B&H's "Mega Deal Zone" of rebates and promotions ends at midnight tonight. There are hundreds of items discounted, only a few of which I can personally recommend. Most notably, the Silver Graphite Fuji X-T1 is back down to $599 again. Note that in my experience the Fuji X-Trans files convert particularly well to B&W, and I find 16 MP to be fine for B&W. The still-excellent X-T1 might be a great camera for you for B&W shooting. Next, if you've wanted a Panasonic GX8, you can get one for only $748 if you can accept the silver version, which apparently is selling slowly. The black version is still $1,197.99.
A few more items I can recommend—if you trim prints or cut down larger sizes of paper or film into smaller ones, you will find a rotary trimmer invaluable, and $89.95 for an 18" model is a great price.
There's a Manfrotto 190Go! compact carbon fiber travel tripod with head for $289.95. I like the leg locks on the Manfrottos, they're easy to use.
The Tokina AT-X 24–70mm ƒ/2.8 PRO FX zoom is on sale for $619, but only for Canon. The one in Nikon mount is still $949. Compare to the Canon 24–70mm ƒ/2.8L II at $1,699. Tokina was originally founded by former Nikon lens designers who wanted to be a little more adventuresome and were frustrated with Nikon's inherent corporate conservatism.
Freehands fleece shooting gloves are only $14.95 in Men's small, medium, and large, and only $4 more for extra large. Women's sizes too.
Calibrate your screen with the Datacolor Spyder5 PRO. $60 off.
There's also a Canon kit, a Sony kit, and a Panasonic kit that are extremely keenly priced.
Mike
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Dave Karp: "You are 100% right on with your paper cutter recommendation. Years ago, I agonized whether or not to buy an older version of the Rototrim cutter. It was available for a great price at a Freestyle Photo sidewalk sale. I bit the bullet and bought it. Cameras, lenses, and other equipment have come and gone, but that trusty cutter has been invaluable. I never regretted spending the money for a moment once I started using it."
Mike replies: My trusty Rotatrim 36" has been serving me well for so long that the clear plastic piece has yellowed. Still razor-sharp, though.
My wife donated my last paper cutter/trimmer to a local church garage sale and I've been looking (not very hard) for a replacement. Now I can stop looking.
Thanks Mike.
Posted by: Speed | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 01:46 PM
"Invaluable," as in "of value," or "valuable."
Kind of like "inflammable."
Posted by: Stephen Gilbert | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 02:00 PM
Those considering the X-T1 should check the various kit options, too. The 18-55mm zoom is reasonably fast with a pleasing character. I consider the kit price of ~$250 a good deal for the only zoom lens I ever liked. Man, I picked a bad time to be broke!
Posted by: robert e | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 03:31 PM
You must be psychic. I've long-needed a larger trimmer and decided to buy one by year-end. It was already in my Amazon cart when I read this reminder. Voila! I bought a 28" trimmer (via your link) at B&H for less than half what I would have paid at Amazon!
Thank you, Mike.
Posted by: Kenneth Tanaka | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 04:14 PM
I'm having trouble parsing what a "Full Digital Palm Grip" is.
All gloves are digital, that's what differentiates them from mittens.
Full digital would imply that there was some sort of partial digital glove that would only partially cover your fingers - which is what these do, so why aren't they called partial digital?
If there was some way that the palm could do the gripping they would have grip(ing) palms.
I shudder to think what sort of anatomical horror a digital palm would be, some sort of mansquid?
I can only deduce that it is optimized for climbing palm trees with all your fingers.
If only Kieth Richards had these ( google Kieth Richards palm tree and write your own digression )
Am I over thinking this?
This is worse than the writing about writing about writing that you were blogging about a couple days ago that I started to write a comment about but as Terry Pratchett would say that was turtles all the way down and the meta-meta-meta-alarm kicked in.
Posted by: hugh crawford | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 04:29 PM
Anyone know where I might be able to find a new blade for a Rotatrim Eurocut 26? Not listed on the Rotatrim website as far as I can see.
Posted by: Phil Aynsley | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 04:37 PM
My son is in need of video lighting kit and you just saved me $800 on a pair of really sweet variable color temp led panels. TOP rules!
Posted by: Mike Plews | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 06:22 PM
Keith Richards, not Kieth. Or Keef, but not Kieth.
Posted by: hugh crawford | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 07:12 PM
Mike,
not for this thread particularly, but you might alert your readers that Amazon (at least U.S.) has Adobe CC Photo Plan annual for $89.99, and provide link to that from your site. It can be applied to an existing plan to extend it.
Happy New Year, and keep up the good work
Rick
Posted by: Rick | Friday, 29 December 2017 at 09:21 AM
I won't give up my Nikor 24" Rotary Trimmer I purchased used thirty years ago at one of my and your favorite places, Darkroom Aids in Chicago. It was pretty beat up then but still works great. Even though I rarely mount prints anymore, I still use it four or five times a year for other projects. I wish I could have taken advantage of the B&H deals, but you still got credit for a lot of my Christmas shopping.
Posted by: Tom Swoboda | Friday, 29 December 2017 at 11:31 AM