Time for shopping is running out. If you are still shopping for photography gears to make a jolly happy soul, here are some of the places to get you started.
Adorama
Adorama is offering free shipping on thousands of items.
B&H
Free overnight shipping for Nikon cameras until December 23, 2009.
Free 2-day shipping for Canon cameras until December 23, 2009
Amazon
Send Amazon.com Gift Cards
to someone who loves photography if you cannot figure out exactly what to give as a gift.
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If your are looking for deals on digital cameras or other photography gears, or you are simply going after some therapeutic effects of spending money (shopping therapy), there may be something you can do on the coming Friday.
You don’t have to wait until Thursday to buy local newspapers to get started. The deals were all “leaked” way ahead of the time. Typically I check out http://bfads.net/. If you know what you are looking for, you can simply search for the item you want. Otherwise you can browse the categories (direct link to Digital Camera category).
Another good site is http://www.blackfriday.info. Some relevant categories are digital cameras, memory cards, and photo frames.
It is perhaps no longer a secret about most of the deals. The stores don’t have more than a few of them and there will be no rain checks. If you want to try your luck of scoring a great deal by standing in line before the door opens, you have my best wishes. If you are too lazy to get up early or just being smarter, you may already know that there are lots of hot deals online as well. Many online stores also have sells going on before and after the Black Friday. For example, Amazon Black Friday Deals starts on Monday, November 23, which is just a few hours away. If that’s too long to wait, their Today’s Deals in Camera and Photo is going on all the time.
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Miscellaneous on November 22nd, 2009.
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One of our readers was kind to drop us a note about the $60 savings you can get by buying the Capture NX 2 full version from Cameta Camera (check store rating). At $119.95, it is the cheapest we have seen.
Nikon Mall wants the full price for both boxed retail and download versions. It is currently $131.56 from Amazon. 3rd party prices are as low as $127.
We thank Michael for the note and welcome more such deals. Please use our contact form or email us at info@dptnt.com.
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Marketplace on September 5th, 2009.
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Nikon D300s is currently in stock for the body-only option. The kit with the new Nikkor 18-200mm VR II lens will be available sometime in September.
For Canon fans, we are sure the Canon 7D is right around the corner.
Posted in
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Typically Amazon has very competitive prices for almost everything they sell including photography gears. However I just found this $193.89 Nikon MC-23 10-pin cable for simultaneous shutter release on two connected SLR cameras. That’s a ridiculous price for such a low tech item. Most reasonable places sell it for a far more reasonable price, for example, $74.95 at B&H. However you can buy compatible item on eBay for even cheaper price.
Sometimes you get what you pay for, which means you could be getting something inferior at lower price. Often the matter of the fact is that manufacturers and retailers are reaping fat profits from the sales of accessories. It appears that common sense is winning: More people are buying the $0.08 HDMI cable instead of the name brand that costs a whole lot more.
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Miscellaneous on August 30th, 2009.
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According to The British Journal of Photography, Getty introduced a new low pricing model targeting online blogs and websites. The new prices are $5 for 170 pixel and $15 for 280 pixel wide images. At the same time, the old smallest file size 430 pixel wide images have their price lowered from $49 to $35.
Getty introduced the new business model to specifically address the needs of websites and blogs who cannot afford the traditional stock photo pricing, the growing concerns with piracy, and to compete in the market currently dominated by microstock companies.
Alamy, another well known stock agency based in UK, is also considering similar offering. The comments by Simon Cliffe, the executive director of The British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA), shined some lights on the reasons behind the coming changes.
‘It seems like the World Wide Web has been around for decades, but it hasn’t and our industry has changed dramatically in just a few short years. Standing still and doing nothing drastically reduces the life of our industry and the photographers we support……’
And,
‘…… The internet is here; it’s changed the traditional business model; it’s changed customer expectations; with the recession, it’s helped change ‘traditional’ spending. But if as an industry we can exploit it properly, there’s no reason why we can’t find millions of potential new image buyers – that’s certainly something BAPLA is working towards.
In the real world, the result of the debate seems apparent. It is interesting to see how long the stock agencies can hold on to their old business models.
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News on August 25th, 2009.
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A quick scan of the Amazon’s new releases in Arts and Photography showed the following titles. The top three in the list are written by well known authors and appear quite interesting. Bryan Peterson’s book Bryan Peterson’s Understanding Photography Field Guide: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera
will be released August 18th, all others appear to be available now.
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Miscellaneous on August 13th, 2009.
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Amazon is now selling the Nikon D5000 and Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR Lens kit
fulfilled by OneCall. The same thing is also available directly from OneCall. B&H has it in-stock as well.
If you’d like to get your hands on one to get a feel of it but cannot, Engadget has a dozen of photos from all possible angles for your to check it out.
If you are getting serious about photography, you may want to consider the D200. The $600 Bestbuy deal we mentioned a while ago appears to have come back again. The D200 has none of the ~20 scene modes that D5000 has. So you are forced to learn the real elements of the photography: ISO, aperture, shutter speed, etc.
