Prime Day July 2025: yawn or yay?

[FowlersFreeTime]

As usual, Amazon's Prime Day is upon us when I find my pockets already rather empty
Trying to convince the accountant/wife to let me buy another Viltrox prime lens (25mm f1.7) which is on sale for $140 USD.
In fact, all Viltrox Air primes seem to be on sale, including the full-frame 50mm f2.0 lens.

Has anyone seen anything interesting worth sharing?

 

[spudhead]

As usual, Amazon's Prime Day is upon us when I find my pockets already rather empty
Trying to convince the accountant/wife to let me buy another Viltrox prime lens (25mm f1.7) which is on sale for $140 USD.
In fact, all Viltrox Air primes seem to be on sale, including the full-frame 50mm f2.0 lens.

Has anyone seen anything interesting worth sharing?

Chris 41 years married has given me the confidence to buy what I want and boy the silence that follows from the wife is often quite nice

 

[iamdlewis]

Prime Days are usually a good time to look for storage deals and not just from Amazon as nearly every retailer now tries to do something to match Amazon.

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Prime Days are usually a good time to look for storage deals and not just from Amazon as nearly every retailer now tries to do something to match Amazon.

Good point; other retailers such as DJI, CanvasPeople, Adorama, Nomatic, they are all pitching "mid year sales" this week to match Prime Day.

 

[Tim Mayo]

There's nothing jumping out at me over here and I'm trying hard not to look at camera gear since I picked up the 400-800. Although I am looking for birthday presents for a soon to be 3 year old

 

[iamdlewis]

Although I am looking for birthday presents for a soon to be 3 year old

3 year old are still kind of small and small things means macro lenses are needed.

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Chris 41 years married has given me the confidence to buy what I want and boy the silence that follows from the wife is often quite nice

I prefer a more passive approach: I put it in the cart and gave her the puppy dog eyes. It worked. Viltrox lens arrives on Thursday

 

[THXGEEK]

Prime Days are usually a good time to look for storage deals and not just from Amazon as nearly every retailer now tries to do something to match Amazon.

The memory card I use is on sale: OWC 960GB Atlas Pro High Performance Cfexpress 4.0 Type A Memory Card is 20% off.

 

[AlphaWorld]

The memory card I use is on sale: OWC 960GB Atlas Pro High Performance Cfexpress 4.0 Type A Memory Card is 20% off.

I was disconcerted to see a note from Amazon saying that card was frequently returned - looked at the one star reviews, and they say you have to buy the OWC CFeB reader to be able to update the firmware on the card. That’s a bit rude.

I have a couple of the 480GB cards, but I think I might hold off buying any more if this is a real problem. I have two CFeA readers already, and the OWC one is a hack - they sell you a CFeB reader and an adapter from CFeA to CFeB…

 

[Richard A]

I was disconcerted to see a note from Amazon saying that card was frequently returned - looked at the one star reviews, and they say you have to buy the OWC CFeB reader to be able to update the firmware on the card. That’s a bit rude.

Mine has been working great. I have bought a load of OWC stuff over the last 25 years or more and never had a single problem with any of it.

Nothing photographic but I just bought a pair of Beats Studio Pro Wireless Headphones on Amazon for $200 less than I can get them from Apple...

 

[iamdlewis]

Some deals on things I've bought in the past and like
1. NEEWER Basic Magnetic Handheld Light Wand - 20% off - Nice light option, good battery life, small size and lots of color options
2. NEEWER Tripod Leveling Base - 27% off - This works great

 

[THXGEEK]

I was disconcerted to see a note from Amazon saying that card was frequently returned - looked at the one star reviews, and they say you have to buy the OWC CFeB reader to be able to update the firmware on the card. That’s a bit rude.

Huh.

I have never had the need to update the firmware on any memory card I have owned (OWC or otherwise). Having said that, I agree, needing their reader to update the firmware would be a wee bit of a PITA.

I can tell you that one reason for the frequent returns is due to an issue with Amazon distribution and NOT with the card itself. I had purchased one of the Type A cards only to receive a Type B card. Returned it. Ordered again. Same deal. Apparently, the personnel at our local Amazon war cannot differentiate between the letters A and B. Schmucks. I ended up ordering from B&H.

I use ProGrade readers for my cards and they are screamingly fast when connected to a ThunderBolt 4 port.

 

[AlphaWorld]

Huh.

I have never had the need to update the firmware on any memory card I have owned (OWC or otherwise). Having said that, I agree, needing their reader to update the firmware would be a wee bit of a PITA.

I can tell you that one reason for the frequent returns is due to an issue with Amazon distribution and NOT with the card itself. I had purchased one of the Type A cards only to receive a Type B card. Returned it. Ordered again. Same deal. Apparently, the personnel at our local Amazon war cannot differentiate between the letters A and B. Schmucks. I ended up ordering from B&H.

I use ProGrade readers for my cards and they are screamingly fast when connected to a ThunderBolt 4 port.

I agree that the Prograde CFexpressA readers are brilliantly fast.

I am hoping my OWC cards never need firmware updates!