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Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
Amazon discounted a wide range of camera gear for Prime Day this week, but some photographers scored what may be the best deals of their lives. Thanks to a pricing error, many people were able to purchase high-end camera gear bundles, some worth over $5,000, for just around $100.
It all started when someone noticed that the $550 Sony a6000 and 16-50mm lens bundle was being listed at just $94.50 on Amazon, and the person shared the “deal” on Slickdeals, where it hit the front page.
Many users were able to see the same price and place orders, while other users reported still seeing the normal price of $550. And it wasn’t 3rd-party sellers that the $94.50 price applied to — the gear was being sold and shipped by Amazon.
But then people noticed that other cameras and bundles were also being sold for $94.50, and that’s when the real frenzy started.
“Literally everything is $94.48,” one member writes. “I have bought like 10k worth of stuff that was like 900 dollars total.”
[...] Other members spoke to Amazon customer service about their order and were told that the order would indeed ship. Others also reported that they successfully price matched gear at retailers such as Best Buy and Walmart.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday July 19 2019, @04:59PM (1 child)
Fully acknowledged, as the new telescope in Hawaii confirms: there's no replacement for aperture.
However... the things that they are doing with digital sensors today with the tiny little apertures on cellphones would have been deemed impossible in 1999, even with the best chemical films available. I suppose it's mostly in the sensitivity of the sensors, but they're also doing really impressive things with the optics, including some very practical mechanical stabilization (like the DSLRs got a few years earlier...)
I carried a 35mm film camera all around Europe one summer, have a nice photo album (that gets looked at maybe once every 10 years now) as a result of all that effort. The next summer I opted for a cheap point and click because: vacation is more fun when you're not trying to work as a professional photographer - though, in that day (1989) the better camera really was quite a bit better.
Today, I carry my cellphone, and get images that are 90% as good as my SLR got on chemical film. Maybe 3 pictures out of the 1000 I took on the SLR wouldn't have come out as good on a cellphone, and I would have easily gotten 30 more good ones just due to the convenience of the form factor.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @08:53PM
Not to be pedantic, but if we're talking telescopes then location replaces aperture. Specifically, any location outside the atmosphere is going to make up for a lot of aperture and space-based scopes are going to do things that no scope of any size on Earth can do. Of course that's out of reach for everybody except large organizations and states so it is kind of a pedantic point.