to your home address (assuming the delivery estimates work and such).
B&H starts Flash Deals (in addition to Daily Deals)
B&H expanded their daily deal to a six-pack a few days ago, now they have added another twist as we get closer to Black Friday, they have launched Flash Deals at the top of the Daily Deals Stack. The flash deals only last for a few hours each. The daily deals last for 24 hours each. Unless they sell out before their allotted time.
Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM Lens with Extras for $329
The Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Lens comes with 4% promotional rewards (around $13 to be used in a future purchase) at B&H Photo… On the other hand, if you prefer bird in the hand freebies, Adorama is bundling it with the Corel software bundle (including Aftershot PRO 2 and PSP X8), along with a ProOptic Filter Kit, Cleaning Kit and lens cap tether…
In-Stock Alert: Samsung’s Dalek ArtPC Pulse Desktop computers
It’s the attack of the Samsung Daleks! Their brand new cylindrical PCs that are also omni-directional speakers are now in-stock and ready to ship at Amazon by Amazon itself. There are two preset configurations, the i5 model (8GB, 256GB SSD, Radeon RX460) goes for $1200, while the i7 model (16GB, 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD, Radeon RX460) goes for $1600. From a distance, the various input ports on the side look like a built-in remote control 
Some may point out that Apple had a cylindrical PC, so Samsung was compelled to do so as well
Stock Update: Olympus E-M1 II estimate moves to December 12
I just updated the Stock Status Tracker and it looks like the Olympus E-M1 II estimate is shifting deeper into December, it went from December 2 to 12 at two of the three retailers tracked. Amazon remains December 2nd but it’s possible that they haven’t updated their website with the new info yet, but Amazon is often slightly behind the specialty retailers in time-sensitive updates of this nature.
YMMV 8% eBay Bucks on $50+ items [must activate first]
eBay is back with another Bonus Bucks promotion, you earn 8% eBay Bucks on individual items priced at $50 or higher (that’s the item price, before taxes or shipping). As usual, you have to manually opt-in to the offer before you get the bonus. Also note that this may be offered to a subset of eBay users, either on a rotating basis or a “big data” basis, so that’s why I say YMMV since I have no way of knowing what percentage of eBay users is being offered this which expires Tuesday November 22 at 11:59pm pacific time.
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.
(ENDED) Refurbished Nikon 55-300mm f4.5-5.6G DX VR w/90-day Nikon warranty for $180
This daily deal expired… The manufacturer refurbished Nikon 55-300mm f4.5-5.6G DX VR with a 90-day Nikon USA warranty is on sale for $180 with free shipping at Adorama. The offer is good until 12pm ET on Tuesday, or earlier if sold out, or later if it gets extended.
Adorama’s approach to daily deals is more versatile than other retailers (from a consumer perspective who may have missed that particular day), some (but not all) of them last longer than 24 hours, for example Tiffen 52mm Digital Essentials Filter Kit continues for $20 with free shipping, and the Case Logic CPL-108 DSLR Camera and iPad/Netbook Backpack continues for $22 with free shipping.
(ENDED) Tuesday B&H Dailies: Interfit S1 Monolight for $600, DJI Ronin-M, UndFIND, Etc
These daily deals expired. For future offers, check the B&H Photo Daily Deals…
(ENDED) Tuesday Daily Deals: Expensive Studio/Lighting Kits, Cyberlink Director, Etc
These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page…
Black Friday Ads digested including Best Buy and Walmart
The majority of the published Black Friday ads that offer camera-and-photo related products have been “digested” at the 2016 Black Friday Ads Digest mega-post, including big chain stores like Best Buy, Target and Walmart. A few more stores will be added as they post their ads and also as I check semi-related stores that may have camera-related items (eg action cams or drones in outdoors stores).
This year’s post is organized by camera-type/product-type instead of by retailer, since most of the Black Friday ad scans you can find online (just use any search engine) are broken down by retailer anyway. So this is sort of a value-added re-organization of the offers.
The general trend is similar as previous years [see our 2015 breakdown for cross-reference], a few Canon and Nikon DSLRs are the main iLCs that get advertised along with fewer than before fixed lens P&S cameras. On the other hand, action cameras, drones, and instant film cameras are getting more ad attention. I may do a separate “analysis” post if there’s enough material to write about [most probably it will parallel/similar to our 2015 Grading the Ads].
Tiffen 52mm Digital Essentials Filter Kit for $20 w/free S&H [updated]
This continues as of Sunday 4:44pm ET re-check… the Tiffen 52mm Digital Essentials Filter Kit going for $20 with free shipping and handling.
Good until 12pm ET on Sunday, the Adorama latest daily deal is
Alexa Voice (Prime only): 8″ Digiframe for $22, 48pk AA alkalines for $9
Amazon is also running some Alexa-exclusive promotions which include the Aluratek ADPF08SF 8-Inch Digital Photo Frame for $22.31 when you buy it using Alexa Voice ordering. The website price is $37. You have to voice-order it through Alexa to get the sale price.
Similarly, the 48pk of AmazonBasics AA alkaline batteries can be yours for $8.74 instead of its website price of $12.
These offers are for Prime members only. If you haven’t placed an Alexa order before, you will get a $5 Amazon gift card if you place a $10+ order. Limit one unit per customer.
PS: I do not have an Alexa type of a device, so I can’t test these offers. I prefer talking to the walls 
4TB Seagate Backup Plus External HDD and 200GB Cloud Storage for $110
On the storage front, the 4TB Seagate Backup Plus External USB 3.0 hard disk drive is on sale for $110 with free shipping, in new condition, at Amazon by Amazon itself. Four different colors are available at this price, with a limit five per color per customer. If you like to color code your storage (eg tiers of backups, or importance of data, or color-code quarters or years), the four different colors give you that option. You also get 200GB of cloud storage.
PS: if you buy multiple of the above, I don’t know if there’s a limit of how many 200GB “clouds” you can add to your cloud storage account. Often times, in situations like this, they have limits of one promotional bonus per account, but I have no way of testing this.
Speaking of storage, if you don’t need quick access, the 64GB PNY Attache USB 2.0 Flash Drive (model P-FD64GATT03-GE) goes for $10 (limit ten per customer), while the 128GB version of that goes for $18 (also limit ten per customer).
Speaking of storage, if you want to use memory cards as extra storage for your laptops, this brand new 128GB PNY Ultra Thin Notebook Memory Storage, model P-ULTRA128U1-233W-HT, goes for $35 with a limit of ten per customer.
Ape Sling Pack (ACPRO1700) for $52~
Camera gear purchases go hand in hand with camera bag purchases Which brings us to the Ape Case Digital SLR and Video Camera Sling Pack (model ACPRO1700) on sale for $51.84 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon itself.
Canon 24mm f2.8 STM EF-S w/Filter Kit and more for $129
More prime lens action, a discount along with freebies, at Adorama you can get the new condition Canon 24mm f2.8 STM EF-S prime lens for $129 with free shipping with the following freebies included by Adorama: ProOptic 52mm digital essentials filter kit (filter case and three filters), cleaning kit, lens cap tether, and 2% promotional rewards (around $2.50 to spend in future Adorama purchase). You get everything with this pancake except for the syrup
Sigma 17-50mm f2.8 EX DC HSM w/$15 rewards for $369 (C/N/A/P/S)
Shiguma time once again, the Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 EX DC HSM is on sale for $369 with free expedited shipping, along with 4% promotional rewards ($15~ to be used in future B&H purchases) at B&H Photo in the Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax and Sigma SLR mounts… (The Sigma SA does not get 4% promotional rewards however)… This is among their latest featured sales… Also in-progress is a new round of the previously mentioned Sigma Lens Instant Savings…
PS: “Shiguma” is the computer-translated name for Sigma when using computer-translation websites.
$100 Gift Card with Pentax K-1, $50 Gift Card with Ricoh Theta S 360
The Pentax K-1 came out at $1800 but it climbed to $1950 [see 35mm full frame price charts]. However, Adorama is sweetening the price increase a bit by including a $100 Adorama gift certificate with purchase at $1950… Meanwhile on the Ricoh front, the Ricoh Theta S 360 gets a $50 Adorama gift certificate going for its default price of $350 (along with $14~ promotional rewards and free overnight shipping).
Case Logic CPL-108 DSLR Camera and iPad/Netbook Backpack for $22 w/free S&H [updated]
As of Sunday PM re-check, this continues to be on sale… the new condition Case Logic CPL-108 DSLR Camera and iPad/Netbook Backpack going for $22 with free shipping and handling.
The latest Adorama daily deal, good until 12pm ET on Friday (or earlier if sold out) is
Latest Canon, Nikon, Sony specials at Adorama
Adorama launched another round of early Black Friday specials featuring some of the latest promotions and bundles with free accessories featuring Canon, Nikon and Sony cameras and lenses and assorted accessories. The cameras and lenses are broken down in sub-groups, nested within the manufacturer listing blocks in the order mentioned above.
Nikon D810 Body Only with MB-D12 Battery Grip and choice of other freebies for $2500
If you need a full frame Nikon DSLR body and must have the official battery grip with it, you are in luck, because the latest promotions have the Nikon D810 body only bundled with its official grip for FREE.
At B&H Photo, for $2500 you get the Nikon D810 body only, the MB-D12 battery grip, a 64GB Sandisk ExTreMe SDXC card, a Watson 3rd-party extra battery, and a Ruggard shoulder bag, along with 2% promotional rewards ($50 to spend in future B&H purchases) for $2500 with free expedited shipping.
On the other hand, if you prefer Lightroom 6 but still want the D810 and the battery grip, you can get the D810 body only along with the Nikon MB-D12 battery grip and the Lightroom 6 software (boxed DVD) for the same price at Adorama. No other extras are included with this bundle… Optionally you can add Nikon lenses to your order for a combined purchase discount – expand the yellow “Special Offer” section there to see them…
Nikon D500 w/16-80 and MB-D17 Battery Grip and 64GB Extreme and Lowepro and $96 Rewards for $2400
On the APS-C flagship front, the Nikon D500 with the 16-80mm f2.8-4 E VR ED kit is bundled with three free accessories (the official Nikon MB-D17 battery grip, a Lowepro backpack, and a 64GB Sandisk ExtReMe PRO SDXC card) along with 4% promotional rewards ($96~ to be spent on future B&H photo purchases) at B&H Photo for $2400 with free expedited shipping.
Canon Instant Savings (cameras, lenses, flashes)
The Instant Savings party continues with Canon, they too have launched a new manufacturer-initiated instant savings promotion featuring a variety of cameras and lenses, along with some flashes. You can find them all nicely organized at B&H Photo… You can compare the current price situation to early November using the November 2016 price charts…
50% off Walgreens Photo with coupon
It’s coupon time again at Walgreens Photo where coupon code GIVETHANKS50 gets you 50% off “Everything Photo”, a blanket category that includes most of their custom photo print related offerings, including …blankets The coupon ends on Tuesday 11/22/16 Wednesday 11/23/16 [CORRECTED] at 11:59pm Central (unless it gets extended until Saturday night).
New Sony Cameras, Lenses and Accessories Instant Savings
Sunday is typically when new manufacturer-initiated instant-savings promotions roll out, and this Sunday is no exception on the Sony front, where a number of new MAP-blessed sales have gone live featuring various Sony cameras (DSLR, mirrorless, fixed lens), along with various Lenses and Accessories and Camcorders. You can find them all nicely organized at B&H Photo… You can compare the current price situation to early November using the November 2016 price charts…
New Sigma Lens Instant Savings w/freebies and rewards (27 options)
It’s Shiguma time! A new round of instant savings is offered up on 27 Sigma lenses and bundles for different camera systems. Most of them include 4% promotional rewards, and some of them also include free accessories (eg dock, close-up lens, filter, etc). You can find them nicely organized at B&H Photo.
(ENDED) Monday Daily Deals: Studio/Lighting Kits, 3rd-party Flashes, Rigs, Etc
These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page…
(ENDED) Monday: 77mm Tiffen VND for $90, 82mm for $110, Magnus Tripod for $50
This round expired… For future sales, stay tuned to the a href=’https://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/dealZone.jsp/BI/1515/KBID/2055/SID/cpd112016dod’>B&H Daily Deals page…
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