Starts Thur 1pm ET: Nikon Z8 Live Panel Q&A Stream

If you are curious about the Nikon Z8, you are in luck because today there are TWO live-streams about the camera at two of the major camera-centric retailers!

Starting on Thursday 5/11/23 at 4pm ET, B&H Photo will be hosting a Nikon Z8 Live Panel Q&A Stream with Nikon Ambassadors Jerry Ghionis & Sharrone Calafiore.

This being a YouTube live stream, you can also ask your questions in the YouTube Live Chat!

The Nikon Z8 is available for pre-ordering at B&H starting at $4000. They also have three SmallRig cages available for pre-ordering.

Starts Thur 4pm ET: Nikon Z8 Live Panel Q&A Stream II

NO, you are not seeing twice. NO, I didn’t post the same thing twice. This is a separate and independent Nikon Z8 live stream 🙂

Starting at 4pm ET on Thursday 5/11/23, Adorama is hosting a Nikon Z8 launch live Q&A panel live-stream with four photographers, Jide Alakija, Kristi Odom, Mark Cruz and Seth Miranda! This being a YouTube live stream you can also ask questions during the live event in the YouTube Live Chat!

IF you miss it live, fear not, it will remain on YouTube for eternity or until Google goes bankrupt, whichever happens first 😉

The Nikon Z8 is available for pre-ordering at Adorama starting at $4000…

CreativeLIVE coupon: $20 off a $40+ order

If you want learnings of the photographic and creative kind, and prefer digital ownership instead of Netflix-style subscriptions, for a limited time coupon code BONUS20 gets you $20 off a digital purchase of $40+ at the Creative LIVE website. Terms, conditions, restrictions, etc, etc, etc, apply!

12-month prepaid CreativeLIVE membership for $99AC

Bring out the Birthday Cakes! CreativeLIVE is sale-a-brating their 13 years, and they offering their 12-month prepaid subscription for $99 when you use coupon code CLTURNS13 (code means CL turns 13) over there. This is a limited time offer.

The B&H and Adorama dailies remain as yesterday but there’s a fun Meh daily deal for Thursday 4/6/23, a 4-pack of Boogie Board VersaTiles for $39 plus shipping. These are LCD writing “tablets” powered by one CR2 battery each. As the name hints (tiles) these are 8.25-inch squares. Each one comes with its own stylus and hanging strips. Fun (and practical) things for kids of all ages!

If you are a registered hippie, aka a member of the REI Collective, you have a first shot at getting their new product collection until May 1st. Then the unwashed masses can buy them too 🙂

And we close today’s roundup with some Kindle action, Amazon is having a sale on their latest Kindle e-readers except for the flagship Kindle Scribe…

CreativeLIVE coupons: $20/$39+ and $99 1-Year Sub

A couple of limited-time coupon offerings are currently live at the CreativeLIVE website!

+ coupon BONUS20 gets you $20 off a purchase of $39+ at the CreativeLIVE website

+ coupon FEB50 gets you $50 off the first year of their prepaid Netflix-style 12-month CreativeLIVE subscription, dropping it from $149 to $99

Day #2 of B&H Depth of Field is LIVE!

Day #2 of the B&H Photo Depth of Field Conference is now live on the Youtubes! You can find them all, past, present and future at the B&H YouTube channel. Note that as of late YouTube is putting live streams under the “LIVE” sub-tab over there, not the “Videos” sub-tab as before. You can also find today’s live stream YouTube-embedded below…

And speaking of the conference, B&H is also running accompanying Trade Show specials

LIVE NOW (and FREE to Watch): B&H Depth of Field Day #1

Time for some e-learnings! Today is DAY #1 of the B&H Photo Depth of Field Conference. It runs for two days, day #2 is February 8!

You can watch it LIVE or tape-delayed, there are two stages, and they are both streaming and getting archived on YouTube! You can also find them YouTube-embedded below:

MAIN STAGE

EXPOSURE STAGE

$20 off a $39+ order w/CreativeLIVE coupon

Thanks to technology you can make your own kind of music, but thanks to coupon technology you can make your own kind of deal at the Creative Live website where coupon code CREATE2023 gets you $20 off any order of $39 or more. The offer is good for the whole of January 2023!

Save the Date: B&H Depth of Field is February 7-8 in 2023

Save the date! Now you have a choice! You can attend in-person or through the interwebs! It is the B&H Photo Depth of Field conference scheduled for February 7-8 in 2023!

You can tab on the “Archives” tab over there and view the content of previous year conferences to get a feel for what to expect…

1-Year Prepaid CreativeLIVE Sub for $99 AC

Coupon code FRIDAY50 gets you $50 off an annual CreativeLIVE subscription, dropping it from $149 to $99! This is for the first year of the subscription, that is, the first 12 months, aka the first 365 days. Some exclusions and restrictions apply…

CreativeLive Coupon: $20 off a $40+ purchase

You can make your own kind of music but you can also make your own kind of deal! For a limited time (until the end of October 2022), coupon code OCT20 gets you $20 off a purchase of $40+ on any class at the Creative Live website.

1-Year Prepaid CreativeLIVE for $99 after coupon

If for the next 12 months you are going to have available time to watch classes on various photo-related and creative/business-related subjects, CreativeLIVE is back with a coupon code for their CreativeLIVE Subscription plan. Coupon code SAVE50 drops the price of the 1-year prepaid plan from $149 to $99. This is the equivalent of paying $8.25 per month but you pay it annually.

Most but not all classes and instructors are included. This is a Netflix-style plan, you can watch as much as you want as long as you are a paying subscriber. When the paying subscription ends, you can no longer watch (unless you had previously purchased a class)…

Prime Dayz 2022 Day 1 is HERE!

The day is here! Prime Dayz 2022 is here! Day 1 has officially just began at 12:01am pacific time at the Amazon website. Most of the offers are for Prime members only. They are marked with the “Prime Day Deal” in the multiple-product page listings, and on the individual product page it tells you you must needs be a Prime member to buy!

IF you are a Prime member, dive in!

If you are not a Prime member, and you want to participate in the festivities, you can start a 30-Day FREE TRIAL. If you previously had free trials, the Amazon computers decide that your account is eligible again and tell you so.

If the Amazon AI bots determine you are not eligible for the 30-day free trial but you want to buy some of the offers, you can start a month-to-month paying Prime membership and cancel it after the 1st month (or whenever you no longer need it). Or prepay the 1-year membership at $139.

Either way, if you are going to make a Prime Day purchase until Wednesday night, make sure you fill up the Stampcard promotion to score a $10 Amazon credit.

Lots of laptops and computers and kitchen ware and Amazon’s own devices and Amazon’s own brands are participating!

More posts as I digest the offerings!

Reminder: B&H’s OPTIC 2022 is June 12-15

Our last reminder, the 2022 B&H Photo OPTIC 2022 Trade-Show/Conference event is taking place June 12-15 in 2022 in The Big Apple! This is a hybrid in-person and virtual event! Registration is FREE! You can find, at the aforelinked page, the schedule and details and also check which events are in-person (eg photo-walks) and which are virtual and which are both.

1-Year prepaid CreativeLIVE Subscription for $99 AC

The sale is back thanks to coupon code SUMMER99 that gets you a 1-year prepaid CreativeLIVE subscription for $99 for the first 12 months of your new subscription!

It comes out to $8.50 per month but it is paid initially at $99. Great if you will be having the time/energy to watch a lot of content in the next few months!

A few instructions and classes are excluded per prior agreements. This is a Netflix-style subscription, once the paid membership ends, you do not own the classes.

Save the Date: OPTIC is June 12-15 (2022) [FREE to register]

If you miss the in-person conferences, save the date! June 12-25 in 2022 is when the B&H Photo OPTIC conference will be taking place. This time it will be both in-person (pending monkey-pox dramaz) and online!

Speakers old and new, young and old are included, including the usual names of McNally, Kelby, etc. The physical event will take place at the New Yorker Hotel. There are two days of presentations, and two days of photo-walks. Me personally, I would have preferred two days of feasts 🙂

Registration is FREE for either/both the physical and the online events. Event management is through the EventBrite website/service.

100 new classes at CreativeLIVE (plus, $20 off $28+)

One hundred new classes have arrived at the CreativeLIVE website on many favorite/popular photography topics (lighting, adobe, etc) with a heavy emphasis on new lighting classes with Mark Wallace, and multiple instructors on various Adobe-related subjects…

Speaking of CL, coupon code MAY20 gets you $20 off a shopping cart of $28+ over there. From the verbiage, it looks like this coupon is good until the end of May 2022.

The coupon can also be used towards the CreativeLive Netflix-style membership. You can even use it on the monthly subscription, dropping the first month from $39 to $19. Useful if you are going to have plenty of free time to watch these classes…

$20 off $28+ at CreativeLIVE with coupon

You can make your own kind of music, and you can also make your own kind of deal at the Creative LIVE website thanks to a limited time $20 off coupon code MAY20 that gets you that discount on an order of $28 or more!

Speaking of educational, Amazon is having a limited time sale on just about all of their e-readers including the “free cellular” models…

$20 off a $28+ CreativeLIVE coupon

Good until the April 2022, coupon code APRIL20 gets you $20 off a class of $28+ at the Creative LIVE website… Terms, conditions, restrictions, etc, apply as usual…

1-Year CreativeLIVE membership for $99 AC

To celebrate their birthday, for a limited time, CreativeLIVE is offering a 1-year membership subscription for $99 after using coupon code BDAY50 over there. This is a Netflix-style annualized subscription.

You can follow the FAQ links over there for more details and the list of classes/teachers not included in the subscription.

FREE Registration: B&H Depth of Field on March 23 and 24 [online conference]

If it’s FREE, I’ll take THREE! The fifth annual B&H Photo Depth of Field conference takes place on March 23 and 24 in 2022, and you can register for FREE for the online experience!

The usual content is expected, webinars, classes, lectures, critiques, contests, brand booths, and of course special offers and promotions. Kelby and Duane Michals are the keynote speakers with lots of other well-known photographers (McNally, Baird duo, Hurley, etc) participating…

1-Year CreatorPass for $99 after coupon

Coupon time again! Coupon code 50FEB gets you $50 off a 1-Year CreatorPass subscription, making it $99 for a year (365 days). This is their Netflix-style plan, you can watch almost all classes while you are a paying member, but when it expires, you own nothing…

Elsewhere in the recent offers:

+ FREE 12oz “Rockstar Unplugged” energy drink tin for Lucky’s Rewards members

+ Weekend Sale at DiscountMags
+ no camera/photo this time

$25 Bootcamps [CreativeLIVE]

For a limited time, Creative LIVE is running a $25 Bootcamps promotion. Don’t worry, you won’t sweat and you don’t have to stretch. These are bootcamps of the Photoshops and Lightrooms and Portraiture and Wedding and Fine Art photography kind 🙂 There’s also Outdoors, Newborns, Boudoir, Premiere, and Social Media too…

Meanwhile the DiscountMAGS weekend sale (typically ends Monday night) has a $5 theme, $5 per magazine per year with a selection of 90+ options. No camera/photo magazines this time around…

PS: “Photoshops” and “Lightrooms” are plural because they have different versions, “CC”, “Classic”, etc…

1-Year CreativeLIVE Netflix Plan (CreatorPass) for $99AC

With Omikron threatening to lock us up inside once again, the time may be right for more learnings instead of mindless TV and web surfing and forum dramaz 😉

With that perhaps in mind, for a limited time, coupon code NEWYEAR22 gets you a 1-Year CreativeLIVE CreatorPass for $99. This is a Netflix-style plan and for one year (365 days), you can watch over 2000 classes at CreativeLIVE whenever you want, as many times as you want. As with Netflix, when you stop paying, you stop watching 🙂

Basic FAQs on the service at the bottom of the page over there, but for more, head on to their FAQ page. Offline viewing is only available on select classes, only with the CreativeLIVE iOS app. SADLY they don’t have an Android app.

They offer a 7-day refund. They (relatively) recently launched a Roku channel, and they have a limited functionality AppleTV app. You can also GIFT the CreatorPass to others. A very …creative gift that keeps on giving for a whole year!

Per CL, 98% of the classes are included in the CreatorPass streaming plan, but due to prior agreements with instructors, select classes/instructors are not included in the plan. You can find them at the Exclusions page.

FREE to Watch (Class Premiere): Understanding Light and Light Modifiers with Mark Wallace

Creative LIVE is having a class premiere and for a limited time it is FREE to watch as part of their ON-AIR free-streaming program. The class is by Mark Wallace, 6 hours and 22 minutes long, “Understanding Light and Light Modifiers”. This is free to watch for this limited time window, you do not digitally-own the class for FREE!

The class premiered at 9am pacific (12pm ET), so it will repeat every 6 hours and 22 minutes. So 6:22pm ET, 12:44am ET, 7:06am ET.

The FREE-streaming ON-AIR schedule classes typically run for 24 hours, starting at 9am pacific (12pm eastern) every calendar day.

SPEAKING of CL, running until Thursday night, they are offering 30 classes for $10 to $15 including minimalist photography, portrait-related, editorial, multiple-flashes, Art of Seeing (Lanting class), boudoir/glamo(u)r, retouching, landscaping, PhotoChop CC, etc…

Wedn: select Adobe Classes $16 to $18 each

Running until Wednesday 12/15/21 at 11:59pm, CreativeLiVE is offering select Adobe classes for $16 or $18 each. This includes Lightroom, Photoshop, CC, Presets, Classic, Premiere, Camera RAW, and Illustrator…

$9 Class sale at CreativeLiVE (8 options)

Creative LIVE is back with another sale, this is a $9 sale with eight classes offered, including multiple flashes (Mike Hagan), posing, lighting for boudoir, video for photographers, etc…

Following the $9 block of offers, there are also $19 and $24 blocks. The $24 block includes a couple of bootcamp classes (weddings, newborns) and the Fine Art Photography complete guide.

PRO TIP: weddings and newborns are highly saturated markets, HOWEVER, one untapped market segment is …”Divorce Photography” 😉

Saturday: 15 Classes for $15 each [CL]

Good until Saturday 12/5/21 at 11:59pm pacific time, the Creative LIVE Days of Deals deal of the day is a “15 classes for $15 each” sale. Topics include weddings, newborns, social media for photographers, seniors (the young seniors that is), and more…

Cyber Monday CreativeLIVE coupon: $20 off a $40+ purchase

Cyber Monday arrives with a coupon at the Creative LIVE website. Using coupon code CYBER20 you get $20 off a purchase of $40+. This is a limited time coupon offer.

Reminder, CreativeLIVE still does not have an Android app BUT they have a Roku channel, so you can watch their content using your Roku(s) and your CL credentials.

85% off near site-wide sale at CreativeLIVE

CreativeLIVE has gone wild. As part of the Black Friday festivities, they are offering 85% off nearly site-wide, on almost all the classes they offer. The price you see on the individual class page is the price you pay. No coupon code needed…

Note however that a small number of classes/bundles are not eligible for the discount because of prior agreements/arrangements with the instructors…