You heard correct. The famous Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM Lens is on sale now at B&H! Usually priced at $2299, it is now only $1799 after the B&H discount and mail in rebate. If you are one of those people that sits and waits on deals to come out or is even just searching for some new glass, this is your perfect moment to make a purchase.
You heard right! The Canon EOS 6D is now on sale at B&H for only $1999 and it comes with the Canon 24-105mm f/4.0L IS lens. If you are one of those people that puts off buying a new camera until a deal comes out then now is your time to buy.
Some great deals through B&H have been brought to our attention at Fstoppers and we wanted to take a moment and share the love. If you're looking to add some serious fun to your summer B&H is having a massive sale on phantom quadcopter bundles.
Over the weekend Nikon announced new lens rebates for several popular lenses, but according to numbers we received this morning, Fuji is crushing Nikon in sales numbers, with hundreds more Fuji sold so far today than Nikon. The most popular lenses? The 27mm f/2.8, the 23mm f/1.4 and the 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8.
The new Nikon "lens only" rebates are now live - a total of 15 lenses are now up to $400 off, and the good news is that you don't have to buy a DSLR body in order to qualify! If you were in the market for buying a lens, now is the perfect time.
OnOne Software is certainly not a new name to the retouching world. Building software since 2005, OnOne has brought us a long line of Photoshop plugins and Lightroom presets. Continuing their goal to make retouching a far less painstaking process, onOne Software has decided to give away their flagship Perfect Effects 8 software for free, but only for the next few days. But what exactly is onOne Perfect Effects 8?
Working as a commercial photographer, I have the opportunity to travel often with my work. In the year 2013 alone, I've flown over 25 thousand miles, and have a few thousand more before the end of the year. Here are some tips I've picked up over the years to help make traveling as a photographer much easier and far less stressful.
UPDATE: Though the B&H deal has expired, you can grab Lightroom 5 on Amazon for a cool $69. Lightroom 5, which was already on sale for under $110, for the next three hours (1 PM ET to 4 PM ET) is only $89. If you've wanted to own Lightroom 5 for a bargain-basement price, now is the time to grab it. For those of you who bought it at the $110 price, maybe there is still time to cancel the order and pick it up for cheaper.
Today is the last day to save on photography training courses over at KelbyTraining.com. This is their biggest sale of the year so you don't want to pass this up. With over 700 hours of training from some of the best photographers in the world, they have discounted every subscription. Normally an annual subscription is $199 but they're offering $40 off and a monthly subscription is just $14.95.
If you do anything with albums whether it's wedding albums, personal albums or even portfolios to sit around your studio, this is going to be your jam. Two amazing photographers have developed a program called SmartAlbums. It's a full application that allows you to create albums without all the hassle. And yes, it's possible.
UPDATED: Black Friday deals from Totally Rad, LensRentals Promote and Photoflex have been added! If you're one of the millions of people who are brave enough to go shopping this Friday, be sure to check in and see what great photography related deals can come your way. I've gone ahead and compiled a list of the best deals for photographers this Black Friday shopping season.
Perhaps the most anticipated camera this year has shown up as in stock on B&H Photo's website this afternoon. With a full frame sensor packed into the tiny size of a mirrorless camera body, you can bet that this camera is going to sell out quickly. Along with the Sony Alpha a7 and 28-70mm kit, the Sony 35mm f/1.8 has also shown up as in stock on the B&H Store.
Ah the week of Thanksgiving. Turkey, gravy, family and the harsh realization you are horrifically underprepared for the holiday season. That's ok fellow photogs, we at Fstoppers have your back! Over the next few weeks we will be releasing updates to our Holiday Gear Guide, first starting with the lower-cost items and working our way up to the premium stuff. This week, let's look at the best ideas under $100.
The newly revealed Profoto B1 flash and Nikon Df have been the talk of the town for the past week. If you've been interested in preorders you can now head on over to B&H for both as well as the new Sigma 24-105mm F/4 for Canon. The Fujifilm x10 has a $100 instant rebate as well.
The Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II has an instant rebate of $300 upon checkout and then has another mail-in rebate of $300! This drops the entire price to a whopping $1,899.00.
On November 7th, 8th, and 9th Rob Grimm of PRO EDU will be giving away a 2-day pass to the Fstoppers Bahamas Workshop in May of 2014. It's free to enter, just tune in live for your chance to win on CreativeLIVE next week where we will announce the instructions for how to enter. The pass we are giving away is for our liquids, liquor, beer, and splashes workshop that will cover everything we know about shooting liquids.
If you head on over to B&H and put the Canon 24-70 2.8 II in your cart, you'll notice when you go to check out the price drops. Oh then there's a mail in rebate! There's discounts on the Canon EOS 7D Body, Canon EOS 7D with EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens, Canon T5i with EF-S 18-55mm and Canon EOS T5i with EF-S 18-135mm. There's also a new package combining the 5D Mark III and 24-70 f/4L that is a pretty solid combination.
The Canon 5D MK III was a considerable upgrade for me and I have loved every minute of it. The 61 point focusing system and low light capabilities have made this our go-to system when shooting on-location. Today, BH Photo has announced a pretty decent sale that gives you $300 off the camera, 4% rewards, and a free 32 GB SDHC Extreme Card, Extra Camera Battery, Gadget Bag, and Mono-Pod. If you've been waiting for a good time to pick one up, this may be it.
I've been using a product called IndieMats for over a year now and I absolutely love them. My wife and I are big DIY'ers and decorated our daughter's room with them by creating a large collage of funny photos at a fraction of the cost of traditional frames. It's an awesome new way to display your photos with unique wall decor.
Calumet Photographic is offering $200 off of a purchase of $1,000 or more on any in-stock items. Canon, Nikon, Sony, and some other brands are unfortunately excluded, but there are plenty of other items available if you're looking for something other than a lens or camera body. Tripods, camera bags, lights, and even Sigma lenses are included in this deal. Some good examples of deals include
Beginning now until September 7, B&H Photo is offering $200 off of the Canon 35mm f/2.0 IS lens. Normally it goes for almost $800 but right now it's $599.00. In our review of the 35mm, we found it to be pretty on par with the L glass in terms of performance. It's tack sharp, has image stabilization and is equipped with a quiet, fast and reliable autofocus motor. Also on sale for a limited time are the Canon 24mm f2.8 and the Canon 28mm f/2.8 lenses.
From now until September 28th, Nikon has some seriously good rebates on cameras and lenses when you buy them as a bundle! With instant savings of up to $200 on cameras and up to $300 on lenses, this is an awesome time to buy Nikon! Here's how it works, follow the link to B&H's Rebates Page, pick your camera from a list that includes the D800, D600, D7100 and even the mighty D4, and select from over 30 lenses and accessories to bundle your camera with!
For those of you waiting for Canon's latest 20MP DSLR the EOS 70D, the wait is over! B&H now has the 70D in stock at only $1,199.00 for just the body, $1549.00 paired with an 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 lens and $1349.00 when paired with the 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens. Both lenses are excellent for beginners and advance amateurs and give you plenty of flexibility for your money!
The battery grip for the 70D is also available and shipping today!
Sony announced 2 brand new cameras and 3 new lenses today, all of which are now available for pre-order! There's The Sony Alpha A3000 DSLR and Alpha NEX-5T Mirrorless with a 16-50mm Lens as well as a the Vario-Tessar T*E 16-70mm f/4, Sony E PZ 18-105 f/4 G and Sony E 50mm f/1.8 Prime! Plus they've announced a soft carry case to keep it all together! Check out the links below for more information or to pre-order the latest batch of Sony goodies!
Photoshop for any photographer can be a Goliath of a program to learn and especially to master, and now with the new Creative Cloud aspect to Adobe's line of programs it's only going to be more difficult to keep up with the innovations made. Martin Evening's new book Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers is a detailed guide for all of your editing and retouching needs in this new age of photography.
Olympus is now offering up to $150 off its cameras, lenses and accessories until August 17th! They're offering this discount on a ton of it's M.Zuiko lenses, so it's definitely worth checking out! In addition to this, the Panasonic Lumix G5 with a 14-42mm and 45-150mm lens is now on sale for $400 off. Finally, the Lumix G 20mm f/1.7 lens, along and the brand new Macbook Air are now available! Check out all of these great deals below!
We've got a lot of awesome sales for you today! First there's $150 off the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mirrorless 4/3rds camera and the Olympus E-P5 PEN camera. In addition to that, Nikon has announced a new lens and a new flash plus has plenty of new discounts on refurbished gear! Take a look at the links below for more information!
If you've used Dropbox, then you're probably going to love Copy! Ultimately, it's an almost identical product, but with a few features that will have you ready to switch by half way through this article. I like to think of them as Space, Interface and Sharing, even though Sharing doesn't rhyme. As far as online storage and backup goes, Copy seems to have raised the bar in many areas, and I'm excited to see where it goes from here.
The Fuji X-M1, paired with the Fuji 16-50mm lens is now in stock! Plus, the Fuji XF 27mm f/2.8 lens is in stock, along with the Lumix DMC-GX7 which is now available for pre-order! If you're interested in any of these deals, check out the links below for more information!
This was a rather unexpected but welcome development: the Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera EF and MTF mount bodies just dropped in price by $1000, making them a very tempting $1995 today. Blackmagic has told me that the price has fallen because they have "been able to build Blackmagic Cinema Camera at a lower cost, so they can reduce the price and pass those savings along to their customers."
