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Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale is full swing and if you’re an artist looking for some great deals on tech gear that will help you create your visual art, we’ve found some awesome deals below. We scoured Amazon to find fantastic savings on a Sony camera and lens kit, a memory card and portable solid state storage, a compact light box for shooting small objects, along with a Bluetooth speaker, a rugged power strip and even a smart TV that doubles as a gorgeous digital frame.
To take advantage of most of these deals, though, you have to be an Amazon Prime subscriber. Amazon Prime costs $14.99 a month. Its benefits include faster shipping on Amazon orders, discounts at Whole Foods, and access to Amazon’s streaming entertainment. You can also pick up a $1.99 one-week trial of Prime here.
Check out our picks for the best Prime Early Access tech deals and grab this discounted gear before it sells out.
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Get 40% off a Sony full-frame mirrorless camera with lens
Compact and high performing mirrorless cameras with full frame image sensors are on the leading edge of photo technology, which is why this deal on the Sony Alpha A7 II is such a steal. Along with the camera, which uses a large 24.3-megapixel imaging chip about the size of a piece of 35mm film, you also get a solid 28-70mm F/3.5-5.6 lens, all for just under $1000. The A7 II came out a few years ago and, at the time, featured the world’s first 5-axis in-body image stabilization in a full frame camera. That means you don’t need a tripod to capture sharp photos even if your hands shake a bit when shooting a photo – hey, it happens to all of us! The A7 II has fast hybrid autofocus with phase detection, which helps you track and freeze action whether you’re photographing sports or wildlife. Filmmakers will like that the A7 II also records crisp, full HD movies. With this camera and lens combo, artists have everything they need to start capturing stunning photos and movies.
Purchase: Sony Alpha a7 IIK E-mount interchangeable lens mirrorless camera with full frame sensor plus 28-70mm Lens, $998.00.
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Get 32% off a 256GB SanDisk Memory Card
If you take advantage of the new Sony camera deal we mentioned earlier, you’re going to need a memory card to put in it to store your photo and videos. And since high-resolution images and high def videos take up a lot of space, we recommend this 256GB SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-1 memory card, which is on sale for around $42. Not only will it give you plenty of storage, so you don’t have to stop and put in another card while shooting, the card is incredibly fast for both recording images and clips and for offloading them later to a computer. The SanDisk Extreme Pro boasts read speeds of up to 200MB per second and write speeds of up to 140MB/s, which is perfect for firing off and saving bursts of images whether you’re capturing dancers, fencers, or even cheetahs. Along with recording and storing HD video, the card is more than fast enough for 4K UHD video if your camera offers that. These Extreme Pro cards are also tough. They’re temperature-proof, waterproof, shockproof and X-ray proof, making them ideal for bringing on your next visual adventure.
Purchase: SanDisk 256GB Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I Memory Card, $42.39 for Prime members.
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Get 65% off a 2TB SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD Drive
Because even 256GB memory cards sometimes get full, artists need a place to offload their images and videos that is not their computers. (Computers, particularly laptops, aren’t ideal for backing up your visual content because of capacity and security issues.) Portable storage doesn’t get much better or cheaper than the SanDisk 2TB Extreme Portable SSD, which is selling now for $159 on Amazon. This pocket friendly solid state drive offers drop protection up to approximately 6.5 feet (two meters) along with IP55-rated water and dust resistance. There’s also a Carabiner loop for securing the drive either in a bag or on your person, such as from a belt loop to keep it close by. The SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD Drive is also fast, providing 1050 MB/s read and 1000MB/s write speeds so you can quickly store you content so you can get back to capturing it. Meanwhile, thanks to included password protection featuring 256‐bit AES hardware encryption, you can keep you content private in case the drive falls into the wrong hands.
Purchase: SanDisk 2TB Extreme Portable SSD, $159.99 for Prime members.
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Get 34% off the Neewer Photo Studio Light Box
Close up photography gets a lot easier with the 20-inch x 20-inch x 20-inch Neewer Photo Studio Light Box. With three openings for multiple shooting angles, this light box with help you capture illuminated images of small objects such as for still lifes or product photography with a clean background. Close the front panel of the box and shoot through the round opening for smaller objects and open it for larger objects. You can also take a bird’s eye view photo from the top opening. The box’s reflective interior and included diffusion cloth reduces shadows, hot spots, and glare. There are also four swappable backgrounds (black, white, gray, orange) for different creative looks. A knob lets you easily adjust the brightness of the box’s 4 x 20-LED lighting bands. If you want to bring this portable photo studio to a different location for a shoot, the box easily folds up so you can pack it away.
Purchase: NEEWER Photo Studio Light Box, 20” x 20” Shooting Light Tent, $76.99 for Prime members.
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Get 30% off the Soundcore Motion+ Bluetooth Speaker
I like the Soundcore Motion+ Bluetooth Speaker from Anker so much I own two of them. I just wish I had purchased them at the price they’re being offer at for Prime Day, just $74. That’s a bargain for a high-quality portable speaker that’s great for either blasting music in your studio while you create art or playing back your own musical creations. Most importantly about this speaker, the sound quality is excellent especially for its price. Loaded with two ultra-high frequency tweeters, two neodymium woofers, and two passive radiators, the Soundcore Motion+ produces 30 watts of sound that can be heard in multiple rooms with a deep bass that’s adjustable. There was surprising depth and clarity from both quiet jazz and loud rock music I’ve played through the Soundcore Motion+, thanks to the speaker’s wide frequency range that stretches between 50 Hz to 20 kHz. Connecting the speaker to my iPhone via Bluetooth was simple and seamless and there’s a good companion app for tweaking the sound. There’s also a USB-C connector that doubles as a charging port. If you want to bring the speaker out by the pool or lake, you’ll happy to know that it’s full waterproof with an IPX7 rating.
Purchase: Soundcore Motion+ Bluetooth Speaker with Hi-Res 30W Audio, $74.99 for Prime members.
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Get 49% of this heavy duty power strip with USB
Since you’re going to need a way to power all your shiny new electronic gear, this heavy duty power strip with USB is the surge protecting, workhorse you’re looking for. A metal, industrial power strip with a yellow aluminum housing and black outlets, this beast means business. With eight outlets and two USB ports to help you juice up all your work gadgets, this sturdy and durable power strip is also surprisingly compact and is wall mountable so you can get it out of the way. The strip has a reset on/off power and a built-in 15 amp circuit breaker plus overload protection and fire protection coating. It will protect against surges of up to 2700 Joules, which are fairly large surges. The strip’s six foot extension cord gives it some range and three of the outlets are wide space so you can squeeze in fairly large plugs.
Purchase: Heavy Duty Power Strip with USB, $22.39 for Prime members.
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Get 27% off a 65-inch Samsung TV with Art Frame
Yes, the Samsung QLED 4K LS03B is an excellent smart TV with all the high-tech features to help you watch the big game on Sunday afternoon or your favorite Netflix shows in the evening. But why we really like is that it’s also got some great features for displaying your art when you’re not watching TV. In particular, this 65-inch behemoth comes with a white bezel that lets you turn the TV into a gorgeous digital picture frame. Just switch on Art Mode and when the TV’s off, it will display your art collection with the help of a built-in motion sensor. You can show off your own photos or other artistic creations or select images from Samsung’s Art Store. You can hang the frame flush against the wall with the slim fit wall mound and limit cable clutter with Samsung’s One Invisible Connection cable to keep eyes focused on the art on the display. The anti-reflection, matte display limits light distraction by reducing glare. And because it’s a QLED 4K TV, it offers 100% color volume to produce bold yet accurate detail and vibrant but natural looking color.
Purchase: SAMSUNG 65-Inch Class QLED The Frame Series, $1,597.99 for Prime members.