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The Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG OS HSM Sports Lens comes bearing gifts at B&H Photo. You pay $1800 with free shipping and for that you receive the lens (obviously) along with 10% rewards (= $180 to be used in future B&H purchases) along with the Sigma 105mm WR UV Filter and the Sigma USB Dock. This is available in the Canon, Nikon and Shiguma SLR mounts.
PS: “Shiguma” harkens back to the computer-translated digitalcamera.jp days, when Sigma was computer-translated to Shiguma.
It is nice to see some creative product bundling. If you happen to want both the Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 DC and the Sigma 50-100mm DC HSM ART lenses, along with the Sigma USB Dock, you can get all three bundled together for $1800 with free shipping at B&H Photo in the Canon, Nikon and Sigma SLR mounts.
The Canon EF-S 17-55mm f2.8 IS lens goes for $779 at Canon-USA blessed/authorized retailers, but if you like to stock up on accessories as well, for the same price of $779 you can get it with a bundle of free extras at Adorama: ProOptic 77mm filter kit, lens shade, lens cap tether, the obligatory cleaning kit, and the Corel software bundle (includes Paintshop and AfterShot).
On the other hand, if the free accessories are of no interest/use to you, you can instead get it with 4% rewards instead (around $30 to be used in future purchases) at B&H Photo.
If you like the idea of a stabilized 85mm f1.8 lens, your wallet only needs to cry 750 tears to get the brand new Tamron 85mm f1.8 Di VC USD lens. Tamron revealed the price now and the Canon and Nikon version could be out this month, with the Sony version coming later. Check the latest availability at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon by Amazon itself.
Refurbished lens action with a one year warranty, the Canon EF 24-105mm f4L IS USM is currently on special for $700 with free shipping at B&H Photo.
Zoom-zoom iLC-style! The Sigma 18-300mm f3.5-6.3 DC Macro OS HSM lens is bundled with a handful of accessories (72mm Essentials Filter Kit, Slinger Lens Pouch, Lens Cap Tether, and Cleaning kit), along with the Sigma AML72-01 Close-Up Lens for Contemporary 18-300mm DC Macro HSM Lens, all together for $500 with free shipping at Adorama.
This is available in the Canon, Nikon, Sigma, Pentax and Sony Alpha SLR mounts. The Pentax and Sony are not OS. You can switch between the different mount options at Adorama using the “More Buying Options” box below the green “Add to Cart” button. Annotated screenshot of that below:
If of all the accessories you only need the Sigma AML72-01 Close-Up Lens and you instead prefer promotional rewards to use on future purchases, you can get it for $500 with 4% promotional rewards (around $20) at B&H Photo.
Good until 3/13/16, B&H Photo automatically includes a 1-Year subscription to Adobe’s Creative Cloud Photography Plan with the purchase of select Canon DSLRs and Lenses. The offer covers items with an MSRP of $1199. Some items however are on Canon-approved Instant Savings, so the price range of this offer is $999 to $12,999. A total of 54 items are participating. You can sort the list of 54 items in various different ways.
No coupon is needed. You receive details on how to redeem your free subscription after you place an eligible order at B&H. Eligible items show this promotion on their individual product page [see screeshot below]:
It certainly takes a lot of onions to release a $500+ entry-level DSLR in 2016, but that’s what happens when you have much and more market share. Canon has a brand new entry-level D-Rebel, the T6, with prices starting at $550 for the with 18-55 EF-S IS II kit lens. Or an extra $200 (!!!) more bundled with the non-IS non-USM 75-300mm EF f4-5.6 III lens. These are available for pre-order at Adorama and B&H Photo and Amazon by Amazon itself.
This too has been added to the list of New Cameras of 2016.
This offer expired… For more action, check the B&H Featured Deals page…
The PocketWizard TTL 4-Pak (two transceiver, one controller, one case) are on sale for $369 plus shipping (under $10 for slowest West Coast option, still YMMV depending on zipcode) in either the Canon or Nikon version at Adorama (click on Canon/Nikon tabs over there to switch between them).
This daily deal expired…
Back to the eBay Deals, if you are comfortable with imported grey-market DSLRs without a warranty, the Get It Digital eBay store is offering the new condition grey-market imported Canon 6D body only for $999 with free shipping, with a limit of five per buyer. Over 2000 units got sold from this listing per the eBay listing stats.
If you prefer Canon USA warranty models and do not object to mail-in rebates and prepaid gift cards, there is a nice WPPI bundle at B&H for $1150 after coupon and mail-in rebate that includes the Pixma PRO 10 printer and 13×19 paper and 1-year of Creative Cloud Photography Plan (this expires 3/10/16).
Back to the Adorama 48 Hour sale, if you are a Rebel with a Rebate Cause [all these years and so many horrible puns and I think this is the first time I thought of this combination!], there is a Canon D-Rebel T5i Video Rebate Bundle. You pay $850 at checkout, receive order, make sure all is well, submit mail-in rebate following deadlines/instructions and a few weeks later, if all is well, you receive a $350 prepaid American Express Gift Card by mail. And a railroad sentence 🙂
For that, you get the Canon D-Rebel T5i with 18-55 IS STM in the Video Creator bundle which also includes the Rode VIDEOMIC GO Microphone and a 32GB Sandisk card and you also get the PIXMA PRO 100 printer and its accompanying 50pk of 13×19″ photo paper, which is what qualifies the mail-in rebate.
As part of WPPI festivities, B&H Photo has four different Canon DSLR Coupon and Rebate promotions. For these four offers, you must enter coupon code BHWPPI16 at Checkout which drops the price.
We start with the bundles centered around the Canon 6D. The Canon 6D body only along with the PIXMA PRO 10 printer and the 50pk 13×19″ photo paper and 12-months of Adobe’s Creative Cloud Photography Plan for $1150 after entering coupon BHWPPI16 at Checkout and the mail-in rebate (prepaid $350 American Express gift card).
The same promotion is also offered for the 6D with 24-105 kits (either one of those lenses). The prices are adjusted accordingly by the coupon and rebate.
These offers expire 3/10/16 or earlier if they sell out.
We continue the B&H Canon DSLR Pixma MIR and Coupon rebate offers. This time the offer is centered around the Canon 5D Mark III. You have to enter coupon BHWPPI16 at Checkout for this offer as well. You get the Canon 5D Mark III body only, the PIXMA PRO-10 printer, the 50pk 13×19″ photo paper and 12 months of the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan for $2150 after a $350 mail-in rebate (prepaid AMEX gift card). You have to enter the coupon code BHWPPI16 when you purchase this… Also participating are the two other official 5D Mark III kits (with 24-105 or 24-70) with the prices adjusted accordingly by coupon and rebate… Offers end 3/10/16 or earlier if sold out…
Just like the previously mentioned 1D X offer this offer too requires that you enter coupon BHWPPI16 at Checkout. B&H Photo is offering a Canon 7D Mark II bundle. You get the Canon 7D Mark II body only, the PIXMA PRO 10 printer, a 50pk of 13×19″ Canon photo paper and 12 months of Adobe’s Creative Cloud Photography Plan. You must enter coupon code BHWPPI16 at Checkout. After coupon and a $350 mail-in rebate (prepaid AMEX gift card), this becomes a $1200 for the body only… The coupon offer is also available for the 7D Mark II with 18-135mm kit with its prices adjusted accordingly by coupon and rebate… Promotion ends 3/10/16 or earlier if sold…
For this hot limited time offer, you must enter coupon BHWPPI16 at Checkout, in addition to the submitting the mail-in rebate. As part of the many WPPI specials, B&H Photo is offering a Canon 1D X Bundle. It includes the Canon 1D X body only, the Pixma Pro 10 printer, the 50pk of 13×19 inch photo paper and a 12-month subscription to the Creative Cloud Photography Plan. You must enter coupon code BHWPPI16 at checkout when you buy this. This offer also has the usual $350 American Express Gift Card via mail-in rebate. The combination of coupon and rebate makes this a $4249 after rebate and coupon. Offer ends 3/10/16 or earlier if sold out.
CORRECTION: this includes the “Pixma PRO 10” printer, not the “Pixma PRO 100” printer!
Also part of the WPPI festivities, B&H Photo has a sale on 18 Rokinon Cine Lenses of different SLR and Mirrorless mounts. The sale includes the “T1.5 Prime Bundle” (24, 35, 50, 85) for $1900 in the Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony A, Sony E, and M43rds mounts. Sale ends 3/10/16.
Back to the eBay Deals, for the more adventurous shoppers, there is a white-box imported grey-market lens without any warranty, it is offered by Get It Digital’s eBay store (99.6%). Ooops, the lens, the lens is the new condition Canon 18-135mm f3.5-5.6 IS STM going for $229 with free shipping with a limit of five per customer.
White box usually means it was part of a kit, but sold separately. If I put on my Miss Maple hat, this is probably how it came to be: they import Canon APS-C DSLRs with 18-135mm kits. Then they remove the lenses from the DSLR boxes, and sell the DSLRs as body-onlies on their own (“onlies” is plural of “only”), and the Lenses on their own.
So that’s why the price is so much lower, it’s an imported item without a warranty. Over 1300 units got sold so far, so there are a lot of people willing to take the risk, but again, don’t decide based on price alone. If the thought of potential future problems with lenses without warranty keeps you up at night, mayhaps it’s not worth the extra stress. We blog, you decide!
eBay is having another semi-curated sale (I don’t know how much they pick by hand and how much by computer, so I’m splitting the distance with the semi), this time they feature 133 items that comprised a Canon Sales Event. Due to time constraints I cannot go through the 133 items and price-check them, so this is a DIY adventure if interested. You can filter them a bit using the various options below the big banner picture over there.
Also bubbling among the featured eBay Deals is a more complicated offer from BuyDig’s eBay store. This one is a Canon-Pixma-MIR-AMEX offer, a mail-in rebate bundle with a $350 prepaid American Express Gift Card. This is a Canon D-Rebel T5i with 18-55 IS STM bundle that also includes the PIXMA PRO 100 printer and its accompanying 50pk of 13×19″ Canon photo paper (the razor/cartridges strategy). You pay $750, receive the order, make sure all is well, submit the mail-in rebates following instructions and deadlines, and a few weeks later you receive a $350 prepaid American Express Gift Card if all is well, making it a $400 after MIR promotion, and this a nominee for a runaway sentence 🙂
Back on the eBay Deals wagon where we find BuyDig’s eBay store offering the new condition Sigma 18-250mm f3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM lens on sale for $219 with free shipping, with a limit of five per customer. This is only available in the Canon SLR mount. The others (N/A/P) are showing as out of stock.
If you are interested in Tamron lenses and like to shop at B&H Photo, they have 10% Promotional Rewards on select Tamron Lenses. The Rewards are stackable with the Tamron Mail-In Rebates (current iteration expires 4/30/16). The participating lenses are 24-70 f2.8, 18-270 f3.5-6.3, 16-300 f3.5-6.3, and 150-600 f5-6.3. They are available in Canon, Nikon and some in Sony Alpha SLR mounts.
Canon also has a new instant savings promotion on 29 of their SLR/DSLR lenses and five lights (three speedlites, two macro lights). This round is good until 4/2/16. You can see them all nicely organized at B&H Photo. They are too many to list here individually.
The Canon version of the Metz mecablitz 52 AF-1 digital Flash is on sale for a limited time (until 3/2/16 at 11:59pm ET) for $250 with free shipping at B&H Photo. Only the Canon version is on sale, the rest go for $300 to $320.
It is Sunday in the eastern time zone and this means a new round of manufacturer-initiated instant savings for Canon SLR Lenses and Speedlites. A number of Canon lenses are participating. This round of offers expires 4/2/16. You can find the participating lenses nicely organized by focal range and categorized as prime/zoom at Adorama.
PS: I am “wrestling” with an under-powered laptop with a tiny keyboard, unfortunately I can’t post all the participating lenses one by one. But they are nicely organized at Adorama making it easy to skim and scan for potentially interesting lenses.
We have something that is a bit of rarity, a pre-order discount! The new Canon 1D X Mark II [see New Cameras of 2016 Tracking page] is coming out of the gate with two official kits. A body only for $6000, and a kit bundled with the Sandisk CFast card reader and a 64GB CFast card for $6300.
The discount now is on the CFast bundle, dropping from $6300 to $6000, the same price as the body only. So it’s like getting the CFast bundle for free. This pre-order offer is available at B&H Photo and Amazon itself and Adorama. Shipping estimates hover around tax season.
We have two back to back Canon-Pixma-AMEX MIR bundle offers from B&H Photo. We start with the Canon 5D Mark III bundle. You pay $3100 at checkout, receive your items, make sure all is well, submit the mail-in rebates while paying attention to instructions and deadlines, and a few weeks later you receive a $350 prepaid American Express Gift Card, making it a $2750 after MIR. For that, you get the Canon 5D Mark III with the Canon 24-105mm f4L IS, the Pixma PRO 100 printer, a 50pk of 13×19 Canon photo paper (to put the new printer to work), a 32GB SanDisk ExTrEeEmE SDHC card, a Ruggard shoulder bag, and an extra third-party battery. This expires 2/26/16 at 5:30pm ET.
It’s another triangle offer, the Canon – Pixma – AMEX triangle bundle. But you do not need to understand the intricate details of the Triangle Offense to take advantage of this deal 🙂 This one is centered around the Canon D-Rebel T5i. You pay $1049 at checkout, receive the items, make sure they are all well, submit the mail-in rebates per the instructions and deadlines, and a few weeks later you receive a $350 prepaid American Express Gift Card by mail, making it a $700 after MIR. For that, you get the Canon D-Rebel T5i with 18-135mm STM IS, the Pixma PRO 100 printer, a 50pk of 13×19 Canon photo paper (to put the new printer to work!), and a 16GB appetizer Sandisk Ultra SDHC card. This at B&H Photo with a 2/26/16 at 5:30pm ET offer expiration date.
The Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT is currently going for $469 but also includes 4% promotional rewards (~$19 to use in future purchases) at B&H Photo. This offer optimizes for purchasing power…
… on the other hand, if you could use some flash-related accessories, there is a trio of bundles at Adorama that also go for $469 but with 2% promotional rewards ($9.38~) and these extras:
+ Bundle #1: with Flashpoint SpeedLight Partner and Power2000 NB-2LH Replacement NiMH Rechargeable Battery and Flashpoint Mini Soft Box Diffuser
+ Bundle #2: with Flashpoint Mini Soft Box Diffuser and Power2000 Charger with 4 AA 2900mah rechargeables and cleaning kit
+ Bundle #3: with Flashpoint Mini Soft Box Diffuser and Power2000 Charger with 4 AA 2900mah rechargeables and TTL-Off Camera Coiled Flash Cord for Canon [not certain on the exact list of accessories with this bundle as different things are mentioned on different parts of the page]
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