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Black Friday Photography Deals: BF Day -8

In seven days most of us will be enjoying the Thanksgiving Holiday by spending the day with family and friends, watching the Macy’s Parade followed by a football game or two, cooking and eating some turkey and all the fixins. Then most importantly of all, we’ll nap. On the couch, on the floor, on the easy chair or any available horizontal space available we’ll fall into a tryptophan induced slumber. Don’t discount this important tradition as you’ll need the rest for the following day. Black Friday comes every year with a plethora (I’ve always wanted to use that word) of sales from every conceivable merchant you can think of. Without some prior planning you can spend your Black Friday swimming through a sea of shoppers, many of who have totally forgotten the love, caring and sharing of the previous day.

Between now and Black Friday, and the ensuing Cyber Monday, I’ll be scouring the web to find some of the best deals available on digital photography equipment. Hopefully you’ll find something here to save you some time.

I have no affiliation with any online or retail merchant.  The items listed here are only the results of some internet research and ones I thought would interest the average digital photography hobbyist.  While I would welcome a kick back the chances of that happening are pretty much nil.  Also I’m not guaranteeing these are the best deals that can be found but I’ll try to compare each item against B&H and Amazon before posting.

So lets kick it off shall we?

Black Friday minus 8

• Nikon D80 Digital SLR Camera (Body Only) $619 – Ritz Camera is offering this camera online with free shipping and no sales tax.
• Nikon D60 Digital SLR Camera w/AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR -Exclusive Black Gold Special Edition $599.99 – Wolf Camera is offering this camera online with free shipping and zero sales tax.
  • Nikon D60 Digital SLR Two-Lens VR Outfit (18-55 VR /55-200 G) -Exclusive Black Gold Special Edition $699.98 – For this week only, Wolf Camera is offering a second lens for $99 more.  This offer also comes with a free gadget bag and DVDs.  Again with free shipping and zero sales tax

• Canon® SX10 Is 10.0 Megapixel Digital Camera $399.99 – Office Depot.  While this beats the B&H price, Amazon list this for new at $339.48.  This seems to be a deal at Office Depot only if you are into instant gratification.

With Circuit City’s financial woes and recent announcement of closing 155 stores, be on the lookout for some good deals from them.  Be aware though that purchases here will probably be “all sales final, no returns”.

Today’s list is short as most retailers, especially digital photography retailers, have not formally released their ads for next week.  Tomorrow I’ll continue to scour the Black Friday ads for deals you can find direct from retail outlets and compare to similar online deals.  I’ll also dig more into lens and accessories that always makes for great stocking stuffers (if I’m lucky my wife is reading this, maybe your spouse is too!).

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