Super deal for Prime Members: Just install the free Amazon Photo app to get $20 credit

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If you are an Amazon Prime subscriber you get $20 Amazon credit when downloading and using their Photo backup service (Click here). This service is FREE for all prime subscribers and you will get your credit within a few days. And after that you can continue to use it or get rid of it if you don’t like the service. But you keep the $20…it might be useful when you buy the future $8,000 Sony A1II :)

Reminder:

There are a ton of Sony E-mount cameras and lenses with great rebates and 90 day guarantee sold by Amazon (Click here). The specific camera gear deals can be found here and the Sony only deals can be found here. Here are some of the many deals I selected for you:

Cameras:

Lenses:

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Angelbird discontinued their 1 Terabyte CFexpress card

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Angelbird was the first company to offer more “affordable” Type A cards for Sony. But now they officially discontinued their famous 1TB card. You can still find few cards in Stock at Amazon US and BHphoto. Angelbird did not unveil the reason for the abrupt production stop.

The “affordable” 1TB alternatives you can get now are the:

  • Pergear Type A card sold by Amazon US (non certified but also the cheapest card)
  • Exascend 1TB card sold by Amazon US and BHphoto (VPG 200 certified)

The more expensive 1TB and 2TB cards you can get are the:

 

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Sigma official teaser for a product announcement on February 21st, 10 a.m. JST

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For me this means I have to wake up early and live blog at 2am my time :(

Sigma will announce those two new lenses:

  • 500mm F5.6 DG DN OS | Sports
  • 15mm F1.4 DG DN DIAGONAL FISHEYE| Art

Sigma 500mm f/5.6 specs:

  • Lightweight lens…less than 1,5kg and so the lightest telephoto prime lens you can buy.
  • Very fast AF on Sony A1 (lens has linear motor)
  • The lens sharper than the Sony 200-600 G
  • very low chromatic aberration
  • Coming for Sony E and Leica L mount cameras
  • Price just under $3,000
  • Announcement on February 21.
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$446 off on the Sony 1920Gb Type A card…now $954!

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$446 off on the Sony 1920Gb Type A card sold by third party sellers on Amazon US (Click here). And the Prograde 160GB Type A card also sells for the lowest price ever for $199 at Amazon and BHphoto.

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he CompactFlashAssocitation tested all currently available Type A cards and those are the cards that are proven to support the minimum Bitrate and therefore ave consistent performance:

VPG 400 class (minimum fo 400MB/s the card can write continuously). Links to Amazon US&EU:

VPG 200 class (minimum fo 200MB/s the card can write continuously). Links to Amazon US&EU:

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