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It’s Seagate USB 3.0 external hard drive time at the Tuesday 10/27/20 Amazon USA Gold Box as follows, up to three of each item per customer at the sale price from Amazon herself:
+ 5TB Backup Plus Slim for $98
+ 4TB Backup Plus Slim for $84
+ 2TB Backup Plus Slim for $53
+ 1TB Backup Plus Slim for $45
+ 8TB Desktop for $123
+ 10TB Expansion Desktop for $170
Among the lightning deals of the Sunday Amazon USA Goldbox / Holiday Dash there is an upcoming LENS lightning deal!
+ starts 2:35pm ET: Lightdow 85mm f1.8 MF FF (price before sale $130)
+ the lightning deal listing points to the Nikon F, but on the same listing there’s also Canon EF and Sony MirrorNyet versions
+ as of the time of writing it averages 4 out of 5 based on 220+ customer ratings
UPDATE! And now the rest of the Sunday daily deals:
+ at Woot’s dailies there’s iPad PRO tablets ($600 to $1020) and a consumer-lighting clearance sale with 17 options (one has sold out so far) that includes various AmazonBasics LED light bulbs, and smart multi-color bulbs among other options…
+ at Amazon USA’s Gold Box there’s another Anker charging products sale and Samsonite luggage, and a $120 Nespresso kit (some suggest it is superior to Keurig’s K-Cup system {but moi, being a pour-over hippy I say pour-over is superior to all machines, even steampunk coffee machines 😉 }), and for those of you tired of hoarding toilet paper every time there’s a crisis or an “act of nature”, there’s a sale on Bio Bidets with remote controls…
+ if you like the metal touch of the Samsung BAR Plus USB flash drives, the 256GB USB 3.1 version is on sale for $34 among the NewEgg deals du jour for Sunday…
UPDATE #2: per the “Post Deficit Reduction and WordPressian Responsibility Doctrine” I’m appending short one-liner posts to existing posts, so here is the latest Adorama daily deal (changes Monday 10am ET), the new condition Spiffy Gear Lumiee Wearable Light Combo Bundle (Lumiee Bi-Color Light Bracelet and Lumiee RGB Light Bracelet) going for $60 with free US shipping…
The 2-Day Prime Day is over, but Amazon has already (!!!) entered the “Holiday Dash” season [hey, at least it’s not Christmas decorations in July at Dollar Tree] and surprise-surprise there are two (!!!) groups of camera and photo products at their Thursday 10/15/20 Gold Box / Holiday Dash daily deals as follows:
+ E-Mart Photo Accessories, 16 options, $15 to $139, including various background stands, backdrops, rectangular and ring lights, umbrella kits, crystal balls (!!!), and more
+ Kodak Smile Instant Print Digital Cameras, 13 options, $70 to $105; includes:
+ sale ends Thursday at 11:59pm pacific time (or earlier for anything that may sell out ahead of its designated expiration time)
UPDATE: the price is $263…
After digging through the “Upcoming” Camera and Photo Lighting Deals of the gargantuan Amazon USA Gold Box, there is one lens currently on the “Upcoming” schedule, starting at 7:05am eastern on Wednesday, the Rokinon 12mm F2.0 NCS CS manual focus lens for the Fuji X system. The price before the sale is $329. The product listing only has the Fuji X, no other options.
You need to be a Prime member to get the sale price. If you are not, but you like the price when it goes live, you can start a 30 day free trial. Just make sure you put an alert in your calendar to cancel it if you don’t fall into the trap that millions of paying Prime subscribers fell into. Which is why they are very generous with the 30-day trials because a very satisfactory [for their accountants] percentage appears to become paying members for life (or at least for many years)…
For more action, check the on-going Prime Dayz Situation Room ~ without Wolf Blitzer 🙂
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…
In the Monday 6/15/20 Amazon USA Gold Box you can find a PNY storage sale featuring among others:
+ 32GB Elite Performance SD for $5.50
+ 64GB for $8.80
+ 5pk of 16GB Class 4 SD cards for $15
+ 5pk of 16GB Class 4 microSD cards for $15
+ 10pk of 32GB Attache USB 3.0 flash drives for $35
+ all kinds of other USB flash drives, including tiny ones (the “Fit” type) and “normal” and “scorpio” style and restractables and mo(i)re…
Among the Tuesday 4/28/20 Amazon Gold Box deals of the day is a photography ebook on sale for $3! It is the “Picture This: How Pictures Work” ebook by Molly Bang, 154 pages, published in August 2016. As of the time of writing, it averages 4.3 out of 5 based on 160 customer reviews…
You can read the first few pages of the ebook with the Kindle sample, or you can jump around inside the book when you use the “Look Inside” feature at the Print Book page…
This book was originally published in 1991…
Sale ends on 4/28/20 at 11:59pm pacific time. eBooks do not sellout 🙂
The headliner Amazon Gold Box deal of the day for Tuesday 3/24/20 is the Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 going for $60 in your choice of digital download or Disc delivered by mail…
In other daily action, the Adorama daily deal (changes Wedn 10am ET) is the new condition Polar Pro Mavic 2 Pro Cinema Series Gradient Filter Collection (with ND8GR, ND164 & ND328) going for $50 with free US shipping…
Another Corona-inspired offer, if you and friends and family and kids and roommates are locked in, the more tablets the merrier appears to be the thinking in the Amazon Gold Box headliner deal of the day for Tuesday 3/17/20, it is the new condition Fire HD 8 tablet going for $50 with free US shipping. This is the base model (16GB storage, With Offers). A +$20 gets you from the 16GB to the 32GB model, and a +$15 removes the Special Offers. They are available in four color options, a great way to color-code the tablets of people living in the same house for ease of recognition [“it’s my tablet, MINE! not yours!!!!”] 🙂
Note that these have microSD slots that can take up to 400GB cards, so the storage limitation of the on-board memory is only if you have any apps that refuse to use the microSD card…
Two potentially interesting deals in the Amazon USA Gold Bawx for Monday 3/16/2020 until 11:59pm pacifica time (or earlier for any that gets sold out):
+ 400GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for $53
+ Samsung Galaxy Note 9 for $600 (128GB) or $750 (512GB)
+ factory unlocked, USA warranty, sold and shipped by Amazon herself
The headliner Amazon Gold Box deal du jour at Amazon USA is the new condition DJI Osmo Pocket Handheld bundled with a 32GB Sandisk Extreme microSD card for $279 with free US shipping, sold and shipped by Amazon itself which offers an optional 6-month offer on approved credit with the Amazon Store credit card. Limit up to three per customer at the sale price. It averages 4.3 out of 5 based on over 1000 customer reviews. Offer ends 11:59pm pacific or earlier if sold out…
UPDATE: the Adorama daily deal (ends by Tuesday at 10am ET) is the new condition MSI GF75 Thin 17.3″ Full HD Gaming Laptop (i5-9300H 2.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX1650 with 4GB) for $649 with free US shipping…
It’s another variant of the Computer Accessories Sale at the Amazon USA Gold Box good until Wednesday 1/29/20 at 11:59pm pacific (or earlier for anything that sells out). A total of 20 items are participating with prices ranging from $17 to $150. Up to three per item on offer.
Of camera and photo interest, the sale has the following memory cards:
SDXC memory cards
+ 128GB Lexar Professional SDXC (1667X, UHS-II, U3, up to 250MB/sec) for $30.59
+ 256GB of that but 1000X (up to 150MB/sec) for $39.40
+ 64GB Lexar Professional black/yellow (2000X, V90, UHS-II, U3, up to 300MB/sec) for $68
+ 256GB Lexar Professional (633X, up to 95MB/sec, V30, UHS-I, U3) for $32
+ as you can see, there are all kinds of speed options available
Other Items
+ 64GB Lexar microSDXC (1800X, V90, UHS-II) for $30.57
+ Lexar Multi-Card 25-in-1 card reader for $17
+ also keyboards, mice, headsets, etc
Another variant of the PNY storage sale is running at the Amazon USA Gold Box for Tuesday 1/14/20 as follows:
+ 128GB Elite Performance SDXC for $16
+ 128GB Elite-X black/green microSDXC for $16
+ 256GB PRO Elite microSDXC for $33
+ 128GB USB 3.0 flash drive for $15
+ 128GB Sync and Charge two-head for iPhone for $35
+ 256GB small USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type C for $40
+ up to three per item per customer
Meanwhile at the Best Buy dailies,they are offering the new condition 32GB Sandisk Ultra Plus microSDXC card for $10…
One of the Tuesday Amazon USA Gold Box deals of the day is a sale on digital magazine subscriptions, one of which is an annual digital subscription to the National Geographic Magazine for $9, after a 28-day free trial. Note that this is an auto-renewing subscription, so it will renew automatically in the future, until or unless you cancel it.
PS: if you happen to have a print subscription, you can get the Kindle version for free if you verify your subscription through Amazon…
The Monday Amazon USA Gold Box includes yet another variant of the computer sale and of potential interest they have:
+ 512GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for $64
+ 5TB WD MyPassport portable external USB 3.0 HDD for $90
+ other HDD/NAS options from WD, Toshiba, Synology, etc
+ flash drives from Sandisk including a 10-pack of 128GB Ultra Flair USB 3.0 for $150
+ networking gear from TP-Link, ARRIS, D-Link, LinkSys, etc
+ limit one of each per customer; offer ends Tuesday at 3am eastern (or earlier for anything that sells out)
UPDATE: on Monday in the German time zone, it’s a very busy day at the Amazon Germany Gold Box and among the offers:
+ Sony cameras and lenses with A-series full frame E-system cameras, RX-series, and a mix of primes and zooms of the E-system including some Zeiss Zeiss Baby. There’s also a battery grip (VG-C3EM for 249 euro) and a camcorder. A total of 21 options, too many to list here individually..
While at Amazon GErmany there’s also another Amazon Basics sale with cables galore along with this AB Camera Shoulder Bag down to 15.50 euro (up to three per customer; averages 4.1 out of 5 based on 38 customer ratings at Amazon Chermany, while at the Amazon Mothership it averages 4.1 out of 5 based on 260+ ratings)…
PS: note that Amazon has been experimenting with showing the average for “ratings”, not always “reviews”. Ratings are everyone who rates a product, whether they write a review or not. In theory the review score is better but judging by the many 1-word/1-sentence reviews (or the nonsensical text of the review), mayhaps the difference between review and rating average is not by much…
At the Saturday 12/14/19 Amazon USA Gold Box there is a sale on dual monitor setups along with a sale on Polaroid Instantalia as follows:
+ Polaroid Snap Touch 2.0 instant print digital camera for $126
+ Polaroid Mint instant print digital camera (Zink 2×3″) for $68~
+ Polaroid Mint pocket printer with zink for $83~
+ limit two of each item per customer
Memory cards abound in the Sunday Amazon USA Gold Box as part of yet another variation of the Computer Accessories sale, this time around the theme being items priced individually under $100. The memory cards:
SD, SDHC, SDXC, SD-whatever
+ yellow Sandisk Extreme SDXC (up to 250MB/sec, UHS-II, V60, C10, U3) for $28 (128GB) or $15 (64GB)
+ the 128GB “Wins” the bang for the buck obviously
+ gray-black Sandisk Ultra SDXC (up to 100MB/s, UHS-I, C10, U1) for $33.49 (256GB) or $17~ (128GB)
+ Lexar Professional 1667X gray-black SDXC cards (up to 150MB/sec, UHS-I, V30, C10, U3) for $19 (128GB)
+ Lexar Professional 667X yellow-black SDXC cards (up to 100MB/sec, UHS-I, V30, C10, U3) for $19 (128GB)
+ Lexar Professional 633X yellow-black SDXC cards (up to 95MB/sec, UHS-I, V30, C10, U3) for $14 (128GB), 32GB for $5
microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC, microSD-whatever
+ 256GB gold-red Sandisk Extreme (V30, A2, U3, UHS-I) for $40
+ Sandisk Ultra (A1, C10, UHS-I, U1) for $47 (400GB) or $30 (256GB) or $25 (200GB) or $15.49 (128GB) or $9 (64GB)
+ bang for the buck is very close between the three largest capacities (calculator is needed to figure out the winner)
Other Things
+ various USB flash drives
+ gaming accessories
+ metal network switch
+ and… cat ears of sorts ???
Find them all at the PC accessories under $100 at the Amazon USA Gold Box, good until 11:59pm pacific on Sunday 12/8/19 (or earlier for any item that may sell out)…
Limit three of each item per customer. Not sure what happens to the limit if there are multiple options under the same root listing, eg different storage options of the same memory card…
Of potential interest in the Friday Amazon USA Gold Box:
+ Kodak Portable Mobile Instant Photo printer for $62~
+ Mobile Pixels Duex 12.5-inch portable dual monitor for laptops for $175
Speaking of Amazon, they continue their Sony Instant Savings promotion on select Sony full frame and APS-C iL digital cameras
Also among the Amazon Gold Box deals of the day for Tuesday 12/3/19 is a sale of four Kodak Film and Slide devices. Three of them are film and slide scanners with prices ranging from $63 to $112. The fourth item is a battery-operated Film and Slide viewer going for $31~.
Also part of the Tuesday daily deals:
+ unlocked Samsung Galaxy Note 9 for $649
+ or 512GB version for $839
+ available in three color options
+ up to three per customer per option (I think)
+ Alienware desktop and laptop, $980 to $2000
+ Anker Nebula projectors and accessories (that’s the tripod looking thing)
One of the Amazon Gold Box deals of the day for Tuesday 12/3/19 is the Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 offered for $55 but you also receive a $10 Amazon gift card. From the looks of it, Elements you can get a Disc in the mail or a digital download for Mac or PC. However the $10 Amazon gift card will arrive as a plastic gift card by mail in a greeting card. On the plus side, you can repurpose the greeting card 🙂
Let’s take a quick look at the Cyber Monday Camera and Photo Lightning Deals…
+++ IN-PROGRESS +++
+ 8.5×10 feet Emart backdrop for $30
+ 62″ K&F tripod for $60
+ AKASO Brave 4K action cam for $62
+ Skygenius 8×21 small binos for $11
+ Eyeskey waterproof binos for $79
+++ COMING UP +++
+ various digiframes
+ GVM video lighting kits with app control
+ Zhigyun Smooth 4-axis gimbal stabilizer (handheld)
+ Mountdog ring light, and softbox lighting kit
+ various action cams
+ RAVPower charger with batteries for Sony NP-FW50
+ GoPRO Hero 5 e-commerce packaging (recurring Lightning Deals item)
+ Godox AD200PRO
+ Powerextra on-camera flash
+ and more
Cyber Monday 2019 has arrived at Amazon. As usual, the offers are happening inside their Gold Box infrastructure and there are plenty of sales going on. In addition to the previously mentioned Canon mirrorless offer (spoiler alert: M100 with 15-45mm for $315), they have plenty of tech and electronics:
+ Chromebooks from $120 to $469
+ Computer Sale with many brands featuring laptops, desktops, computer monitors, tablets, etc (two pages of offers)
+ Gaming computer sale with gaming accessories, monitors, laptops and desktops too (two pages of offers here as well)
+ yet another computer gear sale this one using the “Content Creator Savings” theme
+ Samsung flagship smartphones bundled with AKG headphones (owned by Samsung too)
+ UPS systems, coffee machines of different kinds, kitchen, sports, standing desks, tax software, and a lot more
According to the Camera & Photo Lightning Deals schedule, starting at 2:19pm ET today there is going to be a lightning deal on the new condition Samyang 35mm f1.4 auto focus lens for the Sony E (FE) system. The price before the sale is $499. Since this listing/lens is only available in FE, we are 99% certain the lens that will be on sale will be for E/FE 🙂
Other potentially interesting lightning deals in the next few hours:
+ in-progress: APEMAN A79 4K Action Camera 20MP WiFi External Microphone Remote Control Underwater 40M Waterproof Sports Cam for $40
+ 87% claimed as of 8:53am ET
+ starts 9am ET: GoPro Hero5 Black (E-Commerce Packaging)
+ price before sale $170
+ starts 5:40pm ET: Zhiyun Smooth 4 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer (price before sale $99)
+ starts 6:10pm ET: Godox AD600BM Bowens Mount 600Ws GN87 High Speed Sync Outdoor Flash Strobe Light with 2.4G Wireless X System
+ price before sale $439
+ other items on lighting deal for the next few hours include Nanuk waterproof hard cases, various action cams (of course), tripods, bags, batteries/chargers, lighting and lights, digiframes, etc
Storage is one of the themes of the day in the Amazon Black Friday deals and the designated sale has so much there are actually two pages of deals. Here is Page #1 and here is Page #2…
Of the memory cards, they have:
+ 64GB Lexar Professional 633x SDXC (C10, V30, U3, UHS-I) for $9
+ 64GB Lexar Professional 2000x SDXC (C10, U3, UHS-II) for $90
+ 512GB PNY Elite Performance SDXC for $70
+ 512GB PNY PRO Elite microSDXC for $70
+ also 64GB PNY microSDXC for $10 and 128GB Elite-X for $27
There’s even more action with external and internal hard drives with Seagate, Toshiba, and Synology options and some USB flash drives thrown in for good measure. Too many to list here individually…
Limit two of each storage item while this promotion is running…
Last but not least, not storage but now that Amazon and Apple are in love again, Amazon itself is selling the new condition Apple MacBook Air for $650 (13-inch, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD Storage, up to three per customer)
Amazon too has revealed their Black Friday Deals of 2019 at 3am eastern time (as per their usual Gold Box daily reveal time). There are many and more things on offer including:
+ highly-rated laptops, monitors and such
+ gaming computeralia as well
+ $650 MacBook Air
+ storage and memory card sale
+ Kodak dock and wifi instant 4×6″ printer for $91
+ networking gear
+ streaming devices and accessories
+ Amazon’s own hardware devices
+ tax software (never too early ~ at least if you expect a refund)
+ lots of ebooks on sale
+ audio products, bags, smartphones, kitchen electronics, etc
Find them all at the Amazon Gold Box. More details on these later today as I find time and energy to “digest” them further…
Things are starting to get busy at the Amazon USA Gold Box with a number of daily deals for Thursday 11/28/19, aka Happy Thanksgiving Day aka Black Friday Eve… Of camera and photo interest:
+ Sandisk and WD sale includes:
+ 512GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for $64, Extreme for $80
+ 1TB Sandisk Extreme microSDXC for $200
+ 512GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC (C10, V30, U3, UHS-I) for $128
+ 1TB of that for $300
+ various internal and external HDD hard drives, along with home cloud drives
+ various Sandisk USB flash drives and SSDs
APART from the above, there’s a separate PC and Accessories sale with computers, monitors and such, including a $169 ASUS Windows Celery laptop…
+ limit three of each item per customer
Into the Amazon Gold Box we go for Monday 11/11/19 where find, among others, a sale on various Thule bags of different kinds, backpacks, briefcases, messengers, rollers, duffels, etc. A total of 49 options (if my count is accurate) are participating in the sale. Limit up to five per bag per customer. Sale ends at 11:59pm pacific (or earlier for any of them that manage to sell out ahead of their designated expiration time)…
NOTE that these are general-use bags, it is not a camera-bag sale. Still a “bag the bags” sale 🙂
We are not taking a trip down memory lane but rather we are looking at the next 24 hours in the Amazon Camera & Photo Lightning Deals with the following items of potential C&P interest:
+++ IN_PROGRESS BELOW (as of the time of writing):
+ GVM 50RS light panels from $407 to $612
+ Godox MS300 300Ws studio strobe for $92~
+ ring light kit for $136
+ 41% claimed as of 2:14pm ET
+ Usogood either bino or action cam (picture and description disagree) for $34
+++ COMING LATER IN THE DAY (as of the time of writing):
+ generic camcorders, digiframes, binos
+ Neewer 70″ jib arm, Ring Light kit, etc
+ Viltrox 45W ring light kit
+ 62″ K&F Concept tripod
And now let’s take a look at the next 24 hours or so of Camera and Photo Lightning Deals of the Amazon USA GOLD Box…
+++ IN_PROGRESS BELOW (as of the time of writing):
+ Victure Action camera for $34
+ APEMan action cameras for $26 and $40
+ AKASO 4K30fps action camera with touch for $85
+ Neewer F100 7-inch on-camera field monitor for $81
+ Suptig tripod mount thing for $25
+++ COMING LATER IN THE DAY (as of the time of writing):
+ Hpusn and MountDog softbox lighting kits
+ Geekoto 77″ tripod
+ waterproof “teardrop style” camera bag
+ Canon Korea (???) RF system camera bag
+ also digiframes, generic camcorders, tilt tripod head, chargers/batteries, action cams, etc
+ Godox MS300 studio strobe
+ GVM 50RS video light kit
The Wednesday Amazon USA Gold Box includes an Acer computer equipment sale, including computer monitors starting at $100, AiO computers, Chromebooks starting at $150, and some accessories… Also part of the Gold Box is a Secura coffee gear sale including a $10 pour-over glass dipper, $50 water boiler and warmer, two grinders, and more…
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