I just picked up a pair of Pocket Wizard Plus X triggers at $50 off so I'm happy.
What did everyone else treat themselves to?
What did everyone else treat themselves to?
So what have we bought this Black... Er, Weekend?
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Nada. I live in Japan where there is never a discount or rebate on gear. In fact prices went up here! Enjoy your new toys you lucky people!
That 24-70L II deal at $1799 is very nice indeed!
That 24-70L II deal at $1799 is very nice indeed!
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Someone hacked a local business and compromised both of our credit cards, so they are cancelled. I'm buying things the old fashioned way with cash.
I am meeting a guy this morning to buy a Lee Big Stopper after he got two by ordering from different places and waiting for months.
I am meeting a guy this morning to buy a Lee Big Stopper after he got two by ordering from different places and waiting for months.
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Could someone explain this black friday thing?
To the non Americans like me.
Must be something like a sale, US- nationwide.... every friday?
Thanks a lot!
To the non Americans like me.
Must be something like a sale, US- nationwide.... every friday?
Thanks a lot!
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alexanderferdinand said:
Historically, retailers just about make it through the year but after Thanksgiving (3rd Thursday in November), the Christmas shopping season starts and the Friday after Thanksgiving was said to be the day they went from running "in the red" (not profitable) to running "in the black" (making money for the year). It has since become a bigger thing and is synonymous with some sales prices that may or may not be better than average. The concept has also expanded to include a longer shopping season even starting before Thanksgiving in some stores.
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Nothing ... gotta work on my savings for the 300mm f/2.8L II.
BTW, I live in India and there is no such thing as a Black Friday sale in this country. Canon sets the pricing policy for its products with an iron hand and prices almost never come down, not even temporarily.
BTW, I live in India and there is no such thing as a Black Friday sale in this country. Canon sets the pricing policy for its products with an iron hand and prices almost never come down, not even temporarily.
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Black Friday has officially invaded Canada too. Even though our Thanksgiving is in October. It hasn't reached the level it has in the USA yet, but suppliers are starting to do Black Friday weekend discounts.
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Canon Rumors said:
Even better! That means you have a longer holiday sale season, lol.
Picked up a used 100-400L from LensAuthority for 950.
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I bought a second 6D body from BigValue for $1400! I am tempted by the 24-70 f2.8L II deal and the 100 f2.8L macro deal. I also got a 32GB UHS1 SanDisk SD card for cheap.
Update: I ordered another Canon EF 50 f1.4 for $279 and the Rokinon 14 f2.8 also for $279. I ordered them both from BuyDig on eBay. Its weird I ordered the 50 on 11-30 and have yet to see a tracking number and today is 12-4. I don't have one for the 14 either. Are they usually this slow or is it the holidays causing them to slow? My 6D from BigValue will be here on Thursday of this week.
Update: I ordered another Canon EF 50 f1.4 for $279 and the Rokinon 14 f2.8 also for $279. I ordered them both from BuyDig on eBay. Its weird I ordered the 50 on 11-30 and have yet to see a tracking number and today is 12-4. I don't have one for the 14 either. Are they usually this slow or is it the holidays causing them to slow? My 6D from BigValue will be here on Thursday of this week.
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Going to have to pull the trigger on the 24-70L II at BH for that deal. Must first get some idea if I can get $1k for my Zeiss 21 and $300 for a Sigma 50 to help pay for it.
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Seriously considering that $99 EF-M 22mm at B&H.
I don't have an M, but it's a strong future option. Even if I go another way, I should get my money back on that deal!!
Seriously considering that $99 EF-M 22mm at B&H.
I don't have an M, but it's a strong future option. Even if I go another way, I should get my money back on that deal!!
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I've been angling to get an X-mount into my kit to play with and ordered a super deal on a basic X-A1 with 16-50mm kit lens on Thursday for a bit under $500. The lens isn't great so could sell it and have a really good, APSC imaging engine with a very short flange distance for under $300.
The exciting part comes when you head over to eBay and find adapters to allow darn near any kind of lens mount to be adapted to the Fuji X to use in manual mode. There's even tilt-and-shift adapters! YAY!! 55mm & 105mm Nikon macro lens now with added T&S capability on a crop sensor.
I think I'll have a lot of fun with this thing and the pile of various (Nikon, Pentax, Olympus, Canon, M42, T-mount, etc) glass I already have.
I don't much care for the ergonomics on this little camera but it won't matter since it'll likely live on a tripod most of the time and the tilt display and WiFi may be useful.
If I enjoy the Fuji way of doing things then an X-E2 or whatever the new X-pro gets updated to might be on the get list next year. Hopefully by then there'll also be better support for the X-trans demosaicing than there is now, which is another reason, other than being really cheap, I went with the Bayer-filtered sensor in the A-1 for now.
I think the APSC X-mount is more of an operational sweet-spot than a MFT body. If only Pentax had made a versatile, short register body instead of the K-01... :-\
The exciting part comes when you head over to eBay and find adapters to allow darn near any kind of lens mount to be adapted to the Fuji X to use in manual mode. There's even tilt-and-shift adapters! YAY!! 55mm & 105mm Nikon macro lens now with added T&S capability on a crop sensor.
I think I'll have a lot of fun with this thing and the pile of various (Nikon, Pentax, Olympus, Canon, M42, T-mount, etc) glass I already have.
I don't much care for the ergonomics on this little camera but it won't matter since it'll likely live on a tripod most of the time and the tilt display and WiFi may be useful.
If I enjoy the Fuji way of doing things then an X-E2 or whatever the new X-pro gets updated to might be on the get list next year. Hopefully by then there'll also be better support for the X-trans demosaicing than there is now, which is another reason, other than being really cheap, I went with the Bayer-filtered sensor in the A-1 for now.
I think the APSC X-mount is more of an operational sweet-spot than a MFT body. If only Pentax had made a versatile, short register body instead of the K-01... :-\
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I managed to snag a 600EX-RT for $399 from DigJungle off ebay. Not too exiting, but at least now I have two. It felt kind of silly having one and still using YN622's for it. Now if Yongnuo would just release the YN-E3-RT, I could take a load off my poor 6D.
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