Black Friday Deal: Skylum Luminar 4 Bundles Starting $79

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Skylum started a Black Friday deal for their just released Luminar 4 photo editing and cataloging software.

Three Luminar 4 bundles are on offer for Black Friday:

  1. Bundle with Luminar 4 and 2 bonus items – on sale at $79
  2. Bundle with Luminar 4 and 5 bonus items – on sale at $99
  3. Bundle with Luminar 4 and all bonus items – on sale at $129

You can choose from the following bonus items:

  • PDF Expert ($80 value)
  • Look Packs (Skylum) with free presets ($50 value)
  • Rocky Nook free book of your choice ($44.99 value)
  • Clipchamp 3-month subscription to the Create account ($30 value)
  • Xpozer discount ($75 value)
  • ViewBug 1-year Pro plan ($118 value)
  • Envira Gallery Basic plan + 30% off other plans ($29 value and up to $90 discount)

Click here to see all Black Friday discounted Skylum Luminar 4 bundles.

A list of hand picked Black Friday Canon deals can be found after the break, odds are most are still live.

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Nikon Is Dying, Say These YouTubers (but there is hope)

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Apocalyptic camera industry conspiracies seem to never end.

Tony & Chelsea Northrup say Nikon is dying, but there might be hope.

Nikon is expecting to lose $92 MILLION in 2020 on its camera business. That’s bad, but it gets worse – Nikon is planning to reduce R&D, so we can expect the rate of their technical advances to decrease. Nikon is also predicting that their market share will decrease, and the total market size is decreasing, so their revenue will inevitably drop.

We believe Nikon can pull through this, but their current plans might not be the right plans. We believe they should cater to existing DSLR customers rather than trying to push everyone to their mirrorless Z system. We believe the Z system is an area for long-term growth, but producing F-mount products will help raise cash to keep the business running in the short term. Finally, we believe Nikon should INVEST and take an even bigger loss for a couple of years, allowing them to grow their market share instead of cutting it.

Nikon’s possible imminent dead and possible ways to avoid it are further discussed in the video below.

Smartphones Might Not Be The Only Reason For The Shrinking Camera Market

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Smartphones are usually seen and named as the culprit for the shrinking camera market. But there might be more.

Robin Wong discusses the shrinking camera market from a broader perspective, and identifies four reasons for it.

He says:

We can easily point the blame solely to the existence of smartphones, but that is not the only reason. I admit smartphone camera improving drastically over the years with the convenience of only carrying one device to do it all, there seems to be less reason to pick up a dedicated camera. I acknowledge that smartphones played a huge contributing factor to the shrinkage of the camera market overall, but in this I want to explore several other valid reasons why less and less people are buying cameras. 

The other reasons he identified are:

  1. Camera has hit sufficiency
  2. Interest in photography is dying
  3. Social media changed the landscape of photography
  4. Photography is stagnant

Canon EOS M6 Mark II Review (DPReview’s favorite Canon MILC so far)

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Here is a Canon EOS M6 Mark II review by DPReview, and they call it their “favorite Canon mirrorless camera yet“.

From their conclusion:

The Canon EOS M6 II is a more overtly photographer-targeted camera than its predecessor, gaining Dial Func control, a dedicated MF/AF switch and an AF-On button which combine to put just a little more control directly at your fingertips. And it ends up giving a good degree of direct control without the sense that you need to completely configure the camera yourself.

[…] The camera’s autofocus isn’t quite a match for Sony’s a6400 and a6600, but it’s still very good and will adapt to a wide range of shooting with little effort.

[…] the M6 II is an excellent choice. It’s not the best in its class in every respect: the Sony a6400’s autofocus is better, the Fujifilm X-T30’s video is superior, as is its lens range, while the Nikon Z50 arguably has nicer ergonomics. But the M6 II does have the highest resolution of the bunch with excellent noise performance and dynamic range, and is otherwise competitive across the board. Above all, it’s engaging and enjoyable to shoot with.

Read the Canon EOS M6 Mark II review at DPReview

More Canon EOS M6 Mark II review stuff is listed here.

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Here Is A First Batch Of Serious Black Friday Canon Deals

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Let’s start the annual Black Friday craziness with a first set of Black Friday Canon deals.

Authorised Canon retailer B&H Photo has the Canon Speedlite 430EX III-RT on sale at $199. Free shipping.

While not being directly Black Friday related, it’s worth to list the Canon EOS R on sale at $1,499.99 at eBay seller 6ave (99.6% positive ratings). Please note: this in an import model, seller warranty applies.

Authorised Canon retailer Adorama has the Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS III Lens USA W/ Aluminum Travel Tripod/Ballhead on sale at $1,799.99. Free shipping.

Authorised retailer Adorama has the Sigma 85mm f/1.4 DG HSM ART Lens for Canon EOS DSLRs on sale at $799 (reg. $1,199). Free shipping.

Authorised retailer Adorama has the Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM ‘Contemporary’ Lens for Canon EOS DSLRs on sale at $729 (reg. $1,089). Free shipping.

An extended list of Black Friday Canon deals offered by authorised retailer Adorama is listed here, you might also want to take a look here.

Venus Optics Laowa 9mm f/2.8 Zero-D Lens for Canon EF-M mount on sale at $449 ($50 off) at B&H Photo. Free shipping.

Refurbished Canon EOS 80D with EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens on sale at $799 at the Canon Direct Store. Refurbished gear from the Canon Store comes with 1 year Canon US warranty.

Canon Store USA activated their Black Friday deals page.

European Canon Stores have Black Friday week pages with deals:

For UK: All Park Camera’s Canon deals for Black Friday, camera deals, and lens deals.

B&H Photo has Canon EOS M50 bundles deals. The EOS M50 is bundled with an EF-M lens adapter, a Hunter 25 holster bag, and a SanDisk 32GB Extreme UHS-I U3 SDHC 90MB/s memory card. The adapter alone is worth almost $150. Three bundles (with the items listed above) are on sale:

  • Canon EOS M50 with the items as above, on sale at $579
  • Canon EOS M50 with the items as above, EF-M 15-45mm IS STM lens, on sale at $599
  • Canon EOS M50 with the items as above, EF-M 15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM lens, EF-M 55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM, on sale at $829

Amazon Europe stores already have Black Friday deal pages online: Amazon DE | Amazon UK | Amazon FR | Amazon IT

Want a cool, handmade camera strap? Get one, and get 15% discount with our code.

So, that was our first selected Black Friday Canon deals post. Hope you found something you were looking for. More deals are listed here.

Save 15% On These Handmade and Customisable Camera Straps With Our Exclusive Code

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Let me introduce Hyperion Handmade Camera Straps. 

Hyperion Handmade Camera Straps started as a personal DIY project by owner Pavlos to make affordable and durable, practical and pretty camera straps for his friend’s. The success was huge. One friend after another started asking him to make one for them too and so he started production.

You can choose your own custom made camera strap out of 900 different color combinations.

Prices start from €15/$18. And here comes the best part. You can get 15% discount by using our exclusive code “CanonWatch” at checkout. The straps are shipped worldwide.

Disclaimer: we are not getting paid or compensated for this post. We like these straps and so we decided to feature them. Pavlos was so nice to give us a discount code.