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It’s IFA time in Berlin [see Trade Show Calendar] which means new hardware and such. Coincidence or not, Tamron has revealed two new Prime lenses for the Canon, Nikon and Sony-Alpha-Dyxum-Maxxum SLR mounts. The Canon and Nikon are stabilized (VC) but not the Sony. It is the 35mm f1.8 Di USD (VC) for $600, and the 45mm f1.8 Di USD (VC) for $600 as well. Pre-orders are accepted at B&H Photo and Adorama…
You can find these added to the New Lenses of 2015 tracking page.
Canon has another iteration of their instant savings promotions (straight up purchase, no rebates, no coupons, no combined purchases) featuring various DSLRs and Lenses. You can find them nicely visually organized with big pictures at Adorama, for both the DSLR specials and also the SLR Lens specials. For example:
+ EF 100mm f2.8 USM Macro for $550
+ EF 24-70mm f2.8L II USM for $1800
+ EF 70-200mm f2.8L USM for $1250
+ Canon T5i w/18-55 Video Creator kit for $700
+ Canon 5D Mark III body for $2500
+ each item has its own free promotions as well (rewards or free accessories or New Leaf warranty or Creative Cloud training or any combination)
This daily deal expired… For more B&H action, check their Featured Deals page…
After our little “coffee lens break”, we are back at the eBay Deals with one more imported grey-market promotion, also from eBay seller “Get It Digital” (99.7%). They are offering both of the new new-condition imported grey-market Canon 5D S body only cameras on the same listing. The 5DS goes for $2700, while the 5DS R goes for $3350. You have to select under “Model”, below the listing title. Limit five per buyer. They do not come with a Canon USA warranty, but the eBay seller “Get It Digital” provides their own one year warranty to parallel the benefits.
The 5DS body only, at authorized Canon USA dealers, currently goes for $3700 with various freebies depending on each retailer, such Amazon (free Audio-Technica AT8024 camera-mount mic) or Adorama (2% rewards = $74~) or B&H Photo (2% rewards = $74~).
The 5DS R body only, at authorized Canon USA dealers, currently goes for $3900 with various freebies depending on each retailer, such Amazon (free Audio-Technica AT8024 camera-mount mic) or Adorama (2% rewards = $78~) or B&H Photo (2% rewards = $78~).
The products from the authorized dealers are eligible for the various Canon USA mail-in rebate promotions, while the imported items are not.
Back in our time, when prime lenses were $50, we had to climb the hill backwards four times a day, in five feet of snow, with bone chilling howling winds, while the sun scorched at 130 degrees above.
Time to put back on those climbing-the-hill backwards boots, because you can now get a new condition 50mm prime for around $50. It is the new condition Yongnuo 50mm f1.8 lens (for Canon EF) offered for $53 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo. It comes with a one year warranty even!
To the eBay Deals we go with a rare occurrence, a prime lens under $100. It is new condition, but it is imported (grey market). However, a basic 50mm f1.8 prime lens is a much lower risk than $5000 tilt-shift walking-on-eggshells lens, so it’s up to you to enter your risk matrix and reach a decision.
Mumbling aside, this is a new condition imported grey-market Canon 50mm f1.8 II SLR lens offered for $90 with free shipping with a limit of five per buyer by eBay seller “Red Tag Camera” (99.9%). Over 2400 units have been sold so far from this listing.
At authorized dealers, this lens goes for $125, such as Amazon and B&H Photo where the imported goes for $110.
If you are a B&H Photo fan or have gift cards or promotional rewards and are looking for new product releases, as of the time of writing, the following new products are in-stock and ready to ship to your arms with free expedited shipping:
Juxtaposition alert, deal edition! I’m not even sure what the previous sentence means, but on we go: in parallel with the new condition T5 MIR bundle, the official Canon USA online store is offering the refubished Canon D-Rebel T5 with 18-55 IS II for $250 with free shipping. Offer ends by 8/29/15. Refurbished items sold from the official Canon USA store come with a one year warranty.
This is a bit of an unusual combination, but if the stars align and you could all these (eg the DSLR kit for a beginner and the printer for you), Focus Camera is offering a Canon D-Rebel T5 two-lens kit with printer bundle. The price is $450 after a $350 mail-in rebate (prepaid American Express gift card). For that, you get the Canon D-Rebel T5 with the 18-55 and 75-300 lenses, the Pixma Pro 100 printer, and a 50pk of 13×19 inch Canon semi-gloss photo paper.
And now, Canon gear fans, we have a trio of DSLR-printer-paper-rebate bundles at Adorama. We start with one of Canon’s most influential DSLR lines in the digital era, the 5D, more specifically in this case, the 5D Mark III. The offer is available for Canon 5D Mark III body only for $2150 after $350 MIR (prepaid American Express Gift Card), and also for the Canon 5D Mark III with 24-105mm f4L IS for $2750 after $350 MIR (mail-in rebate). This is the most generous in terms of extras and bonuses of the three.
The bundle includes:
In the Empire Strikes Back of the Canon rebate trilogy at Adorama, we have the Canon 7D Mark II kits. Two of them are participating in this promotion. The 7D Mark II body only is $1250 after $350 mail-in rebate (prepaid AMEX gift card), while the 7D Mark II with 18-135 IS STM goes for $1650 after $350 MIR.
The bundle includes:
The Canon DSLR bundles trilogy at Adorama concludes with the Canon 6D kits. The offer is available for either the Canon 6D body only for $1150 after $350 MIR (prepaid American Express gift card) or the Canon 6D with 24-105L f4 IS for $1650 after $350 MIR (mail-in rebate).
The bundle includes:
Optionally you can get one year of Kelby Training for FREE with this purchase. Also optionally you add the 70-300mm f4-5.6 IS lens to this bundle for +$400. To see these optional offers, click on the Special Offers or Ways to Save links over there.
The official Canon USA online store has a refurbished sale on select products. The sale prices are shown in red ink. These items come with a one year Canon warranty and pass a “comprehensive quality assurance inspection”. Some could argue this may be more than what they do for new condition items 🙂 Participating are:
+ select refurbished DSLR kits (multiple pages)
+ select refurbished SLR lenses (multiple pages)
+ refurbished Speedlite Flashes (four options in-stock, one sold out)
+ select refurbished Fixed Lens cameras (multiple pages)
+ time-permitting I will go through them later on, but I don’t want you to miss out any potential deals that sell out until I find time to go through them all (already a few of the red-ink items are sold out).
This daily deal expired…
Back to the eBay Deals where as of the time of writing the featured deal of the day is the new condition imported grey-market Canon 5DS R body only offered for $3500 with free shipping and a one year warranty from the seller GetItDigital (99.7%). The warranty is not from Canon USA. Limit 5 per customer.
At authorized Canon dealers, this goes for $3900, currently in-stock at Adorama (with 2% rewards = $78~) and by third-party sellers at Amazon. Same price at B&H Photo but it is not in-stock there as of the time of writing.
More superzoom action at the eBay Deals, this time of the SLR kind. The Sigma 18-250 f3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM macro lens is currently offered for $230 with free shipping and a four year warranty (1+3) by Adorama’s eBay store in the Canon, Nikon, Sony Alpha and Pentax K SLR mounts. Limit five per buyer.
PS: if you are having a bit of a deja vu, this had been offered a few weeks ago for $250 by Buydig thru the eBay deals.
To the eBay Deals we check-upon where we find Adorama’s official eBay store offering the manufacturer refurbished Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 DC HSM Art lens in the four major SLR mounts (Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax) for $680 with free shipping with a limit of five per customer. Warranty is a total of four years from the date of purchase (1+3).
More B&H action, this is a round-up of the current Lens Instant Savings promotions running:
+ Canon SLR Lenses and flashes (21 lenses, 2 flashes)
+ Nikon SLR Lenses (8 lenses)
+ Sony SLR and Mirrorless Lenses (many options)
+ Pentax SLR Lenses (36 options)
+ Sigma SLR Lenses (186 options) – use coupon code PSWBH15 at checkout for more discounting for the Sigmas
A simple post on the $5 Groupon took a life of its own, but we are back to the B&H Photo Photoshop World 2015 specials, starting with their Canon 5D Mark III bundles. Three different kits are offered, with the body only for $2150 after $350 MIR, the 5DMk3 with 24-70 for $2900 after MIR, and the 5DMk3 with 24-105 for $2750 after MIR. These bundles include:
A lot of posts filled up the front page, if you want to see all the B&H Canon Photoshop World 2015 specials, check the Canon DSLR Gear category for a quick and easy way to skim and scan them.
We continue the B&H Canon specials for Photo.Shop.World.2015 with two different Canon 7D Mark II kits. The 7D II body only bundle is $1250 after a $350 MIR (prepaid AMEX GC) while the 7D II with 18-135 is $1650 after MIR. The bundle includes the Pixma Pro 100 printer, and a 50pk Canon 13×19″ photo paper. The rebates will arrive in the form of a prepaid American Express Gift Card, not a cashbable chequeueue (aka check).
B&H Photo also has two Canon 6D bundles. The 6D body only bundle is $1150 after a $350 MIR (prepaid AMEX GC) while the 6D with 24-105 f4L is $1650 after a $350 MIR (prepaid AMEX GC). The bundle includes the 6D kits obviously along with the Pixma Pro 100 printer and 50pk Canon SG-201 13×19″ photo paper.
Last but not least, B&H offers this Canon 1DX bundle for $4250 after a $350 mail-in rebate (prepaid American Express gift card). You get:
One of the B&H Photo headliner deals for the Photo Shop World 2015 is a Canon Pixma Printer savings promotion. You must needs enter coupon code PSWBH15 for these promotions to activate and use this B&H link that activates the promotion.
There are two ways to go about this. One is to buy the printers on their own straight up. They have a $250 mail-in rebate offer, bringing the printers down to $50 after MIR for the Pixma-100, $250 after MIR for the Pixma-10 and $450 after MIR for the Pixma-1.
The other option is to buy one of the printers along with one of the camera kits listed on the promotional page. This qualifies for an additional $350 mail-in rebate (on the combined purchase of a printer and camera). Some items may also come with promotional rewards or other freebies which are independent of this promotion.
The mail-in rebates are in the form of a prepaid American Express Gift Card (not a cashable check). The coupons expire 8/16/15. Here’s the B&H banner summarizing this offer:
PS: in case you are not familiar with these, you either get the $250 MIR if you buy a printer on its own or a $350 MIR if you buy a printer together with a digital camera. The table in the PDF rebate form (can be found on all the eligible product pages at B&H) makes it clear. The additional discounts above are from the B&H coupon and special promotion.
Rule #4975.34.AV30iiv (0.453 revision) of the Brand Fairness Doctrine requires that every time we mention a Tokina special, we have to match it with a Tamron offer, if nothing else, because those two names are too similarly confusing, at least to newcomers to the world of photography 😉 With that unnecessary introduction out of the way, the Tamron SP 24-70mm f2.8 DI VC USD Lens is offered for $1200 after a $100 mail-in rebate (MIR) plus 4% promotional rewards (= $50~) by B&H Photo in the Canon, Nikon and Sony Minolta Alpha mounts.
The Lensbaby Special Edition Spark 50mm f2 Selective Focus Lens is currently on sale for $60 with free shipping and 4% promotional rewards at Adorama, available in the Canon and Nikon SLR mounts. Offer ends 8/31/15.
The lens party continues at B&H, this time for Nikon DSLR photographers, the Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 DX II ATX lens is on sale for $400 with free expedited shipping and 4% promotional rewards ( = $16~). The Canon and Sony Minolta Dyxum A-mount also go for $400 but don’t get the 4% promotional rewards.
For Canon and Nikon manual focus lens fans, B&H Photo is offering the Zeiss 50mm f1.4 Planar T* for $525 with free expedited shipping and 4% promotional rewards (= $20~).
Rumors of Zeiss hiring Vanilla Ice for a new “Zeiss Zeiss Baby” TV commercial are completely unfounded, but founded in your wallet is a new sale on the Zeiss 85mm f1.4 Planar T* manual focus lens for Canon and Nikon DSLRs for $983 with free shipping and 4% promotional rewards (= almost $40) at B&H Photo.
Rokinon has revealed a trio of new T1.5 prime lenses under the Xeen name, the 24mm, 50mm and 85mm, available in five mounts: Canon and Nikon (SLR), PL-mount, Sony E-Mount, and Micro Four Thirds. All of the lenses go for $2500 each and are available for pre-order at B&H Photo as follows: 24mm T1.5 and 50mm T1.5 and 85mm T1.5.
UPDATE: they are also available for pre-order at Adorama in four of the five mounts (Nikon not listed at the moment).
PS: you can find these added to the New Cameras and Lenses of 2015 tracking page.
Zoom-zoom APS-C DSLR-style now as Tamron has a new 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 Di VC II lens available for pre-order for $250 in the Canon, Nikon and Alpha (the C/N/A in the blog-post title) mounts. You can pre-order them at B&H Photo and Adorama.
You can find this lens added to the tracking page of New Cameras and Lenses of 2015.
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