Happy New Year with a new round of Amazon Camera and Photo Lightning Deals, 100 of them as of the time of writing, including:

+ studio, background and lightning gear galore!

+ actjon cams and kids digicams

+ on-camera monitors

+ ring lights

+ stabilizer-y things including tripods and sliders and Feiyu-Tech and GVM

+ digiframes

+ on-camera flash kit

+ Neewer still reigns supreme

And now lettuce take a lQQk at the Wednesday rolling Camera and Photo Lightning Deals at the Amazon mothership, 91 in their number as of the time of writing, including:

+ GVM motorized sliders, $260 to $315

+ background and studio and lightning kits as usual

+ stabilizer-y things like tripods and MOZA AirCross 2

+ monolights galore today

+ ring lights, light panels, on-camera flashes

+ on-camera monitors, camera backpack

+ action cams and binos

Among the Monday 12/28/20 Amazon Gold Box deals of the day there is a return of the Office promotion variant. You get a $40 plastic Amazon gift card with the purchase of a 1-Year prepaid Microsoft 365 Family subscription for up to six separate users (up to six different Microsoft accounts, 1TB OneDrive per account)… This goes for $100… This is an auto-renewing subscription. The $40 gift card is only for this initial purchase, not every year…

NEXT up we dive into the Camera and Photo Lightning Deals where as of the time of writing there are 110 options including:

+ starts 6:50pm ET: Neewer 35mm f1.7 MF APS-C lens
+ only again Gold Box teaser points to the Sony E version, price before sale $70

+ binos

+ backgrounds, studio and lightning kits galore

+ kids cameras and generic P&S digicams

+ stabilizer-y things including FeiYu and Moza

+ light panels, ring light kits

+ monolights and on-camera flashes

+ action cams and generic camcorders

+ digiframes

+ Neewer is the new Cal Ripken

UPDATE: at the Adorama daily deals which run until Monday 10am ET you can get:

+ 3Pod Orbit Tripod for DSLR Photo & Video Cameras, 4 Section Extension Legs, Bubble Level, with Bag. 69″, Carbon Fiber for $150

+ PanaCast 2 Panoramic-4K USB Plug-and-Play Video Camera with Wall Mount for $249

One of the Sunday deals of the day at Amazon Germany is the new condition Datacolor Spyder5PRO Monitor Calibration offered for 99 euro with free shipping in Germany-Austria. Price includes reduced VAT for Germany…

Then to Amazon USA we fly where we take a look at the Camera and Photo Lightning Deals where 119 options exist as of the time of writing, including:

+ action cams, generic camcorders, binos

+ studio, backgrounds and lightning kits

+ stabilizer-y things including tripodalia galore and FeiYu and MoZa

+ generic digicams

+ monolites and flashes

+ Neewer wins the day once again

LAST CALL: the previously mentioned Julie Adair-King, Nikon D3500 Dummies ebook for $4 Kindle daily deal expires on Friday at 3am eastern!

And now lettuce take a looxie @ the Camera and Photo Lightning Deals at Amazon, a total of 118 as of the time of writing:

+ starts 4:20pm ET: Neewer 35mm f1.7 manual focus for Sony E
+ only Sony E on the listing; price before sale $63
+ averages 4.5 out of 5 on 42 aottow (as of the time of writing)

+ Fotga touchscreen on-camera monitor for $159
+ later: 7-inch Neewer F100

+ stabilizer-y things including tripods and sliders and handhelds and such from Moza, Hohem, etc

+ studio and lightning and background kits galore as usual

+ on-camera flashes

+ digiframes, binos

+ generic P&S cameras, camcorders, action cams

+ ring lights of all sorts

+ Neewer camera backpack

+ CPL filter

+ and so on…

And now lettuce take a look at the Wednesday Camera & Photo Lightning Deals at Amazonia. As of the time of writing there are 79 participants, including:

+ light panels and selfie ring lights galore

+ stabilizer-y things include FeiYu and tripods

+ generic cameras and camcorders

+ binos and action cams and body cameras

+ monolights and on-camera flashes

+ on-camera monitors

+ background kits

+ Neewer wins once again

At the rest of the Sunday daily deals, among the Best Buy offerings they have the 128GB Sandisk Ultra Plus microSDXC with full-size adapter for $25, a Microsoft full-size bluetooth keyboard for $40, a 114″ outdoor projection screen for $180, an Acer 28″ UKD monitor and a 75″ LG UHD television set… And a two-in-one coffee machine, one side is a conventional filter-basket electric coffee maker and the other side is a Keurig K-cup brewer. So you have choices and you can avoid a lot of intra-family debates and arguments about which one to get. This is for $100 by Keurig herself…

At the Woot website there’s a refurbished Pixels sale starting at $100 for the Pixel 2 and going up to $230 for the Pixel 3 XL… Me, personally, I’m holding on to my Nexus 😉

Among the Amazon Gold Box offers there’s a COVIDalia sale that includes this 4-in-1 infrared thermometer for $18. This is a more compact design, not the Star Trek phaser style one… It takes two AAA batteries [not included]…

And now some thunderbolt and lightning, that is the Camera and Photo Lightning Deals, 96 as of the time of writing and they include, among others:

+ starts 3:54pm ET: Neewer Battery Grip replacement for Canon BG-E8
+ that’s for select Canon D-Rebel models, takes two LP-E8 or six AA
+ price before sale $28
+ averages 4.6 out of 5 on 2200+ customer ratings

+ ring lights galore

+ on-camera flashes and monolites

+ binos, action cams

+ stabilizer-y things including FeiYu and Zhiyun

+ lightning, studio and background kits
+ they have them only on days that end in “y” 😉

+ assortment of generic digicams and camcorders

+ Neewer once again wins the day

Another variant of the Anker charging accessories sale returns to the Amazon USA Gold Box for Wednesday 12/16/20…

Meanwhile, as of the time of writing, there are 120+ Camera & Photo Lightning Deals, among which:

+ action cams and generic P&S cameras and camcorders and kids cameras

+ studio, lightning and background kits parade as usual

+ stabilizer-y things include sliders and tripods and Feiyu and Zhiyun

+ on-camera flashes and on-camera monitors

+ digiframes and binos too

UPDATE: the latest Adorama daily deals (change Thursday 10am ET) include:

+ Sirui 3T-35R 1-Section Aluminum Table Top Tripod for $50

+ Shoulderpod S1 Professional Smartphone Rig with Tripod Mount, Filmmaker Grip, and Traveler Stand for $23~

Thunderbolt and lightning very very e-frightening! Over 130 items are currently featured at the Camera and Photo Lightning Deals at Amazon USA Gold Box for Tuesday 12/15/20. Of potential interest:

+ starts 4:30pm ET: Neewer Charger with Two Batteries (replacement for Sony NP-FW50)
+ also has $3 off clip-on coupon
+ price before sale $27 after $3 off clip-on

+ studio, lightning and background kits as usual

+ generic camcorders, kids cameras, generic P&S cameras, action cams

+ stabilizer-y things including tripods and GVM sliders

+ on-camera flashes and monolights, from Neewer of course

+ digiframes, on-camera monitors

The theme of the day for Sunday at the Amazon USA Gold Box is Amazon-branded products, which are harder to spot these days since they have a gazillion different sub-brands. Back in our time kids, when we had to go to school walking up the hill backwards in the blizzard under a scorching blood red sky, they only had AmazonBasics. Which is one of their sub-brands that is on sale today, along with “Daily Essentials” and Fire/Echos, etc…

Meanwhile at the 100+ Camera & Photo Lightning Deals, as of the time of writing, of potential interest, they have:

+ studio, lightning and background kits

+ action cams and generic P&S cameras & camcorders
+ and kids cameras too

+ on-camera flashes (Neewer of course)

+ stabilizer-y things including tripods

+ digiframes

+ monoculars and binoculars
+ sorry, no trinoculars 😉

Saturday is here and among the Amazon deals of the day there’s an $18 Fire TV Stick Lite and an $80 Echo Show 8, plus some Ring-Echo-etc bundles…

And a stroll down the Camera and Photo Lightning Deals finds 100+ items as of the time of writing including:

+ generic P&S digicams & camcorders and kids cameras

+ digiframes

+ stabilizer-y things including Zhiyun and Feiyu and needless to say all kinds of tripod-alia

+ the obligatory parade of studio, lightning and background kits

+ ring lights of different kinds

+ on-camera monitors

+ action cameras and body cameras and binoculars

+ on-camera flashes

+ tears of a unicorn; okay, not really, just testing to see how many have read the whole thing 😉

UPDATE: the latest Adorama daily deals (change Sunday 10am ET) include the FotoPro UFO 2 Flexible Tripod with Smartphone and GoPro Adapter for $10… Actual alien UFOs not included… Nor music of the band UFO…

It’s Friday and The Cure at least, they are in love! But as of the time of writing there are 90+ Camera & Photo Lightning Deals at the Amazon USA Gold Bawx, including:

+ starts 9:09am ET: Neewer Charger with Two Batteries compatible with the Canon LP-E6
+ price before sale $31

+ starts 4:54pm ET: Neewer AF Extension Tube Set for M43rds with 10mm, 16mm and 21mm
+ price before sale $44

+ various Neewer flashes, on-camera lights, and monolights

+ action cams

+ studio and lightning and background kits

+ stabilizer-y things including tripods

+ digiframes, on-camera monitors

+ generic camcorders, kids cameras

UPDATE: the latest Adorama daily deals (change Saturday 10am ET) are a sale on Tiffen VND filters, from 72mm to 82mm, with prices ranging from $80 to $100 with the 77mm sitting in the middle for $90…

COVIDalia [of course] is the headliner deal of the day at the Amazon USA Gold Box featuring all the usual suspects, single-use masks, cloth masks, wipes, sanitizers, hockey masks of sorts, and the all-important non-contact forehead thermometer ($17.47)…

Around 110 items are participating, as of the time of writing, in the Camera & Photo Lightning Deals including:

+ kids cameras, action cameras, binoculars

+ generic camcorders, generic Rosdeca P&S camera

+ studio and lightning and background kits

+ stabilizer-y things including Zhigyn Crane 3S

+ flashes and monolights, digiframes

+ various assorted and random accessories

+ Neewer still rules the day

If you want to check out the Microsoft 365 Family subscription at virtually half price, for Wednesday 12/2/20 in the pacific time zone, as their headliner Gold Box deal du jour is a 1-year prepaid auto-renewing family-style (up to six people/accounts participating) Microsoft 365 Family Subscription for $100 with a bonus of a $50 Amazon Gift Card. Limit two per customer.

The Microsoft 365 offer [interesting that they are now leveraging their brand name in the subscription] includes the usual Office apps (Excel, Word, etc) and 1TB of OneDrive per person. This is good for PCs, Macs, Android and iPhones/iPads/etc. So it works on a mix-and-match basis.

PRO TIP: if you have a personality that is split six ways, you can have six different Microsoft accounts that have 1TB OneDrive each, making it 6TB OneDrive total 🙂

NOTE: this is an auto-renewing subscription. IF you don’t cancel it, it will auto-renew automatically at the future-renewal-rate. The $50 Amazon Gift Card offer is only for the initial 12-month period. You won’t be getting a $50 Amazon GC every year 🙂

Elsewhere at Amazon they have:

+ Nikon Instant Savings promotion with 30 options, a mix of cameras and lenses of the DSLR and mirrorNYET kind

+ Sony Cameras Instant Savings promotion with seven options, a mix of APS-C and 35mmFF mirrornyets…

+ 6-month Audible Plus subscription for $5 per month; then it auto-renews at $8/month
+ this is a limited Netflix-style subscription, a departure from the usual ownership-style Audible subscription which costs more
+ this includes ONLY a subset of the audiobooks available on Audible
+ the “Premium Plus” subscription with a $15/month standard price includes the above “Plus” plus you get one free (to digitally own) audiobook per month [you can bank freebies to a certain extent if you don’t need any audiobook one particular month; but they do have limitations/expirations]

+ UPDATE: another promotion, spend $20+ on 300 select qualifying products and save $5
+ Amazon herself must needs be the seller of each eligible product
+ all items must be placed in the same shopping cart

Cyber Monday has arrived at the Amazon Gold Box. No cameras or lenses, but some potentially interesting items. As usual, offers end at 11:59pm pacific time, or earlier for anything that sells out:

+ NixPlay digiframes, $115 to $180, multiple options on the same listing
+ Brookstone digiframes, $70 to $133, multiple options on the same listing as well

+ Laptops for Content Creators: ASUS Zen PRO, ConceptD and MSI Creator
+ HP computers
+ Gaming Laptops and Desktops and Monitors too, 18 options including ASUS/ROG, Acer, LG, Dell/Alienware, HP, Evoo, CyberPower, iBuyPower, Skytech, etc

+ Build Your Own PC, 24 options, including ASUS, Ryzen, Intel, Crucial, WD internals, Toshiba, Gigabyte, Thermaltake, MSI, EVGA and CoolerMaster

+ another Anker sale, 8 options, including four powerbanks, wall chargers, etc

+ Echo Show 5 for $45 among 160+ Amazon Hardware sales

+ electronics include 75″ and 82″ Samsung 4K UHD, Ring doorbell 3, Sabrent Internal & External storage, etc

+ other sales include RoboRock robotic vacuums, $80 9-in-1 Instant Pot [winter stews and such!], five pages of kitchen sales, etc

+ Samsung Androids including Galaxy S20* and Note10+ among others

+ two pages of Android phones from Moto, OnePlus, Sony, LG, Google Pixels, and budget-carrier phones

+ this is just a sampling, I can’t post them all, find them all at the Cider Monday Amazon Gold Box…

PS: it becomes “Cider Monday” if you are drinking any kind of cider 🙂

In the Sunday Camera & Photo Lightning Deals it’s once again a Neewer and GVM party with lighting kits of all kinds, along with an Akaso action camera… Sadly no cameras/lenses 🙁

UPDATE: here’s a potentially good deal, Hulu is offering a 12-month $2 per month subscription. After the first 12 months, it increases to the standard monthly fee ($6/mo) unless cancelled… These days streaming has gotten cable-like fragmented with so many streaming services splitting between them the various movies and TV shows…

To the Amazon Gold box we geaux ~ as of the time of writing there are 131 items in the Camera & Photo Lightning Deals but none of them this year are a camera or lens. In previous years, even if we didn’t have a camera, you could count on some Samyang/Rokinon lenses. Mayhaps they too are too good for lightning deals now? 🙂

Of potential interest, in order of scheduling:

+ Victure action camera for $34
+ GVM RGB Video Lights with APP Control, 50W Full Color Studio for $438
+ GVM GVM RGB LED Video Lighting Kit with APP Control, 50W 360° Full for $319
+ also more GVM and Neewer lighting kits
+ Neewer ball head, tripod, more RGB light kits
+ Mohoo backgrounds
+ Zhiyun Weebill S Gimbal Stabilizer
+ Neweer bi-color LED, Bowens-mount soft-box
+ Neweer T-shape support, 2pk Advanced lighting kit
+ K&F Concept 62″ tripod
+ various ring lights of all sorts
+ Akaso action cams
+ ZHIYUN Crane M2 3-Axis Gimbal Stabilizer for Light Mirrorless
+ etc

Digital picture frames are among the Tuesday Amazon USA Holiday Rash, they have various options of the new condition Nixplay Smart digital picture frames with prices ranging from $115 to $180…

The sales for the day also include four different Mr Coffee options, pourover, pods/capsules, espresso and even a hybrid “all occasions all in one” device… On the audio front, they have the BOSE QuietComfort 35 II wireless full-size headphones with the famous Bose noise cancellation technology for $199…

And at Newegg’s dailies they have among others:

+ 256GB A-Data Premier microSDXC for $26

+ 6TB WD Elements USB 3.0 desktop external HDD for $100 after $25 off promo code
+ 6TB WD performance desktop HDD for $180 after $20 off promo code

+ AMD Ryzen 5 2600X for $165 after $5 off promo code

+ Samsung Galaxy Book Iion laptop for $750 after $250 off promo code

+ and more of the usual techie stuff