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The new camera gear Sony announced earlier in the week are now available to pre-order at authorized dealers as follows:
+ RX 10 III rawsumer for $1500 at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon
+ Sony FE 50mm f1.8 Lens for $250 at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon
+ Sony FE 70-300mm f4.5-5.6 G OSS Lens for $1200 at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon
The name “Contemporary” sounds reasonable now in Sigma’s line-up since it was only recently launched, but twenty years from now, all these lenses will still be called “Contemporary” even though they won’t be so 🙂 Regardless…
… the Sigma 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC Macro OS HSM Contemporary lens is available bundled with the Sigma AML72-01 close-up lens and the Sigma USB Dock and $20 promotional rewards, all together for $499 with free shipping at Adorama in the Canon, Nikon, Sony Alpha, Pentax, and Sigma SLR mounts.
Alternately, you can opt for the bundles that include the Sigma AML72-01 close-up lens, but trade the Sigma USB Dock and 4% rewards for a bundle of lens accessories (72mm Digital Essentials Filter Kit, lens pouch, tether, and cleaning kit).
Page down on the Adorama search results until you find the mount and combo of interest.
The Fujifilm INSTAX Mini 90 Neo Classic Instant Camera is on sale for $100 with free shipping in the black color scheme at B&H Photo (ships 7-14 business days)… The brown color scheme goes for $120. Sale ends 4/2/16 at 11:59pm ET…
The ikan Micro Spot On-Camera Light (Daylight) is on sale for $50 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo. This offer expires 3/31/16 at 11:59pm ET.
We start this wave with a creature with three legs. No, not a 50s low-budget lo-fi sci-fi movie, but the 3 Legged Thing EVO3 Punks Vyv Aluminum Tripod on sale for a limited for $119 with free shipping at B&H Photo.
These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box (new, giant images version) or Amazon Gold Box (old, widget with arrows version) and Camera & Photo page…
The April Fool’s Day party is over! The next one begins in 364 days 🙂
It is April Fool’s Day in the Eastern and Central time zones, and some retailers have already began having fun with it. The Woot website has put on a …bidet theme all over the place, taking toilet humor to another level… Meanwhile Meh.com filled up their website with Captcha boxes, with pithy text revealed after you click on each one…
If you like 32GB Lexar SDHC cards and Lexar card readers, Adorama has a bundle for you: you get two 32GB Lexar SDHC Class 10 UHS-I U3 633x cards (model LSD32GCBNL6332) and one Lexar Professional Workflow USB 3.0 Card Reader (SD Only) for $29 with free shipping total. Limit five sets per customer during this sale.
The 128GB Lexar 1000x SDXC UHS-II/U3 Card with the Image Rescue 5 software, model LSD128CRBNA1000, is on sale for a limited time for $70~ with free shipping, with a limit of three per customer at Amazon by Amazon itself, while the 64GB version goes for $40 (also limit 3) and the 256GB version for $142 (also limit 3).
A more recent Nikon APS-C DSLR, the D7200 is now available in manufacturer refurbished condition for $770 with free shipping at Adorama as one of their refubished Nikon specials that are part of the 4200+ Spring Clearance Items.
An alternative option to the previously mentioned refurbished Nikon 55-200mm f4-5.6 DX VR II for $110, Adorama is offering the manufacturer refurbished refurbished Nikon 55-300mm f4.5-5.6G ED AF-S DX VR with a 90-day Nikon USA warranty for $195 with free shipping… This is one of their 4200+ Spring Clearance Items…
A versatile lens, perhaps an alternative to the basic 18-55 lens, the Nikon 18-140mm f3.5-5.6G ED AF-S DX VR is available in manufacturer refurbished condition for $210 with free shipping at Adorama with a 90 day Nikon USA warranty… This is one of their 4200+ Spring Clearance Items…
Not only can you get a superzoom for $100 these days, but one with Wifi and NFC too! Adorama is offering the manufacturer refurbished Nikon Coolpix S6900 CompactZoom (12x optical) with a 90 day Nikon USA warranty for $90 with free shipping… This is one of their 4200+ Spring Clearance Items…
On the Micro Four Thirds front, if you are ready to make an f2.8 commitment to the system, the Olympus E-M5 II PROFESSIONAL kit is now on sale for $3700 with free shipping and 5% promotional rewards (that’s $185 to spend on a future purchase) at B&H Photo. The same price but without 5% rewards is available at Adorama.
The PROFESSIONAL KIT (so many products use the term “Pro” as just marketing, so since this is actually a pro kit, it deserves full capitalization) consists of the following:
+ Olympus E-M5 II body only ($900 on its own)
+ Olympus 7-14mm f2.8 ($1200 on its own)
+ Olympus 12-40mm f2.8 ($900 on its own)
+ Olympus 40-150mm f2.8 ($1400 on its own)
+ Olympus HLD-8 Power Battery Holder for OM-D E-M5 Mark II (goes for $239 on its own)
+ additional Olympus BLN-1 battery ($40 on its own)
+ CBG-10 Camera System Bag (priceless)
So let’s do the math, you pay $3700 versus $4679 buying the items separately. No coupons, no rebates, just add the pro thing to the shopping cart and proceed to checkout.
Not as fragile as a pancake but more sensitive to syrup, pancake lenses are one of the lower risk type of purchases if you want to go the open-box or used/refurbished route. Which brings us to the Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Pancake Lens available in open-box condition for $119 with free shipping and the full 1-year Canon USA warranty at Adorama as one of their many clearance items.
This is not a bad way to add a stabilized telephoto zoom to one’s Nikon virtual camera bag, the Nikon 55-200mm f4-5.6G ED DX VR II is available in manufacturer refurbished condition with a 90 day Nikon USA warranty for $110 with free shipping at Adorama as one of their 4200+ clearance sale items.
Adorama is having a Spring Clearance Sale with over 4200 items participating. You can use the various options in the left sidebar to filter them by product categories and manufacturer and price range or condition (eg refurbished). Unfortunately my brain is a 900 MHz Celeron so I can’t go through 4200+ items in milliseconds, so it may take a while for me to sift through them 🙂
For a limited time only, Stacksocial has three coupon discounts as follows:
+ SAVE10 is $10 off a $55+ order
+ SAVE15 is $15 off a $100+ order
+ SAVE20 is $20 off a $150+ order
These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box (new, giant images version) or Amazon Gold Box (old, widget with arrows version) and Camera & Photo page…
This daily deal expired but the D-Rebel T5 is a recurring feature at various deal websites…
This daily deal expired… For more action, check the B&H Featured Deals page…
In a galaxy nearby, the white Pentax K-50 body only is bundled with the Pentax AF-200FG external flash and $12~ in promotional rewards, all together for $295 with free shipping at Adorama. Only this body-only color currently gets the free flash.
The current iteration of various Nikon SLR Instant Savings at Adorama come with some extra items as well, a lens filter and the Corel software kit that includes AfterShot PRO and Paintshop PRO. The lenses are organized by type over there for easier navigation. It includes a mix of primes and zooms. This round expires 4/2/16.
If you have Canon EF lenses or Sigma SA lenses and you would like to use them on your Sony E-mount camera bodies, Sigma has a new mount converter adapter, the MC-11 available for pre-order for $249 each at B&H Photo with a mid-April release estimate.
Time sure does fly, we now have the third generation of the Sony RX10 1-inch RAWzoomer fixed lens camera, with a 24-600mm f2.4-4 Zeiss blessed lens (on a 1″ sensor). This new camera will be available for pre-ordering on March 31st at 11am eastern for $1500. So far it has been listed at the B&H Photo website. Sony continues with their new two-step announcement process. This has been added to the New Cameras of 2016 tracking page.
Sony has two new FE E-mount full frame lenses that will also become available for pre-ordering/purchase on March 31st in 2016. One prime, one zoom. The prime is the 50mm f1.8 for $248, and the zoom is the 70-300mm f4.5-5.6 G OSS FE for $1198. You can see their specs and pre-order pre-details at B&H Photo… These too have been added to the new of New Lenses in 2016 tracking page…
Another Tokina offer, their 16-28mm f2.8 PRO FX lens is currently on sale for $589 with free shipping and 4% promotional rewards (around $23) in the Canon or Nikon SLR mounts at B&H Photo. Offer ends 3/31/16 at 11:59pm ET.
If you prefer free accessories instead of 4% promotional rewards, Adorama is bundling it with a flex lens shade, a slinger soft large lens case and a cleaning kit.
PS: post title corrected, this is Tokina, not Tamron. Many years later, and I still mis-type them. File under “known errors” 🙂 Why did they both have to start with a “T” and have six letters in their name? 🙂
If you like Touit lenses and the Fuji X system and don’t mind mail-in rebates and prepaid gift cards, the X-System trio of Zeiss Touit lenses (12/2.8, 32/1.8, 50/2.8) is bundled together for $2018 after a $700 mail-in rebate (prepaid gift card) at Adorama (with free filters and cleaning kits).
NOTE #1: this is currently “Temporarily On Backorder”, there is no shipping estimate
NOTE #2: the PDF of the rebate form (available at the aforelinked page) says that your rebate form must be postmarked within 30 days of purchase. Since the shipment date is an unknown, if you are planning to do the mail-in rebate, you may want to wait until it is back in-stock before buying it!
NOTE #3: the PDF rebate says “prepaid gift card” but does not specify which one. VISA? Mastercard? AMEX? Store Gift Card? It certainly won’t be a cashable check.
The lens party continues with a Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L II bundle at B&H Photo that includes 4% promotional rewards (around $70) and the Luminesque 82mm Circular Polarizer and UV Slim PRO Filter Kit included automatically by B&H while this promotion is running.
While the Tokina 11-20mm f2.8 is the B&H Photo Daily Deal (ends Tue 11:59pm ET), the Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 AT-X 116 PRO DX-II is on sale for $450 with free shipping and 4% promotional rewards ($18~) at B&H Photo in the Canon, Nikon and Sony SLR mounts. Offer ends 3/31/16 at 11:59pm ET.
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