7 Amazon Prime Day Photography Deals

It’s Amazon Prime Day(s) on 11 and 12 July, so you can get great deals on photography products if you are an Amazon Prime customer. I’ve looked at some of the best bargains available and collected them together, so you don’t have to! More deals tend to get added over the two days, so it’s always worth popping back to Amazon to check if anything new has appeared.

Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan (£74.99/was £119.99)

This is one of my favourite Amazon Prime Day Deals. For an average of £6.25 per month, you can buy the full versions of Lightroom, Photoshop, Adobe Bridge, and all the mobile tools. You’ll also get 20GB of storage, but I always recommend using Adobe Classic instead of the cloud-based version.

Don’t worry if you have already signed up for a monthly contract with Adobe for the Photography Plan. Just buy this and type in the access code, and Adobe will stop taking your monthly credit card payments until this runs out. Even better, if you have an annual subscription with Adobe, you can add this deal similarly, and your annual subscription won’t renew until this one runs out. (Hint –get this deal again on Black Friday, and you’ll build up guaranteed access to these great products).

Canon R10 & RF-S 18-45mm f4.5-6.3 Lens (£749.99/was £1,099.99)

DSLRs are dead, and mirrorless is the way to go. The Canon R10 is the first APS-C from the Canon stable. With the Amazon Prime Day deal giving you 32% off the RRP, it’s a great way to enter the world of mirrorless cameras.

All those aeons ago, when I was starting out, I wished there was an entry-level camera with 24 mega-pixels, ISO up to 51,200 and a frame rate of 23 frames per second. This is a great deal to start in photography – snap it up!

Sony A7II with Sony 28-70 mm f/3.5-5.6 Zoom Lens (£769.99/was £1,099.99)

To prove I’m not all about Canon, there’s another spectacular camera deal from Sony. At almost the same price as the R10, you can get a Sony full-frame mirrorless camera and a kit lens. The reason it can come in so cheap is that this is an older version of the A7 range, originally launched in 2013.

Sony was miles ahead of the game in mirrorless cameras, but the auto-focus won’t match today’s AI-assisted tech. The frame rate is only five frames per second. But, if you are looking for an entry into full-frame mirrorless for landscape photography, this still is a good buy.

Canon EF 70-200mm f4 L IS II USM Telephoto Lens (£999.99/was £1,679.99)

This is a fantastic lens deal if you are a Canon shooter but haven’t moved to the RF mirrorless ecosystem. The 70-200m lens is part of the triumvirate of must-have lenses. Sure, this is the f4 version and not the ideal f2.8 lens. But, if you are starting out in sports photography, then at 40% off, this is a great Amazon Prime Day bargain for the DSLR shooter.

Lexar Professional 2000x SD Card 64GB (£58.91/was £79.99)

With the high-frame rates available in the latest mirrorless cameras, you need fast and reliable memory cards to process the volume of photos being captured. Lexar is one of the best memory card manufacturers, so you know they will be reliable. With a read speed of 300 MB/s, these cards will meet the demands of most photographers.

A little tip for memory cards. Buy the card size you are most likely almost (but not quite) to fill. You don’t want to be sat with 256GB of photos on your card because you’ve not been bothered to format the card after it’s been downloaded and backed up. (You do backup, don’t you?). If you only shoot 50GB daily, buy this 64GB card and get into the habit of formatting each time. Your photos will keep processing quickly, and you’re less likely to have a card fail on you when it’s being kept tidy.

Seagate Desktop, 8 TB, External Hard Drive (£115.90/was £179.40)

Talking of photography back-ups, I always have my photos back up in three separate places. I have an external drive at home which stores copies of all my photos. There’s a separate external drive that carries out a Time Machine backup. Finally, I have a cloud-based backup with Backblaze.

Memory prices have become ridiculously cheap, and this deal of £115 for eight terabytes is definitely worth buying. It works out of the box for Windows computers but must be formatted to the ex-FAT system the first time you use it.

Magnum Contact Sheets Paperback (£24.82/was £40)

A great way to learn photography is to see how the masters went about their craft. Magnum photographers are regarded as some of the best in the world, with names such as Henri Cartier- Bresson, Elliott Erwitt and Inge Morath.

This book shows the process of 69 photographers taking 139 iconic images and the editing process that made the end photo so memorable.

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About the author

As well as running Edinburgh Photography Workshop, Rich Dyson is a professional photographer. His photographs are regularly used in newspapers such as The Times, Guardian and Daily Telegraph. He also had two solo exhibitions and was featured in a members-sponsored exhibition in the Scottish Parliament. You can see and buy his photography at richdysonphotography.com.