Olympus E-M10 Mark III with 14-42 EZ for $450 (or instead E-M10 III w/25mm f1.8 for $650)

“Take pictures with” kits are all the rage during the Black Friday – Holiday shopping season for the obvious reasons. So if you or someone you know wants to get started with M43rds, one of the offers right now is the new condition Olympus E-M10 III with 14-42 f3.5-5.6 EZ going for $450 in the black color scheme. This is currently the same price as the body only!

On the other hand, if you prefer the body only and a prime lens, start at the E-M10 III body only page and then click on the “Build a Bundle” little cyan link. This will bring an option to add to your shopping cart the Olympus 25mm f1.8 Step Up Kit (the lens with a bag and a memory card) for $200 more. So you’d be paying $650 for the E-M10 III with the 25mm f1.8 lens. The lens goes for $300 on its own (without the bag and card).

November 27, 2020 Filed Under: mirrorless deals, olympus Tagged With: , ,

Panasonic ZS70 travel zoom with Panasonic Battery/Charger Kit and More Extras for $298

No matter how many extra lenses and smoke and mirrors smartphones use, they can’t replace a superzoom digital camera. Which is why they still exist 🙂

Which brings us to the Panasonic ZS70 with its Leica-blessed 30x optical zoom stabilized lens going for $298 with free US shipping and including for FREE by participating authorized deals the Panasonic Battery & Charger kit. But that’s not all. Some retailers are sweetening the pie even more with freebies of their own:

+ at B&H Photo you also get a 64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC

+ at Adorama it’s the usual accessorapalooza that also includes Corel software options…

Since we are speaking Panasonic ZS-series [we already mentioned the ZS100 offer yesterday], there’s also an offer on the ZS200 for $598 but no free Panasonic battery/charger kit. But retailers do include their own freebies as follows:

+ at B&H Photo you get the 64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC and a Ruggard camera case

+ at Adorama it’s the usual accessorapalooza

For both of these cameras you have the option to extend the original 1-year warranty to a 3-year warranty for FREE from Panasonic by registering. Details on the PDF file at the participating dealers above…

November 27, 2020 Filed Under: fixed lens cameras, panasonic Tagged With: ,

10% off USED with coupon at KEH Camera until Sunday night

They are back with a general purpose coupon, KEH Camera is offering 10% off many things until Sunday 11/29/20 at 11:59pm ET using coupon code BF20A in the shopping cart over there.

They have exclusions are usual: no NEW condition products, no Leica-branded products, no “USED – Like New”, and no “Digital Photography Starter Kits”. If there’s anything left that is not excluded, enjoy the coupon 😉

November 27, 2020 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: , ,

Top 100 Black Friday deals at Adorama

Black Friday, the actual day, can be a huge information overload, especially if you are interested in products that fall into different categories and types. To help with that, Adorama is running a Top 100 Deals page that lists what are in their opinion their Top 100 deals. Each product category has L and R arrows to see more in the slider type thing, and of course it has a “See All” to see a lot more products of that type…

November 27, 2020 Filed Under: storewide deals

Capture ONE PRO 20 (FREE upgrade to 21) download with $25 B&H Gift Card for $199

Adobe is not the only game in town! Capture One is around too! Good until Saturday at 11:59pm ET, B&H Photo is offer in digital download format the Capture ONE PRO 20 software for $199 with a $25 B&H Photo gift card bonus. With this purchase, you are eligible to receive for free Version 21 which come out in December 2020.

You can check out at B&H until 4:30pm ET on Friday. After that, you have to wait until Saturday 5:45pm ET, so plan your purchases accordingly. These are the rest of their Black Friday offerings…

November 27, 2020 Filed Under: apps and software Tagged With:

Black Friday only: NewEgg’s 24 hour e-newsletter offers

If you like your eggs new [HA!], NewEgg has launched a 24-hour Black Friday e-newsletter promotion. For items that have promo codes, it requires the “enter your email address” song and dance. Too many items to list here individually, so this is a DIY YMMV egg-y adventure…

November 27, 2020 Filed Under: technology deals

Friday: Kodak Instant Cameras and Printers (14 options, $70 to $105)

Here we geaux! Black Friday proper has arrived in the pacific time zone, and there’s a KODAK promotion in the Amazon Gold Box as follows, good until 11:59pm pacific (or earlier if sold out):

+ KODAK Smile Instant Print Digital Camera (slide open, 2×3 ZINK) for $70 in three color options

+ KODAK Smile Instant Digital Bluetooth Printer (2×3 Zink photos) for $70 available in five color options

+ KODAK Smile Classic Digital Instant Camera for 3.5 x 4.25 Zink Photo Paper for $105 in four color options

+ when I say “color options” above, I mean the body of the camera/printer, not the color of the photo prints 🙂

PS: separate posts coming after I digest the rest of the Amazon Gold Box…

November 27, 2020 Filed Under: fixed lens cameras, printers and photo paper Tagged With: , ,

40% off for NEW Smugmug accounts

Good until 11/30/20, Smugmug is offering 40% off new accounts when:

  1. you start a free trial by 11/30/20 using the above link (it will show the 40% off promotion in a thin green banner on the right side of the free trial area of the page)
  2. you sign up for a paying Smugmug plan by 12/13/20
November 26, 2020 Filed Under: photo services Tagged With:

YMMV: MyBestBuy $5 Bonus Certificate (expires Sat PM)

This is a YMMV! If you are participating in the Best Buy rewards program (“My Best Buy”), check your Inbox for an email from Best Buy titled “Drop Everything”. Inside you will find a “click to activate” offer that gets you a $5 bonus certificate that expires on 11/28/20 at night. This can be used online or in-store. I am at the entry-level Best Buy rewards tier and haven’t purchased anything from them in a while, so it may be a “reactivate inactive users” type of a promotion. It’s also possible that customers in higher reward tiers may be offered a higher amount, the “spend more to profit (for them) / save (for the consumer) more” philosophy 🙂

Here’s a screenshot of the relevant part in the email:

PS: it is possible the offer may have been in earlier emails as well, but with the avalanche of Black Friday emails, I’m not able to open them all or read every one of them end to end. If only I was a 16-core Ryzen, instead I’m a 2010 Celeron 😉

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

LAST CALL: Thursday’s Storage Sale at Amazon

This is a Last Call alert! Ending at the Amazon USA Gold Box on Thursday at 11:59pm pacific time are the previously mentioned Amazon Storage sales that include WD, Sandisk, Synology, LaCie, Seagate, etc… I won’t repeat them here, check the aforelinked link with all the deets [oh yes, we’re now Instagram 2012 trendy!]

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With:

PSA: place your B&H Photo Black Friday orders before 4:30pm ET on Friday!

If you are planning to jump on the B&H Photo Black Friday deals, make sure you place your orders before 4:30pm ET on Friday. As usual, B&H observes Shabbat, and online ordering is not available between Friday 4:30pm eastern and Saturday 5:45pm eastern. You can place items in the shopping cart but you cannot checkout.

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: storewide deals

DJI Osmos, Pelican, MacBooks, GVM, OnePlus, MacBook Airs (early 2020), Etc [end Sat PM]

A quick note: there was late on Thanksgiving a B&H flash deal on the early 2020 iPad, which happened while I was unplugged from the matrix for a virtual oil change (aka AFK). Hopefully it will return or those of you interested in it, may have seen it…

Black Friday is here, but it’s also a new day, and a such there’s a new round of B&H daily deals, good until Saturday at 11:59pm ET (with the usual Friday PM to Saturday PM closure). They are:

+ Pelican Air Cases (11 options) from $130 to $222

+ DJI Osmo Mobile 3 smartphone gimbal combo kit for $89
+ DJI Osmo Pocket Gimbal for $200

+ six lighting kit bundles from $59 to $480 including GVM

+ OnePlus 7T 128GB Smartphones (T-Mobile Unlocked) for $300 in two color options

+ 15.6″ Legion 5 Gaming Laptop for $1080 with FREE Bitdefender and Intel Avengers (they’re gonna need them to fend of Ryzen! ZING!)
+ 2.6 GHz Core i7-10750H Six-Core, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD, 15.6″ 1920 x 1080 144 Hz FHD,NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB GDDR6), etc

+ 13.3″ MacBook Air with Retina Display (Early 2020) from $899 to $1399
+ see more of their Apple Black Friday deals
+ or if you are sold on the new game-changing M1 silicon, pre-orders start at $899)

+ computer monitors, six options, $130 to $599, from Acer, LG, HP

+ flash deal: AONI A20 Full HD Webcam with Auto Focus with FREE privacy cover for $20
+ next flash deal has not been teased as of the time of writing

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals

Amazon has a Brick and Mortar Black Friday: Spend $60+, Get $15 off (exp Sunday night)

How things have changed! Amazon now has a Brick and Mortar Black Friday Deal. That’s right! This offer is good at Amazon’s brick and mortar “Amazon Books” (bookstores) and “Amazon 4-Star” (B&M stores that stock highly-rated high-demand items). If you spend $60+ on a single purchase, you will get $15 off. The offer ends 11/29/20 at 11:59pm pacific ~ more realistically, at store closing time, I guess the Amazon “terms and conditions” writers have not gotten used to brick and mortar expiration times 🙂

Excluded are Apple, Bose, Nintendo, Ugg, alcohol, and Oculus products.

Not sure if you have an “Amazon Books” or an “Amazon 4 Star” (not Amazon 4Chan!) store near you? Check this page that lists the (currently modest) amount of Amazon B&M stores. Modest if you don’t count Whole Foods that is 🙂

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

Outdoor Photographer print US subscription for $4.25 per year

Good until 10/30/20 at 4am eastern time, DiscountMAGS is running their Black Friday sale with various print magazines delivered to USA addresses without auto-renewal. They have the usual trio of photography magazines among others:

+ Outdoor Photographer for $4.25/yr
+ Digital Photo PRO for $6.75/yr
+ VideoMaker for $7.50/yr
+ Consumer Reports for $16/yr
+ and various “six degrees of separation” (from photography) magazines

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With:

Yongnuo Clip-On Coupons: 85/1.8 (N) for $170, 14/2.8 (C) for $395, 14/2.8 (N) for $420

B&H Photo has a trio of clip-on coupon promotions on select Yongnuo lenses. You clip the clip-on coupon over there to get the discount. After the clip-on coupons, the prices drop as follows:

+ 85mm f1.8 (Nikon F) for $170

+ 14mm f2.8 (Canon EF) for $395

+ 14mm f2.8 (Nikon F) for $420

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: dslr deals Tagged With: , , ,

Sony complicated mail-in promotion with conditions: Buy 2 or More participating Sony Lenses, Own a qualifying Sony Full-Framer, and Get Mail-In Rebate Per Lens

Sony is running a little bit of a convoluted “buy more save more” type of a promotion until December 6 in 2020. The start of the promotional period was September 1st in 2020. Items need not to be purchased from the same retailer or the same date.

The offer requires:

  • Buy 2 or more Sony Lenses from this eligible list of options; new condition authorized dealer only, no open-box, no used, no refurbished – look for them at B&H Photo
  • You Must Own a Sony Full Frame camera from this list A7S III, A7R III, A7R IV, A9, A9 II; purchase time does not matter for this, you could also buy the camera together with the lenses
  • you must enter the information (serial numbers, etc) at the promotional Sony page
  • you will receive $100 to $200 per eligible lens; the amounts per lens are predetermined (typically the more expensive the lens, the higher the rebate)
  • you will receive the amount in about 2 months as a prepaid VISA gift card
  • check all the terms conditions and restrictions before jumping in

Separately, Sony is running a promotion that if you own an eligible Sony camera and purchase a Sony Xperia 1 II or 5 II, you get a rebate of $150 or $120. Eligible Also a 12/6/20 expiration date… Details via the PDF file at the Xperia 1 II product page at B&H, which as of the time of writing it gets a $100 B&H gift card as well…

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: mirrorless deals, sony Tagged With: , ,

Lensbaby discounts (112 options)

If you are a fan of the Lensbabies, you are in luck because B&H Photo is having a big Lensbaby sale. A total of 112 options are participating in the sale, obviously too many for me to list here individually. Now the Baby Yoda is trending, maybe Lens Baby will trend too 😉

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: camera accessories Tagged With: ,

Fuji Instax Square SQ6 instant film camera for $80

If you like both instant cameras and the square format, you are in luck because Black Friday is bringing down the price of the Fujifilm Instax Square SQ6 instant film camera to $80 with free US shipping at B&H Photo (graphite gray color scheme) and at Adorama’s (orange, and pearl-white color schemes)…

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: fixed lens cameras, fuji Tagged With: ,

Thurs Camera & Photo Lightning Deals: another Neewer Party!

And now let’s take a quick look at the Thursday Camera and Photo deals at Amazon. This is a select list of potentially interesting items in the order they are scheduled to go live. The ones that have a price next to them, they are already live…

+ Neewer VISION5 400Ws 2.4G TTL Flash Strobe Compatible with Canon DSLR Cameras for $262
+ 70% claimed with five hours to go (as of 1:11pm ET)

+ Neewer ring light and film making kit

+ some kind of camera-looking generic thing for $118

+ Neewer octagonal softbox

+ GVM 80W LED video light

+ Neewer tripods, softbox lighting kit, 150W LED monolight

+ tripods from K&F Concept and Geekoto

+ Zhiyun Crane Plus 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer

+ Neewer ring light, V-mount battery, 77-inch tripod, NW-670 TTL flash, backgrounds, 2-pack lighting kit

+ GVM 3-pack LED video lighting kit

+ more Neewer tripods and stabilizery things

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: camera accessories Tagged With:

Black Friday at CreativeLIVE is here: 80% off sitewide!

Black Friday has arrive at Creative LIVE! They are offering 80% off site-wide. The price you see on a class’s’s’s individual product page is the price you pay. This is a limited time offer obviously… This is a great opportunity to get classes that rarely go on sale, or expensive classes…

You may also want to try the previously mentioned CART10 $10 off coupon to see if it’s stackable with the Black Friday promotion. I do not know if it is or not…

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Canon 50mm f1.8 STM with Filter Kit for $99

Prime time under $100 for Canon EF users! The good old 50mm f1.8 STM lens is now down to $99 at authorized Canon dealers and Adorama is including freebies, a 49mm Pro-Optic digital essentials kit (three filters and a case), along with a cap tether and a cleaning kit…

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: canon, dslr deals Tagged With: , ,

NewEgg 24 hour Thursday BF Ultimate sale

Fans of the NewEgg way of doing things, they have launched their 24 hour Thursday (Thanksgiving Day) Ultimate BF sale with 98 pages of offers, with each page having 36 offers. These are slightly too many for me to digest before they expire, even if I do nothing else 🙂 So it is a YMMV DIY adventure 🙂

They have one page with digital cameras [they are probably all international models ~ double check if interested] and they have two pages of camera accessories (memory cards, Neewers, etc)…

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: technology deals

128GB Lexar CFexpress Type B for $160, Etc (by Fri 10am ET)

Another day has clocked in, so another set of Adorama daily deals, good until Friday at 10am ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ 128GB Lexar Professional CFexpress Type B memory card for $160

+ Incase Eo Roller in Heather Gray color scheme for $50

+ Quasar Science Q-50X Crossfade Linear 50W Bi-Color LED Lamp, 4′ for $99, or 25W output for $70

+ AUDEZE iSINE 20 In-Ear Headphones for $299 in B-stock

Speaking of Adorama, they have also launched their customary CEO Picks of Black Friday with sixteen different products of different kinds… One of them is a 2-in-1, for $140 you get both the Tascam DR-40X audio recorder/interface (red color scheme) AND the AKG K-92 studio headphones…

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals

25% off USED gear PURCHASES with COUPON at BorrowLenses

In addition to renting camera gear, Borrow Lenses also sells used gear direct to the consumer. If you want to buy used gear from their website, good until 12/7/20 at 11:59pm, coupon code BLACKFRIDAY2020 gets you 25% off used gear purchases at their website. The coupon cannot be used for rentals, only purchases of used gear…

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

Nikon MB-D16 Battery Grip for $137 [for Nikon D750]

Power on Wayne! The new condition Niokn MB-D16 battery grip (made for the Nikon D750) is currently on sale for a limited time for $137 with free US shipping at B&H Photo. This takes one EN-EL15 battery or six AA batteries… If you want to save more, it is available in USED condition for $75…

If you want to save even more, you can get the new condition Vello BG-N15 battery grip for $70 in new condition or $45 in USED condition…

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: camera accessories, nikon Tagged With:

Thursday: Huion Graphics Tablets (10 options, $28 to $560)

Wacom is the most famous but not the only one making graphics tablets. Hiding among the Thursday Amazon USA Gold Box deals du jour is a sale on ten Huion Graphics Tablets with prices ranging from $28 to $560, with six of the options being under $60.

In other deal du jour action, there’s this Keurig K-Cafe Special Edition Single Serve K-Cup Pod Coffee, Latte and Cappuccino Maker going for $190 in nickel or $170 in charcoal. It averages 4.7 out of 5 based on 10,700+ customer reviews as of the time of writing…

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: technology deals Tagged With: , ,

Thursday: Big Storage Sale, WD, Sandisk, Seagate, PNY, LaCie, Synology, Etc

It’s a big storage sale at the Amazon USA Gold Box until Thursday 11/26/20 at 11:59pm pacific time [Happy Thanksgiving Day!]. So many sales that they are broken in two groups!

The WD/Sandisk group
A total of 24 options are participating in the WD and Sandisk sale with memory cards and internal and externals SSDs and HDDs! Up to three per item per customer at the sale price. Among others:

+ 512GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC for $120, TB for $270

+ 400GB Sandisk Extreme microSDXC for $60, 512GB for $80, 1TB for $183
+ 400GBGB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for $40, 512GB for $64
+ 256GB Sandisk High Endurance microSDXC for $37.50

+ WD internal and external SSDs

+ WD external HDDs including Elements, MyPassport and MyPassport Ultra options

+ 8TB WD MyCloud EX2 NAS for $288
+ because all your clouds are belong to you!

+ ibi – The Smart Photo Manager (US version) for $80

+ too many to list individually, see them all HERE…

The Other Storage Sale
28 storage options are participating in this The Other Storage sale including:

+ Synology NAS DiskStations

+ Seagate OneTouch, Backup Plus, and Expansion HDDs

+ various LaCie rugged external HDDs

+ Toshiba Canvio HDDs

+ Seagate IronWolf and Barracudas

+ Crucial and Kingston RAM

+ PNY, Lexar and Kingston microSDXCs

+ 512GB PNY Elite-X Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drive for $70

+ too many items to list here individually, see them all HERE…

Chromebook and Amazon Hardware time too!
Also on sale are four Chromebooks from $210 to $480, from Samsung, Acer and Lenova…

And then there’s the Fire Stick Lite (with Alexa) going for $18 with up to three per customer. You can get more than three with an Amazon Business account…

Lots of other Amazon Devices on sale as well including the latest Kindle Paperwhite (8GB storage, Wifi only, With Ads) for $85 or $110 with 32GB storage. The options without ads are $20 more [or you can remove the ads later after you use it if you find them annoying while in use – I personally don’t find the ereader ads annoying because they don’t play audio or video or animations, so they can’t irritate you the way internet ads can; plus I found a few good deals through them as well)…

November 26, 2020 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: , , , , , , , , ,

Canon RF 24-240mm f4-6.3 IS USM for $699

If you want to jump on the new Canon RF mirrorless system [eg yesterday’s $1000 deal] and you also want a 10x optical zoom lens to go with it, the new condition RF 24-240mm f4-6.3 IS USM lens is on sale for $699 with free US shipping at Adorama (with extra freebies) and also at the official Canon store and at B&H Photo…

November 25, 2020 Filed Under: canon, mirrorless deals Tagged With: , ,

Creative Live: Top 40 Sale stackable with $10 off coupon!

Stackable time at Creative Live, they have a limited time Top 40 Classes on sale and at the same they have a stackable $10 off coupon, using promo code CART10.

There are some big classes in the Top 40, including the “Fundamentals of Photography”, Fine Art photography, Lightroom and Photoshops, posing, portraiture, wildlife/nature, studio/lighting, and so on…

November 25, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Thursday at Amazon Germany: Pentax KP, K70, Tamron, Etc

Thursday’s Amazon Germany Gold Box deals are here. Some of them are good for the day only, others continue during the Black-Cyber time period. Among them:

+ Pentax K70 body only for 450 euro

+ Pentax KP body only for 643 euro

+ Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f2.8 XR Di-II LD (IF) for Pentax K-mount for 210 euro

+ trio of Sony E-system zoom lenses

+ AmazonBasics 840D polyster cross camera bag for 24 euro

+ 12-month Adobe Creative Cloud (Photography Plan) for 88 euro

+ Tamron 70-300mm f4-5.6 Di LD macro for 60 euro in the Sony-Minolta A-mount

+ Tamron 90mm f2.8 Di Macro for 250 euro in the Sony-Minolta A-mount

+ X-Rite i1Display Pro Plus for 218 euro

+ Sandisk storage sale (SD, microSD, flash drives)

+ Sony RX100 IV but it seems to be in and out

+ Canon ZoeMini C instant digital camera for 57 euro

+ lots of camera and photo accessories including Joby, Lowepro, Manfrotto and National Geographic

PS: all prices in this post (and other EU deal posts) are obviously in euro but out of habit I may sometimes write the price in “$” instead 🙂

November 25, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals, pentax, tamron Tagged With: , , , ,