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Amazon cancels Nikon 500mm f/5.6E PF ED VR pre-orders, removes product from search

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Nikon’s lightweight 500mm f/5.6E PF ED VR has been removed from Amazon’s search results, and pre-orders seem to have been cancelled and refunded. The lens was first announced as being in development last June, with the first sightings in the wild appearing a month later. Finally, a month after that, it was officially launched.

Yet, here we are, seven months later, with the lens still showing up as a pre-order item on everywhere that still has the listing available. The product listing on Amazon still exists, although it states that the item is currently unavailable and that they don’t know when or if it will be in stock. It has been removed from search results completely.

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PSA: Fake SanDisk memory cards are everywhere, including Amazon

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It seems the fakes are out in force again at the moment. I’ve seen a number of posts across Facebook and other social media where people have ordered SanDisk and other SD cards only to receive counterfeit cards. These days, we need to be vigilant with memory cards.

Memory cards are made to varying degrees of quality, and these forgeries are often whatever’s cheapest. There’s no quality control, because there’s no backlash on them. The last thing you want in the middle of an important shoot is to lose all your work. Or, worse, your client’s work.

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Buyer orders $6,000 camera from Amazon, receives a box of rocks. Twice [UPDATED]

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When ordering stuff online from huge retailers, mistakes can happen. But a $6,000 mistake is something that might get one really upset, especially if it happens twice. According to YouTuber chaseontwowheels, this is excatly what happened to him.

He allegedly ordered a $6,000 Canon 1DX Mark II from Amazon. In the video he shares, he unpacks the box, and instead of the camera – there is a collection of rocks. To make things worse, the package he received after complaining also didn’t contain the camera, but he says he got a box of bricks instead. What were the odds?

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Amazon actually sells a book titled “How to Seduce Women through Photography”

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After all the pleas not to be “that guy” and use photography as an excuse to seduce women, there’s now a book that actually encourages it. What’s more, it teaches you how to become that guy. A book titled “How to Seduce Women through Photography” really exists, and it’s freely available on Amazon. The author’s signed as Goldmund, and he promises to teach you how to become a photographer “who is not only comfortable meeting and modeling beautiful women in the street, but also seducing them into bed.”

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Amazon refunding purchases of fake solar eclipse glasses

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This solar eclipse coming over the USA in a few days certainly has whipped people up into a frenzy. A buying frenzy, getting whatever they can to protect their eyes and their cameras from the sun’s potentially hazardous effects. It seems, though, that some customers might not be as well protected as they thought. Amazon have now started issuing refunds on unverifiable eclipse eyewear.

As reported by The Verge, some vendors are selling counterfeit or unsafe versions. And now, Amazon is cracking down on these sellers. Product pages are being entirely removed from the site, and customers are being refunded. Along with a warning to not use them for the eclipse. But you don’t need to return them in order to qualify for your refund.

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Amazon honoring $500 pre-order price mistake on Sony FE 16-35mm f/2.8 GM Lenses

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When Sony FE 16-35mm f/2.8 GM Lens was first introduced, the announced price was $2,198. However, it was listed on Amazon for $500 less, and many users preordered it on that price. If you are among them, there’s good news for you – Amazon is honoring the $500 price mistake. Those who ordered the lens for $1,698 will actually get the lens instead of getting order cancellation.

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Amazon kills off unlimited storage – Will start deleting users data

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“Welcome to Unlimited Storage”. That’s what Amazon said only two years ago when it introduced the unlimited storage package. For a mere $59.99 a year, you could store as much as you want on Amazon’s “cloud”. And it was less than 10 months ago when the service was expanded to the UK. Now, though, that’s all about to change, and if you’re a user of Amazon’s Cloud Drive service, you’ll want to know.

Amazon are doing away with the unlimited package completely. The previous Unlimited Photos plan has been dropped to 100GB for $11.99 a year. This will probably be fine for most consumers just looking to back up their mobile photos and a few holiday snaps. The Unlimited Everything plan, though, is limited to a measly 1TB. And each extra terabyte costs a further $60 a year on top, to a maximum of 30TB.

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As part of dominating world commerce, Amazon starts selling prints too

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It seems that amazon is everywhere. After conquering books, retail, TV, having a go with groceries, Amazon is now going for another market – prints.

In a post to Amazon’s blog, the retail giant shares that they will offer 4×6 prints for $0.09, photo books starting at $19.99 and double sided cards for $0.75.

With this move Amazon is challenging the Walmarts and Targets  printing service, but also online services like blurb and Shutterfly.

To promote the new service Amazon are now offering 50 free prints (though at $0.09/print, this offer is only “worth” $4.5).

Quality-wise, we will have to stand by and see how they match, if you tried the service, we’d love to know your impressions in the comments.

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P.S. just make sure you don’t send anything shot against a white backdrop, Amazon has a patent on this.

Amazon’s future doesn’t just include drone deliveries, but drone police assistants

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Robocop seems to have shrunk, and grown wings. Amazon’s research into drones is no secret. Well, at least, it’s not any more. So far, though, their public drone persona has been one of expedient delivery. Using drones to more efficiently deliver small packages.  Now, it seems they’ve set their sights much higher, metaphorically speaking.

In a recently granted patent discovered by Geekwire, Amazon want to turn drones into voice activated flying personal assistants. Several use cases are cited in the patent, including as a way to see how long the line for a show is or as a tool for finding a missing child.

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