Aside from the impact of COVID-19, 2020 is a leap year, and that changes the dates/weeks some trade shows happen, especially if they have a preset such as “Monday to Thursday”. A leap year has 52 weeks and TWO days, which means dates get pushed, some run into weekend boundaries and such, meaning some trade shows may move up or down by one week in the calendar.

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Latest Update: December 23 (2020): Waiting to see how things go with the vaccine situation before I attempt another update of the calendar… All trade shows are subject to change/cancellation as of the time of writing due to the COVID-19 situation… Some shows moved to the Fall of 2020, others to 2021/2022, while others have TBD dates… As a result, the calendar is more jumpy than usual… Trade shows that don’t have confirmed dates have “??-??” as their date… SPE (every March) goes to a different city every year… CES changed their website to a .tech…

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May 2022
+ 18-21: Photokina in Cologne (Germany): moves here from May 2020

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January 2021
+ 6-9: CES 2021 in Las Vegas (USA) as usual
+ 14-19: Imaging USA in Nashville, Tennessee (USA)
+ 20-23: Society of Social and Wedding Photographers in London (UK), convention and trade-show
+ ??-??: Photo LA in Santa Monica (LA area, California, USA)

February 2021
+ 25-28: CP Plus in Tokyo (Japan)
+ ??-??: B&H Photo’s Depth of Field in New York
+ ??-??: PhotoPro Expo in Northern Kentucky & Cincinnati (USA)

March 2021
+ 1-4: Mobile World Congress in Barcelona::Spain
+ 7-11: WPPI (full conference) in Las Vegas (USA)
+ 18-21: Society for Photographic Education in Denver, CO (USA)
+ ??-??: The Photography Show (Birmingham, UK): the 2020 show moved to September, unknown if 2021 will also do so

April 2021
+ ??-??: NAB in Las Vegas (USA)
+ ??-??: Photo & Imaging in Seoul (Korea)

May 2021
+ next Photokina in May 2022

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January 2020
+ 5-10: CES 2020 in Las Vegas (USA)
+ 19-21: Imaging USA in Nashville, Tennessee (USA)
+ 22-25: Society of Social and Wedding Photographers in London (UK), convention and trade-show
+ 30-2: Photo LA in Santa Monica (LA area, California, USA)

February 2020
+ 11-12: B&H Photo’s Depth of Field in New York
+ 23-27: WPPI (full conference) in Las Vegas (USA)
+ 24-27: Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (CANCELED due to COVID-19)
+ 28-3: CP Plus in Tokyo (Japan)
+ 27-2: PhotoPro Expo in Northern Kentucky & Cincinnati (USA)

March 2020
+ 6-8: Society for Photographic Education in Houston, TX (USA)
+ 14-17: The Photography Show (Birmingham, UK) moves to September 2020

April 2020
+ 18-22: NAB in Las Vegas (USA): CANCELLED, will launch “NAB Express” online trade show at a TBD later date
+ 23-26: Photo & Imaging in Seoul (Korea): CANCELLED

May 2020
+ 18-21: Photokina in Cologne (Germany): CANCELLED due to COVID
+ ??-??: Photoshop World, in Orlando, Florida (USA): MOVED to TBD 2021

June 2020
+ 2-6: Computex Taipei moves to September 2020
+ 4-7: Cine Gear Expo in Los Angeles (USA): MOVED to TBD date

July 2020
+ no events?

August 2020
+ no events?

September 2020
+ 4-9: IFA in Berlin (Germany)
+ 11-15: IBC in Amsterdaaam (Holland)
+ 19-22: The Photography Show (Birmingham, UK) moved here from March 2020
+ 28-20: Computex Taipei in Taipei: moved here from May
+ 27-1: GITEX in Dubai

October 2020
+ 20-23: CEATEC in Tokyo (Japan)
+ 22-24: Photo Plus Expo in New York (USA)

November 2020
+ 5-9: Le Salon de la Photo in Paris (France) – also in english

December 2020
+ Ned Stark was right, Winter is Here with the COVID Walkers!

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January 2019
+ 8-12: CES 2019 in Las Vegas (USA), better dates this year, some breathing room after the New Year’s Eve festivities
+ 16-19: Society of Social and Wedding Photographers in London (UK), convention and trade-show
+ 17-22: Imaging USA in Nashville, Tennessee (USA)
+ 31-3: Photo LA in Santa Monica (LA area, California, USA)

February 2019
+ 5-6: B&H Photo’s Depth of Field in New York
+ 21-25: PhotoPro Expo in Northern Kentucky & Cincinnati (USA)
+ 25-28: Mobile World Congress in Barcelona::Spain
+ 25-1: WPPI (full conference) in Las Vegas (USA)
+ 28-3: CP Plus in Tokyo (Japan)

March 2019
+ 7-10: Society for Photographic Education in Cleveland, OH (USA)
+ 16-19: The Photography Show (Birmingham, UK)

April 2019
+ 6-11: NAB in Las Vegas (USA)
+ ???: Photo & Imaging in Seoul (Korea)

May 2019
+ 8-11: Photokina in Cologne (Germany) [NEW MONTH!]
+ NOTE that starting with 2019, Photokina takes place in May, breaking with the tradition; in Cologne as usual
+ 28-1: Computex Taipei in Taipei
+ 30-1: Photoshop World, in Orlando, Florida (USA)
+ 30-2: Cine Gear Expo in Los Angeles (USA)
+ ???: The Photography Show (Los Angeles)

June 2019
+ CANCELLED: 24-28: CeBIT in Hannover (Germany)

July 2019
+ no events?

August 2019
+ 21-23: Photoshop World II, in Las Vegas, Florida (USA)

September 2019
+ 6-11: IFA in Berlin (Germany)
+ 12-17: IBC in Amsterdaaam (Holland)
+ ???: Pro Photo Expo

October 2019
+ 6-10: GITEX in Dubai
+ 10-15: CEATEC in Tokyo (Japan)
+ 24-26: Photo Plus Expo in New York (USA)
+ ???: Cine Gear Expo II in Atlanta (USA)

November 2019
+ 7-11: Le Salon de la Photo in Paris (France) – also in english

December 2019
+ winter is coming

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Changes for 2018
Added The Photography Show (Birmingham, March; Los Angeles in May). Thanks to our readers for the alerts… There’s many date changes for 2018, with some trade show having significant changes in dates since the previous years such as CEBIT, Photoshop World, Pro Photo, and more… Photokina 2018 will happen in September as usual, but starting with 2019, Photokina will be in May in Cologne…

January 2018
+ 9-12: CES 2018 in Las Vegas (USA), better dates this year, some breathing room after the New Year’s Eve festivities
+ 10-14: Society of Social and Wedding Photographers in London (UK), convention and trade-show
+ 11-16: Imaging USA in Nashville, Tennessee (USA)
+ Photo LA has a new buyer, will return in February 2019, no trade show in 2018

February 2018
+ 8-12: PhotoPro Expo in Northern Kentucky & Cincinnati (USA)
+ 24-28: WPPI (full conference) in Las Vegas (USA)
+ 26-1: Mobile World Congress in Barcelona::Spain

March 2018
+ 1-4: CP Plus in Tokyo (Japan)
+ 1-4: Society for Photographic Education in Philadelphia, PA (USA)
+ 17-20: The Photography Show (Birmingham, UK) [ADDED!]

April 2018
+ 7-12: NAB in Las Vegas (USA)
+ 19-22: Photo & Imaging in Seoul (Korea)

May 2018
+ 4-6: The Photography Show (Los Angeles) [ADDED!]
+ 31-2: Photoshop World, in Orlando, Florida (USA)
+ 31-3: Cine Gear Expo in Los Angeles (USA)

June 2018
+ 5-9: Computex Taipei in Taipei
+ 11-15: CeBIT in Hannover (Germany) – moving from March to June

July 2018
+ no events?

August 2018
+ 31-5: IFA in Berlin (Germany)

September 2018
+ 13-18: IBC in Amsterdaaam (Holland)
+ 15-17: Pro Photo Expo in Valencia (Southern California)
+ 26-29: Photokina in Cologne (Germany)
+ NOTE that starting with 2019, Photokina will take in place in May, breaking with the tradition; in Cologne as usual

October 2018
+ 14-18: GITEX in Dubai
+ 16-19: CEATEC in Tokyo (Japan)
+ 24-27: Photo Plus Expo in New York (USA)

November 2018
+ 8-12: Le Salon de la Photo in Paris (France) – also in english

December 2018
+ winter is coming

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January 2017
+ 5-8: CES 2017 in Las Vegas (USA)
+ 5-10: Imaging USA in San Antonio, TeXaS (USA)
+ 11-15: Society of Social and Wedding Photographers in London (UK), convention and trade-show
+ 26-30: PhotoPro Expo in Northern Kentucky & Cincinnati (USA)

February 2017
+ 5-9: WPPI (full conference) in Las Vegas (USA) [CORRECTED]
+ 23-26: CP Plus in Tokyo (Japan)
+ 27-2: Mobile World Congress in Barcelona::Spain

March 2017
+ 9-12: Society for Photographic Education in Orlando, Florida (USA)
+ 20-24: CeBIT in Hannover (Germany)

April 2017
+ 20-22: Photoshop World, in Orlando, Florida (USA)
+ 22-27: NAB in Las Vegas (USA)

May 2017
+ 4-8: Photo & Imaging in Seoul (Korea)
+ 19-21: Pro Photo Expo at TBA
+ 30-3: Computex Taipei in Taipei

June 2017
+ 1-4: Cine Gear Expo in Los Angeles (USA)

July 2017
+ no events?

August 2017
+ no events?

September 2017
+ 1-6: IFA in Berlin (Germany)
+ 14-18: IBC in Amsterdaaam (Holland)
+ No Photokina (only happens on even-numbered years)

October 2017
+ 3-6: CEATEC in Tokyo (Japan)
+ 8-12: GITEX in Dubai
+ 26-28: Photo Plus Expo in New York (USA)

November 2017
+ 9-13: Le Salon de la Photo in Paris (France) – also in english

December 2017
+ winter is coming

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January 2016
+ 6-9: CES 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA)
+ 10-12: Imaging USA in Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
+ 20-24: Society of Social and Wedding Photographers in London (UK), convention and trade-show
+ 21-24: Photo LA, international photographic art exposition in Los Angeles

February 2016
+ 4-8: PhotoPro Expo in Northern Kentucky & Cincinnati (USA)
+ 22-25: Mobile World Congress in Barcelona::Spain
+ 25-28: CP Plus in Tokyo (Japan)

March 2016
+ 3-10: WPPI (full conference) in Las Vegas (USA) – the trade show is March 7-9
+ 10-13: Society for Photographic Education in Las Vegas (USA)
+ 14-18: CeBIT in Hannover (Germany)

April 2016
+ 2-3: Pro Photo Expo at Brooks Institute in Pasadena (CA)
+ 16-21: NAB in Las Vegas (USA)

May 2016
+ 4-8: Photo & Imaging in Seoul (Korea)
+ 31- June 4: Computex Taipei in Taipei

June 2016
+ 2-5: Cine Gear Expo in Los Angeles (USA)

July 2016
+ 19-21: Photoshop World, in Las Vegas

August 2016
+ nada?

September 2016
+ 2-7: IFA in Berlin (Germany)
+ 8-13: IBC in Amsterdaaam (Holland)
+ 20-25: Photokina (Photokina only happens on even-numbered years)
+ TBD: The Digital Show in Melbourne (Australia)

October 2016
+ 4-7: CEATEC in Tokyo (Japan)
+ 16-20: GITEX in Dubai
+ 19-22: Photo Plus Expo in New York (USA)

November 2016
+ 10-14: Le Salon de la Photo in Paris (France) – also in english

December 2016
+ winter is coming

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January 2015
+ 6-9: CES 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA)
+ 6-9: PMA at CES 2015 (the exhibit) in Las Vegas (USA) – the conference is January 4-5
+ 14-18: Society of Social and Wedding Photographers in London (UK), convention and trade-show

February 2015
+ 1-3: Imaging USA in Nashville::TN (USA)
+ 12-15: CP Plus in Tokyo (Japan)
+ 19-22: Nature Photography Summit in San Diego California
+ 26 to March 5: WPPI (full conference) in Las Vegas (USA) – the trade show is March 2-4

March 2015
+ 2-5: Mobile World Congress in Barcelona::Spain
+ 12-15: Society for Photographic Education in New Orleans (Louisiana::USA)
+ 16-20: CeBIT in Hannover (Germany)
+ no longer: Focus on Imaging in Birmingham (UK)

April 2015
+ 11-16: NAB in Las Vegas (USA)
+ 16-19: Photo & Imaging in Seoul (Korea)

May 2015
+ nada?

June 2015
+ 2-6: Computex Taipei in Taipei
+ 4-7: Cine Gear Expo in Los Angeles (USA)

July 2015
+ nada?

August 2015
+ 10-13: Photoshop World, now in Las Vegas

September 2015
+ 4- 9: IFA in Berlin (Germany)
+ 10-15: IBC in Amsterdaaam (Holland)
+ 16-18: The Digital Show in Melbourne (Australia)
+ no Photokina (Photokina only happens on even-numbered years)

October 2015
+ 7-10: CEATEC in Tokyo (Japan)
+ 18-22: GITEX in Dubai
+ 21-24: Photo Plus Expo in New York (USA)
+ 21-24: Palm Sprints Photo Festival at Photo Plus Expo

November 2015
+ 5-9: Le Salon de la Photo in Paris (France) – also in english

December 2015
+ winter is coming

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October 2014
+ 7-11: CEATEC in Tokyo (Japan)
+ 12-16: GITEX in Dubai
+ 29 to Nov 1: Photo Plus Expo in New York (USA)

November 2014
+ 13-17: Le Salon de la Photo in Paris (France) – also in english

December 2014
+ winter is coming

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Welcome to a tradition unlike any other. The Black Friday camera and photography Ads digest here at the Noisy blog The BF Ads are no longer the cornerstone of Black Friday but they inform of deals and what to expect or beat at other online retailers as we head to the final stretch of the year…

UPDATE: this post is a digest of the leaked and teased BF ads…

BF Ads 2019 TL:DR: A bit of a TL:DR, the best deals can be found at Kohl’s because it offers $15 “Kohls Cash” on every $50 spent (between November 25-29) and at Target which offers free Target gift cards with select purchases and 5% back if you pay with the Target RED cards…

NOTE that “Kohls Cash” is not cash, it’s more of a promotional coupon. It typically lasts only for a few designated dates after it is issued and must be used within the designated time period. Regular Kohls shoppers have no trouble spending them but if you are not a Kohls shopper, make sure there are enough things of interest to spend it on before buying there…

ON PRICING: as it is the nature with MAP and price-matches, the prices of standard kits are likely to be the same across most retailers, eg Best Buy, Walmart, Target, Sears, etc. The additional freebies (eg Target gift cards) and rewards promotions (eg Kohls Cash) may vary though…

LATEST UPDATE: November 17 in 2019: the digest is LIVE… WordPress just switched to the new horrible (?) “Blocks” editor, so chances of errors are elevated…

DSLRs

+ Nikon D3500 two lens kit (18-55 DX VR and 70-300 DX non-VR) with freebies for $400 at Best Buy and Costco and Target and others

+ Canon D-Rebel T6 two lens kit (18-55 and 75-300 III non-USM) kit at Best Buy (with free Sunpak tripod) and at Kohls (with $75 Kohls cash ~ because the sale price is $399.99, not $400.00)

+ Canon D-Rebel T7i two lens kit (18-55, 55-250) with freebies for $700 at Best Buy

+ Nikon D7500 two lens kit (18-55, 70-300 VR) for $900 at Best Buy

+ Canon 80D with 18-55 for $900 at Best Buy

+ Nikon D750 body only for $1000 at Best Buy

+ Canon 5D Mark IV body only for $2500 at Best Buy

+ up to 20% off lenses (nearly 300 options of both kinds)

MIRRORLESS

+ Sony a6000 two lens kit (16-50, 55-210) with freebies for $600 at Best Buy

+ Canon M50 with 15-45 for $600, plus mount adapter for $650 at Best Buy

+ Sony a7 II with 28-70mm and freebies for $1000 at Best Buy

+ Sony a7 III with 28-70 and freebies for $2000 at Best Buy

+ Canon RP with RF 24-240mm with free mount adapter for $1500 at Best Buy

+ up to 20% off lenses (nearly 300 options of both kinds)

FIXED LENS CAMERAS (digital & analogue)

+ Fuji Instax Mini 9 bundle with $15 Target Gift Card for $50 at Target [HOT DEAL!

+ Fuji Instax Mini 9 bundle for $50 at Best Buy, free rainbow film at Staples and CVS (of interest if you have CVS coupons/ExtraBucks/etc)

+ Canon G9X II video creator kit for $600 at Best Buy

+ Canon IVY Cliq instant for $80 at Best Buy, with $15 Kohls cash at KOHLs

+ polaroid originals OneStep+ for $100 at Target

+ Canon IVY REC waterproof thingy for $100 at Best Buy

ACTION CAMs and DRONES and SUCH

+ GoPRO Hero 8 Black 4K Special Bundle for $350 at Best Buy and Target

+ GoPRO Hero 7 Black for $300 at Best Buy and Costco

+ DJI Mavic Z PRO $1379 at the official Lenovo store

+ DJI OSMO Pocket 4k for $350 at Best Buy

+ DJI MAVIC 2 PRO w/remote controller for $1380 at Best Buy

+ DJI RONIN-S for $630 at Best Buy

+ DJI RONIN-S Esentials $480 at Best Buy

+ DJI MAVIC 2 PRO w/smart controller for $1780 at Best Buy

+ Ryze tech tello for $80 at Best Buy

+ zhiyun crane m2 3-n-1 handheld for $200 at Best Buy

+ zhiyun smooth-Q 3-axis $70 at Best Buy

PRINTERS

+ all kinds of printers are on offer, this is just a sampling (too many to list all here individually)

+ epson xpession home xp-6100 wireless for $80 at Staples

+ HP DeskJet 2680 with free ink card for $20 at Best Buy

+ Canon Pixma MG-3620 for $30 at Target

+ HP Deskjet 3639 with $10 back in rewards for $30 at Office Depot-Max and at Kohls ($15 Kohls Cash if total purchase is $50+)

+ HP Envy 5014 wireless AiO with free inket card for $30 at Best Buy

+ Canon Pixma TR8520 for $70 at Best Buy

+ hp envy 6255 $70 at Meijers

+ HP Envy Photo 7155 for $80 at Best Buy and Office Depot-MAX

+ HP “Toad the Wet” Sprocket 2nd edition insta printer w/free photo album for $100 at Best Buy and Staples and Target

+ fecesbook portal 10″ $130, 8″ for $80 at Staples

+ Print orders: $15 off next order when you make a $50+ print order at Staples

+ Buy 1 Get 1 FREE on Photo papers at Staples

STORAGE

+ lots of memory card, hard drive, USB flash drives and other storage offers; this is just a sampling (too many to list all here)…

+ 128gb sandisk extreme plus $20 microSD or full size, 64gb $15 at Best Buy

+ 256gb Sandisk ultra plus microsd $30, 512gb $80, 64gb $9, 32gb $7 at Best Buy

CAMERA & PHOTO ACCESSORIES

+ sunpak 58″ platinum plus tripod 5858D for $10 at best buy

+ budget light panels and mini triods & such under $50 at Best Buy

+ Simplysmart 8″ digiframe for $80 at Kohls

+ Manfrotto 61″ compact smart action for $50 at Best Buy

+ BOGO on Powercell batteries at Meijers

100% BACK in REWARDS

A traditional unlike any other. The Duracell batteries 100% back in rewards promotion returns at the Office Max – Office Depot with the usual selection of AA or AAA single-use batteries. They also have a 100% rewards promotion on K-Cup compatible coffee pods.

As usual with these 100% back from Office Max/Depot, make sure you know how you are going to spend the rewards once they are added to your account later on ~ you don’t want to let them go unused/wasted!

ETC SAMPLING

+ just a few random things of potential interest…

+ 7th generation iPAD (32GB, Wifi) for $250 at Staples

+ $400 Target gift card with qualified Samsung Galaxy Note10, S10, S10+ activations at Target

+ celestron 14AZ-SR smartphone-ready refractor telescope for $85 after 15% off coupon and with $15 Kohls cash at kohls

+ $20 off on $150+ in Happy gift cards (various restaurants) at Office Depot-Max

+ 6TB seagate backup hub plus for $100 at staples

+ $10 each Targus City laptop backpack or Solo Urban briefcase at Best Buy

+ various computers, monitors ~ too many to list here (20+ page BF ad) at the official HP Store

+ latest models: Kindle (now with touchscreen) for $60, Paperwhite for $85 at Best Buy and elsewhere

+ $20 limited duration promotional credit for every $50 in clothing/shoes purchases at Sears

+ $15 in limited time promotional points on $40+ purchases at K-Mart

+ $25 next purchase discount coupon printed at checkout at Meijers depending on purchase

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This year I won’t be doing rolling summary round-ups here at the main blog. I may do a “best of” type of a post if circumstances dictate it, but the on-going MEGA summary post won’t happen because it eats up time that I could be using to post even more new deals [instead of never-ending summaries/editing].

If you have any ideas and thoughts for BF/CM coverage and such, please feel free to leave a comment here or use the online contact form…

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PS: this post also serves as an alert for those of you following on RSS readers and email notifications….

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And we are back once again! We have already started picking up momentum in the Camera Deals blog as we are building up to the Black Friday 2018 madness which will come a bit earlier this year, Friday [obviously] November 23.

Time sure does fly! We’ve been doing this for 13 (!!!) years [e-Dinosaur alert!]. Here are some of our early posts back when I was using Livejournal. After all, up until a few weeks ago, George R. R. Martin himself was using Livejournal [then again he writes his voluminous books using Wordstar on MS-DOS]

To put 13 digital camera years in perspective, some of the cameras we were talking about then: the early stages of the Canon 5D “Beatle mania”, Panasonic launched the LX-series with the LX1, Minolta had its own 5D DSLR, the Samsung PRO 815 superzoom [up to 420mm eq], the Nikon D2X professional DSLR, the Leica Modul-R, the Fuji F10 [early precursor to the Fuji F31fd cult camera], and so forth… Meanwhile among the hot topics of discussion back then was the Figure of Merit formula… . Numbers-wise, Kodak was the #1 in digital camera unit sales in the US market, with HP (!!!) being number five… And on and on and on…

As far as this [the main blog] we will continue with some of our recurring features, and also start new projects, more specifically things that are not typically covered, eg niche topics. If you have any pet ideas you want to see done/covered, please feel free to leave a comment, or use the online contact form…

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The Stock Status Tracker is back with a new set of yet-to-be-released or hard-to-find in-stock cameras. If you want us to track other cameras, please leave a comment or use the online contact form…

Footnotes and Retired Cameras after the break…

RETIRED CAMERAS from The TRACKER

• Pentax K-1 II, Panasonic G9 and Fuji X-H1
• Fuji X100F
• Panasonic GH5
• Fuji X-E3 and GFX-50S
• all Nikon D7500 and Canon 6D II kits
• Fuji X-T1 with FREE 35mm f2R lens promotion
• all Fuji X-T2 kits
• Canon 77D
• Olympus E-M1 II
• Panasonic G85
• Sony RX100 V
• Canon G7 X II
• Canon 5D Mark IV
• Sony RX 10 III
• Pentax K-1
• Canon 1D X II (both options)
• Nikon D500 (both options)
• Nikon D5 (both options)

FOOTNOTES

• If you find this tracker useful, please consider making some of your online purchases through the affiliate links below ~ it’s a sign that you find it useful and want it to continue
• Prices and availability are not updated automatically but they are as of the Latest Update date
• If you have any cameras or sellers of interest you want us to track, please leave a comment below or use the Online Contact Form. More sellers may be added but I’m trying keep the size under control
• For Amazon, eBay, Best Buy, Rakuten, NewEgg and other retailers with open marketplaces that allow third party sellers, be sure to check who the seller is
• If you are not familiar with a particular third party seller, it is a very good idea to research them first! Do not assume!
• If an item is only in-stock by iffy or unknown third-party sellers at Amazon, I do not list them below
• This version of the Stock Status Tracker returned in May 2016
• thanks to WordPress Responsible Design, you can view this on smaller screens too
• All removed entries are saved, so if a camera has supplies issues in the future, I can easily add it to the Tracker again
• for Questions, Corrections, Suggestions and such, please leave a comment or use the Online Contact Form

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WHAT IS THIS? here we track serious/interesting products, we no longer attempt to track every single camera out there. This is a reference page, not a “breaking news” tracker, so cameras/lenses won’t necessarily be added the millisecond they are officially announced – we no longer chase the “news cycle” after all

For previous years, check the New Cameras of 2017 and the New Cameras of 2016 and the New Cameras of 2015…

DSLRs

+ FEB-26: Canon Digital Rebel 4000D (18mp APS-C, Europe)
+ FEB-25: Canon Digital Rebel T7 / 2000D (24mp, APS-C, w/18-55 $550)
+ FEB-21: Pentax K-1 II (36mp FF, $2000)

MIRRORLESS

+ FEB-26: Sony a7 III (Sony E, $2000)
+ FEB-25: Canon M50 (EF-M, $779)
+ FEB-15: Fuji X-H1 (Fuji X, IBIS, $1900)
+ FEB-13: Panasonic GX9 (M43rds, w/12-60, $1000)
+ FEB-07: Olympus E-PL9 (M43rds, 16mp, w/14-42 549 euro)
+ JAN-31: Fuji X-A5 (24mp APS-C, w/15-45 $600)
+ JAN-08: Panasonic GH5S, a video-priority variant of the GH5 (M43, $2500)

RANGEFINDERS

+ not yet

MEDIUM FORMAT

+ JAN-16: Hasselblad H6D-400c (100mp CMOS, $48K)

RAWSUMERs

+ FEB-13: Panasonic ZS200 (1″, 15X, $800)

NEW LENSES in 2018

The abbreviations for the camera systems are:
+ DSLR: C for Canon, N for Nikon, P for Pentax K, A for Sony A, Si for Sigma SA
+ Mirrorless: E for Sony E/FE, X for Fuji X, EF-M for Canon mirrorless, m43 for Micro Four Thirds, NX for Samsung NX

+ FEB-28: Tokina Opera 50mm f1.4 (FF, C/N, no price)
+ FEB-27: Sigma 105mm f1.4 DG HSM Art (no price; C/N/A/E/Si)
+ FEB-27: Sigma 70mm f2.8 DG Macro Art (no price; C/N/E/Si)
+ FEB-26: Panasonic 50-200mm f2.8-4 OIS (M43, $1700)
+ FEB-26: Venus Optics Laowa 9mm f2.8 Zero-D (X/E/EF-M)
+ FEB-26: Venus Optics Laowa 25mm f2.8 2.5-5x Zero-D (C/N/P/E)
+ FEB-24: Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD (Sony E, no $)
+ FEB-24: Tamron 70-210mm f4 Di VC USD (C/N, $800)
+ FEB-23: Tokina Firin 20mm f2 FE AF (FE, autofocus)
+ FEB-21: Rokinon SP 50mm f1.2 (MF, EF only, $999)
+ FEB-15: Fuji MKX 18-55mm T2.9 (Fuji X, $4000)
+ FEB-15: Fuji MKX 50-135mm T2.9 (Fuji X, $4300)
+ FEB-14: Zeiss Loxia 25mm f2.4 (Sony E, $1299)
+ FEB-12: Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 (Sony E, $799)
+ FEB-09: Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG HSM ART ($1300, C/N/Si)
+ JAN-31: Fuji XC 15-45mm F3.5-5.6 OIS PZ (X, $300)
+ JAN-15: Leica 75mm f2 (SL, $4750)
+ JAN-15: Leica 90mm f2 (SL, $5150)
+ JAN-10: Nikon 180-400mm f4E TC1.4 FL ED VR AF-S (Nikon F, $12,400)
+ JAN-08: Rokinon 14mm f2.8 Auto Focus (Canon, $800)
+ JAN-05: Sony 18-135mm f3.5-5.6 OSS (E-System, $600)

FOOTNOTES

+ different or newer colors of an existing cameras are not tracked as new releases unless it’s actually a different camera
+ not all 3rd-party/unknown manufacturer lenses are tracked
+ Of the Fixed Lens Cameras, only those with RAW and/or unique or unusual features are tracked
+ For errors, corrections, additions, deletions, please leave a comment or use the online contact form

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We continue to have a healthy mix of sensor sizes and zoom ratios, from primes to superzooms, and 1 inch all the way up to 35mm full frame. Just don’t expect a 35mm full frame superzoom any time soon

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As you can see, the overall trend is for prices to drop, especially among the more competitive segments. On the other hand, cameras like the Sony RX1-series and the Sigma DP-series are in a league of their own and prices are at the mercy of the manufacturer. But still, just like DSLRs and mirrorless there is no price range to the bottom.

The majority of the RAWsumers remain cameras with short zoom, but the superzooms continue to increase. The only new addition we had since November 2017 was the Panasonic ZS200. We lost zero cameras since then.

It still amazes me how Sony is managing to keep all the RX series cameras, in all three lines still alive and kicking. The latest price changes broke the symmetric price-staircase pattern of the RX100 series, mayhaps the fallout of the Mark V having disappointment a segment of the RAWsumer fandom.

The APS-C CAMERAS

As you can see in the chart below, all is quiet on the APS-C front. Except for a small price increase, the prices remained the same. The Fuji X70 is on its way out, as of this update, only Amazon has it available. It is gone and unorderable from B&H and Adorama.

THE 1 INCH CAMERAS

Once upon a time the 1/1.7″ sensors reigned supreme in this segment. Now the 1-inch sensors are the most common. A little bit over half of the cameras in this group (37 of them) use 1-inch sensors. There’s a lonely Canon with a 1.5″, a couple of M43rds, and four full framers (Sony RX1* and Leica Q Typ 116).

MID-FEBRUARY 2018 SERIES

+ 35mm Full Frame Price Chart
+ APS-C DSLRs Price Chart
+ Mirrorless Price Chart
+ Fixed Lens Cameras Price Chart

Where Does The Data Come From?

The prices are the consensus prices between Amazon and B&H Photo and Adorama as of February 23 in 2018. These are new condition with USA warranty prices, from authorized dealers. All the prices are the body only kit prices. Older cameras that are no longer available in new condition with USA warranty from the above retailers, or are available in a very limited fashion, are not included.

PREVIOUS YEARS

• Fixed Lens Cameras – November 2017
• Fixed Lens Cameras – July 2017
• Fixed Lens Cameras – November 2016
• Fixed Lens Cameras – mid-November 2015
• Fixed Lens Cameras – late December 2014

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FLAGSHIPS (PRICE-WISE) PER SYSTEM

We have two new entries in the Flagships chart! Both Panasonic and Fuji have replaced their flagships with more expensive models, the Panasonic GH5S was a +$500, while the Fuji X-F1 a +$400 over their predecessor prices in the November charts.

Of the remaining cameras, we had two modest price drops, the Olympus E-M1 II and the Canon M5. Remaining at the same price were the least “mobile” (price wise), the Leica, the Sigma and the Sony leader.

MANY AND MORE MIRRORLESS

Six new mirrorless came out since our last update, but you only see five of them. That’s because the Olympus E-PL9 is not available in the US market and this is a price chart, it wouldn’t make sense to include in the charts without a price.

The new entries are the Leica CL (came out a few days after our November chart), Fuji X-H1 and X-A5 and the Panasonic G9 and GX9. Two mirrorless cameras “left” this chart (became unavailable for purchase at the tracked retailers as set forth at the bottom of the post), the Fuji X-T10 and the Sony a5000 with 16-50mm kit.

Just like previous years, the chart is too huge to post as a unibody, so I’m splitting it in two. The Panasonic GX9 is the “constant”, it’s at the bottom of the first half and the top of the second half. The one that virtually stitches it together…

As you can see by the red plus and minus signs next to the camera prices, prices have been a lot more alive and active here compared to the APS-C DSLRs. Price drops overwhelmed the price increases which is typically a healthy thing to see in a market of digital products. Even the price increases were not quite that bad, the X-T20 went up to $900 but the kit with a lens remained at $900. Looking at the chart, it looks like Fuji increased the price of the X-A3 just to make the just-released X-A5 more appetizing.

But the bottom of the market did not fall out, as you can see the price drops were more in the upper side of $500. The prices shown here at the body only kits (unless a camera doesn’t have one). Check also the “Take Pictures With” chart further down to see what one looking to jump right into a system would be paying.

In Part #2 above, it’s where many of the forum battles are fought Prices went up and down here as well, with some dramatic drops, like $500 drops for the Panasonic GH4 and Sony a7r II, a7 II. The Fuji X-T1 had an even more dramatic drop of $700, heavily discounted to $600 right now.

The price increases where nowhere near as high, the top was +$200 for the Olympus PEN-F (not sure why) and the Fuji X-PRO2 (mayhaps repositioning with the X-T2).

Take Pictures With KITS

This chart shows the lowest prices for a camera with lens kit. Only cameras available with lenses are included. The lowest body only prices can be found at the top of the big chart above.

The days of the race to the bottom are over, even though we had a sizeable discount of the Olympus E-M10 II with 14-42. The Panasonic G7 with 14-42 is not a new camera, but it is new to the “Take Pictures With” chart because it dropped $200, putting it under $800 and into this chart

NOTES and FOOTNOTES

• new entries and additions have been covered in the text above
• Prices are uniform among the three tracked retailers, with the following exceptions: Fuji X-A3 w/16-50 not available at Amazon, B&H only one with the big Fuji X-T1 and Leica TL discounts, Adorama the only one with the Fuji X-A10 w/16-50, no Canon M3 and no YI M1 at B&H Photo
• Typos, errors, confusions, omissions are always possible. Please leave a comment or use the online contact form. If I don’t notice an error and no one mentions it, it won’t get fixed on its own

MID-FEBRUARY 2018 SERIES

+ 35mm Full Frame Price Chart
+ APS-C DSLRs Price Chart
+ Mirrorless Price Chart
+ Fixed Lens Cameras Price Chart

Where Does The Data Come From?

The prices are the consensus prices between Amazon and B&H Photo and Adorama as of February 22 in 2018. These are new condition with USA warranty prices, from authorized dealers. All the prices are the body only kit prices. Older cameras that are no longer available in new condition with USA warranty from the above retailers, or are available in a very limited fashion, are not included.

PREVIOUS YEARS

• Mirrorless Cameras – November 2017
• Mirrorless Cameras – July 2017
• Mirrorless Cameras – November 2016
• Mirrorless Cameras – mid-November 2015
• Mirrorless Cameras – late December 2014

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The story of this update is the madness of Canon’s pricing. Both the D-Rebel T6s and T6 prices have skyrocketed, while the illogical pricing of the D-Rebel T5i continues (the body only costs $100 more than the T5i with the kit lens).

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In the charts in this post, cameras with prices going up have a red plus next to their price, while cameras with prices going down have a red minus next to their price.

Steady or stagnating are the prices otherwise among the non-entry-level models. The Sigma SD1 price jump is because the retailer that had it for $1800 (Adorama) no longer carriers the body only. Pentax was the only one who gave their cameras some discounting, the KP dropped by $100 and the K3 II by $20. The effects of essentially manufacturer price control in full bloom.

All three of Sony’s DSLRs continues, two APS-C here (a68, a77 II) and one full framer [that’s in the Full Frame Price Chart].

The Canon price increases have also tilted the prices of the “Take Pictures With” updates, and the number of choices has decreased as we lost Nikon D5300 and Pentax K-S2 due to old age, while the D-Rebel T6i w/18-55 climbed over $700 which is our cut-off point.

From the prices above, someone looking for their first entry-point DSLR is probably better served looking at manufacturer refurbished or used or grey market cameras. It is hard to justify paying those prices for older and aging DSLRs.

NOTES and FOOTNOTES

• no new entries in this edition, but the Nikon D5300 and the Pentax K-S2 with 18-50 are gone
• Prices are uniform among the three tracked retailers, with the following exceptions: the Canon D-Rebel T6s is only available at B&H Photo; the Nikon D3300 w/18-55 is not available at Adorama
• Typos, errors, confusions, omissions are always possible. Please leave a comment or use the online contact form. If I don’t notice an error and no one mentions it, it won’t get fixed on its own

MID-FEBRUARY 2018 SERIES

+ 35mm Full Frame Price Chart
+ APS-C DSLRs Price Chart
+ Mirrorless Price Chart
+ Fixed Lens Cameras Price Chart

Where Does The Data Come From?

The prices are the consensus prices between Amazon and B&H Photo and Adorama as of February 21 in 2018. These are new condition with USA warranty prices, from authorized dealers. All the prices are the body only kit prices. Older cameras that are no longer available in new condition with USA warranty from the above retailers, or are available in a very limited fashion, are not included.

PREVIOUS APS-C DSLR CHARTS EDITIONS

• APS-C DSLRS – November 2017
• APS-C DSLRS – JULY 2017
• APS-C DSLRs – November 2016
• APS-C DSLRs – mid-November 2015
• APS-C DSLRs – late December 2014

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In order to make this chart readable, manageable and relevant, the various Leicas ranging from $4K to $8K are not included.

FINALLY FULL FRAME DISCOUNTS – from Sony and Canon

Prices were upticking in our November 2017 edition but the theme this time around is discounting. And not just trivial discount. The Sony a7r II and a7 II dropped $500 each, the Canon 5D Mark III dropped $300, and the Canon 1D X II and Sony a7s II dropped $200 each. The prices in yellow in the chart right below indicate cameras with price drops…

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Only one camera went up in price, the a7r by $50, but that may have been because in November Amazon’s Price Bots price-matched some 3rd-party seller. So in practice, none of the cameras went up in price.

We did not have any new 35mm full frame cameras since then, in fact all of the new iLC cameras in 2018 so far have been mirrorless.

Absent by the discounting in Nikon, so it will be interesting to see whether they take the bait. Sony’s full frame entry point is now $800, and thanks to the big Canon 6D price drop, Canon’s entry-point is $1000, leaving Nikon’s entry point further away at $1500. These are of course new condition prices at authorized dealers. One can buy them for less if they are willing to look into the refurbished, grey market and used markets.

NOTES and FOOTNOTES

• no new entries and no retirements in this edition
• Prices are uniform among the three tracked retailers, with the following exceptions: the Canon 5D Mark III is only available at B&H Photo, the Sony a7r and Nikon D810A only available at Amazon, while the Sony RX1 and RX1R are not available at Adorama
• the Leica 35mm full frame cameras were removed to make the chart more readable (they cluster between 4K and 8K)
• Typos, errors, confusions, omissions are always possible. Please leave a comment or use the online contact form. If I don’t notice an error and no one mentions it, it won’t get fixed on its own

MID-FEBRUARY 2018 SERIES

+ 35mm Full Frame Price Chart
+ APS-C DSLRs Price Chart
+ Mirrorless Price Chart
+ Fixed Lens Cameras Price Chart

Where Does The Data Come From?

The prices are the consensus prices between Amazon and B&H Photo and Adorama as of February 19-20 in 2018. These are new condition with USA warranty prices, from authorized dealers. All the prices are the body only kit prices. Older cameras that are no longer available in new condition with USA warranty from the above retailers, or are available in a very limited fashion, are not included.

PREVIOUS EDITIONS

• Full Frame Cameras – November 2017
• Full Frame Cameras – July 2017
• Full Frame Cameras – November 2016
• Full Frame Cameras – mid-November 2015
• Full Frame Cameras – late December 2014

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LATEST UPDATE: April 28 in 2018: Prime Membership fees will increase to $119… the Prime Chase VISA now gets 5% rewards at Whole Foods… major new benefit, free standard shipping at Woot… If you want to quickly skim/scan this long post, focus on the bold phrases :)… Created on 2/8/17… For the most recent additions, follow the [NEW!] tags below…

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• SHIPPING BENEFITS (free 2-day, free Woot shipping, slow shipping credits, etc)
• 5% Cashback year-long
• SHOPPING BENEFITS (Early Access, Price-Matches, etc)
• ACCESS to PRIME-EXCLUSIVE SERVICES
• MULTIMEDIA (eBooks, Video, Music, Twitch, etc)
• CLOUD and PHOTO (unlimited photo storage, free S&H on photo prints)

SHIPPING BENEFITS

A brand new shipping benefit was added to the Prime membership on February 18 in 2018, you can now get FREE standard shipping at Woot for most purchases. The Shirts sub-woot gets free express shipping even. Not eligible for free shipping is the Gourmet sub-Woot (formerly Wine). Individual product pages will mention whether an item is eligible for Prime free shipping, you don’t have to memorize anything. To get the free standard shipping, you have to be a Prime member AND logon to Woot using your Amazon Prime account. [NEW!]

Prime started as a 2-day free shipping service. Over time, Amazon decorated it like a Christmas tree, adding all kinds of other features and services and benefits. In parallel, the threshold for free shipping for non-members rose from $25 to $35, and now it is at $49+ (or $25+ in printed books, a benefit-match of the Barnes and Noble website). However, in mid-February 2017, the trend was reversed, the threshold is now back down to $35 for non-Prime members, perhaps a “price match” of the Jet-fued change by Walmart. But still, the raison d^etre of Prime is the free 2-day shipping benefit. The current annual subscription is $100 per year (paid in advance; annual fee as of early February 2017). But if you are more of a seasonal shopper (eg the holiday shopping season or back to school or Valentine’s gifts fro all) they have a month to month option, $11/mo without a long term commitment.

Products that are sold and shipped by Amazon itself, or “fulfilled by Amazon” (sent by sellers to Amazon warehouses/facilities, and when someone purchases the items, they are processed/shipped by Amazon) get free 2-day shipping. Actual delivery time can vary, from faster than two days to slower, depending on many variables. They use a variety of shipping services, including their own drivers, the Post Office, FedEx, UPS, many others, along with combinations (eg Amazon hand off to a local Post Office that makes the drop).

If a Prime 2-day delivery does not arrive on the scheduled/estimated time given when you placed an order, you have a make-up benefit: you can contact customer service, inform them of the delay, and you will receive an extra month of Prime to make up for the delay. I believe the restriction is one free extra month per customer per calendar month.

Depending on warehouse proximity and product availability (and order time), if you place a $35+ order of eligible items, you may qualify for free 1-Day delivery, instead of 2-day delivery. The product page and shopping cart let you know if that is the case. Otherwise 1-day delivery is a for-pay upgrade to your order.

But if you don’t need/want to receive your purchase immediately, Amazon instituted an optional “No Rush Credit” benefit that it too expanded over time. The street name for this benefit is “slow shipping credit” For some eligible orders (not sure how it is determined), if you select the slowest shipping option, instead of 2-day or standard shipping, you may be offered credits [it’s not guaranteed every time; the shopping cart will tell you before you place your order] you can use in future Amazon purchases. Some examples:

• $1 digital media credit (ebooks, mp3, instant video, etc)
• $5 Prime Pantry store credit (counters the Pantry Box $6 flat shipping fee)
• $20 credit towards Amazon in-house Services (installation, furniture assembly, etc)
• you can now see your balance at amazon.com/norushcredits while logged on to your Amazon account (see screenshot below)

A lesser known Prime feature is the option to receive Prime-like 2-day free shipping from 3rd-party sellers that ship the product directly to you (not fulfilled by Amazon). To figure this out, you must be logged on to your Amazon Prime account, and you have to look at two spots in the product detail page. UPDATE: I found screenshot, follow the annotated areas…

For media purchases (eg printed books, DVDs, etc), they offer release-date delivery if you place a pre-order. In other words, they will either ship ahead of time, or ship with same-day delivery of sorts, so you end up getting your new music CD on Friday (Friday is the new Tuesday).

SHIPPING BENEFIT RESTRICTIONS

Oversize items or items that require special handling or delivery (eg huge HDTVs, heavy furniture, etc) are delivered separately, by appointment. They do not go through the Prime 2-day shipping process.

The Add-ON program is the true Nemesis of Prime members. It was introduced as a counterbalance to the free 2-day shipping. They probably discovered that shipping $3 items with 2-day shipping was way too expensive (when you factor in packaging material, assembling the order, credit card fees, etc). To be allowed by the shopping cart to purchase an Add-ON item, you must place an order of $25+ in eligible products (sold or fulfilled by Amazon). You can get to $25+ with a mix of Add-ON items, or regular items, or any combination. Many (but not all) sub-$5 items that are either sold-by-Amazon or fulfilled-by-Amazon are marked as “Add-ON items”. A few items under $10 are also designated as “Add-ON”. Prices change all the time at Amazon, so it’s possible the “Add-ON” designation algorithm runs separately from whatever changes prices – this may explain some discrepancies in Add-ON status. You can recognize an Add-ON item on product pages with graphics like this (appearance varies depending on screen/viewport size, etc):

Back in the early days of Prime, Amazon used to give Prime members $1 credits if an item (that was otherwise not eligible for free shipping) got free shipping for non-Prime members. This benefit went away a few years ago, but it got reborn as the “No Rush Credit”.

FINANCIAL BENEFITS

You can get 5% cashback at Amazon through the rotating quarterly promotions (up to $1500 per quarter per credit card) from Discover and Chase and other companies, or if you have a grandfathered Citi Forward that hasn’t been phased out yet. But now you can get 5% throughout the year without having to do the quarterly song and dance.

If you have the Amazon Chase VISA credit card, and if you are a Prime member, your default 3% cashback on Amazon purchases has been switched to 5%, including Prime membership fees. If that hasn’t happened, contact customer support and ask them to look into it. The Chase VISA lets you transfer the cashback to your bank account or post it to your statement balance or convert them to gift cards. So you have flexibility!

If you have the Amazon Store credit card (can only be used at Amazon, it’s a true “Store credit card”), as a Prime member, you can upgrade it to a Prime Store credit card, and this too gets 5% cashback once it becomes a Prime Store card. Optionally you can jump on favorable financing offers in lieu of the 5% cashback. Depending on the situation, it’s your choice to pick whatever benefits you the most. The cashback is posted as a statement credit to your Store Card account.

As Amazon is organically digesting Whole Foods, they are integrating more and more. Starting February 20 in 2018, per the press release, Prime members with the Amazon Prime Chase VISA credit card will also earn 5% rewards at Whole Foods. Non-Prime members will earn 3%, the same rate they earn for amazon.com purchases. [NEW!]

SHOPPING BENEFITS

This section covers shopping, rather than shipping benefits. This list is growing too. Once upon a time, the only shopping benefit was the Prime Early Access. Now there’s much and more. But Prime Early Access is the bigger benefit. A significant number of Lightning Deals become available exclusively to Prime-members during the first 30 minutes they go live. Most items don’t sell out during their 4-6 hour lightning deal window, but the few really good deals, can already be gone within the first 30 minutes. You can recognize this in the Lightning Deals with these markers:

Once a calendar year, so far at least, sometime in July, Amazon has a Prime DAY event, where more than the usual amount of lightning deals are offered, but the majority of them are restricted to Prime members only. They’ve done it in 2015 and 2016 so far.

Amazon does some price-matching of high profile offers launched at other retailers. Some of the price-matched offers are only available for Prime members. I do not know whether this is a question of quantity (eg if they don’t restrict it, they’ll run out of items faster), or simply another reason to convince people to join Prime. Likewise, a few media releases (eg DVD sets) have had the Prime only designation, even though they were not on sale or a price-match, but rather a new release. Likewise, it could be a question of availability, or Prime bait

If you have a device that supports Alexa (eg an Amazon Echo), they have dedicated special offers that you can only get if you order through Alexa Voice shopping (not through the website or app). If talking to walls gets boring, we can now shout at Alexa and Siri and Cortana

Sometimes, during the holiday shopping season, or other special events, they may have app-exclusive specials, that you can only buy through the app. There is a loophole to buy them using a web browser, but you still have to use the app to add it to a wishlist, and then purchase it through that with the web browser (perhaps of interest if you are using an open Wifi/cellular signal). But one way or the other, you still have to use the Amazon app to get these offers.

OPTION to USE other AMAZON SERVICES

Once upon time, shopping on Amazon was simple. Go to amazon.com and buy. Now there are many different options and that’s before you consider the companies they bought (eg Zappos, Woot, Abebooks, etc), or the ones they created as stand-alone (Wag, Casa, etc).

Prime is a gateway to using the following services – they are only available to Prime members.

PrimeNOW is perhaps the most distinct of them, as it offers local delivery within 1-2 hours. This is restricted to regions that offer this service, and it is limited to products that are currently in-stock at the nearby warehouse. Just like the regular Amazon website features products from 3rd-party sellers, so does PrimeNOW, except the 3rd-party sellers are local businesses and local restaurants. Orders have minimum purchase amounts for delivery, and a recommended tip is added to the order (you can remove it, but they see this as a service, similar to ordering pizza or takeout). Some camera and tech options are available, mostly popular and mass-market items. You won’t find tilt-shift lenses on PrimeNOW

PrimePantry on the other hand, is the most bizarre of these “nu” options. In a rather unusual attempt to compete with Costco, they offer various household items, sometimes at better prices than the regular Amazon website, sometimes not. Sometimes they have unique bundles or quantities of products. These items have to fit into a physical and virtual box, with a $6 flat delivery fee. They often run some promotions that waive the shipping fee, and you can also use the “No Rush” shipping credit mentioned above to counter it. Bottom line, you may get a better deal with this service than the regular website if you purchase a lot of items. You may also want to split orders between edibles and non-edibles. You don’t want the bathtub declogger dancing around in the same box as your organic chocolate chip cookies

AmazonFresh (local delivery of fresh and frozen and refrigerated foods) started as a superset of Prime. You paid $300 a year, and you got both a standard Prime membership and also a Fresh membership. The initial annual fee probably discouraged a lot of people, so now AmazonFresh is a $15 per month month-to-month no commitment service. This is more flexible – you can use it seasonally or as circumstances change. AmazonFresh is not just food though, you can get some electronics through it, such as Sandisk memory cards and Canon printers. It’s perhaps linked to the PrimeNOW facilities, which may explain the SDHC card potato chips with your steak Free delivery with orders of $40+. The $15/month fee is a foot through the door type of a fee, it doesn’t get you free delivery. This is actual delivery, people come to your door with appropriately sealed and packed containers with the food (including ice cream).

Yet another twist are the Sample Boxes. You pay for a box of sample consumable products (various types are available, you can get one of each kind). After you receive the order, the purchase amount is added to your Amazon account as a store credit that can be used towards future purchases of some of the items found in the sample box. You can see these options ahead of time, so you’ll know ahead of time where this is a good dea for you or not. But they didn’t stop there, they are even experimenting with individual samples at a smaller scale, you buy $2 samples, which get you a $2 credit towards future purchases of the same product. PRO TIP: if some products belong in overlapping sample-box credit categories, the shopping cart will stack all eligible coupons. I believe there was one protein bar box that qualified for three separate credits, making it essentially free.

Another odd-ball service for Prime members are the Dash Buttons. You pay $5, you receive the physical button at home, and a $5 credit towards your first order made with these Wifi-enabled goofy buttons is added to your Amazon account. But that’s not all – they also added virtual dash buttons too, which you can use online, which is rather ironic. However, some people find them useful enough ~ otherwise they would have had the same fate as the Kindle Fire Phone

A Prime membership also qualifies you for 20% off on diaper subscriptions through the Amazon Family portal. Just under 50 options are available. Separate but without a discount is the Prime-exclusive line of “Elements” products, currently consisting of baby wipes and nothing else. Babies will grow up knowing they are Prime Element babies

Last but not least, for households with multiple members, they offer benefit sharing. The actual benefits vary by service. Typically they cover a second adult, and up to four children. This happens under the Amazon Households umbrella. A primer (no pun intended) on what can be shared and with whom and under what circumstances can be found at the Households Help page.

MULTIMEDIA EXPLOSION

This is another benefit category that exploded through time and keeps on growing.

The Prime Video service gets you access to a variety of movies and TV shows, including original Amazon content. Just like Netflix, you can watch as much as you want while you are a paying member, but once the membership ends, you own nothing. This may come as a surprise to you, but a handful of photograhy documentaries and videos are included with Prime! They were not there the last time I checked (a couple of years ago).

They recently launched a new layer to their video offering, additional premium channel monthly subscriptions (like adding extra stuff on your standard cable subscription) including HBO, Showtime, Starz, and more. These are month to month per channel, you are in control. This is another “Prime bait” feature because you can’t sign up for these without a Prime subscription. Of camera and photo interest, the Great Courses channel is available, along with a few documentary channels (nature videos/photography).

Just like the video services, Amazon is continuing their Prime Music service. You have access to subset of music compared to a full-featured service, but it’s included for free. You can also use this in conjunction with music you purchased and music you uploaded at Amazon. But their integration is not as good as Google Play’s Music (which includes a lot more storage for your own music).

But if you are interested in their full-feature music streaming service, as a Prime member, you get a monthly or prepaid discount for Music Unlimited. As of February 2017, you pay $8 month, instead of $10. You also get Prime-exclusive discounts on this and the Family plan if you prepay for a year (12 months of service).

Yet another recently released feature is Audible Channels, you get a few dozen audiobooks to listen to (you do not own them), along with a handful of audio productions and newsclips, all for free using the Audible app. This benefit is an “Audible bait”, because if millions of people go to Audible to checkout the freebies, they are more likely to buy more Audible content Plus, audio plays and serialized podcasts are making a comeback.

Prime Reading is perhaps one of the most practical/useful features, you can “borrow” ebooks from a rotating library of around 1000 options. You can read as many as you want, but you can only “check out” up to ten items at a time. Think of it like the library, you can borrow as much as you want, but only ten at a time. There are no restrictions on how often you can exchange them for new content. Another feature, that occasionally includes photography and related magazine single issues, is the Monthly Magazine Newsstand. You can borrow single-issue magazines from a rotating choice every month. These too count towards your “ten out” limit.

Next up is one of the oldest Prime benefits, the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library. You need an Amazon hardware device (e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire Phone) to access this feature. You can borrow one e-book per month from a preset selection. You can keep it as long as you want, or switch it every calendar month. Note however that this benefit is essentially rendered useless if you sign-up for the Kindle Unlimited (KU) service, because most of the ebooks are in both services, and Amazon shows the KU option over the Lending Library. Here’s their Help page.

But wait, there’s a third e-book benefit, Kindle First. Every calendar month, you pick one pre-release e-book for FREE, from a choice of six options. You can read it immediately while everybody else can buy it the next month. Most of these ebooks end up in Kindle Unlimited. You won’t find blockbusters or best sellers here (obviously).

Another reading-related benefit, you can get six months of free digital access to the Washington Post. You login with your Amazon account to activate this six month freebie.

Amazon’s purchase of Twitch led to the inevitable integration of benefits in Twitch Prime which gets you ad-free viewing, one free channel subscription per month, and free in-game content. You also get discounts on select video game purchases, which goes hand-in-hand with Twitch. But Twitch is not just gaming. Under the “Creative” tab you will find streams by photographers and other creatives. If you find channels of interest, this is where the free subscription per month can come in handy (and support those channels too).

CLOUD and PHOTO

Amazon is doing a lot better profit-wise with their enterprise cloud services, so it’s not a surprise they expanded into the “consumer cloud”. As a Prime member, you get unlimited free storage for photographs, and 5GB of storage to use on everything else (video, documents, etc). Per the terms of use, the Prime Photos are for personal and non-commercial use. They explicitly state in the FAQ page:

“You may not use it in connection with a professional photography business or other commercial service.”

Amazon also launched its own Photo Prints Service (custom photo books, conventional photo prints, cards, calendars, etc). Everyone can use the photo prints service, but Prime members get free shipping on every order regardless of amount. Or if a Prime member’s order total is $15+, you get free expedited shipping.

FOOTNOTES

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WHAT IS THIS? this is an on-going permanent reference page of the new serious/interesting cameras and lenses of 2017. This year we also brought back the “Scoreboard” tally. Please note this is a reference page, not a “breaking news” tracker, so it won’t necessarily be updated the millisecond a new camera comes out. We are out of the “news cycle” after all

For previous/future years, check the New Cameras of 2018 and the New Cameras of 2016 and New Cameras of 2015…

DSLRs

+ AUG-24: Nikon D850 (35mm FF, $3300)
+ JUN-29: Canon 6D Mark II (35mm FF, $2000)
+ JUN-29: Canon SL2 (APS-C, $550)
+ APR-12: Nikon D7500 (21pm APS-C, $1250)
+ FEB-15: Canon 77D (24mp APS-C, $900)
+ FEB-15: Canon D-Rebel T7i (24mp APS-C, $749)
+ JAN-25: Pentax KP (24mp APS-C, $1100)
+ JAN-04: Nikon D5600 (24mp APS-C, body only $700)

MIRRORLESS

+ NOV-21: Leica CL (L-mount, APS-C, $2800)
+ NOV-08: Panasonic G9 (m43, $1700)
+ OCT-25: Sony a7r III (FF, $3200)
+ SEPT-07: Fuji X-E3 (24mp APS-C, $900)
+ AUG-31: Olympus E-M10 III (M43, $650)
+ AUG-29: Canon M100 (24mp, APS-C, w/15-45, $600)
+ JUL-10: Leica TL2 (24mp, APS-C, L, $1950)
+ APR-19: Sony a9 (24mp FF FE, $4500)
+ FEB-15: Canon M6 (24mp APS-C, $779)
+ JAN-19: Fuji GFX 50S (51mp MF (1.7x 35mmFF), $6500)
+ JAN-19: Fuji X-T20 (24mp APS-C, $900 body)
+ JAN-04: Panasonic GH5 (20mp, March 2017, $2000)
+ JAN-04: Panasonic GX850 (16mp, w/12-32, $550)

RANGEFINDERS

+ JAN-18: Leica M10 (24mp FF, Maestro II, $6600)

RAWSUMERS

+ OCT-16: Canon G1 X III (APS-C, 24-72eq, $1300)
+ SEPT-12: Sony RX10 IV (1″, 24-600mm eq, $1700)
+ AUG-31: Sony RX0 (1″, 24/4 eq, elementproof, $700)
+ APR-21: Panasonic ZS70 (1/2.3″, 30x optical, $450)
+ JAN-19: Fuji X100F (24mp APS-C, $1300)
+ JAN-04: Canon G9X II (20mp 1″, 28-84eq, $530)
+ JAN-04: Panasonic FZ80 (1/2.3″, 60x optical, RAW, $400)

NEW LENSES in 2017

+ NOV-29: Voigtlander Nokton 40mm f/1.2 (M, $899)
+ NOV-29: Leica Noctilux-M 75mm f/1.25 ASPH (M, $12795)
+ NOV-21: Leica 18mm f2.8 (L, APS-C, $1300)
+ NOV-08: Panasonic 200mm f2.8 OIS (m43, $2000)
+ OCT-26: Tamron 100-400mm f4.5-6.3 Di VC USD (C/N, $799)
+ OCT-25: Sony FE 24-105mm f4 G OSS (FE, $1300)
+ OCT-25: Sony 400mm f2.8 GM OSS (FE, no price)
+ OCT-25: Olympus 17mm f1.2 PRO (m43, $1200)
+ OCT-25: Olympus 45mm f1.2 PRO (m43, $1200)
+ OCT-17: Rokinon AF 35mm f/1.4 FE (FE, $799)
+ OCT-17: Leica Thambar-M 90mm f2.2 (M, $6500)
+ SEPT-15: Tamron 100-400mm f4.5-6.3 Di VC USD (C, N; $???)
+ SEPT-08: Fuji 80mm f2.8 R LM OIS WR MACRO (Fuji X, $1200)
+ SEPT-08: Voigtlander Ultron 40mm f/2 SL IIS ($515, Nikon)
+ AUG-29: Canon TS-E 50mm f/2.8L Macro Tilt-Shift Lens (EF, $2199)
+ AUG-29: Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8L Macro Tilt-Shift (EF, $2199)
+ AUG-29: Canon TS-E 135mm f/4L Macro Tilt-Shift (EF, $2199)
+ AUG-29: Canon EF 85mm f/1.4L IS USM Lens (EF, $1599)
+ JUL-11: Nikon 70-300 f4.5-5.6E ED VR AF-P ($750)
+ JUN-30: Tamron SP 24-70mm f2.8 Di VC USD G2 ($1999, C/N)
+ JUN-23: Tamron 18-400mm f3.5-6.3 Di-II VC HL ($650, C/N)
+ JUN-22: Sigma 14mm f1.8 DG ART ($1600, C/N/Si)
+ JUN-22: Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 DG OS HSM Art ($1300, C/N/Si)
+ JUN-21: Zeiss Milvus 35mm f1.4 ($2000, C/N)
+ JUN-01: Nikon AF-S 28mm f1.4E ED Lens ($2000)
+ JUN-01: Nikon AF-S Fisheye 8-15mm f3.5-4.5E ED ($1250)
+ JUN-01: Nikon AF-P DX 10-20mm f4.5-5.6G VR ($307)
+ MAY-11: Sigma 24-70mm f2.8 DG OS HSM Art ($???, Canon, Nikon and Sigma)
+ APR-19: Sony FE 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 GM OSS ($2500, FE E-mount)
+ APR-06: Canon 35mm f2.8 IS STM EF-S Macro ($350)
+ FEB-22: Fuji MK 18-55mm T2.9 Cine (E-mount, $3800)
+ FEB-22: Fuji MK 50-135mm T2.9 Cine (E-mount; $3800)
+ FEB-15: Canon 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 IS STM ($249; the new D-Rebel T7i kit lens)
+ FEB-07: Sony FE 85mm f1.8 ($600, E)
+ FEB-07: Sony FE 100mm f2.8 STF GM OSS ($1500, E)
+ FEB-06: Tamron 70-200mm f2.8 Di VC USD G2 (C/N, $1300)
+ FEB-06: Tamron 10-24/3.5-4.5 Di II VC HLD (C/N, $500)
+ JAN-19: Fuji XF 50mm f2 WR (X System, $450)
+ JAN-19: Fuji GF 63mm F2.8 R WR (Medium Format GFX, $1500)
+ JAN-19: Fuji GF 120mm f4 R LM OIS WR Macro (Medium Format GFX, $2700)
+ JAN-19: Fuji GF 32-64mm F4 R LM WR (Medium Format GFX, $2300)
+ JAN-04: Panasonic 12-35mm f2.8 II OIS (M43, $1000)
+ JAN-04: Panasonic 35-100mm f2.8 II OIS (M43, $1100 – lower price than first gen)
+ JAN-04: Panasonic 12-60mm f2.8-4 OIS (M43, $1000)
+ JAN-04: Panasonic 45-200mm f4-5.6 II OIS (M43, $500)
+ JAN-04: Panasonic 100-300mm f4-5.6 II OIS (M43, $650)

FOOTNOTES

+ Of the Fixed Lens Cameras, only those with RAW and/or unique or unusual features are tracked
+ For errors, corrections, additions, deletions, please leave a comment or use the online contact form

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LATEST UPDATE: Friday 11/24/17 at 10am ET – Black Friday is here!!!… condensed the intro text blob into one paragraph (hooray!)…

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This is a rolling summary of the latest camera and photo deals, a complement to our Camera Deals blog which posts deals one by one as they happen, and has a free full-text RSS feed. We also have a summary of the Black Friday Official and Leaked Ads (almost all price-matched by the internets).

BLACK FRIDAY DEALS

+ KEH Camera Black Friday promotion running until Sunday night. Coupon code BF17A gets you a discount depending on what product you buy:
+ 25% off the Featured Items at the Promotional page
+ 10% off all other Cameras and Lenses
+ 25% off Accessories

+ 37 different day-long Gold Box Black Friday Deals du Jour‘>Amazon Gold Box Deals of the Day
+ follow individual breakdowns of this at the Gold Box hashtag

+ Woot-OFF at Sellout/Holiday and $5 flat shipping for everything you buy until Cyber Monday night at Woot (that’s four days of purchases and you only pay $5 flat shipping one time)

NEW INSTANT SAVINGS starting SUNDAY 11/19/17

+ Canon Instant Savings featuring DSLRs, mirrorless, Powershots, Lenses and more

+ Nikon Instant Savings featuring DSLRs, Lenses and a few Coolpixies

+ Sony Instant Savings featuring full frame and APS-C iLCs and Cybershots and lenses and flashes and more

+ Sigma Instant Savings featuring many and more lenses

DSLRS

+ Nikon D750 body with MB-D16 Battery Grip and AmazonBasics Hiker Camera and Laptop Backpack ($80 value) and 128GB Samsung U3 EVO microSD (with SD adapter) for $1500 at Amazon by Amazon itself
+ Nikon D750 with 24-120 kit with same freebies for $2000

+ Get Pixma PRO 100 printer with 50pk SG-201 paper for $20 less than camera only price for select Canon DSLRs

+ Pentax K-3 II Body with BG-5 Battery Grip for $853 at B&H Photo

+ YMMV $100 off with Amazon Rewards VISA when buying the Nikon D850 (“temporarily out of stock”)
+ more details

MIRRORLESS

+ Sony a6500 body only down to $1200 at Amazon and Adorama (free extras) and at B&H Photo (free extras)

+ Fuji X-A3 with 16-50mm for $350 at Amazon by Amazon itself (limit 3) and B&H Photo (with free 32GB Extreme SD and Bag) and at Adorama

+ Panasonic G7 with 14-42mm for $498 at Adorama and B&H Photo and Amazon

+ Panasonic G85 with 12-60 and 45-200 for $998 at Amazon by Amazon itself and B&H Photo and Adorama

+ Panasonic GH4 body for $900 with choice of freebie at B&H Photo: with Rode VideoMic or with Polsen Mic or with V-Log L Activation Code Kit
+ various freebies at Adorama but no freebies at Amazon

+ Leica TL body only (black) for $1199 or $1295 in silver at B&H Photo

LENSES (DSLR and MIRRORLESS)

+ refurbished Olympus 60mm f2.8 macro for $320 [m43] at Olympus Outlet store with 90-day warranty

+ Tamron SP 45mm f1.8 Di VC USD with Hoya 67mm UV NXT HMC Filter and $16 rewards for $399 at B&H Photo in Canon or Nikon only
+ same price and rewards but without the free Hoya filter at Adorama which has the Sony A in-stock as well
+ same price at Amazon with $20~ statement credit if you pay with a Prime VISA

+ Rokinon 12mm F/2.0 Ultra Wide for $284 at Adorama (with 2% rewards) and at Amazon in Fuji X, Sony E, and M43rds

+ YI 42.5mm F1.8 Lens with Macro Mode for $100 [m43] by YI with the order fulfilled by Amazon

+ refills at the Olympus Outlet store, manufacturer refurbished lenses with a 90-day Olympus USA warranty:
++ black M.Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm f4.0-5.6 R for $60
++ M.Zuiko ED 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 EZ for $150 in black or silver
++ M.Zuiko 25mm f1.8 Black for $200, while the silver goes for $230
++ the above are manufacturer refurbished

+ Olympus f1.8 M43rds Portrait (75mm and 45mm) for $900 at Adorama and B&H Photo (with $36~ promotional rewards) and by various at Amazon ($45 statement credit if paid with Prime VISA).

+ Olympus Travel Lens Kit (14-150mm f4-5.6 II and 17mm f1.8) for $699 at Adorama (with $28 rewards) and at B&H Photo (with $28 rewards) and at Amazon itself (5% rewards with PRIME VISA) and Get Olympus

+ Fuji X System: 58 options

+ Tokina (mostly Canon and Nikon): 17 options

+ Canon EF/EF-S lenses: 38 lenses and three flashes

+ Nikon F lenses: 9 options

+ Zeiss Batis and Loxia: 8 options

+ Panasonic M43 Lenses: 31 options

+ Pentax K-Lenses: 42 options including 24-70/2.8 SDM for $1100, 70-200/2.8 AW for $1600, 100/2.8 WR Macro for $500, etc

+ Sigma Lenses (various systems): 96 options including 17-50/2.8 DC OS HSM for $369, 105/2.8 HSM Macro for $569 and many more

+ Olympus M43 lenses: 15 options including 30/3.5 Macro for $199

+ Samyang Lenses (various systems): 49 options with a mix of photography-priority and video-priority lenses

+ Rokinon Lenses (various systems): 92 options with a mix of photography-priority and video-priority lenses including Sony E-system autofocus lenses

FIXED LENS CAMERAS

+ Fujifilm instax mini 8 Instant Film Camera for $49 at B&H Photo (three colors)

+ Canon G5X with PIXMA PRO 100 and 50pk SG-201 paper for $650 after $350 MIR at B&H Photo

+ Panasonic FZ2500 superzoom with $100 gift card for $998 at Adorama

+ Panasonic LX100 rawsumer for $650 at Adorama and B&H Photo and Amazon itself

ACTION CAMERAS

+ YI 4K+ Sports Action Camera with four extras for $255
+ same as above plus the YI Gimbal 3-Axis Handheld Stabilizer for $336 total

PRINTERS and PAPER

+ Canon PIXMA PRO 100 Printer with 50pk SG-201 paper for $60 [was $80] after MIR (prepaid AMEX GC) at B&H Photo

+ 40% off Canvas, Aluminum and Large Prints at Amazon Prints with coupon code HolidayDecor40
+ expires 11/18/17 – see more details

CAMERA BAGS

+ Lowepro Scout SH 100 Shoulder Bag for Mirrorless Camera with Lens and Smartphone, Slate Blue for $8 w/free S&H at Adorama

+ Lowepro Scout SH 120 Shoulder Bag for Mirrorless Camera with Lens, Extra Lens and Smartphone, Slate Blue for $10 w/free S&H at Adorama

+ Lowepro Adventura 140 Shoulder Case for $10 at Adorama

+ Case Logic Reflexion Removable Pod Shoulder Bag for $20 at Adorama

+ Think Tank Trifecta 8 Backpack for Mirrorless Body with 3 Lenses and iPad Mini for $55 at Adorama

+ Manfrotto MBSB390-5BB Stile Veloce V Backpack for DSLR and 70-200mm, 2-3 Lenses, Tripods for $60 at Adorama

+ with free shipping

STORE-WIDE OFFERS

+ 8% eBay Bucks Rewards (must activate first; ends 11/16/17 PM)

+ 20% off select sellers on eBay with coupon (ends Mon 11/20/17 AM)

+ used gear purchases made at KEH Camera until 12/31/17 get a 365-day warranty instead of their usual 180-days
+ no coupon is needed, this happens automatically based on the purchase date
+ eligible used conditions start at “BGN” (Bargain) and go all the way up to “LN” (Like New)
+ “AS IS” condition is NOT eligible as usual

EVERYTHING ELSE – ANYTHING GOES!

+ various FOSSIL Hybrid and Smartwatch sales at Amazon

+ Spend $75+ on select Toys at Amazon, get a $10 Amazon Toys credit

+ 40% off SmugMug Subscriptions (expires 11/27/17)

+ 50% off Photography BootCamp online classes at CreativeLIVE

+ TiVo Roamio OTA 1 TB DVR – With No Monthly Service Fees for $332 (lifetime service included; only works with OTA Antennas; not cable/satellite)

+ 2TB Zoolz Cloud Storage for $40 (lifetime subscription; no annual fee) for $40 at Stacksocial (new customers only; storage not stackable)

+ ROME – The Complete Series for $30 (HBO, BluRay)

FOOTNOTES

+ new items that don’t fit in any of the preset categories are added to the very bottom of this page
+ Unlike previous years, I am removing expired or sold-out offers. It speeds up editing/updates and makes it more readable…

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LATEST UPDATE: November 21 in 2017: eBay is here too. Note that their ad does not reveal the sellers, so if the price is lower than usual, it likely means it’s an imported/grey-market camera… most of the Fry’s ads are here (most of them require Promo Codes you get by signing up for their emailing list); they have an old fashioned B&M Friday-only doorbuster, Canon DSLR two lens kit for $299… For the latest LIVE/active deals, check our customary Black Friday 2017 Situation Room…

LIST OF STORES DIGESTED SO FAR

• Sixth wave: Fry’s, eBAY
• Fifth wave: DJI, Groupon, GameStop
• Fourth wave: Amazon, Microsoft Store, Overstock, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Toys R US, Tigerdirect
• Third wave: Best Buy, BJ’s, Macy’s, Sam’s Club, HP, Big Lots, NewEgg, Jet, Dollar General
• Second wave: Walmart, Staples, Office Depot/MAX, Sears, K-Mart, CVS, Walgreens, Meijer
• First wave: Target, Costco, Kohls, Rite Aid

DSLRs

• Canon SL2 Three Lens Kit for $780 at Costco
• Unspecified Canon D-Rebel Two Lens Kit (18-55, 75-300) IN-STORE doorbuster for $300 at FRYS with promo code on BF only [most likely it’s the one below :)]
• Canon D-Rebel T6 Two Lens Kit (18-55, 75-300) for $450 at Kohls (with $135 in Kohls Cash) and Costco and Target and Office Depot/MAX (online only) and BJ’s and Best Buy
• Canon 6D Mark II body for $1500 on eBAY (unspecified seller)
• Canon 5D Mark IV body for $2600 on eBAY (unspecified seller)
• Unspecified Canon DSLR with 18-55 for $499 with promo code at FRYS B&M (BF only)
• Canon D-Rebel T6i Two Lens Kit (18-55, 55-250) for $750 at BJ’s and Best Buy
• Canon 80D with 18-135 for $1300 at Best Buy
• Nikon D3400 with 18-55 for $400 at Best Buy
• Nikon D3400 two lens kit (18-55, 70-300 DX) for $500 at Costco and Target and BJ’s and Sam’s Club and Best Buy
• Nikon D7200 with 18-55 and 75-300 for $1000 at Best Buy
• Panasonic GH5 body for $1500 on eBAY (unspecified seller)
• Sony a6000 with 16-50 and 55-210 for $700 at Best Buy
• Sony a6300 with 16-50 for $780 on eBAY (unspecified seller)
• Sony a6300 with 16-50 and 55-210 for $1000 at Best Buy
• Sony a7S II body for $2080 on eBAY

FIXED LENS CAMERAS

+ Canon Elph 180 for $100 at Best Buy
+ Canon SX530 superzoom for $230 at Best Buy
+ Canon SX720 superzoom for $280 at Best Buy
+ Canon G7 X RAWsumer for $650 at Best Buy
+ Sony HX80 superzoom for $230 at Best Buy

FILM CAMERAS

• Fuji Instax Mini 7s with 20 sheets, case and album for $55 at Walmart
• Fuji Instax Mini 9 Instant Camera with free film for $50 at Best Buy
• Fuji Instax Mini 9 Instant Camera with 10 exposures for $60 at Target and Staples
• Fuji Instax Mini 9 Instant Camera with 20 exposures for $70 at Kohls (with $15 Kohls Cash)
• Fuji Instax Mini 8 Instant Camera with free film for $70 at Best Buy
• $10 off Fuji Instax Mini 70 at Costco online (does not say final price)
• up to 25% off select Fuji Instax accessories at Best Buy
• Polaroid Pic-300 Instant Camera with 10 exposures for $70 at BJ’s

DRONES and ACTION CAMS

• GOPRO HERO6 BLACK with $50 eBAY gift card for $450 on eBAY (unspecified seller)
• GOPRO HERO6 BLACK with $60 Gift Card after promo code at FRYS
• GOPRO HERO5 BLACK mega bundle at Overstock (price too low to show says the ad)
• GOPRO HERO5 BLACK for $350 with $50 house gift card at Target and Best Buy and FRY’s (B&M only)
• GOPRO HERO4 SILVER bundle for $199 at Sam’s Club
• GOPRO HERO Session Bundle (strap, card) for $250 at Target and Best Buy and Fry’s ($30 GC, BF only)
• Vivitar 4K Action Camera for $70 at Best Buy
• FREE Gifts when you purchase directly from the DJI Store – see press release
• DJI Mavic PRO for $900 at NewEgg and Best Buy and DJI and Costco and eBAY (unspecified seller, with extras)
• DJI Mavic PRO Fly More combo for $1150 at Best Buy and DJU
• DJI Spark Mini for $400 at Target and Kohls (with $120 Kohls Cash) and BJ’s and Best Buy and DJI and FRYS
• DJI Spark Mini Fly More combo for $600 at NewEgg and DJI ad FRYS
• DJI Phantom 4 Advanced or PRO with Extra Free Battery for same price at DJI
• DJI OSMO Mobile Gimbal for phones for $200 at NewEgg and Best Buy and DJI
• Zhiyun Smooth Q 3-Axis handheld gimbal stabilizer for $100 at Best Buy
• 60% off Protocol Dot drones at Macy’s
• Parrot Bebop 2 quadcopter with Skycontroller 2 and Cockpit FPV glasses for $400 at Best Buy
• Yuneec Breeze 4K Drone for $199 at Walmart

PRINTERS and PAPER

+ Canon PIXMA MG3620 Inkjet for $10 after $30 Rewards at Office Depot/MAX
+ HP 2622 wireless printer for $19 at Walmart
+ HP 2624 wireless printer for $20 at Best Buy
+ HP DeskJet 3634 AiO Printer for $30 at Kohls and BJ’s
+ HP DeskJet 3637 AiO Printer for $30 at Best Buy
+ Canon Pixma MG2922 AiO for $30 at Sam’s Club
+ Canon Pixma MX490 AiO printer for $34 at Walmart
+ Canon Pixma MX492 for $40 at Best Buy and 50 at Office Depot
+ HP 5542 photo printer for $49 at Walmart
+ Canon TS6020 wireless AiO for $50 at BJ’s
+ Brother Color Inkjet MFC-J480dw for $50 at Office Depot/MAX
+ Epson Expression XP-440 AiO for $50, XP-640 for $60 at Staples
+ Epson Expression XP-640 AiO for $60 at Best Buy
+ Epson Workforce WF-2760 AiO for $60 at Staples
+ Canon Pixma MX922 AiO for $70 at Staples and Office Depot/MAX
+ Canon TS9020 AiO for $70 at Best Buy
+ HP Envy AiO Instant Ink for $77 at Best Buy
+ Epson Expression XP-830 for $80 at Staples and Office Depot/MAX
+ Epson Expression EcoTank ET-2750 for $230 at Staples (optional $30 trade-in offer)
+ Epson Expression EcoTank ET-7700 AiO for $450 at Staples (optional $50 trade-in offer)
+ Buy 1 Get 1 FREE on all Photo Papers at Staples
+ and more printer offers at Staples and Office Depot/MAX and Best Buy

STORAGE

+ 8TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 HDD for $130 at Best Buy
+ 4TB Seagate Backup Plus External HDD for $78 after promo code at FRY’s
+ 4TB WB Easystore External USB 3.0 HDD for $80 at Best Buy
+ 240GB SanDisk SSD PLUS Internal Solid State Drive for $80 at Office Depot/MAX
+ 512GB Sandisk Ultra Internal SATA SSD for laptops for $130 at Best Buy
+ 128GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for $33 at BJ’s
+ various Sandisk memory cards and flash drives at Best Buy
+ Save up to 35% on select SanDisk memory products at Amazon
+ Save up to 25% on select Seagate hard drives at Amazon
+ QNAP 2-Bay Personal Cloud NAS for $159 after promo code at FRY’s
+ 64GB Samsung EVO microSD tangerine cream color for $14 after promo code at FRY’s

TECHNOLOGY

+ various Surface, Dell, HP, Xbox and more offers at the Microsoft Store
+ 16pk Duracell AA/AAA single-use batteries $0.01 after Rewards at Office Depot/MAX
+ Chromecast with $5 Vudu credit for $20 at Walmart (maximum six per customer)
+ Chromecast for $20 at Best Buy
+ Chromecast Ultra for $54 at Best Buy
+ 21.5-inch AOC IPS LED FHD for $60 at Best Buy
+ 27-inch Dell 1080p VGA/HDMI monitor for $100 at Staples
+ 27-inch HP FHD IPS Curved Monitor for $180 at Office Depot/MAX
+ 29-inch LG IPS LED FHD 21:9 monitor for $180 at Best Buy
+ 32-inch HP Pavillion LED QHD monitor for $230 at Best Buy
+ 28-inch Dell 4K Ultra monitor for $250 at Staples
+ Craftsman digital multimedia for $10 at Sears
+ Craftsman worklight 1000W with tripod for $20 at Sears
+ Fujitsu charger plus 8AA and 4AAA rechargeables for $15 after $10 MIR at NewEgg

EVERYTHING ELSE

+ Vanguard Espod CX 203AGH tripod for $25 after promo code at FRYS
+ Case Logic Kontrast PRO DSLR backpack for $55 after promo code at FRYS (BF only)
+ Pelican 1170 protector case for $23 after promo code at FRYS
+ 50% off Holiday Cards at Amazon Prints
+ 100% back in Shop Your Way points on select magazine subscriptions at Sears
+ Adobe Photoshop Elements 18 or Premiere for $60 each at NewEgg
+ up to 50% off select Lowepro camera bags at Best Buy
+ Sunpak 55-inch 5555DLX tripod for $10 at Best Buy
+ Sunpak Travelite PRO reverse folding 63″ tripod for $50 at Best Buy
+ ProHT 40W LED light bulb for $0.48 after promo code at FRYS
+ 4pk Tenergy AA single-use batteries for $0.05 after promo code at FRYS (doorbuster)

GIFT CARDS

+ Pay $85, Get $100 iTunes digital gift card on eBAY
++ most likely sold by PayPal Digital Gifts

+ Buy $30 in iTunes Gift Cards, get a $10 Walgreens gift card at Walgreens

+ Pay $20, Get $25 iTunes Gift Card (20% off) at Mejier

+ Buy $50 in various gift cards, get $15 CVS Extra Bucks at CVS

+ Rite Aid will have a variety of gift card offers with points back through the Plenti rewards program including Netflix, Spotify, Home Depot, Uber, X-Box and more. Find them towards the bottom of the leaked ad at I Heart Rite Aid.

+ Buy $75 Applebees gift card, get $25 CVS Extra Bucks at CVS

INTRODUCTION

Time flies, and just like that, Black Friday Ads are coming out already. Black Friday is earlier in the month after all, it is Friday November 24 in 2017, as Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday, not the last Thursday in November.

STRATEGY SESSION: during the MAP era, the Black Friday ads of the major chain stores feature similar camera kits but there are some exceptions. Entry-point Canon and Nikon DSLRs and Sony a-series APS-C mirrorless dominate the iLCs, while superzooms are the fixed-lens camera offerings. More instant cameras, action cams and drones are featured as they are more popular among the general consumers.

There’s no guarantee 2017 will be like 2016, but you can check the 2016 Digest for reference. Most of them will be, one way or another price-matched by the internets.

NOTES AND FOOTNOTES

Kohls Cash must be spent in future purchases. They are not an instant discount on the purchase price. Check the 60+ page Kohls ad at The Black Friday.

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RAWSUMERS KEEP ON CLICKING

The storied Canon G-series has now “graduated” to an APS-C sensor with the brand new G1X III, and its price too adjust upwards to factor the larger sensor size.

For the full size chart, click on the image below or use the direct PNG link.

It fascinating that Sony is doubling down on every single RX-series camera it made. They are all available at the three tracked authorized dealers, and if you follow their chart bars, they have a price staircase pattern, so you can find an RX100 or RX10 or RX1* camera if your budget is anywhere between $450 and $3300. Quite smart if you ask me!

There were no dramatic price changes or patterns, just seasonal adjustments, mostly upwards. The Ricoh GR II price drop was the smallest among all cameras in the November 2017 series, a mere $10 drop. The price non-changes are yet another sign of the “competitive truce” among the traditional camera manufacturers.

CHARTS BY SENSOR SIZE

Canon joined the APS-C RAWsumer party with the G1X III. Interestingly, despite all the Canon G-series models out there, Canon has yet to make a play in the “Big Sensor Primes” market, re-defined and popularized by the Fuji X100 series many years ago.

1-inch sensors are the most prevalent in this segment, with two new models appearing here. Sony is definitely in-love with this sensor size, as both the RX10, RX100 and new RX0 series are using this sensor. From there they have a big jump to 35mm full frame for the RX1* series. No middle ground for Sony

Click on the picture below or the direct link for the full size version of this chart.

APS-C and 1-inch sensors are the most dominant but there are RAWsumer cameras at these sensor sizes as well:

• 35mm full frame: the Sony RX* series
• M43rds: the Panasonic LX100 with its Leica cousin
• 1.5-inch: the Canon G1X II – this sensor size may be done for as the G1X III went up to APS-C
• the earlier days popular RAWsumer sensor sizes of 2/3″ and 1/1.x” are out of favor

NOTES and FOOTNOTES

• we had three new entries since July 2017, the Sony RX0, RX10 IV and the Canon G1X III with an APS-C sensor now
• since the previous chart, we did not lose any of the cameras. They all continue!
• Prices are more or less uniform among the three tracked retailers
• Typos, errors, confusions, omissions are always possible. Please leave a comment or use the online contact form. If I don’t notice an error and no one mentions it, it won’t get fixed on its own

NOVEMBER 2017 SERIES

+ 35mm Full Frame Cameras
+ APS-C DSLRs
+ Mirrorless Cameras
+ Fixed Lens Cameras

Where Does The Data Come From?

The prices are the consensus prices between Amazon and B&H Photo and Adorama as of November 7 in 2017. These are new condition with USA warranty prices, from authorized dealers. All the prices are the body only kit prices. Older cameras that are no longer available in new condition with USA warranty from the above retailers, or are available in a very limited fashion, are not included.

PREVIOUS YEARS

• Fixed Lens Cameras – July 2017
• Fixed Lens Cameras – November 2016
• Fixed Lens Cameras – mid-November 2015
• Fixed Lens Cameras – late December 2014

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GOODBYE NIKON 1 SYSTEM from the PRICE CHARTS
With this edition, we have a change in coverage. Even though Nikon’s 1-System cameras still remain at enough of the tracked retailers, I decided to remove them from this and future Mirrorless price charts because:

+ it’s a dead system
+ there is no movement in the prices
+ given their situation, they are more noise than signal

NEW VISUAL ELEMENTS in the CHARTS

We are introducing a new visual element in this edition of the Price Charts. On the right side of the bar, cameras that went down in price since the previous update have a red minus (-) next to them, while cameras that have gone up in price have a green-ish plus (+) next to them.

New cameras that have been officially announced since the previous edition of the Price Charts have their name highlighted in yellow highlighter in the actual charts.

THE FLAGSHIPS PER SYSTEM

The flagship chart is unchanged since last year. Both Sony (a7r III) and Panasonic (G9) and Leica (TL2) released new “deputy” flagships, but price-wise the Sony a9 and Panasonic GH5 remain the leaders. Some could argue that the G9 is the photographic flagship in the Panasonic M43rds line-up, but these are price charts

Discounts are tied with price increases. Both the Olympus E-M1 II (just recently) and the Fuji X-PRO 2 dropped in price. The X-PRO 2 currently has the same price as the X-T2 but I only include one flagship per manufacturer. On the price increases, the Sigma SD Quattro H went up by $200, while the Canon M5 went up by $50.

SO MANY MIRRORLESS CAMERAS, SO LITTLE TIME

There are so many mirrorless cameras I had to break the Price Chart in two. As usual, it is sorted by price, and with the new visual elements signalling price increase or decrease since the previous update. The Olympus PEN-F is the constant, it’s at the bottom of the first chart and the top of the second chart. The virtual clue that stitches them together

We being with the sub-$1000 segment [click on the picture above or the direct link to the full size image] where we have two entries, the third generation Olympus E-M10 and the Canon M100 mirrorless kit.

The overall theme of this segment is price drops, headlined by Olympus and Sony. The two increases may have been strategic, both Olympus E-M10 II and Panasonic G7 “defending” the price point as they released newer and more expensive models (E-M10 III, G9 respectively). Companies sometimes use price adjustments to try to encourage customers towards newer models. For example, the Fuji X-T1 was going for $800 with a free lens, but when newer X-models came out, the X-T1 price skyrocketed, to nudge photographers towards the newer models.

Despite having multiple players though, the price drops are more of aging models, here too we have a competitive truce between the major manufacturers.

And now we go to the four figures mirrorless that will leave you walletless Click on the image below for a large size or go directly to the full size image.

The entry-point of 35mm full frame mirrorless increased to $1000 [last mirrorless price chart had a $950 entry-point] with the good old Sony a7. Yes, the first generation model, it is still sticking around at all tracked retailers.

Fuji is the main discounter here with both the X-PR0 2 and X-T2 going down, and now sitting together at $1500. Sony’s prices went up, as did the only APS-H mirrorless (Sigma SD Quattro H). The Olympus E-M1 II got its first official discount last week, while the Panasonic GH4 went up in price, perhaps part of the price triangulation to encourage more photographers towards the G9 and GH5.

Speaking of which, we had three new mirrorless cameras in the $1000+ segment since our July 2017 edition. All three are “deputies” price-wise to their flagships, the Sony a7r III, the Panasonic G9 and the Leica TL2. That’s a total of five new mirrorless cameras since July 2017.

“TAKE PICTURES WITH” KITS

I limit “taking pictures with” kit prices to $700 for the purposes of this chart. That’s why the Panasonic G7 is gone from the cart below because it jumped to $800.

As with previous charts, there is not a whole lot of price competition at the bottom. YI Technologies is the newcomer, and they dropped $50 since, but the major manufacturers are refusing to engage in a price war. The two M43rds parents for example have given up on entry-level prices even though they use a smaller sensor system. Even Canon who is the relative newcomer is not in a hurry to compete on price, even though they have a few overlapping models.

NOTES and FOOTNOTES

• five new entries since July 2017, the Sony a7r III, Leica TL2, Panasonic G9, Olympus E-M10 III, and Canon M100
• since the previous chart, we “lost” the Panasonic G85, Fuji X-T1 IR (hard to find), and Canon M3 and M10. I also made the strategic decision to remove the aging and inactive Nikon 1 System cameras
• Prices are more or less uniform among the three tracked retailers
• Typos, errors, confusions, omissions are always possible. Please leave a comment or use the online contact form. If I don’t notice an error and no one mentions it, it won’t get fixed on its own

NOVEMBER 2017 SERIES

+ 35mm Full Frame Cameras
+ APS-C DSLRs
+ Mirrorless Cameras
+ Fixed Lens Cameras

Where Does The Data Come From?

The prices are the consensus prices between Amazon and B&H Photo and Adorama as of November 6-8 in 2017. These are new condition with USA warranty prices, from authorized dealers. All the prices are the body only kit prices. Older cameras that are no longer available in new condition with USA warranty from the above retailers, or are available in a very limited fashion, are not included.

PREVIOUS YEARS

• Mirrorless Cameras – July 2017
• Mirrorless Cameras – November 2016
• Mirrorless Cameras – mid-November 2015
• Mirrorless Cameras – late December 2014

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