Camera Deals

Sunday is contractually obligated to be sunny, otherwise it’s just the day before Monday! Now that this is settled, here’s the latest round of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ LEDgo Bi-Color Flood Shoot-Through LED Ring Light for $119
+ also a philosophical product kinda reminding us to …let go of things

+ Ruggard Compact DSLR Backpack V2 (Gray and Blue) for $20
+ the little cyan gives it a different feel and outlook than the typical black/gray “serious” bags

+ SirUI VSK-3 Video Survival Kit for $90
+ this helps the videographer survive, a bad video cannot be saved!

+ 128GB Kingston Data Traveler SE9 G2 USB 3.0 flash drive for $20
+ flash drive naming has gotten out of hand; the names are longer than the product size 😉

+ Samsung Galaxy Note 10 SM-N970U 256GB Smartphone Unlocked for $540 in three color options
+ rumor has it the Note line may be ending its lifecycle
+ until of course Samsung resurrects it in the future, like Motorola keeps resurrecting the Razr 😉
+ mayhaps Samsung is prematurely declaring “mission accomplished” on the foldables; right now they are more breakables than foldables 😉
+ #SaveTheNote

+ also $15 fitness tracker and $20 bluetooth earphones
+ on an unrelated note, I am developing a very accurate $0 fitness tracker for those who do not exercise at all 😉

+ flash deal: Gitzo GM4562 Series 4 Carbon Fiber Monopod for $250
+ next flash deal: Canon imageFORMULA DR-C240 Office Document Scanner

UPDATE: action at the Best Buy dailies for Sunday as well including:

+ Zhiyun Crane M2 3-in-1 handheld stabilizer-y thing for $190

+ PNY microSD sale, 32GB to 512GB, $6 to $75, some Elite, some Elite X, the $75 is Elite PRO
+ bang for the GB/$ is 256GB Elite-X for $35
+ always interesting to see where the GB/$ is at with flash storage products!

FriYAY is here and as usual, the B&H daily deals are good until Saturday at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Oben MFR4-5 Macro Focusing Rail for $75

+ Tamrac Pro Compact 1 Camera Bag for $10

+ Apexel Gorillas Tripod for Smartphones and DSLR Camera for $18

+ GVM Dual Charger with BP-A60 Battery for Canon C300 Mark II, C200 & C200B (6800mAh) for $110

+ FeelWorld LUT7 7″ 3D LUT 4K HDMI Monitor for $200

+ XCellon USB-C hub for $20 (without) to $25 (with PD)

+ Lenspen lens cleaners for $5 (two options)

+ flash deaL: oLIGHT Seeker 2 Pro Rechargeable LED Flashlight (Carbon Fiber) for $100
+ next flash deal: not teased yet

UPDATE: among the FRiday 12/11/20 Best Buy deals du jour they have:

+ 13.3-inch NixPlay Smart digi-photo-frame for $230

+ 64GB Sandisk Extreme PLUS SDXC for $20

+ Sunpak YouTuber Creator Kit with Boya lavalier microphone and bluetooth remote for $25

+ 12TB WD EasySto’or external HDD for $200

+ Razer gaming sale (headliner deal)

+ Galaxy S10* with Verizon activation discounts

Meanwhile at the Woot website they have a headliner on open-box iPads and MacBooks, and a $190 11.6″ rugged ASUS Chromebook C202SA (Celery N3060, 4GB RAM, 16GB on-board, 90-day warranty, ChromeOS Auto Updates until June 2022, etc)…

Robus, Luxli, Lexar, Unagi, these could be the names of the leading characters of a “Hunger Games” clone movie/book 🙂

And just like that, it’s another Hump Day and with it we have a new set of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out) as follows:

+ 128GB Lexar 667x UHS-I microSDXC for $15
+ back in our time kids, we had to pay $15 for a 1MB Smartmedia card 😉

+ Luxli CNS-20D Constructor Medium Block On-Camera Daylight Balanced LED Light for $30
+ daily reminder: you can’t have photography without light

+ Robus RCM-633 6-Section Carbon Fiber Monopod, 65″ for $85
+ you can also cosplay Gandalf with this

+ Celestron Lenspen Optical Cleaning Tool for $6

+ LG 34WL550-B 34″ 21:9 UltraWide FreeSync HDR10 IPS Monitor for $235
+ poor LG it suffered the most in the Smartphone wars of Apple vs Samsung vs China

+ Unagi Model One E500 Dual-Motor Electric Scooter for $749 in three color schemes

+ EzViz C6CN 1080p Pan & Tilt Wi-Fi Network Security Camera for $27
+ mayhaps the most affordable tilt shift lens ever 😉
(+ just so we are clear, this is not a tilt shift lens 🙂

+ flash deal: GVM Dolly Track Camera Slider (31.5″) for $79
+ next flash deal: some kind of a APS UPS

UPDATE: for the EU shoppers, good until Friday 12pm ET (6pm Germany time) Amazon Chermany has the new condition Pergear 35mm f1.6 lens on sale for 56 euro-dollars in the Sony APS-C E-system (NEX time!)…

UPDATE #2: under “Clearance” in the Woot daily deals there’s the 10 inch Kamaitatchi selfie ring light going for $18 while under “Electronics” there’s the Surface headphones for $150…

*OR* you can pre-order the exciting (for Apple’s accountants for sure) Apple AirPods Max for $549 in your choice of five different color options… There are complaints about pricing but lt’s not forget audiophiles willing pay up to $5000 for headphones, so Apple kept it modest with these 😉

*OR* to go in Rockwell-mode, this $18 Koss KSC-75 headphone is the only headphone you’ll ever need. And it won’t ruin your hair or press on your jaw or jam up the inside of your ears 🙂 And when you open the package, you also get a bonus aroma of the Koss (Wisconsin) diary air 😉

No manual focus prime lenses in the Tuesday Camera and Photo Lightning Deals at Amazon, but they have, as of the time of writing:

+ over 115 options

+ lots of the usual studio, lightning and background kits

+ toy/kids digital cameras

+ smartphone photo accessories (“selfie” ring lights, smaller stabilizery things, etc)

+ tripods and other stabilizery things

+ flashes and macro ring lights

+ action cams and binoculars

+ and of course it’s a Neewer party once again!

Meanwhile the current Adorama daily deals (change Wednesday 10am ET) include a $40 USB microphone and a $400 HP Desktop 600 G3 micro-tower (i5-7530 3.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, etc)…

We start Tuesday with some Meh action, their deal du jour is a 4-pack of Geeni Prisma 1050lm color smart bulbs for $35 with free S&H for Meh-members… This is model GN-BW944-999… They can be controlled via smartphone and three voice assistants not named Siri…

Unlike the ever-so-sprawling Woot, Meh has only a single deal of the day, but that’s not the whole story either, because the Meh family of companies includes two websites that offer multiple deals du jour (SideDeal, Morning Save), while two others offer a single item (CaseMates (wine) and Mediocriteeee (t-shirts)) [you can find them all at the bottom of the Meh site]…

Speaking of the the Woot website their dailies include another assortment of Apple devices (iPads, iMacs, MacBooks, etc) and Surface devices, 2 lbs of Smokin’ Aces coffee, etc… Speaking of which, third wave coffee is so passe, I’m starting fourth wave coffee as we speak 😉

At the Big Yellow daily deals [outlived Radio ShaQ, Circuit City, Montgomery Ward’s Electric Avenue, The Incredible Universe, HH Gregg, Office Max, etc] includes:

+ 2TB WD Easystore external HDD for $60
+ 1TB Sandisk Ultra internal PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe for $90
+ 10″ Simply Smart PhotoShare digiframe for $90
+ various Case Logic bag the bags
+ headliner 15.6″ Dell G3 gaming laptop (i5, 120Hz, 8GB, 512GB SSD, Nvidia GTX 1650 Ti, etc) for $700
+ etc, etc, etc

Next up we head on to the B&H daily deals. Not a lens day today but it’s the usual 7+1 configuration. The “+1” being the flash deals.

+ Vello LENS-2020 lens calibration tool for $25
+ because pixel-peeping is a lifestyle!

+ G-Tech hard drives, 8 options, further discounted by automatic in-cart coupon

+ Tamrac TradeWind BackPack 24 for $40

+ Axler Robin 20 Stabilizer S for $99

+ Magnus MegaGrip flexpod for $13

+ GenAray Spectro LED-14 Flood LED Light for $159

+ Transcend DrivePro Body 30 1080p Body Camera for $220

+ flash deal: Gossen Digiflash Light Meter 2 for $100
+ next flash deal: Vanguard Alta Pro 263AGH Aluminum-Alloy Tripod Kit with GH-100 Pistol Grip Ball Head (price before sale $190)

UPDATE: of potential interest to Prime members since they get free shipping regardless, or non-Prime members who may be interested or want to append these to a planned order, Woot is running an Electronics Stockings Stuffer sale until 12/16/20 at 11:59pm central (or earlier if sold out) that includes these potentially interesting items:

+ 250GB MegaZ BackUp Slim external USB 3.0 HDD for $20
+ not a typo, 250GB (yes, I know this is 2020) and $20 (twenty dollars)
+ up to three per customer, 90-day Woot warranty
+ potential use-case: you can backup a 256GB SD/CF card on this 🙂
+ another use-case: deliver images to a good/high-paying client more impressively

+ Altigo 13400 mAh powerbank for $21
+ two 2.4A USB Type A power-output ports
+ charges via USB-C or micro-USB
+ 90-day Woot warranty
+ up to three per customer

UPDATE #2: this new Humble Bundle is of potential two-fold interest, make something new to eat, which is also something new to photograph (preferably before you eat). It is a PDF cookbook sale that includes Fish, Donuts, Cannabis, Bento and Bread and on the $1 tier, and adds six more on the next tier (veggie burgers, ramen, candy, pies, bisquits, geeky chefs), and adds seven more at the next tier (from vegan to roasting pigs), and adds another ten to the top tier, from pho to BBQ to kitchen gear talk [of course, why not!]… This runs for about three weeks [as of the time of writing]…

Sunday is finally here, but it’s only Sunday if there’s Sun outside. Otherwise it’s just the day before Monday 😉 And with that we have a new round of B&H daily deals until Sunday 12/6/20 at 11:59pm eastern time (or earlier if sold out):

+ Tamrac Tradewing 3.6 shoulder bag for $17

+ Oben AC-1441 4-Section Aluminum Tripod with BA-111 Ball Head for $80

+ PROGrade SDXC UHS-II cards, 64GB for $25, 256GB for $70
+ 256GB CFexpress 2.0 gold for $230

+ GVM Professional Video Aluminum Alloy Motorized Camera Slider (32″) for $220

+ MiniMax Portable & Collapsible Stool for $33

+ DBX DriveRack PA2 Complete Loudspeaker Management System for $249
+ Roland earphones for $50

+ flash deal: 2TB Samsung T7 Touch Portable SSD (Silver) for $260 after in-cart coupon

+ next flash deal: GVM Dual RGB-10S SMD LED Video Light Kit

Another day, another set of Adorama daily deals, this lot good until Saturday at 10am ET (or earlier if sold-out):

+ Datacolor SpyderX Pro Color Calibration for $100

+ Incase EO Travel Collection Duffel Bag for 15″ MacBook Pro for $45

+ Haida 77mm NanoPro MC Variable Neutral Density 1.2 to 2.7 Filter, 4 to 9-Stop for $106

+ Haida 82mm NanoPro MC Variable Neutral Density 1.2 to 2.7 Filter, 4 to 9-Stop for $126

Meanwhile the Friday Amazon Gold Box deals include Anker Nebula projectors and Brevillo Espresso machines ($480 to $900).

It’s FriYAY and there’s a new set of B&H daily deals, good until Saturday at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out. This is the usual B&H Friday PM to Saturday PM closing [check their website for details]:

+ 8pk Watson Chroma Rechargeable AA NiMH Batteries (2500mAh, 1.2V, Multicolored) for $18
+ optionally buy it together with an 8-bay Watson charger for $48

+ Peak Design Everyday Backpack (20L) for $140 with three color options

+ Sirui T-2004SK Tripod with G-20KX Ball Head Travel Tripod Kit for $100

+ Vello EZ-Flip Gel Set for $12

+ NiSi V6 100mm Filter Holder Kit with Enhanced Circular Polarizer Filter for $159

+ Transcend DrivePro 550 Dual Lens Dash Camera with 64GB microSD Card for $110

+ Kula Bebe 3D Lens for Smartphones for $29

+ flash deal: Lenspen SensorKlear Loupe Kit for $40
+ no teaser for next flash deal