Nik, Nik, Nikkor...

Here's the chance to get that New Nikkor lens for your Nikon camera Now and have cash in your hand. Or your bank account, as it works out.

Nikon Australia are handing out cash-backs for lenses bought this month. Here's the list of lenses that qualify and what you get back.

AF-S 35mm f:1.8G                                     $ 25
AF-S 18-200mm ED VRII                     $ 50
AF-S 50mm f:1.8G                                    $ 25
AF-S 24-120mm f:4G IF ED VR         $ 150
AF-S 70-200mm f:4G ED VR              $ 100
AF-S 58mm f:1.4G                                    $ 75
AF-S 85mm f:1.4G                                    $ 75
AF-S 14-24 f:2.8G ED                             $ 225
AF-S 24-70 f:2.8G ED                            $ 225
AF-S 28-300 f:3.5-5.6 IF ED VR           $ 75
AF-S 70-200 f:2.8G ED VR II             $ 225

These are payments made from Nikon Australia to you - quite independent of the authorised Nikon dealer - like we are are. Make a note of that...authorised. Not back yard or granny's basement market stalls...It pays to deal with the real deal.

Nikon.

Buya Body, Buddy...

The Nikon cash back deals start today.

First cabs off the rank are the Nikon D 610 full-frame digital camera body and the Nikon D 800 full-frame digital camera body.

On the first one you can receive $ 50 cash straight back from Nikon via their My Nikon Life website. On the second you can receive $ 200 back in your bank account via the same means.

These payments are quite independent of the prices you might pay to the authorised Nikon dealers - like us. The ones that sell Nikon equipment that is backed by the two0-year Nikon Australia warranty...

The Nikon website is:

http://mynikonlife.com.au

Summer vacation time is coming to the northern hemisphere and if you are headed off for NA or EU now is the time to take advantage of the cashback. Combine it with the TRS refund at the airport and the idea becomes very $$$ attractive $$$.

A Pronouncement From Olympus

One of the cheeriest things we can hear is someone offering us money. It regularly gladdens the heart and makes the day light. We welcome it here at the shop and encourage customers to do it regularly.

Our suppliers also like to do it. In this case, the Olympus company is offering cash-backs to purchasers of their fine cameras and lenses.

Like many of these offers, this is an independent thing - it is them and not us, though we commend them for their zeal and public spirit.

Briefly, if you purchase selected kits or pieces of Olympus photographic equipment between now and the end of the Australian financial year - midnight in June 30th 2014 - you will receive money back from Olympus. As with many of these, your claim for this money must be done on-line to Olympus with details of name, bank, etc. and proof of purchase/serial number/etc. All legal stuff but easy to do.

The equipment eligible for the cash-back payments looks to be quite a wide cross section of their micro 4/3 line. I see OM-D E-M1 cameras, OM-D E-M5 and PEN E-P5 bodies mentioned as well as Pen E-PL5 and E-PM2 bodies as well as a good selection of lenses.

The money offered ranges from $ 300 to $100 depending upon the equipment. You could score quite a return if you bought a comprehensive kit.

And here is the real point - cash-back or no, you still get one of the most successful and convenient mirror-less cameras to take pictures with. THAT'S why you buy it, Folks...

Show Me The Money - With Nikon Cashback

If you ever wanted to get a new lens for your Nikon camera, now is the time. Nikon have announced a whole raft of cashback payments for purchasers of their lenses during this month.

The offer extends from April 1st - and I'm not fooling - to the 30th of April.

Money parcels that you can get back range from $ 25 to $ 150 depending upon which lens you buy - there is quite a wide variety of lenses that have been included on this list.

To find out more or to claim your cashback, go to the Nikon website:

mynikonlife.com.au/cashback

Nikon lenses are superb in any case, and a perfect match for the Nikon DSLR bodies. Now you can get money in hand quite independent from and deal in the shop.

Go. Go now.

Money Coming Back To You From Epson

New Epson cash back promotion for you today - If you need to print up to A2 on thin or thick stock - with the finest of inkjet ink - the Epson Stylus Pro 3880 model attracts a cashback payment from the Epson people of $ 250.

This promotion will run until the end of September 2013. You buy from us and claim your reward from Epson on-line.

If you don't quite need as large a size, but want all the benefits of the Epson ink set and their expertise in easy colour printing, may I suggest that you get an Epson Stylus Photo R3000 right now. This will print to A3+, do rolls and CD discs, and also open for thick stock. It will print through a wifi network if there is someone in your house young enough to know how to connect it, and from regular USB or ethernet if you are old enough to remember Nixon...

There is a cashback from Epson of $ 200 for purchase of a printer and if you choose to purchase a printer AND a set of replacement inks, you can increase that cashback to $ 400. But you have to get your skates on - this promotion finishes at the end of this current month.

My own experience with these printers has been very positive - as it has been with Epson papers, Epson scanners, etc. I use the R3000 regularly for the paper output from my Hot Rod Honey series and for wedding pictures. It really does do the business of translating what is on my computer screen to a print in hand with a minimum of fuss.

Hurray For the Free Bee!

Here are a couple of announcements to gladden the heart and fatten the wallet of Camera Electronic customers. The Free Bees have flown back to the shop courtesy of the EIZO and Epson people.

EIZO make monitors - some of the very best in the business - and from time to time change and improve their model line-up. But they are not all serious colour-accurate technological experts - they like to go play sometimes and they want t you to do so too. Sooooo,

The EIZO people will be offering a FREE GoPro Hero white camera outfit valued at $ 269 with all ColorEdge with CN orders. This will apply to models CG246, CG276, CG223W, CX240-CAL, CX270-CAL, and CS230-CAL.

This offer is on right now and will go to the end of financial year - the 31st of July 2013.

Now the Epson people make printers and scanners. I know - I own one of each - and I feel myself particularly qualified to announce the next Free Bee Actually it is a Cash Back Free Bee and that is all the sweeter.

The Epson Photo Stylus R 3000 printer is a wonderful A3+ inkjet printer. It will do rolls, disks, sheets, and slabs. It has useful-sized ink cartridges that are not world-shatteringly expensive and the quality of the printing straight out of it is superb. Getting a correct print out of it is the least fight of any printer I have used and to some extent makes a lot of the complexity that is peddled about printing irrelevant. that is a the wrong thing to say when we are supposed to be experts....but the pleasure of just dropping the paper in and getting the print out is wonderful.

Anyway, Epson want to sell more, and to do so have offered $ 200 cash back if you get one of these printers between now and the 15th of July 2013 - you send them proof of purchase before the 30th of July 2013 and they send you real government money that you won't get arrested for spending. If you elect to purchase  a set of additional inks for the printer at the time of initial purchase - these are the 157-series - you get back and additional $ 200 - making $ 400 all up.

Now if you have bigger ambitions and want a heavier printer that will go up to A2 while still doing rolls, think of the Epson R 4900. This will get you a cashback of $ 500 in between now and July 31 2013.

SO - buzz in and gather up the honey....errr... I mean money.

Uncle Dick