Black Friday Deals for Photographers on Amazon, 2024.
Here’s a quick run down of some of the best Black Friday deals for photographers that I have found for 2024.
“Best deals” in this case isn’t necessarily the cheapest deals on the whole site (their are thousands, if not millions of them!), but the ones that I think are worth spending your money on.
These deals end on 2nd December 2024 so grab a bargain before they run out.
Let’s dive in…
£199.99 on Amazon until 02/12/2024
This is a lens that I own and shoot with a lot. It has a super wide field of view and creates very little distortion on huge landscapes (you’re probably not going to want to shoot close up portraits with this!). The field of view on this is so wide that you can see the lens hood in the shot if you’re shooting at 10mm!
I have always been really impressed with the sharpness of this lens, especially in manual focus mode. The auto-focus isn’t super fast with this lens, but given that you’re probably not going to use this to shoot fast moving subjects, that really isn't’t a problem. The link in this one is to a renewed item, but brand new ones are still available! There’s currently £60 ($75) off this lens and that means that during the Black Friday Week, it’s coming in at less than £200!
2: Manfrotto Befree Advanced Camera Tripod Kit (Aluminium Twist Version)
£126.00 on Amazon until 02/12/2024
I don’t own this tripod, but I have used this model and a couple of its variants. It’s small and lightweight and great if you want something that you aren’t really going to notice that you’re carrying - this comes in at less that 1.5kg! It’s compatible with Manfrotto and Arca Swiss plates.
The friction locking legs are quick to extend and lock firmly in place but they do only give you a max height of 1.5m so if you’re looking for a perspective that’s much higher up, then this might not be for you.
There’s over 40% of this, so its definitely a bargain worth grabbing.
£85 Amazon until 02/12/2024
I own an earlier iteration of this piece of kit and I love using it, though admittedly it did take me a bit of getting used to. The only reason I haven’t upgraded is that I simply don’t need to. With the quality of mobile phone video only getting better and better and with that, more accessible, this is a good starting point for those of you wanting to make a move into videography/cinematography without spending hundreds of pounds on a new video camera.
You might just want to make better quality, more stable TikTok’s or Instagram reels and that’s fine too - the supplied mini tripod will be right up your street and it’s ability to track you means that you’re not out of the frame for a second.
You get 3 axis stabilisation, active track 6.0 and a 21m extension rod, perfect for recording pieces to camera, for £85 ($106 US). Another saving of over 40%. Oh and did I mention that this fits into your pocket?!
4: LowePro ProTactic 450 AWII
£149 on Amazon until 02/12/2024
This is my big bag and I love it. It holds everything I need for a days shooting and then some. I can esaiy fit in my camera body (Canon 80D), DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone and controller, a bunch of lenses, my laptop, chargers, batteries, filters… the list goes on. This is a beast of a bag.
It might not be the bag that you want to take out on a hike if you’re going out to get some landscapes, but if you’re out on a shoot in another studio or you’re on location and know you’re going to need a lot of kit with you, then this could be the one.
The inside of it is fully customisable, you can move the dividers around to suit exactly what you need, which is great and provides both flexibility and protection. The back opens fully at the rear so that you have full access to all of your kit and if you don’t want to take the whole thing off, then you can pack the top of the bag with what you want to get at quickly and access it through the “lid”. You can also configure it so that you can get to other things through the quick access side panels and have it act a bit like a sling bag.
Webbing can be found all over the back of the bag, which is great for attaching a tripod to and there’s supplied bottle holders for your water!
This is a well made, tough bag which has survived location shoots, 100’s of rides on the Tube, wind, rain, mud snow, the northern lights and much much more.
$4.49 on Amazon until 02/12/2024
This is one for the studio shooters who like to shoot tethered!
There’s not a lot to say about this other than it is cheap and this represents good value for money. Yes its black and it’s a bit of a boring looking thing and it’s not a huge amount of fun to use but it could end up saving you a ton of money in busted camera gear.
The purpose of this is to hold onto your tether cable so it’s not ragging about in the port that you are connected to you on your camera. Damage the port, it’s an expensive repair and potentially days of lost work, expensive repairs and camera hire in the mean time.
Cheapest thing on the list, but also the one that could potentially save you the most money.
£ Various on Amazon until 02/12/2024
There’s a whole bunch of these that you can choose from. You might want an ND to help in bright light or a polariser to minimise glare. You might be looking for something more creative like a pro-mist, but whatever you decide, these K&F ones are great, well made, get the job done, and done well.
It’s always worth spending a bit more money on camera filters - you’ve spent a ton on your lens which has got some amazing, optically engineered glass inside it so putting a cheap piece of glass in front of it seems antithetical!
Be sure to check the thread size you need before you go and spend your money!
Wacom Intuos Pro S - £128.99
Wacom Intuos Pro M - £215.99 on Amazon until 02/12/2024
This is one of the favourite things I have in my workflow. I only got it a couple of years ago and it completely changed the way I edit things, and to an extent the subtlety that I edit with.
Has it sped my workflow up? No. But I don’t think that’s a bad thing, it means that I am able to take more care in what I am doing and do what I am doing with greater accuracy. When I first got it, I spent 10 minutes editing out pieces of chewing gum on the floor in a London street portrait that I had taken. The difference it made to the final image was incredible.
The Wacom Intuos Pro M helped me to make a huge difference to this image and if I didn't have oit, I wouldn’t have been able to be bothered to do it with a mouse. I always found editing with a mouse really clunky and cumbersome, having my Wacom tablet has given me the ability and the want, to be able to make these edits.
They’re pressure sensitive so you can apply variations in the edits that you’re doing, just like you would with a ‘normal’ pen or pencil (or brush!) and the buttons are all fully customisable so that you can add in your favourite shortcuts to switch between brush modes, or whatever else you decide you to set them to.
There's £100+ ($125 US) off both of these so grab one whilst they’re cheap and before they sell out!
£14.30 on Amazon until 02/12/2024
Another not very exciting item to the non-photographer but we can never have enough good quality SD cards and these ones have the best part of 50% off so now is a good time to stock up!
£29.99 on Amazon until 02/12/2024
These have a variety of uses, but are most fun when you’re using them for long exposure photography and light painting, but they also have creative applications in the studio.
I can’t speak to the colour accuracy of these so I wouldn’t be using them as a key light, but as a fill light they are great and are small enough to fit inside most camera bags. 2 hour battery life and fairly quick to charge so another plus there. This is one I own and the reviews on Amazon are generally pretty good, so dive in.
£209.76 on Amazon until 02/12/2024
If you’re printing your work, or working professionally then this is a must have piece of kit (in my humble opinion!).
In conjunction with correct ICC printer profiles, this will make sure that what you see on screen is what comes out of the printer and that what you see with your eyes is accurately represented on the screen when you are sending digital deliverables to clients.
It takes about 10 minutes a week to calibrate and colour match both of the monitors in my studio and it’s absolutely with doing if you want the very best results and the best possible colour accuracy in all of your work.
You just dangle the cable over the top of the monitor you want to calibrate, ensure the device is resting flat against the screen and the supplied software will guide you through the rest of the process - it’s super easy.
So, that concludes my brief round up of what I think are ten of the best Black Friday deals for photographers on Amazon in 2024. Like I said at the beginning of the blog, these aren’t necessarily the cheapest things out there, but they are ones that I think are the most useful. I hope that you’ve found it useful!
All prices correct as of 23/11/2024.