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The year is almost 2022, but the pestilence that is mail-in rebates is still feasting on the thrifty shoppers 😉
If you are still patient and consistent and persistent enough and have what sportscasters call sticktoitivness, and you are in the Sony FE system, then B&H Photo and Sony are offering a $100 mail-in rebate (MIR) on the new condition Sony FE 24-105mm f4 G OSS for $998 after the $100 MIR.
Moi personally, I’m done with mail-in rebates and VCR Programming 😉
For those eligible for educational discounts, B&H Photo and Sony are running Holiday Specials for students… I am not eligible for this, so I cannot test/check it out…
If you are a fan of the Sony E-system or you have joined the party with the latest Black FRiday camera offers, well, you are in luck, because Sony is also having an Instant Savings sale on many of their E-system lenses, which you can find nicely listed at the Adorama website…
If you are a fan of the Sony E-system, for a limited time there’s another variation of the Sony Instant savings sale (the manufacturer initiated type) of the lens kind, 34 options of them, which you can find nicely organized at Amazon’s website…
It’s already Prime Day in Europe and at the Amazon Germany website there’s among others a Canon gear sale that includes the 90D, the G3X, and lenses of different kinds (EF, EF-S, EF-M, RF)… A total of nine options is available as of the time of writing…
But that’s not all! There’s also a big (two page) Sony-priority camera gear sale that includes various Sony lenses, the RX100 III, the 7R II body only, lenses from Samyang, Zeiss Batis, Pentax (eg 50/1.8 SMC DA for 100 euro), and Tamron, Panasonic S5, Steiner binos, and more!
There’s also a sale of action cameras and drones…
Next up we have the Storage Sale that includes Sandisk SD and microSD, Samsung, Lexar, Axe and more, three pages of them! There’s even some CompactFlash UDMA7 of the Lexar kind!
The interesting thing with Prime, even if you live in a country that does not get Prime delivery (eg within the scope of Amazon Germany), you can still sign up for the 30-day Prime free trial and get the sale price. But you won’t get the free shipping benefits or any of the other DRM-restricted benefits (video, ebooks, etc)…
Master prime time! Sony has revealed a new 35mm f1.4 lens, this one is under their Masters (GM) series, not to be confused with the existing ZA. The new lens is now available for pre-ordering at B&H Photo for $1398. B&H Photo also has sample pictures and a brief hands-on experience at their Explora blog…
Speaking of which, you can check the Explora CES coverage for some of the biggest announcement at Diet CES 2021. They include a new NVidia GeForce RTX 3060 (no pre-orders yet, good luck fighting the “miners” and their “canaries” for those), another iteration of the Moto G bargain phones ($200 to $300), new MSI gaming laptops, scary-looking ASUS gaming router, two more OnePlus Nord smartphones, Sony joining the drone market with their new AirPeak brand (just as the Chinese brand are facing scrutiny and bans), TV galore of course, Wifi 6E routers, HP Firefly laptop [no, they are not picking up the tab for Firefly TV action] and more…
We already mentioned some of them individually, but there’s plenty more in the Sony Black Friday offers. There are both full frame and APS-C mirrorless cameras, E and FE prime and zoom lenses, the ZV1 creature for $698, a couple of camcorders, flashes and other accessories, and of course some of the RX-series fixed lens cameras… Too many to list here individually…
Keep in mind a number of these qualify for our previously mentioned Sony “buy more save more” mail-in rebate promotion which gets you money (in a prepaid VISA gift card) for each qualifying lens you buy during the promotional period. You must have one of the participating Sony full frame mirrorless cameras. The details through the aforelinked link which has links to other links with other info 🙂
Sony is running a little bit of a convoluted “buy more save more” type of a promotion until December 6 in 2020. The start of the promotional period was September 1st in 2020. Items need not to be purchased from the same retailer or the same date.
The offer requires:
Separately, Sony is running a promotion that if you own an eligible Sony camera and purchase a Sony Xperia 1 II or 5 II, you get a rebate of $150 or $120. Eligible Also a 12/6/20 expiration date… Details via the PDF file at the Xperia 1 II product page at B&H, which as of the time of writing it gets a $100 B&H gift card as well…
If you are eligible and registered for the Sony Educational program, a handful of limited time Sony Educational offers is up and running at B&H Photo. You can only see the offers if you are registered for the Sony EDU program and you are logged on to that account at B&H Photo…
Some of the educational offers include:
+ Sony a7 II body for $758
+ Sony a7R II body for $1018
+ Sony a6600 body for $1158
+ Sony RX100 VII for $1068
+ a6000 with 16-50 for $433
+ FE 50mm f1.8 $161
You must be registered as an EDU/student at B&H to see the above offers…
The B&H PayBoo card is B&H’s online store credit card that has a special benefit. If you online-shop from a state that charges sales tax on online purchases, and you pay for the B&H purchase with the PayBoo store card, you get an instant discount/credit on the PayBoo card that is equal of the sales tax you would have paid. In other words, B&H pays the sales tax for you. You can check whether your state is eligible by clicking on the “Check Savings” links over there. It opens up, asks for your zipcode and tells you the percentage. Obviously if you live in a state without a sales tax, you won’t get anything discounted. The card is from Symphony Bank. It is only a store card that can be used at B&H, not a general-use VISA/Mastercard/etc…
And now to the actual deal running until August 25 in 2020. In addition to the aforementioned sales-tax credit, you will get an additional 10% back on your card with the purchase of select Sony Cameras and Lenses that you see listed over there. They include A-series full-frames, a-series APS-C cameras, f2.8 PRO zooms, bright primes and various other lenses and bundles…
Example
To keep the example simple, I am using round numbers and a fictional state. Let’s say you live in the great state of Denial, famous for its beautiful reflective lakes and its wholesome gentle and thrifty people, so they charge a 1% sales tax. You want to buy a Sony a6400 kit that costs $998. And you pay for your purchase in whole with the B&H PayBoo card.
You will be charged $998 [the camera price] plus 1% sales tax [$9.98] but the PayBoo card will automatically credit your account for $9.98, making your out of pocket $998. And because you are buying a camera participating in this Sony promotion, you will get a separate 10% credit [10% of $998 = $99.8] on your PayBoo B&H card…
I hope this example is actually not making things more confusing 🙂
Sony fans, you have options. 152 options. These are part of the Sony Instant Savings for May 2020 that are currently up and running at B&H Photo. The sale includes various Sony FE and APS-C camera kits and combos. Obviously too many to list here individually…
If you are a fan of the way of Sony, there is a new Instant Savings promotion running at B&H Photo featuring a mix of full-frame and APS-C on the interchangeable lens front, and the RX-series on the fixed lens front. There are too many to list here individually, you need to hit “Load More” over there to see them all…
The End of Summer sale continues on Thursday at the Amazon Germany (or “Chermany” in german-english) Gold Box (or ange bote in german-german) and among them you can find:
+ Sony cameras and lenses sale:
++ Sony RX10 III for 999 euro
++ Sony RX10 I for 609
+ reminder the RX10 IV is the one with the speed-demon autofocus
+ Cybershot HX95 superzoom for 379
+ Alpha a77 II APS-C body only [yes a DSLR] for 799
+ Sony a6500 with SEL-P18105 lens for 1529
+ Sony a7 II with SEL-2870 lens for 1119
+ 55-210mm lens in black or silver for 209 euro
+ 35mm f1.8 OSS (SEL35F18) for 329
+ 18200LE (18-200 f3.5-6.3) for 578
In non-Sony action:
+ various BlitzWolf (no relation to Wolf Blitzer’s beard?] hybrid selfie-stick/tripods (for small things, don’t put a FF PRO DSLR with a 100-400mm f0.95 lens on them!]
+ Crosstour action cams (24 to 83 euro, six options)
+ Surface PRO tablet under 800 euro [forgot the specs]
+ 128GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC (up to 170MB/sec) for 32
+ 200GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for 23~ euro
+ two flash drives and one internal SSD
To Amazon Germany we go for Monday 19/8/19 (European style not-quite-palindrome date) where their headliner is a Sony Electronics sale that includes the following camera and photo gear:
+ Sony a5100 with 16-50 for 389 euro
+ Sony a6000 with 16-70Z for 999 euro
+ Sony a6500 with 16-70Z for 1619 euro
+ Sony Zeiss 16-35mm f4 ZA OSS Vario T* for 1049 euro
+ Sony RX10 II for 865 (#DailyReminder, the blazing fast AF was introduced in the Mark IV)
+ Sony RX100 III with Vlogger kit (VCT-SGR1) for 509 euro
For European Union shoppers, Amazon Germany has already launched their Prime Day 2019 deals with a vast variety of technology and other products, among which:
+ Sony Cybershot camera sale the RX10 III for 968 euro, HX90 compact-zoom for 239 euro, RX 100 IV for 545 euro
+ Sony E-system sale with a6500 body for 949, a6500 two lens kit (18-135, 70-300, both G thangs) for 1585; a7 II w/28-70 for 1085
+ nine E-system lenses starting at 155 for the 50/1.8 FE
+ Sony A-system: a77 II for 739
Sony is back with another round of manufacturer-initiated instant savings promotions and you can find them all nicely organized at the B&H Photo website…
The offers include (among others):
+ a7 II with 28-70 and extras for $1600
+ a7R III with extras for $2500
+ a7R III with 24-105 and extras for $4200
+ VG-C3EM Vertical Grip for $298
+ FE 24-105mm f/4 Lens with UV Filter Kit for $1400
+ 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens with UV Filter Kit for $600
And LOTS more. You can use the various tabs and price-range filters at the Promotional page for items of interest. For example, the big RX10 IV monster is down to $1598 with free accessories as well. The RX10 IV is the “(forum) dream of the 90s” ~ to paraphrase Portlandia 🙂
It’s the summer and the marketing team at Sony USA looked outside their windows and discovered so. Inspired by such change in the weather, they decided to launch a Summer Kick Off sale that includes a mix of Sony electronics and camera gear, including their all-star WH-1000X-M3 headphones for $298, the ones many think are beating Bose on noise cancellation (!!!)
Of camera and photo interest:
Never fear, KEH is here! Coupon code KEHSONY2A gets you 15% off the current price of select Sony camera gear. There are at least five pages of options over there. The coupon ends on Friday at 11:59pm eastern… AS usual, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies for the coupon. You can test the coupon by adding items of interest in the cart and entering le couponeaux. You don’t have to signup/login to test the coupon…
It’s another camera and tech busy day at the Amazon Germany Gold Box. Among the various offerings there, prices below in euro of course since this is sold in the EU:
+ Sony E-system sale including:
++ A7 II body for 1145
++ a6000 with kit lens for 444
++ a77 II DSLR body for 809 [this DSLR sings Pearl Jam’s “I’m still alive”]
++ RX100 IV rawsumer for 769
++ RX10 II rawsumer for 798 [daily reminder: it is the RX10 IV that has the blazingly fast AF]
++ HX60 travelzoom (30x optical, can your smartphone do this?] for 169
++ seven E-system lenses, a mix of primes and zooms from 182 to 715
+ various Sony electronics, lots of whiskey (!!!) {winters are cold and the white walkers are coming!), various home/household/fashion items, and this SECACAM wildlife camera bundle for 159 euro (includes remote, card, batteries, etc)
At the Amazon Germany Gold Box for Saturday, among the other offers you can get:
+ Lens Sale featuring five Canons (three EF, one EF-S, one EF-M) and one Sony (24-240/3.5-6.3 OSS for 759 euro)
+ Canon lenses range from 118 to 538, three primes and two zooms
+ just like Amazon USA, Saturday’s daily deals are subdued in contrast to Black Friday’s
Sunday has brought with it, as it is often the case, a new round of Sony Instant Savings promotions featuring a variety of E cameras, lenses and accessories including the lowest prices ever for the a7 R II for $1600 and the a7 R III for $2800, while the a9 body only is down to $3500. Full frame camera, empty frame wallet 🙂 But fear not, a handful of lenses are on sale as well including affordable primes such as the 50/1.8 E OSS for $273 and the 50/1.8 FE for $223…
This limited time promotion expired…
KEH Camera is running a Thursday 6/14/18 coupon promotion, coupon code SONY6A gets you 12% off Sony camera gear at KEH until 11:59pm eastern on Thursday. Over 310 cameras and lenses and accessories and videocameras are eligible for this promotion…
In addition to the current round of Sony Instant Savings that went live on Sunday, BuyDIG is bundling a variety of useful free products as part of their Sony sale. Some cameras get a free Rokinon or Sigma lens, others get a free Tascam recorder, while the a7R II gets a 27″ LG display (!!!). You can find them all nicely organized in a grid over there.
Another lens participating in the 20% off in-cart discounts is the Sony DT 55-200mm f4-5.6 SAM (SAL55200-2) dropping to $59 with free shipping. This is the international version of the lens, but used items don’t get warranty anyway.
A quartet of Sony PRO E system lenses are currently getting a FREE B+W Circular Polarizer MRC Filter at B&H Photo. The B&W is included automatically by B&H. Participating lenses are the 70-200/2.8 OSS, 100-400 GM OSS, 100/2.8 STF GM OSS and 85/1.4 GM.
Zoom-zoom E-photographers! BuyDIG is offering the open-box Sony 55-210mm F4.5-6.3 OSS lens for $170 with free shipping until 2/22/18 or earlier if sold out. It is a while supplies last type of a promotion.
Speaking of Sony and BuyDIG, they are offering the open box Sony HDR-CX405/B Full HD 60p Camcorder for $120 with free shipping. This too is a while supplies last type of a promotion.
This coupon expired…
If you are not ready for some football, are you ready for some lenses? More specifically, Sony lenses? These lenses are part of the latest latest Sony Instant Savings. I am breaking them into three blocks, Prime, Zoom, and Converters/Adapters, sorted by price within each sub-group. I was planning an exhaustive list of all the lenses on sale, but I got exhausted along the way (ha!), so not all lenses that are on sale are listed below.
+ Sony FE 50mm f/1.8 Lens for $198
+ Sony E 16mm f/2.8 with 4% rewards for $223
+ Sony 50mm f1.8 OSS (E) with 4% rewards for $248 in silver or black (but not in Raiders edition)
+ Sony E 30mm f/3.5 Macro for $253
+ Sony E 20mm f/2.8 with 4% rewards for $323
+ Sony E 35mm f/1.8 OSS Lens for $398
+ Sony FE 28mm f/2 with 4% rewards for $423
+ Sony FE 50mm f/2.8 Macro for $448
+ Sony FE 85mm f/1.8 for $548
+ Sony Sonnar T* FE 55mm f/1.8 ZA with 4% rewards for $898
+ Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS with 4% rewards for $998
+ Sony Sonnar T* E 24mm f/1.8 ZA for $998
+ Sony Planar T* FE 50mm f/1.4 ZA for $1398
+ Sony Distagon T* FE 35mm f/1.4 ZA with 4% rewards for $1498
+ Sony E PZ 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS for $273
+ Sony FE 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS with 4% rewards for $373
+ Sony E PZ 18-105mm f/4 G OSS with 4% rewards for $548
+ Sony E 10-18mm f/4 OSS Lens with Circular Polarizer Filter Kit for $748
+ Sony E 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 OSS LE for $748
+ Sony E 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 OSS for $798
+ you are not seeing double! the lens above this is “LE”
+ Sony Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm f/4 ZA OSS with 4% rewards for $898
+ Sony FE 24-240mm f/3.5-6.3 OSS for $898
+ Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 24-70mm f/4 ZA OSS with 4% rewards for $1098
+ Sony E PZ 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 OSS for $1098
+ this is the third different 18-200 in this sale 🙂
+ Sony FE 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G OSS for $1098
+ Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35mm f/4 ZA OSS with 4% rewards for $1248
+ Sony FE 70-200mm f/4 G OSS with 4 rewards for $1398
+ Sony FE 12-24mm f/4 G for $1598
+ Sony FE PZ 28-135mm f/4 G OSS for $2398
+ Sony Ultra Wide Converter For SEL16F28 and SEL20F28 for $138
+ Sony A-Mount to E-Mount Lens Adapter for $148
+ Sony VCL-ECF2 Fisheye Converter For SEL16F28 and SEL20F28 for $158
+ Sony 21mm Ultra-Wide Conversion Lens for FE 28mm f/2 for $223
+ Sony 16mm Fisheye Conversion Lens for FE 28mm f/2 for $273
+ Sony A-Mount to E-Mount Lens Adapter with Translucent Mirror Technology for $298
The above links are for B&H Photo. There are too many lenses to also create individual links for other stores, but you can use the search-boxes at Adorama and Amazon itself to find these lenses at those places as well…
Zoom-zoom E-system fans! BuyDIG is offering for a limited time the factory reconditioned Sony 55-210mm F4.5-6.3 OSS lens (model SEL55210) in the black color scheme for $189 with free shipping and a 1-year extended warranty.
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