Stacksocial on Groupon is offering an online DSLR Camera Course Bundle for $30. According to the product description, you get 35 lectures running for 11 hours, taught by photographer Ken Schultz. This includes unlimited access to the cloud classes. I have not seen the courses, so be sure to research them DIY-style if interested. The Groupon listing expires 5/14/13 at 1am ET. As usual, be sure to read the terms/conditions/restrictions _before_ buying!
Lynda.com is offering a free Photoshop course (around 100 minutes long). Details via SLR Lounge. The promotion ends 5/10/13.
As of a 5/1/13 recheck, this promotion expired... If you are an outdoors and nature photographer and would like to be able to research and/or look up some of your subjects using your iOS or Android devices, the Audubon apps are currently on sale for 99c each at the Amazon Kindle Android store and the Google Android market and iTunes. Subjects include Birds, Trees, Wildflowers, Insects, Mammals, Butterflies, and Mushrooms. I do not know when this promotion expires.
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This limited time offer expired... Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Boxed Set is now available for $14.40 in the Kindle edition at Amazon. These are volume 1, 2, 3, and 4 in Kelby's Digital Photography series. Please note this price is only for the Kindle edition! The dead-trees printed book edition is at its usual price of $50+.
This limited time promotion expired... Yvon Bourque has launched a sale on his Pentax K-5*.* and K-30 Pentax DSLR e-books. The sale drops each e-book to around $10. The sale ends at the end of day on Cyber Monday (Nov-26-2012).
The Pentax K-30 DSLR e-book is now ready and available for purchase from Yvon Bourque for $15. A PDF file that includes the first chapter is included at the aforelinked page as a free sample. This is a downloadable PDF e-book, not a printed paper book... For a refresher on the K30, check its list of completed reviews.
If you are into astrophotography and seek a better understanding of your subjects or you are interested in the science and theories of the universe, a number of eBooks on this subject are currently on sale for $2 each at Amazon/Kindle.
+ Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
+ You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe by Christopher Porter
+ Wonders of the Universe by Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen [currently Amazon has technical difficulties with this ebook]
+ The Field by Lynne McTaggart (if you want to check what real scientists call pseudoscience)
Free time! Street photographer Eric Kim is offering a free 16-page ebook, 31 Days to Overcome Your Fear of Shooting Street Photography ebook. It is available as either PDF or .DOC (Word). You don't have to sign-in or sign-up, simply click-to-read or right-click to save. This is all-text, and as the title suggests, it has 31 different sections.
This round of lightning deals ended! Come back next Friday for hopefully more!
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If you are near New York City, or if you are going to be near New York City on May-31-2012, the Calumet brick and mortar store there will be offering a free 90 minute class at 11am NYC time, "How to Become A Google Trusted Photographer". The class is free but registration is required. As of the time of writing, there are 17 seats available. You can register there online by clicking on the Register button. Judging by the links at the aforelinked page, the class is offered by Google Business Photos, which is part of Google Maps. UPDATED: forgot to include link to class in OP (one of the side-fx of chaotic multi-tasking).
LensWork is celebrating 100 issues and they are offering their first 100 issues on a single DVD for $195! If you purchased their previous Issues 1-56 DVD bundle, they have a discounted upgrade option as well. Please note this is a DVD with the digital issues. You will not receive 100 printed magazines!
If you are a fan of the B&H Photo catalogs, their Summer catalogs are now shipping! All are available in PDF, but if you prefer the actual printed paper catalogs, the Seasonal Catalog and the Professional Video Sourcebook are available. Details at the B&H Catalog Request page.
If you have a Kindle with Special Offers eInk hardware device, turn on your device, connect to the internets and check your Special Offers. One of them gives you a $3 Video On Demand credit. You must claim this offer on the Kindle eInk hardware device by May 6, 2012, and use the $3 credit by June 6, 2012. You can watch the video wherever Amazon Video On Demand works on (web browsers, desktop computer application, Tivo, Roku, smart HDTVs, BluRay players, Kindle Fire, etc)
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Amazon itself is offering the 4GB Eye-Fi Connect X2 Class 6 SDHC wireless card for $40 with free shipping. This is model EYE-FI-4CN.
Going beyond the Earth, Amazon has the The Universe Series MegaSet (BluRay) for $59, including footage/photography from NASA and lots of special effects. This set has 63 episodes plus the feature length "Beyond the Big Bang" episode. This set covers the first five seasons of The Universe series. The megaset does not include Season 6 which aired in late 2011. See EpGuides.com for details.
Expired: With today being Earth Day, there are a number of related specials at the Amazon Gold Box, headlined by the Life / Planet Earth Special Edition going for $46 (DVD) and $55 (BluRay).
If you have a Pentax K-01 and an Apple iPad, you may be interested in Yvon Bourque's K-01 iPad-eBook beta test. A small number of people can participate in the beta and get a first look at the K-01 iBook, estimated to be late April 2012.
We have an "in-stock alert" of a different kind - B&H Photo has began offering one-year subscriptions to KelbyTraining.com for $189 per year. B&H is also offering one year NAPP subscriptions for $95 or two year NAPP subs for $169. These include a print subscription to the print edition of the "Photoshop User" magazine. If you prefer a digital Photoshop User subscription with your NAPP membership, they offer a one year $89 subscription.
The Flash Bur Tour 2011 DVD set with Joe McNally and David Hobby is now in-stock at Adorama for $100 with free shipping. One DVD is Hobby, one DVD is McNally.
This Cyber Monday special has ended! If you are a National Geographic fan, the National Geographic Store has a special promotion on the Complete National Geographic on 6 DVD-ROMs (2010 Updated Edition) for $24 plus shipping (around $6 give or take).
Adorama has made available a free e-book on Family Photography available on their website as PDF or ePUB. You enter your name and email address and then you can begin downloading it. It is 59 pages long in PDF format. You can read it on any device that can read PDF or ePUB files.
Ended: Speaking of free, good until Tuesday 3am EST, you can get the Camera Fun Pro Android App from SpiceLoop at the Amazon Android appstore.
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