Camera Deals

Thursday is here and so is another set of B&H Photo daily deals good until 11:59pm ET on Thursday (or earlier if sold out):

+ Steiner 7×50 C Navigator Pro Binoculars with Compass for $350

+ Litra LitraStudio RGBWW Photo & Video LED Light for $390
+ not to be confused with Lytro, the light field photography company

+ Delkin Fat Gecko Dual-Suction Camera Mount for $40

+ KanDao QooCam Interchangeable 4K 360 and 3D 180 Camera for $230

+ Arco Video Dr. Bag 40 for $79
+ also handy for doctor cosplay and doctor stock photography 😉

+ FilmCraft Pro Series Tall Director’s Chair (30″, Black Frame, Black Canvas) for $130
+ also handy when making “film critic” style YouTube videos 😉

UPDATE #1: among the Woot dailies there’s another variant of the “former Android flagships” sale and a “2 t-shirts for $18” offer with coupon code 2FOR18, which is not bad given that Woot t-shirts are not priced like 6 Dollar Shirts. Speaking of which, 6DollarShirts is a great value and durable (I bought many of them; they also have an on-going offer, 10 t-shirts for $50; shipping is extra)…

UPDATE #2: Meanwhile at the Best Buy dailies they have the Sunpak YouTuber Creator Kit Vlogging Kit for $30 [combine it with the director’s chair at B&H and you’ll have the #1 film critic YouTube channel 🙂 ) and a 128GB Sandisk EXtReMe PlUs for $33, select GE Grow (not Glow) LED plant lights [PRO TIP: you can grow your plant/macro photography subjects!], and such…

OOOPS! I forgot to post Tuesday’s dailies, but we are back for the Wednesday 2/17/21 B&H Photo daily deals, a six-pack of them, good until Hump Day at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 for $60
+ choice of digital download or DVD by mail

+ Wooden Camera Unified BMPCC4K/BMPCC6K Camera Cage (Rubber Handle) for $159
+ mayhaps it should be called Rubber Camera? 😉

+ MAgnus REX VT-6000 2-Stage Video Tripod with Fluid Head for $399
+ the MA is not Massachusetts but I often type the next letter before I fully release the SHIFT button, so the 2nd letter gets capitalized #BehindTheScenes

+ GVM LED Ring Light Soft Light 600S for $119

+ PROgrade 325GB CFexpress 2.0 Cobalt Memory Card for $325
+ 2-pack of them for $635, a $15 combined purchase discount, $7.50 per card

+ AUstream AU-Stream True Wireless for $40 or 2-pack for $75

UPDATE #1: among the Woot daily deals they have foldable Snaptain drones ($65 to $100), refurbished Samsung computer monitors ($230 to $500) and refurbished Kindle Oasis/Voyager e-readers ($50 to $150, 90-day Woot warranty; the ones with a 1-year warranty are the ones Amazon itself sells as certified refurbished)…

UPDATE #2 among the BEst Buy dailies they have the 12TB WD EAsystore external HDD for $200, TVs, Intel i7-10700 (10th generation; Ryzen sends its regards), 512GB Sandisk Ultra Plus microSDXC for $95, Surface Laptop GO for $520 (M1 Macbooks and Chromebooks send their regards), etc, etc, etc

UPDATE #3: oops II, I also forgot the current Adorama daily deal (changes Wednesday 10am ET), it is the 2ft Quasar Science Q-25X Crossfade Linear 25W Bi-Color LED Lamp for $75 (actual Quasar (the ones mentioned by Neil deGrasse Tyson) not included, they are against UPS/FedEx shipping policy 😉

IF you like to double and triple bag things or if you like to organize-store and/or travel-a-lot, the Sunday 2/14/21 Meh daily deal is not a Valentine’s themed offering, but a 12-pack of soft storage cubes of four different sizes for $14 plus shipping. The set also included two drawstring bags, making it a 14-pack…

Not a “lens day” at the Sunday B&H Photo daily deals and no valentine’s theme here either:

+ Tamrac Arc Flash Accessory Pocket – 1.7 (Black) for $7

+ Vello FlashBoss TTL Transceiver for Canon for $40
+ two transceivers for $70

+ IDX CUE-H180 179Wh Compact Li-Ion V-Mount Battery for $219

+ My-Geko-Gear Orbit 510 1080p Dash Cam with Night Vision & 16GB microSD Card for $60
+ discover the joys of dashcam-o-graphy! 😉

UPDATE #1: among the Sunday Amazon USA Gold Box they have the SK hynix Gold S31 3D NAND 2.5 inch SATA III Internal SSD on sale. The 1TB version goes for $83~ while the 500GB version goes for $46~…

UPDATE #2: among the Best Buy daily deals they have the 10-inch NixPlay smart digiframe for $140, and Insignia single-use batteries on sale…

Adorama is back with another one of their daily deals and this item lasts until Sunday at 10am ET (or earlier if sold out). It is the new condition FotoPro AK-64 iSpeedy Aluminum Quick Extend Monopod going for $90 with free US shipping…

It’s Kindle and Fire device sale at the Amazon USA Gold Bo for Saturday 2/13/21, headlined by the new condition 8GB Kindle Paperwhite (with Special Offers) going for $95 in four color options. The option without the Special Offers is +$20, or you can remove the special offers at any point in the future by paying the one-time fee… As long as Kindle e-readers can’t show video, I personally do not find their ads annoying and on occasion I find a deal or discover an interesting and discounted e-book…

Lots of RAM is among the computer-related offers at the Saturday Newegg daily deals, too many to list here individually…

The new round of the Adorama daily deals is here until Saturday at 10am ET and it is the new condition Wiral Lite Cable Cam offered for $329 with free US shipping…

Headlining the Friday Amazon USA Gold Box is the new condition Dell XPS 9310 two-in-one laptop for $1439~ with free US shipping with up to three per customer at the sale price.

This has a 13.4 inch FHD+ Touchscreen, i7-1165G7, a glorious 32GB of 4267MHz LPDDR4x RAM, 512GB SSD storage, Intel Iris Xe Graphics, Windows 10 Home, etc…

And at the NewEgg dailies they have a 512GB Team Group internal SSD for $50, more WD HDDs, laptops, gaming gift cards, 128GB Team USB 3.2 Gen I flash drive for $13, COVID masks, and mo(i)re…

And now a total freebie if you are participating the Lucky (grocery store) Rewards. You can claim an offer for a FREE tin of Sparkling Ice + Caffeine. Because everything must needs be caffeinated 🙂

FriYAY is here and as usual, the B&H Photo daily deals last until Saturday at 11:59pm ET but orders are not accepted, as usual, Friday PM to Saturday PM {check website for exact hours}:

+ Spider SpiderPro Hand Strap for $21

+ GenAray Ultra-Thin Bicolor 288 SMD LED On-Camera Light for $50

+ Sachtler Lightweight Audio Bag (Large) for $149
+ large size audio bags typically hold a minimum of 100 songs 😉

+ Bolt battery packs for select Nikon and Sony cameras, $30 to $40
+ these take 8 or 12 AA batteries, hooray for the rechargeables, ouch for the wallets of single-use battery users 🙂

+ flash deal: Garmin inReach Mini Satellite Communicator (Orange) (Satellite Subscription Required) for $280

+ no teaser for the next flash deal yet

Meanwhile the Meh-rathon is over but the Friday Meh daily deal is a 2-pack of Morphie 6040 mAh power-banks with USB-C port for $18 plus shipping. That’s about one full refill of a modern flagship/big-screen type of a smartphone. BUT if you are using this to charge smaller battery devices (eg true wireless earphones or flip phones) this can last a lot longer…

PSA #1: if you have any music or music data (eg playlists) in your Google Play Music account that you want to download or preserve, Google has sent an email announcing that on February 24 (2021) your music data will be deleted. You can download all your music purchases (and freebies) using Google Takeout, and/or you can transfer them to YouTube Music. You can also transfer your playlists there. Note that YouTube Music forces you to create a YouTube Channel (!!!) in your name if you want to transfer your playlists over… More details via Google Music support…

UPDATE #2: among the Woot daily deals for Friday you will find Netgear networking stuff under “Computers” and Delsey hard-side luggage under “Clearance/Sellout” and 30% off t-shirts with promo code SOLVED (t-shirt coupon expires 2/14/21 at 11:59pm central; everything else expires, as usual, at 11:59pm central time of the same day)…

UPDATE #3: more storage and lightning action at the Best Buy dailies for Friday 2/12/21:

+ 128GB Sandisk Ultra Plus SDXC for $25

+ 4-pack of Hampton Peace multicolor LEDs on sale, multiple options

+ 8TB WD easySToRE external USB 3.0 HDD for $130

+ 512GB PNY elite pro usb 3.0 flash drive for $70

+ the thing that looks like AA batteries, well actually it’s a lip balm in man-marketing presentation

+ Mount-It dual monitor gas-spring-arm desk mount for $110

Thursday is here and Meh is having a …Woot-OFF, or as they call it, a Meh-rathon at the Meh website. Offers keep on changing throughout the day, BUT you can also purchase any of the previous offers as long as they are not sold-out. Look for them in the Meh-rathon Forum, click on the item of interest, click on it again to get to the individual product page, and if it’s not sold-out, you will see a “BUY IT” button option…

Next up we head on over to the B&H Photo daily deals, good until 11:59pm ET on Thursday 2/11/21 or earlier if sold out…

+ Autel Robotics EVO II 8K Drone On The Go Bundle for $1249 with FREE 128GB Sandisk Extreme microSDXC and 3′ Hoodman Drone Launch Pad included automatically by B&H during this promotion

+ PowerEX MH-C204GT 4-bay Smart Charger and 8-Pack of Pro Rechargeable AA NiMH Batteries Kit for $24~

+ Oben ATM-2600 6-Section Aluminum Monopod for $35

+ FotoDioX C-300RS FlapJack LED Bi-Color Edge Light (10″) for $140

+ Hyper GaN 100W USB Type-C & USB Type-A Charger for $60~ after 40% off automatic in-cart coupon

+ ElVid 5″ RigVision HDR On-Camera Touchscreen Monitor for $199

UPDATE: the current round of Adorama daily deals (change Friday 10am ET) is the new condition Voyager Air Wheel Hoverboard going for $150 with free US Shipping…

Tuesday, aka TunesDay aka ToonsDay is here and we start with a new string quartet of B&H Photo daily deals good until 11:59pm ET on Tuesday 2/9/21 or earlier IFF sold out…

+ 2TB Delkin CFexpress POWER Memory Card for $750 after an automatic $250 off in-cart coupon
+ optionally buy it together with Delkin USB 3.2 CFExpress card reader for $795 total

+ Think Tank Photo Video Rig 24 Rolling Case for $270
+ tank is not included!

+ Vortex 8×42 Viper HD Binoculars (2018 Edition) for $349
+ not to be confused with The Red Viper, who breaks with a “sickening crunch” 😉

+ Oben TAB-4M Four-Mount Tripod Accessory Bar for $60
+ two-mount for $40

It’s Super Bowl Sunday, too late now to buy a big screen TV from the interwebs. And the way TVs are becoming more complicated, it might be too late to buy it from the B&M store too, because the setup, connections, calibration, optimization, etc take time and there’s not enough time to get it all done before the SuperBow festivities begin.

PSA: if you are using an old TV set to watch the SuperBowl and you think you see Tom Brady on your Superbowl television, don’t throw it away, it’s not ghosting from previous SuperBowls, it’s the Tampa Bay Brady!

Speaking of PSAs, here’s a real PSA, Google has patched an actively exploited zero-day issue with the Chrome browser version 88 and it recommends immediate updating. Details via Techmeme… The last time I checked this applied to the Windows, Mac and Linux versions of the web browser… Neither Google Play nor ChromeOS have shown me updates pending… Eric Lawrence did some digging on the twitter…

And after that long and winding prologue of sorts, we are here with the B&H Photo daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Kodak 10″ Digital Picture Frame with Wi-Fi and Multi-Touch Display for $100
+ for our younger viewers, Kodak is not just a rapper but was also a company out of Rochester, New York that was big during the film photography years and during the very early days of digital

+ ONA The Leather Clifton Camera and Everyday Backpack (Camouflage) for $150

+ TriGyn 8″ Ring Light with Smartphone Holder and Desktop Tripod Stand for $35

+ Holmes Odor Grabber Air Purifier for $15
+ when people say their pictures stink, may be they are right? 😉

Never fear, Thirst-DAY is here! We start with a new round of B&H Photo daily deals good until Thursday 2/4/21 at 11:59pm eastern (or earlier if sold out):

+ Porta Brace PR-C2LED Compact Padded Case for LED Lights for $79~
+ bag the bags: because you need bags for everything, not just cameras and lenses and laptops and tablets!

+ Litra LitraPro Bi-Color On-Camera Light with Dome Diffuser, Shoe Mount & USB Cable for $140 after $80 off automatic in-cart coupon
+ with Softbox for $165 after $100 off after automatic in-cart coupon
+ not to be confused with the old yet short-lived Lytro camera maker

+ Elvid FieldVision 7″ HDR IPS LCD On-Camera Monitor for $380
+ personally, I carry a 100-inch 64K Super-Ultra-Hyper-Amazeballs-HD monitor with me everywhere I go

+ GVM 3D 3-Axis Wireless Carbon Fiber Motorized Slider with Bluetooth Remote (32″) for $719
+ can also be repurposed as a pet toy 😉

+ TelMax PRO-IP-EX Universal Tablet & Smartphone Teleprompter for $339
+ nothing says authentic more than reading from a teleprompter like an elementary school student

+ Polsen MO-IDL2-MK2 Dual Omnidirectional Lavalier Microphone for DSLR Cameras and Smartphones (20′ Cable) for $25

+ Elvid, Litra, Polsen, Telmax, Porta, sounds like the names of an Elf/human fantasy-romance novel
+ you see, Elvid is married to Litra, but Porta wants Elvid and Polsen wants Litra, while Telmax wants all of them

UPDATE #1: among the Newegg deals du jour you can get a 10TB WD desktop external HDD (Elements series) for $160 after the limited time promo code shown over there…

UPDATE #2: the headliner of the Best Buy deals du jour is a 4TB WD EasySTore external HDD for $90, while further down you will find the 18TB version for $330.

UPDATE #3: the latest Adorama daily deals (change Friday 10am ET) include their H&A studio headphones for $50 and the Manfrotto 72mm Circular ND500 Lens Filter for $30…

And just like that, another Hump Day has arrived, as we half-way ate yet another week!

We start with the latest round of B&H Photo daily deals, good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ EdelKrone HeadONE for $259

+ Oben Lander CT-3565 5-Section Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod System & TVH-108 Video Head for $170
+ Lander, not Moon Lander!

+ 3pk of Luxli Cello 10″ RGBAW LED Light for $529
+ normally multi-packs are associated with consumer consumables, but photography needs MOAR light!

+ AmazFIT Band 5 Health & Fitness Tracker with Alexa for $28 after automatic 30% off in-cart coupon (three color options)

+ TeraDek Bolt Sidekick XT Universal Wireless Receiver for $1490

+ Lenovo 14″ IdeaPad Slim 9 Multi-Touch Laptop for $1429
+ 2.8 GHz i7 4-Core (11th Gen), 16GB of LPDDR4x RAM, 512GB M.2 SSD, 14″ 3840 x 2160, IPS Touchscreen, etc

Then we Meh where we find a 3-pack of iEssentials 5W wireless charging pads (with 2 USB ports each) going for $16 total plus shipping (free S&H for paying Meh-meh-meh-mehmbers)…

Meanwhile Best Buy is running a limited time flash sale on their website and fans of Chromebooks may be interested in the new condition ASUS C433 two-in-one (full name C433TABM3T8) going for $329, or starting at $250 in open-box condition. This is a 360-degree with a 14-inch full-HD touchscreen display, with an Intel m3 processor, 4GB RAM, 64GB storage, Intel UHD 615 graphics, card reader, etc, etc, etc. It averages 4.5 out of 5 based on 300+ customer reviews as of the time of writing… It includes a 6-month 3-device Trend Micro internet security subscription…

Per the Google AUE page this will get automatic updates until June 2026, that’s five years and five months from blog-posting time…

PS: regardless of when you got your Chromebook, don’t forget to check the Chromebook Perks page from time to time to see if they added any new freebies…

PS2: Chromebook has a LOT of keyboard shortcuts. Be sure to check this Google Support page to discover new ones or re-remember old forgotten ones!

UPDATE #1: among the Wednesday 2/3/21 Best Buy daily deals they have the new condition 12TB WD EasyStoor external USB 3.0 hard drive offered for $190 with the usual Shutterfly coupon-freebie…

UPDATE #2: some action at the Woot dailies as well where the headliner is a big refurbished iPad and MacBook sale (29 options) and a refurbished 27″ LG 5K IPS Ultrafine monitor hiding among them for $945… If you need an extra Kindle e-reader or want to get started, under “Computers” they have refurbished Kindles for $40 and refurbished Voyages for $50 to $55…

Four is the magic number for the Tuesday (aka TunesDay aka ToonsDay) B&H Photo daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier IF sold-out):

+ Indipro Universal Power Grip with Built-In Battery for $150
+ optionally buy it together with its custom charger for $189 total
+ just like you can’t have photo-graphy without light, you can’t have digital cameras without power!
+ this master of the obvious tip of the day was brought to you by Mr Obvious, Your New Destination For Photography Tips You Didn’t Know You Already Knew!

+ FeelWorld F5 Pro 5.5″ V2 4K HDMI IPS Touchscreen Monitor for $120

+ VorTex 10×42 Diamondback HD Binoculars for $170

+ Apexel Telephoto Zoom Lens for Smartphones for $45, two options, one 36x, the other 20X-40X

UPDATE #1: there are two Adorama daily deals in the lot that runs until Wednesday at 10am ET:

+ Manfrotto 72mm Circular ND64 Lens Filter for $25

+ AmazFit Stratos Smartwatch for $99