Photo and Printing Deals

Calumet's Demo Clearance Sale official site. I also have a copy of the product list in which I highlighted interesting stuff. Some great deals on PocketWizard standard kits ($199US instead of $300+ US and includes one receiver and one transmitter. Vistek's price for a Plus receiver and transmitter is over $500CDN.), colour management tools, a Fuji GA645Zi (point and shoot medium format "compact" camera with zoom lens), and some great deals on some other medium format gear and some Bowens lighting.

FujiFilm Finepix F10. Edmonton local shoppers can get McBain Camera to price match this price. Saves a couple bucks. The price-matched price ends up being about ten dollars more than what the F10 costs through niche market distributor Synnex/EMJ and you don't pay shipping and get in-store warranty. It's quite possibly the best point and shoot digital camera available to the North American market. Japanese shooters are getting the F11 which adds a few of the features that would have made the F10 kill anything within a 50% price radius of the camera. Stuff like aperture and shutter priority shooting modes and I think a fully manual exposure mode. Then again, it's a point and shoot . . . those of you that know how to use those other modes probably have an SLR or professional range finder anyway.

Lexjet's clearance sale on lots of signage materials. Discounts average 50% off. I just ordered more water resistant satin cloth, Flagtex, water resistant matte, photographic polypropylene, and a clear polyester which I have no idea what it does but people have apparently used them to create negatives for offset printing plates. The Flagtex wasn't on sale, though but I needed it anyway. If you're in Canada be aware that their default shipping method is UPS. Instruct them to use FedEx Ground or any method other than UPS and also inform them that you'll reject any international package shipped UPS and will reverse credit card charges if they won't refund you. UPS charges exorbitant brokerage fees . . . if you ship via UPS economy, once brokerage has been accounted for you could have shipped via FedEx 2nd day international express for less since Express includes brokerage in the shipping price.