D3x- Official Japanese Price – OH MY! Official Announcements @ 1pm JST Monday
A reputable list has a posting of what the poster believes to be the Japanese price for the D3x:
…898,000yen. [ed: That's $9,431.69 per Google today!]
Whoa, that’ quite a bummer. Basically as of today I could buy 4.5 D700 with a resolution of together 54MP for the price of one D3x.
I guess this prices translates into roughly 8000USD in the USA and 6000Euro in Europe.
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Tomorrow at 1pm JST will be the official announcement.
Japanese Standard Time (JST) is UTC+9, Eastern Standard Time is UTC -5, that’s 14 hours difference- Japan’s 14 hours ahead of EST. So, if my calculations are correct (and I’m not vouching for them), 13:00 JST is 23:00 (11pm) EST on today- Sunday.
We should get some more info later tonight- but I wouldn’t expect the US price to be that high- I find it hard to believe that they’d sell all that many copies if it’s really that expensive, especially since the Canon’s aren’t quite that pricey. I’m betting that we see a price closer to $7k or $7.5k.
Btw- NO NEW LENSES are expected, despite the rumors, and I’m not expecting any surprises at this point.
Tags: d3x
November 30th, 2008 at 18:21
I think you have absolutely no idea what you are talkin about.
If the camera delivers, the price is ok!
November 30th, 2008 at 22:25
>I think you have absolutely no idea what you are talkin about.
Fair enough, but I’ll be shocked if they actually sell it at nearly $9,500.
Guess we’ll find out in a few hours.
December 1st, 2008 at 00:55
It’s up. U.S. estimated selling price $8000. Let the screams begin from the hordes who thought they would buy this body to take high-res pictures of their pets and kids.
I can picture it now: “Well. the camera is a bit more expensive than I thought it would be, so do you think it would work well with the 18-55DX VR which is only $180?”
Nikon has also put up some sample pics. Some look incredible, some look no better than could have been done with a D3 or D700 or even a D300 and in the last sample, #10, the reds are completely blown out, at least on my monitor.
I’m a little surprised they didn’t try to price this a bit lower than the Canon 1Ds Mark III, which is currently selling for $6680 at B&H.
December 1st, 2008 at 01:31
This is not intended to be a 5D MK II killer, or a 1Ds MK III killer either. But it is needed for Nikon to provide a complete product range and for those with $$$ in Nikkor Glass, they don’t need to switch to Canon for hi res photos.
Nikon is not about to give this camera away, Canon has already set the price range for a top of the line camera, why would Nikon want to get into a pricing war with Canon? Both would lose.
December 1st, 2008 at 02:27
@zoetemb:
“to take high-res pictures of their pets and kids”
LOL 100% agreed
December 1st, 2008 at 11:37
[...] What was my guessed price range? $7K – $7,500- So I’m not too far off. Certainly not the $9,500 equivalent that the Japanese home market [...]
December 1st, 2008 at 13:39
>to take high-res pictures of their pets and kids
Yeah, good one- the cat pictures will start any second now…