Best of the 4th of July digital camera deals

Not everyone has the time or interest to follow the play-by-play coverage of specials at the Camera Deals blog, so we have prepared a "Best of 4th of July" digital camera specials roundup right here!

+ Panasonic G1 KIT (includes 14-45mm lens) plus 45-200mm lens for $714. This price is good for the blue and red bodies. All must be purchased from Amazon, not 3rd-party sellers [detailed breakdown]

+ Refurbished Nikon D60 with the 18-135mm DX lens for $430 with free shipping by J&R World. For the speed-readers out there, please note that this kit is refurbished.

+ Sigma DP1 for $384, sold and shipped by Amazon itself

+ Sold out for now: The Olympus E520 two-lens kit at Amazon at $478 is now sold out

+ Nikon pride for just $3! You can get the Nikon School: Guide Book to Digital SLR Photography for $3 with free shipping by Photoworld on Amazon. This is a 75-page guide, 8.5 by 5.5 inches. This is dated mode-wise as the DSLRs mentioned at the back of the book are the D2X/s, D200, D80, D70s and D50. This is good tool for recruiting new people to the Nikon brand. Just give them one and let them "absorb" Nikonianism ;-)

+ this post will be updated during the weekend if any new big deals come up. As always you can stay tuned to the latest deals by getting the RSS feed of the Camera Deals blog. Or if you don't want your RSS newsreader overflowing with camera deals, we are also offering special-interest deals sub-feeds, so for example, you can only subscribe to Nikon DSLR deals or Pentax K-mount deals. We currently have seven special-interest sub-feeds (Canon, Nikon, Sony, K-mount, 43rds and Micro Four Thirds, Fixed-Lens cameras (compacts), and "Exotics" (Leica, Zeiss, etc)). But if you subscribe to the main camera deals feed, you will receive everything.