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supercell
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Finalstand
Joined: 25 Dec 2005
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Location: London, Ontario
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Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:13 pm |
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Wasnt there a thread about this already? Oh well doesnt matter.......Im just pissed that they are hiking the price of the new lens because of the VR and the discontinueing the old non VR lens........why do they do that?
What if I dont want VR and dont want to pay the extra for something I dont want? |
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PeterRoweBlackman
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Joined: 14 Jan 2006
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Location: Warrington, Cheshire, England
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Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:18 pm |
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Wasnt there a thread about this already? Oh well doesnt matter.......Im just pissed that they are hiking the price of the new lens because of the VR and the discontinueing the old non VR lens........why do they do that?
What if I dont want VR and dont want to pay the extra for something I dont want? |
Buy a decent s/hand lens?
At the end of the day, continuing development gives us ultimately more choice and (probably more importantly) drives prices down in an ever competetive market and that's a good thing and what helped me buy the D50, when 4 years ago I coun't have afforded a DSLR
PRB:) |
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leli
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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Location: Seattle-WA
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Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:20 pm |
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Is there anyone here from Japan or currently live in Japan? my husband and I are going there soon, and I was thinking of getting Nikon D200 but my husband said I can get it in Japan for alot less money, is that right?
And also I'm getting studio lighting, do you guys think it will be better to get stuff from Japan? we will be staying there for a while so....
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airgunr
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Joined: 21 Mar 2004
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Location: SE Wisconsin, USA
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Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:13 pm |
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Damn, this just inflames my NAS symptoms...... ;^D |
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airgunr
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Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:15 pm |
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Is there anyone here from Japan or currently live in Japan? my husband and I are going there soon, and I was thinking of getting Nikon D200 but my husband said I can get it in Japan for alot less money, is that right?
And also I'm getting studio lighting, do you guys think it will be better to get stuff from Japan? we will be staying there for a while so....
any info appreciated... |
I haven't been there since the early '90's but the savings were not huge at that time. Best bet is to get pricing from places like B&H, Adorama, etc. and then compare when you get there. If it is the same or close you may want to get it here so you have full warrenty in the states. |
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Mongoose
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Joined: 09 Feb 2004
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Location: UK
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Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:13 pm |
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from what I hear Japan is pretty expencive for most things so the saving for the fact the stuff is made there probably cancels out with Japan being generally expencive. |
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adorski
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airgunr
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Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:33 pm |
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| do you guys think or expect a drop down in price for the non VR? |
Probably not too much but there may be a few that come up on the used market. Most will probably be in pretty good shape and worth checking out. |
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Finalstand
Joined: 25 Dec 2005
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Location: London, Ontario
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Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:27 pm |
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| Finalstand wrote: |
Wasnt there a thread about this already? Oh well doesnt matter.......Im just pissed that they are hiking the price of the new lens because of the VR and the discontinueing the old non VR lens........why do they do that?
What if I dont want VR and dont want to pay the extra for something I dont want? |
Buy a decent s/hand lens?
At the end of the day, continuing development gives us ultimately more choice and (probably more importantly) drives prices down in an ever competetive market and that's a good thing and what helped me buy the D50, when 4 years ago I coun't have afforded a DSLR
PRB:) |
Im sorry, I may have misunderstood the sales girl. Is Nikkor still keeping the non VR 105 in there line up or are they discontinuing it?
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| do you guys think or expect a drop down in price for the non VR? |
Well all the stores around me have either kept the price the same or dropped the price by a hundred (I think) |
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