With one of the shopping-heavy holidays down (and one on the horizon,) here are 5 of the best selling items on B&H recently.
As a Brit, Black Friday is still all a bit new to me. The furor around that oddly sacred day still baffles me, but it's certainly one I pay attention to now as many of the deals have either spilled onto online retailers, or emigrated there entirely. This is then reflected in a sort of dichotomy where Friday takes the physical deals and Monday takes the online ones in the form of Cyber Monday. The truth is, most of last week had Black Friday sales and they carried on through the weekend, Monday, and some are still going.
However you may feel about the cascade of consumerism around this time, there are deals to be had if you were already looking at purchasing something, and the analytics always make for an interesting read. On that note, here are the sales trends on B&H over the recent holiday.
Best Selling Camera (Overall): Sony a7R IV
Sony are going from strength to strength, even allegedly pipping Nikon to rank 2 in the digital camera charts so this isn't particularly surprising. The a7 series have sold tremendously well over the last several years and the cameras are undoubtedly at or around the top of the pile of mirrorless cameras.
Best Selling DSLR: Nikon D750
It's not all doom and gloom Nikon fans. People are indeed still buying DSLRs — despite what many might tell you — and it seems that Nikon are fighting fit in that category. With $500 off an already good price for such a strong camera, it's no wonder the D750 did so well.
Best Selling Backpack: Manfrotto Street Camera and Laptop Backpack
Camera bags are treated as everything from essential tools through to collectors items. Find the perfect one is tricky and different for every photographer. Most of us have gone through more than our fair share, but once you get it right, it's so very sweet. The top selling backpack this holiday was by Manfrotto — usually famed for their tripods — with a heavily discounted camera and laptop bag for DSLRs.
Best Selling Laptop: Lenovo 14" IdeaPad Flex Pro Multi-Touch 2-in-1
The reason this particular laptop has become the best seller is no surprise. While it offers a strong spec with 16GB DDR4 RAM, an Intel i7, and a 512GB SSD, it also boasts the 360 degree hinge meaning it can be used as a normal laptop, a tablet, and several other configurations. If you pair this with the price being nearly half its usual retail, it's no wonder it's the top selling laptop and has limited stock.
Best Selling Memory Card: SanDisk 256GB Extreme Pro UHS-I SDXC
Last but not least we have the best selling memory card which is the titanic 256GB 170MB/s SDXC by SanDisk. I remember when computers had less storage space than this card has, and almost certainly slower speeds. If you use SDXC cards, this will last you some time!
Did you get any great deals over the holiday? Let us know in the comments below.
"It's not all doom and gloom Nikon fans. People are indeed still buying DSLRs — despite what many might tell you — and it seems that Nikon are fighting fit in that category. With $500 off an already good price for such a strong camera, it's no wonder the D750 did so well."
I'm not really sure that a fire sale on a 5-year-old camera model that's rumored to be replaced soon is much of an indicator of a company's health.
The 256gb card is severely misrepresented. The 170MB/s figure is not for writing to the card. It's for reading FROM the card. Like when you move pictures from the card to your computer.
It's much more important what the WRITE speed is, because that tells you how quickly the card can take in pictures from your camera as you are shooting at a rapid pace. In this case, the write speed, not so well-advertised, is only 90MB/s, which is actually SLOWER than the write speed on their top cards a few years ago, which some folks here may recall was 95MB/s.
Ill take sd over xqd anyday. 2 uhsii vs 1 xqd is what id prefer
Most problem wirh speed is the camera not the card. Even with xqd the camera is not ablr to take advantage of the speed let alone cfe
Over the weekend there was a student discount for $1050 off the A7rIV at B&H.