CreativeLive Sales: Top 5 Instructors, 60% site-wide [and stackable $10 off coupon]

Creative LIVE has launched another sale, all classes from their Top 5 instructors are on sale for $29 or less. The Top Five [not to be confused with the Cylon Final Five] is Sue Bryce, John Greengo, Lindsay Adler, Ben Willmore and Andrew Scrinivari…

Separately, they are running a limited time 60% off site-wide sale. You see the price on the individual class page. No coupon needed…

… but if you want to save an extra $10, a coupon is needed, use coupon J4X79 and this can be stacked with the above discounts [in most cases I think]…

OR if you prefer to pay $0, do keep up with the free-streaming daily classes at the ON-AIR schedule. Note that these stream straight through, you don’t have Netflix-style DVR features while they are free-streaming…

July 16, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Thursday: Polaroid Originals OneStep V2, ASUS PROART PA90 Mini Workstation, Vello Remote Shutter Releases, Sirui Tripod, NanLite, Etc

Never fear, Thursday is here and with it we have a utilitarian 4-pack of B&H daily deals, good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]:

+ Vello FreeWave Plus Wireless Remote Shutter Releases for various systems, six options, $30 each

+ SirUI T-2004SK T-S Aluminum Travel Tripod for $86 after mail-in rebate
+ mail-in rebates and cockroaches will be the last ones standing on Planet Earth 😉

+ NanLite MixWand 18 RGB Hard and Soft LED Light Painting Wand Battery Kit for $159

+ SaraMonic VMIC Pro Super Directional Video Condenser Microphone for $79

A camera is leading the way at the Best Buy daily deals, it is the new condition
Polaroid Originals OneStep 2 VF Analog Instant Film Camera going for $60 and it comes with the Shutterlag coupon…

To the NewEgg dailies we go now where they have, among others, the following potentially interesting items:

+ 512GB Team microSDXC card for $60

+ 6TB Seagate Expansion external USB drive for $105 after coupon but the reviewers are not very happy with it (3 out of 5 based on 300+ ratings as of the time of writing)

+ ASUS ProArt PA90 Mini PC Workstation for $1500 with add to cart
+ Core i7-9700K, Nvidia Quadro P4000, Thunderbolt 3, 16GB DDR4 [supports up to 64GB], 512 GB M.2 SSD + 1 TB HHD. bluetooth 5.0, Advanced Cooling features, etc

Meanwhile Amazon has a digital magazine sale [with auto-renewals] with the first year of National Geographic going for $9 in Kindle format. The print edition is for six months with auto-renewal. Auto-renewal will be at the futurely current price…

And for those in the EU, Amazon Germany has a Nikon Z summer sale with 16 options…

And we close with the Adorama daily deal, going with a $99 webcam with auto-focusing, the Green Extreme T300 HD…

July 16, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals

Wedn: Tamrac, Sandisk, SmallHD, Roxio, APC, Etc [EU: trio of Canons, Fuji Instax, HP Sprockets]

Hump Day is back once again and with it we have four new B&H daily deals, good until 11:59pm ET, or earlier if sold out:

+ Tamrac Nagano 16L Camera Backpack (Charcoal) for $70

+ SmallHD 502 Bright On-Camera Monitor for $579

+ Roxio Game Capture HD Pro for $40

+ APC Back-UPS Pro BR1500MS Battery Backup & Surge Protector for $174

At the Best Buy deals du jour the headliner is the 64GB Sandisk Extreme SDXC [yellow] card going for $20 with the usual Shutterbug coupon included… Also on sale is a YI dashcam, various coffee & kitchen items, and the Logitech Harmony 950 for $200…

And at the Woot website there’s the 2018 iPad PRO under “Main”, Amazon’s own hardware (Fire tablets for $20+, Paperwhite (2016) for $60) under “Electronics” and HP monitors under “Computers”…

For the Europeanly-included, there’s a Canon sale at Amazon Germany that has the white EOS 250D dSLR with the 18-55 going for 519 euro-dollars, while the EF 24-70mm f4L IS USM lens goes for 724 euro-dollars and the EF-M 32mm f1.4 STM goes for 409 euro-dollars… There’s also a Canon camcorder…

Also at Amazon Germany’s Gold Box but part of the longer-running deals is an Instant Camera sale that has multiple colors of the Fuji Instax Mini 9 going for 48~ euro, and the HP Toad the Wet Sprocket printer going for around 100 euro… There’s also Mini 9 bundles with paper and a “green travel kit”…

July 15, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals

Sigma 56mm f1.4 DC DN [Sony E] for $339 [also: Surface PRO 7, Flashpoint, Etc]

It’s a LENS DAY at the Adorama daily deals good until Wednesday at 10am eastern [or earlier if sold out]. The deals are:

+ Sigma 56mm f1.4 DC DN Contemporariaries for $339 in the Sony E system

+ Flashpoint eVOLV 200 TTL Pocket Flash with Barndoor Kit Built-in R2 2.4GHz Radio Remote System (Godox AD200) for $249

+ CyberPower Intelligent LCD Computer Battery Backup, 1350VA 810W UPS, 8 Outlets for $95

+ Microsoft 12.3″ Surface Pro 7 2-in-1 Touchscreen, Intel Core i5-1035G4 1.1 GHz, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, Windows 10 Home, Platinum Bundle, Includes Surface Pro Type Cover for $799

July 14, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals, mirrorless deals, sigma Tagged With: , ,

Tue: 8pk Watson AA, NOGA, Christie, Vortex, Etc

Six is the magic number for the Tuesday B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]:

+ 8pk Watson colorful rechargeable 2500mAh 1.2V AA batteries for $18

+ Vortex 8×42 Diamondback HD Binoculars for $160
+ season tickets for the Arizona Diamondbacks NOT included 🙂

+ SaraMonic VmicLink5 5.8 GHz SHF Wireless Lavalier System and Receiver (5725 to 5875 MHz)
for $150

+ NOGA Cine Arm DG Hold-It Arm for $99

+ Christie Access Series UHD651-L 65″ Direct-Lit LED 4K UHD LCD Display for $995

Meanwhile at the Woot website, under Clearance/Sellout there’s a refurbished Microsoft Surface Studio 2 for $2700, budget HP laptops under Computers, Sony headphones under Electronics [they go well with your Sony-Style cameras!], and in case you ever run out of toilet paper, BioBidets under the main Woot 🙂

July 13, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals

Quasar Q-Lion Q10, 16″ MacBook PRO, Etc [ends Tue 10am ET]

Surprise! The Adorama daily deal now has four items instead of one, and this lot is good until Tuesday at 10am eastern [or earlier for any of them that sells out]:

+ Quasar Science Q-Lion Q10 Lithium Ion Battery 10W Bi-Color LED Lamp, 12″ for $100

+ Apple 16″ MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, 9th-Gen 8-Core Intel i9 2.3GHz, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 4GB, Space Gray, Late 2019 Z0Y0005GJ / Z0Y000061 for $2849

+ XPG GAMMIX S11 Pro 1TB PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 SSD, 3500MB/s Read, 3000MB/s Write for $128

+ Meural Canvas 27″ Widescreen LCD WiFi Digital Photo Frame – Winslow Walnut for $395

July 13, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals

Monday: 12.9″ iPad PRO, Bushnell TrophyCam, Ruggard Backpack, GVM Daylight, Etc

Monday is here and with it we have four new B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]. It’s not a “lens day” but it is an “Apple Day” 🙂

+ iPad Pro 12.9″ (256GB, Wi-Fi + 4G LTE, Space Gray, Previous Gen) for $849
+ it is compatible with the new “magical mystical supernatural superserious sweet delirious…” [it’s starting to sound like an REM song?] keyboard 🙂

+ BushNell Trophy Cam HD Low-Glow Trail Camera for $75

+ Ruggard Red Series Ruby 33 Tech Backpack for $50

+ GVM LS-150D LED Daylight Video Light for $235

Elsewhere, the Woot website is offering an “iPhones galore” sale as the main deal of the day with prices ranging from $100 to $1100. Get your 30-pin connectors and accessories ready 😉

Meanwhile at Amazon Chermany’s Gold Box, there’s a Lenovo Laptops Etc, lighting gear [general purpose, not photograhy-centric], and a couple of LG Gram laptops (1049 to 1149 euro-dollars).

Not part of the daily deals, but part of the limited time Gold Box deals, also at Amazon Germany, is the new condition GOPRO HERO 7 Black action camera going for 235 euro-dollars… One per customer at the sale price…

July 12, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals

Bundle up: four magazines for $16 total for 1-year subscriptions

It’s bundle up time at the Weekend DiscountMags sale. You get four magazines and you get a combined purchase price of $16 for a 1-year subscription of each magazine. You can extend the subscription for multiple years but for the whole bundle, not individually per magazine. If you want more than four magazines, you can get them at the same pre-rated pro-rated $4/yr rate by appending them to the bundle…

As usual, these are printed magazines delivered to US addresses by snail mail. Actual snails NOT included unless they independently get inside your mailbox 😉

July 11, 2020 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With:

96-pack of Fuji EnviroMAX single-use AA or AAA or mix for $24

Among the Woot Best Sellers, ending Sunday night [but not a daily deal] is a sale on Fuji Enviro-MAX single-use batteries. The 96-pack of AA or AAA goes for $24 each, but there’s also an option where you get 48 of each at the same price… A little more expensive are the 24-packs of C, D or 9V.

Limit three per customer. They come with a 90-day Woot warranty… Free shipping for Prime members [you must needs connect your Prime account with your Woot account ~ a one-time activity if you haven’t done so already]… Otherwise shipping is extra…

July 11, 2020 Filed Under: camera accessories, fuji Tagged With:

Sunday: Bolt TTL flashes [C/N], Tamrac Goblins, Manfrotto Raincover, JBL, Etc [EU: Panasonic GX80 and G70 kits]

Sunday is here and with it we have four new B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]: as follows:

+ BOLT TTL flashes for $70 each in your choice of Canon or Nikon

+ Tamrac Goblin Lens Pouch 1.2 for $8 in four color options

+ Manfrotto RC-1 Pro Light Video Camera Raincover for Full Size Camcorder / DSLR Rig (Black) for $130
+ just like clothes, the thrifty shopper buys winter camera gear in the summer, and summer camera gear in the winter 😉

+ JBL EON ONE All-In-One Linear Array PA System for $599 after automatic in-cart coupon

For EU shoppers, Amazon Germany is having a Panasonic sale that includes the GX80 with the 12-32mm lens and bag and SD card going for 399 euro-dollars, while the G70 with 14-42 and bag and card goes for 459 euro dollars…

Meanwhile the Best Buy dailies have a 10-inch Lenovo smart display with Google Assistant for $100…

The Adorama daily deal [changes Monday 10am ET] is the new condition Polar Pro Mavic 2 Rugged Case for $20. Drone [obviously] NOT included 🙂

July 11, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals, mirrorless deals, panasonic Tagged With: , , ,

Samyang 18mm f2 Auto Focus for $289 [Sony E FF]

It’s a LENS DAY at the Adorama daily deal good until Saturday at 10am eastern [or earlier if sold out], it is the new condition Samyang 18mm f2.8 Auto Focus lens for the Sony E system [full frame lens] going for $289 with free US shipping…

July 10, 2020 Filed Under: mirrorless deals Tagged With: , ,

Yonguno YN-600EX-RT for $95, Nanuk, Celestron, NanLite, Vello

As usual, the Friday B&H daily deals last for 48 hours, until Saturday at 11:59pm ET, however, B&H does not accept orders [as usual] Friday PM to Saturday PM [check their website for exact times each week]:

+ flash deal: Yongnuo Speedlite YN600EX-RT II for Canon Cameras for $95 after automatic in-cart coupon

+ NanLite MixPad 11 Tunable RGB Hard and Soft LED Panel for $84

+ Vello FreeWave Fusion Wireless Flash Trigger & Remote Control for Canon SLR for $30

+ NaNuk 933 Case with Dividers and Lid Organizer (Black) for $180

+ Celestron Mars Observing Eyepiece Filter (1.25″) for $25

July 10, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals

Creative LIVE: 19 classes for $19 each [limited time]

It’s e-Learning time! For a limited time, Creative LIVE is having a 19 classes for $19 each sale… Classes include Peter Hurley’s “Build your Light Knowledge”, Lindsay Adler’s “Location Lighting 101”, Fine Art Photography Complete Guide, Wedding Photography, Final Cut PRO X [not to be confused with the Pink Floyd album], landscape photography, retouching, and things of that nature…

July 10, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Thursday: Gitzo, GVM, SmallHD, Gabor, Smith-Victor, COVID, Etc

Thursday is upon with a new 6-pack of B&H daily deal, good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] as follows:

+ Smith-Victor Edge360 18″ Daylight LED Light for $170
+ the great mystery continues, which part Victor designed, and which part Smith designed???

+ Gitzo GT2542 Mountaineer Series 2 Carbon Fiber Tripod with GHF3W 3-Way Fluid Head Kit for $900
+ or you can buy 90 Ritz Camera tripods for the same price 😉

+ GVM 2D 2-Axis Wireless Carbon Fiber Motorized Slider with Bluetooth Remote (32″) for $420
+ an interesting price 🙂

+ SmallHD Reference Grade 17″ Production Monitor with Teradek Sidekick II Receiver for $3999
+ or you can buy 100 17″ computer monitors from eBay 😉

+ Gabor Fixed Wall Mount for 32-50″ Flat Panel Screens for $14~

+ COVID deals: Landou Reusable Fabric Face Masks, PM2.5 Filters & External Valve Kit for $22 in multiple color scheme combinations

If your interests intersect at Nintendo and microSDXC, one of the Best Buy deals du jour is the 256GB Nintendo Switch yellow Sandisk microSDXC card for $55… And a Pikachu case for the Switches for $15 for the inner child inside… While I’m a big fan of all sorts of coffeeware/teaware, I have a hard time understanding the need to pay $80 for a “temperature control” travel mug, which is one of their daily deals. It’s a 12oz mug, it’s not like you have a day’s worth of coffee/tea. And neither coffee, nor tea are ideally suited for this type of temperature manipulation [essentially reheating]… #SoapBoxENDS

Meanwhile at the Woot website the headliner is an Apple sale (iMac, iPad, MacBooks), while “Electronics” has another variant of their “former Android flagships” sale…

July 8, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals

Wedn: Inkeltech Ring Light, Sublue SeaBow, Macro Ring Light, 1TB Samsung SSD, 256GB CF 2.0, Browning, Manfrotto, Etc

And just like that, Wednesday is here, another Mon-Fri work-week is at its middle point and with all that we have new B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] as follows:

+ BOLT VM-160 LED Macro Ring Light for $40
+ because macro is where it’s at!

+ 1TB Samsung 860 QVO SATA III 2.5″ Internal SSD for $100

+ Sublue Seabow Underwater Scooter for $699

+ MAnfrotto MVMXPROA4US Aluminum XPRO Video Monopod+ for $140

+ 256GB PROGrade CFexpress 2.0 Gold Memory Card for $230

+ Browning Recon Force 4K Trail Camera for $120
+ not to be confused with the Kodak Browni(ng)

Meanwhile at the Amazon USA Gold Box, an actual photography product is one of the deals du jour, it is the new condition Inkeltech Ring Light going for $91, sold by the company and fulfilled by Amazon… It averages 4.7 out of 5 based on 320+ customer ratings as of the time of writing…

A storage option can be found at the Best Buy dailies it is the new condition 4TB WD EasyStore external USB 3.0 HDD going for $75… There’s also an APC UPS because Photoshopping never stops!!!

July 8, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals

Prime Day Update: Moving to October 2020, Still Subject to COVID change

One of the main Prime Benefits is the annual Prime Day which typically happens in the early summer. This year, because of COVID-19 seasons, it had been moved to September, and now according to new updates via Techmeme, the sale-a-bration is tentatively moved to October 2020. But still subject to change…

Considering that Black Friday is November 2020 and singles day is mid-November, the end of October is mayhaps the latest Amazon can do it without colliding with pre-existing sale-a-brations. On the other hand, this year could be Amazon’s embrace of Singles Day which could also be Prime Day. This paragraph being speculation of course…

July 7, 2020 Filed Under: shopping news Tagged With: ,

Save the Date: Week starting July 12 has Woot Birthday Specials

If you are a fan of the way of the Woot, they are planning a variety of sale-a-brations for their 16th birthday on Sunday July 12 in 2020, and continuing during the rest of the week. They are teasing a number of the offerings, along with whatever else goes live on the actual dates.

Of note, Friday July 17 will have a Birthday Woot-OFF running from 7am to 10pm central time… During the week of sale-a-brations they’ll also have Prime exclusive deals and more… Check the aforelinked forum link for all the details…

July 7, 2020 Filed Under: storewide deals

Tuesday: Moza AIR 2, SmallHD Focus, CoreSWX, Vello, Tether

Tooozdei is here with four new B&H daily deals that’s good until 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out as follows:

+ Moza Air 2 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer for $349

+ SmallHD FOCUS SDI Monitor Cine Kit for $369

+ CoreSWX NPF-970, 6600mah L-Series Battery Kit for $40

+ Vello Eyeshades and Eyepieces, 14 options
+ sorry, Eyelashes not available 🙂

I forgot to post this earlier, there’s 3 hours left on it as of the time of writing, the Adorama daily deal (changes 10am ET) is the Tether Tools Case Air Wireless Tethering System going for $110 with free US shippings…

And if you are humble and you like to bundle, Humble Bundle has just launched a new offering, Data Science Essentials ebooks, with six ebooks at the $1+ tier, and more at the higher tiers… The previously mentioned film maker’s bundle also continues…

Meanwhile at the Woot website there’s a sale on Parrot drones ($144 to $360) under “Electronics”, while under “Computers” there’s the refurbished 14″ HP 360 Chromebook going for $270 with a 90-day HP warranty [4GB DDR4, 32GB eMMC, microSD card reader, 1366 x 768, 220 nits, 45% NTSC, UHD 600, bluetooth 5, 802.11ac, one USB-A and two USB-C ports, 3.5 lbs, updates until June 2026, etc]

July 7, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals

FREE-Streaming This Week at Creative LIVE

If you like free-streaming content and you have the time-flexibility to be able to watch them [some of those classes are looooong], here’s the schedule for the next few days of the free-to-watch classes at Creative LIVE ON-AIR:

  • Monday: Creative Portraits with Props, Creating your own stamps, YouTube ads, etc
  • Tuesday: LIVE LAUNCH: Black Women Photographers, Color Theory for Photographers, Illustrator, Stamping, etc
  • Wednesday: Sony a7 III Fast Start (over 5 hours long) with John Greengo, Facebook, Mixing Music, etc
  • Thursday: LIVE: Capturing History and Herigate; Posing 101 with Lindsay Adler, WordPress Themes, Snapchat, etc
  • Friday: Composition Basics, Instagram, Interactive PDFs, etc
  • Saturday: Black and White film photography, Linked IN (with bonus clipboard clips LOL), Graphics for the web and social media, etc
  • Sunday: Photography 101 with SLR Lounge, social media plan, etc

As usual, each day’s free-streaming classes begin at 12pm eastern and end 24 hours later. Classes that are under 24 hours in length continue repeating immediately after their end during the 24 hour window. There are no “Netflix controls”, so you have to watch the classes sequentially, you can’t jump around or rewind…

July 6, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Monday: “Picture This – How Pictures Work” Expanded Molly Bang classic for $3 [eBook]

The 1991 classic book “Picture This: How Pictures Work” by Molly Bang is now available in an expanded and revised edition (2016, 154pp, Chronicle Books), and it is one of the Monday 7/6/20 Kindle daily deals going for $3. It averages 4.3 out of 5 based on 170+ ratings [rating is the (weighted? who knows) sum of written reviews and plain star-ratings].

Speaking of Amazon, it’s a very busy day of tech in the Germany Gold Box where the sales including a stunna ASUS Zen Ultrabook for 899 euro, MSI gaming, TP-Link, 15 euro multimeter kit, Oppo’s Find X2 smartphone line (PRO, NEO, Lite), Huawei MateBook 13, EGLO lighting, refurbished iPhones, IBRA cables, Amazon hardware, SodaStream, Melitta shiny coffee machines, Fitbit, Sennheiser, Bosch and Samsung Galaxy M31 smartphones…

July 6, 2020 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With: , ,

Monday: GVM 2-Light Kit, Sirui Tripods, Litra GoPro filter kit, Pelican, Etc

Monday is here and with it we have four new B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] along with one flash deal:

+ GVM MB832-2L Bi-Color LED 2-Light Kit with Stands for $399
+ because it’s hard to have photography without light

+ Sirui Aluminum Video Tripod with Fluid Head, two options, $110~ to $127~ AFTER mail-in rebates

+ JollyLand Mars 400S SDI/HDMI Wireless Video Transmission System for $449

+ Litra LitraTorch 2.0 Filter Kit with GoPro Mount (Limited Edition) for $70
+ not to be confused with Lytro 🙂

+ flash deal: Pelican 1520NF Case without Foam (Silver) for $100

July 6, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals

Outdoor Photographer for $4.72/yr

It’s the 4th of July sale at DiscountMags, and among the print-magazines delivered-to-USA-addresses offers they have, without autorenewal, they have:

+ Outdoor Photographer for $4.72/yr
+ VideoMaker for $6.69/yr
+ Digital Photo PRO for $6.82
+ various other “six degree of separation” magazines as well

July 5, 2020 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With:

Sunday: Lowepro Runner, Camera Muzzle, ElVid, Noca, Etc

Sunday is here and with it we have four new B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] as follows:

+ LowePRO Pro Runner BP 350 AW II Backpack for $130

+ Camera Muzzle Sound Blimp for $90

+ ElVid SkyVision WCM-758G 7″ Wireless LCD Monitor for $120

+ NOCA Cine Amrs, three options, $100 to $150

Meanwhile the Adorama daily deal [changes Monday 10am ET] is the AKG K702 headphone with a clamp going for $150…

Among the Best Buy dailies you will find another sale on their house brand single use Insignia batteries…

And at the Amazon USA Gold Box there’s a sale on factory renewed 15.4″ MacBook PROs going from $1630 to $1900…

July 5, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals

Rokinon 85mm f1.4 MF for Nikon Z for $149 [ends Sun 10am ET]

Today is Zee Day for Nikon Zee fans, because the current Adorama daily deal, good until Sunday at 10am ET [or earlier if sold out] is the new condition Nikon Z version of the Rokinon 85mm f1.4 UMC lens, a manual focus lens of course, going for $149 with free US shipping…

It’s hard to argue for the price, unless you hate manual focus with the passion of a thousand suns 🙂

July 4, 2020 Filed Under: mirrorless deals Tagged With: , ,

Luxli LED Light, Vello Softbox, HPRC for Nikon D850, RAVpower, Manfrotto, DigiPower Batteries, Etc

As usual, the Friday B&H daily deals last until Saturday 11:59pm ET but note that, as usual, B&H does not accept orders between Friday PM and Saturday PM [check their website for exact times]:

+ Luxli CNS-20D Constructor Medium Block On-Camera Daylight Balanced LED Light for $30

+ Vello Octa Softbox for Portable Flash, 8 inch for $12, 12 inch for $15
+ optionally buy it together with a cinch strap for a combined purchase discount

+ HPRC 2460 for Nikon D850 Filmmaker’s Kit (Black) for $124

+ RAVpower 20,000mAh RP-PB006 Power Bank for $19

+ flash deal: Manfrotto Pro Light Bumblebee-130 Camera Backpack for $140

Meanwhile at the Best Buy daily deals they have a sale on 13 Digipower camera batteries for various Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus and GoPRO cameras. Check each battery page over there for compatibility…

UPDATE: the Adorama daily deal (changes Saturday 10am ET or earlier if sold out) is the new condition Philips Hue White &Color Ambiance A19 LED Starter Kit Multicolor W/E26 Base Bulb offered for $199 with free US shipping and handling…

July 2, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals

Save the Date [starts Friday 12pm ET]: 12-hour Nikon Lenses Complete Guide [FREE to Watch]

Save the Date if you are into Lenses or the Nikon system! There’s a 12-hour marathon coming! Per the Creative LIVE ON-AIR schedule, starting on Friday at 12pm eastern, they will be live-streaming for FREE the 11 hour and 36 minute “Nikon Lenses the Complete Guide” [CORRECTED LINK] class with their resident camera-gear-guru John Greengo. Lessons #1 and #4 are always available to stream for FREE, so you could watch them and see whether this class might be of interested.

Given the duration of the class, there are two full planned airings:
+ starts Friday at 12pm ET
+ starts Friday at 11:36pm ET
+ streaming ends Saturday around 11:50am ET

UPDATE: speaking of Creative LIVE, and for “post economy”, they have another limited time sale, 12 classes for $12 each that includes a class on Macro Flowers [Franz Lanting, 5 hours], portraiture, speedlights 101, long exposure, narrative, and more…

Keep in mind, almost all classes have at least one chapter/lesson available to stream for free always, so you can get some feel for the instructor and the nature of the class…

July 2, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials, nikon Tagged With: , , ,

Humble Bundle: Focal Press eBooks for Film-Making [$1 gets you 6 ebooks, pay more, get more]

If you are interested in film-making, good for the next 13 days (as of the time of writing), Humble Bundle has a Film-Maker Book Bundle by Focal Press. These are DRM-FREE ebooks available in multiple formats [you can download all the formats, you don’t have to choose one format].

The $1+ tier includes six ebooks including sound, cloud, indie, genre, and screenwriting.

The $7+ tier adds seven more ebooks, from the general film-related topics to the specifics.

And then the $13.50+ tier adds eight more ebooks, making it a total of 21 books, and it includes single-camera production, low budget, visual effects, on location, and more…

Of other potential interest at Humble Bundle they have the following:

  • Technology essentials for non-techies in business
  • Apress ebooks on digital security (cybersecurity and such)
  • Circuits and Electronics ebook bundle (DSP, Engineering principles, etc)
  • Map Software Bundle
  • Learn Python with PyCharm
  • Image Comics showcase
  • each of the above bundles has its own expiration date
July 2, 2020 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With: , ,

Thursday: refurb Canon SX720 HS zoom for $150, $50 Bolt flash (5 systems), Sirui, Bushnell Trophy, FeelWorld, LensCoat, Polaroid OneStep 2, WD, Etc

Thursday is upon us with 4+1 B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out]:

+ BOLT VS-570 Wireless TTL Flash for $50 in your choice of Nikon, Canon, OlyPan, Sony (MIS), and The Fujees

+ Sirui P-424SR Photo/Video Monopod with VH-10X Head for $170 after mail-in rebate ; also a shorter version for less

+ BushNell Trophy Cam HD E3 Low-Glow Trail Camera for $120

+ FeelWorld FW703 7″ IPS 3G-SDI 4K HDMI On-Camera Monitor for $189

+ flash deal: LensCoat LensPouch (Large Wide, Black) for $12
+ no teaser for next flash deal aottow [as of the time of writing]

Meanwhile at the Woot dailies they have:

+ Clearance/Sellout: Polaroid OneStep 2 Viewfinder i-Type Camera Bundle with 3 Color i-Type Film Packs (8 Instant Photos/per pack) for $80 [limit three per customer; 1 year Polaroid warranty]

+ Electronics: Aduro U-Stream Ring Lights for $19 to $38

+ Computers: refurbished Surface PRO 4 (12.3″, i5-6300U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Win10 PRO, etc) for $500 [1 year Microsoft warranty, up to three per customer]
+ Surface Pen NOT included;

The headliner of the Best Buy deals du jour is the 4TB WD EasyStoooor external USB 3.0 HDD for $87~, but there’s also the refurbished RED Canon SX720 HS compact-zoom going for $150, and things like that…

UPDATE: the Adorama daily deal (changes 10am ET on Friday) is the new condition Alctron UM900 USB Condenser Microphone going for $50 with free US shipping…

July 2, 2020 Filed Under: canon, daily deals Tagged With: , , ,

Wedn: 13″ Daylight LED, AB battery, WD, Netflix, 1TB Samsung SSD, Etc

And just like that it’s Hump Day once again and with it we have new daily deals, these for July 1st in 2020, which means exactly half of the darned 2020 is done. Lettuce hope the second half is less dramatic and more peaceful!

Four are the deals du jour at B&H Photo good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier for any that sells out):

+ Smith Victor Edge360 13″ Daylight LED Light for $100

+ AntOn BauER Edge360 13″ Daylight LED Light for $380

+ Gabor Fixed Wall Mount for 27-42″ Flat Panel Screens for $15

+ Senal Cardioid Gooseneck Microphone for $59

It’s streaming time at the Best Buy daily deals, for $100 you get a $100 Netflix gift card [you can load it up to your own account, you don’t have to gift it to others] and a $10 bonus Best Buy electronic gift card… There’s also a 128GB Sandisk Extreme PLUS microSDXC for $34, a 24″ Dell IPS for $160, a popcorn maker, an espresso machine, a 14TB WD EasyStooor for $200, and more…

And at the Amazonian Gold Box, the headliner is a 1TB Samsung 860 QVO SSD going for $100, while the “Kids editions” of the Kindle and Echo are $30 and $20 off respectively.

July 1, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals

Tuesday: Sandisk, WD, Lowepro, Jib, Moza Air, Etc

It’s Sandisk Day today! A Sandisk and WD sale is leading the day as the Amazon Gold Box deal of the day, with a total of 19 options available. It includes a 64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC for $16 and the 1TB for $280… Limit three of each item per customer…

Sandisk leads the way in the Tuesday 6/30/20 B&H daily deals, good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC and Ultra microSDXC
+ Sandisk USB flash drives
+ WD and Sandisk hard drives
+ five options of each category above

+ Moza AirCross 2 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer Professional Kit for $399

+ SirUI VTJ-1.8 Video Travel Jib for $255 after a $45 mail-in rebate

+ Hollyland Cosmo 1000Plus SDI/HDMI Wireless Video Transmission System for $1599

+ Lowepro DroneGuard CS 400 for $25

Speaking of drones, the current Adorama daily deal [ends 10am ET daily] is the new condition CHASING Dory Underwater Drone for $359 with free US shipping…

June 30, 2020 Filed Under: daily deals